At Tech Alliance Annual Luncheon, a Stark Analysis and a Call to Action

GEEKWIRE - It’s a complicated moment in Washington, our home state, where the tech giants are strong, the satellites are abundant, and economic growth may no longer be above average.

That was the feeling walking out of the Technology Alliance’s annual State of Technology luncheon Tuesday, where a deep dive on Amazon’s Leo business and optimism about the future of the region’s satellite industry were preceded by a McKinsey analysis that gave a sobering picture of the state’s overall economic trajectory.

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Kent Mayor Dana Ralph, who moderated the keynote panel with Badyal and Chris Weber, Amazon Leo’s vice president for business and product, noted that the Kent Valley alone has more aerospace manufacturing workers than the entire state of Colorado, yet Colorado is better known as a space state.

“We’re not telling the story,” Ralph said.

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