Posted By HR Partnership on September 28, 2009

Featuring:
Senator Mark R. Warner
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra
General James Mattis, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command

To kick-off the 2009 ModSim World Conference & Expo, Senator Warner will host the Virginia Summit on Modeling & Simulation to help Virginians connect and continue to be a leader in modeling and simulation.

Date:  October 13, 2009
Time:  2:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:  Virginia Beach Convention Center
1000 19th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451

To RSVP, visit http://warner.senate.gov/modsim

Tentative agenda for the summit:

2:00 pm:  Introductory Remarks and Keynote

3:00pm:  PANEL 1 – Defense & Homeland Security

• Rand Beers, Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Admiral John Harvey, Commander, U.S. Navy Fleet Forces Command

4:00pm:  PANEL 2 – Education & Training

• John Broderick, President, Old Dominion University
• Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator
• Dan Gardner, Director, Readiness and Training Policy and Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• Moderator: Dr. John Sokolowski, VMASC Executive Director

5:00pm:  PANEL 3 – Health & Medicine

• C. Don Combs, PhD, Vice Provost for Planning and Health Professions, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
• Steve Dawson, Medical Simulation lead at CIMIT Boston Mass. General /Harvard
• Mike DeVita, President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare/U. of Pittsburgh Medical School
• Ellen L. Brock, Medical Director, Center for Human Simulation, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Moderator: Reba Moyer Childress, University of Virginia

You need not be registered for ModSim World to attend the Virginia Summit; however, if you would like to register online now, visit:  http://modsimworld2009.com/register.html

Categories: Military Bastion, Research & Technology
Tags: Hampton Roads, Modeling, Research, Simulation, Technology