Rick Cotton looks down the runway toward what's ahead for JFK International Airport as the featured speaker at NYU Rudin Center for Transportation symposium.
Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, will be the featured speaker at a breakfast forum Wednesday, Feb. 6, at NYU Wagner (Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, corner of Houston St., 2nd Floor, New York, N.Y.) focused on the future of JFK International Airport.
This public symposium – sponsored by the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation – opens at 8:30 a.m. The Hon. Melinda Katz, Borough President of Queens, will give opening remarks at 9 a.m., and Cotton will speak at 9:10 a.m.
Panel discussions follow.
9:30 a.m. Panel I. Emerging Patterns in Global Aviation:
Alan Pellegrini - CEO, Thales North America
Derek Utter - Chief Development Officer, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Mitchell L. Moss - Moderator - Director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation
10:15 a.m. Panel II. Plans and Priorities for Modernizing JFK International Airport:
Amit Rikhy - President & CEO, CAG Holdings
Arthur Molins - Managing Director, Terminal One Group Association
Justin Ginsburgh – Director, JFK Infrastructure Strategy and Development, JetBlue
Michael O’Neil - Chairman, MSA Security
Mitchell L. Moss - Moderator - Director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation
11:00 a.m. Panel III. The Impact of JFK on Community and Economic Development:
Hope Knight - President & CEO, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
Kevin Alexander - President & CEO, Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation
Selvena Brooks-Powers - Manager, External Affairs and Community Outreach, JFK Redevelopment
Thomas Grech - President & CEO, Queens Chamber of Commerce
Erin King Sweeney - Moderator - Managing Member, King Sweeney Strategies
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, ends at 11:45 a.m.