Today's Featured Guest for our Weekly Virtual Happy Hour, 12/6/2021, 5:30 PM ET
Joey Arora, VP of Growth at The Outpost | Co-Founded AFWERX + AFVentures
Join us today, 12/6/2021, for another virtual happy hour and interactive discussion around everything #natsec innovation. With featured guest Joey Arora, VP of Growth at The Outpost | Co-Founded AFWERX + AFVentures.
A little about Joey and The Outpost
Joey is currently a Chief Scaling Officer working to streamline and scale operations for a government software program (DoD Platform One) designed to get commercial software authorized for use on Department of Defense systems in days and weeks instead of months and years. He believes that entrepreneurship is key to building a prosperous life for every human. Creating access to capital and jobs drives our economy. He is an Air Force Veteran, currently an Air Force reservist and has served as an Airfield Operations Officer in the US and in Afghanistan. During the second half of his Air Force career, he led innovation efforts and co-founded AFWERX (Air Force Innovation Program) to connect innovators and accelerate results for Air Force culture change and technology adoption. He scaled the government organization from 5 to 350+ people, they engaged over 100,000 Airmen, funded over 1,700 companies with $529M which led to 530 prototype projects and 21 scaling to serve the strategic needs of the Air Force. He was responsible for shaping the strategy around how the Air Force invests in small businesses. He has started 3 companies, facilitated Startup Weekends, been a 1 Million Cups organizer, and is a grassroots ecosystem builder. He is passionate about innovation in government, cares deeply about entrepreneurship, enjoys legos, and making stories.
Get in touch with Joey for SBIR/STTR & Creative Acquisition at: joey@theoutpost.cloud
The Outpost is a dual Use, post-accelerator advisory and technology accelerator firm that specializes in helping companies “hop the valley of death” and advancing next generation technology companies into relationships within both the commercial and national security verticals
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