Speakers

Dr. Lauren Goodwin has held various C-Level roles including Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Information Officer for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, JP Morgan, and other Fortune 100 companies. She is currently the CEO of Mission Ops, a digital engineering and AI company she founded. With over 20 years of experience leading technology, data, and cybersecurity organizations in space and energy, she was named a 2023 Top 100 Technology Executive and recently in 2025 Houston’s Most Admired CEO. She streamlined a $3.4 trillion organization’s 60,000 engineers to improve their product delivery on time and on budget from a production rate of 48 weeks to 2 weeks.

She is certified in Lean Six Sigma where she streamlined operations for $130 Billion of global energy assets. She is a professor at Columbia University where she teaches Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence courses. She earned her doctorate performing groundbreaking research leveraging artificial intelligence to map the neural patterns of the brain’s learning process to improve access to education in STEM fields. She founded Mission Ops to be able to serve her country best by offering mission driven, practical technology modernization and differentiation to the U.S. Federal Government with the same speed, agility, and cost-effective models she has deployed in industry. She is mission-driven in all she does.