Name: MODELING THE WORLD Workshop
Start: 2018-07-18T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-07-19T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Perspecta's Stonegate Theater

MODELING THE WORLD Workshop

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, The Office of Strategic Operations

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<H2>Modeling the World Workshop: An Open Platform for Anticipatory GEOINT Discoveries</H2>
Decision makers require timely, geospatially-enabled information in order to apply resources, define policy, or potentially save lives; they must be able to answer ‘What if?’, ‘When?’ and, ‘Where?’  The coupling of diverse geospatially-enabled modeling and simulation capabilities provides the ability to answer these fundamental questions in a way that is anticipatory.
The workshop will focus on the mission need for NGA to evolve from maps to models of the world, and will feature speakers and panelists from government, national labs, academia, and the private sector. Do not delay in registering for this landmark workshop - attendance is capped at 150 participants.
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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">Day 1, 18 July 2018 </H3>
(Additional panel members are being finalized)
0800-0855       Sign-in, Networking
0855-0900       Facilities, Workshop Logistics Overview
0900-0915       Welcome: <A HREF="http://usgif.org/system/uploads/4433/original/Gauthier_Bio.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. David Gauthier</A>, Director, NGA Office of Strategic Operations
0915-0945       Maps to Models to Augment GEOINT: <A HREF="http://css1.gmu.edu/~axtell/Rob/Home.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Robert Axtell</A>, Chair, Department of Computational                              Social Science, GMU
0945-1000       Break
1000-1200       Mission Imperative Panel – How will the adoption of modeling and simulation address current and future anticipatory decision-making?
                        Moderator: Dr. Patrick Biltgen, Technical Director for Analytics, Perspecta
                        KeyNote Panelist: <A HREF="https://spc.agu.org/2013/speakers/geernaert-bio/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Gary Geernaer</A><A HREF="https://spc.agu.org/2013/speakers/geernaert-bio/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">t</A>, Director, Climate and Environmental Sciences Division,                           DOE
                       Lightning Talk Panelists:
<A HREF="http://www.executivegov.com/2016/10/ic-vet-amy-mcauliffe-to-chair-national-intelligence-council/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ms. Amy McAuliffe</A>, Chair, National Intelligence Council                      
Mr. Mick McCabe, DIA CIO
Dr. Steve Hall, GEOINT Mission Lead for Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Augmentation (AAA), NGA
<A HREF="http://usgif.org/system/uploads/5326/original/Agee_Bio_July_2017.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. Collin Agee</A>, Senior U.S. Army Liaison to NGA, Army GEOINT Office
Dr. John Greer, Analytic Modeling Lead, NGA Research 
<A HREF="http://expo.spacecomexpo.com/SPC17/Public/SpeakerDetails.aspx?FromPage=Sessions.aspx&ContactID=77550" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. John Goolgasian III</A>, Chief Operating Officer, GeoSpark Analytics
1200-1300   Lunch Break
1300-1330      Toward a Net Positive Civilization 
                         Special Guest: Mr. Tom Chi, Co-founder Google X, Prototype Thinking Visiting Fellow, Mitre
1330-1500       Integrated Modeling Extensibility & Interoperability Panel – What are the evolving methods and leading approaches to interdisciplinary modeling; how can we couple disparately created models; and what is our progress toward establishing community-based standards?
                        Moderator: <A HREF="https://perspecta.com/barry-barlow" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. Barry Barlow</A>, Senior Vice President, CTO, Perspecta
                        KeyNote Panelist: <A HREF="https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-joshua-elliott" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Joshua Elliott</A>, World Modeler PM, DARPA
                        Lightning Talk Panelists: 
                         <A HREF="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2745843" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MG(R) Jon Miller</A>, Director of the ASU Decision Theater, Tempe Arizona
                         <A HREF="http://www.lanl.gov/expertise/profiles/view/cathy-wilson" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Cathy Wilson</A>, Program Manager,Climate Impacts and National Security, Los Alamos National Laboratory
                         <A HREF="http://www.wri.org/profile/steven-brumby" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Steven Brumby</A>, Co-Founder and Chief Science Advisor, Descartes Labs
                         Dr. John Irvine, Senior Research Scientist, Draper Labs
1500-1515   Break
1515-1650       Building an Enterprise Ready Computational Environment Panel – How can we address the unique challenges faced by the global GEOINT enterprise for establishing an interoperable, enterprise friendly multi-modeling and simulation capability across diverse computational environments?
                        Moderator: D<A HREF="https://cdn.govexec.com/media/andybbio.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">r. Andy Brooks</A>, Chief Data Scientist, NGA
                        KeyNote Panelist: <A HREF="https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/about-iarpa/leadership" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Jason Matheny</A>, Director, IARPA
                        Lightning Talk Panelists: 
                        <A HREF="https://web.ornl.gov/sci/gist/staff_bios/staff_bhaduri.shtml" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Budhendra Bhaduri</A>, Corporate Research Fellow, ORNL
                         D<A HREF="https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/science-teams?page=pidetail&pi=wkramer" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">r. William Kramer</A>, Blue Waters Project Director, National Center for Supercomputing                           Applications, University of Illinois
                         <A HREF="https://www.energy.gov/contributors/nicholas-donofrio" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. Nick Donofrio</A>, IBM Fellow Emeritus; IBM Executive Vice President Innovation & Technology                            (Ret)
                         <A HREF="http://www.vatcinc.com/team/sara-moola/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ms. Sara Moola</A>, President, CEO and Co-Founder, VATC                        
                        Dr. Brent Daniel, Applied Statistics and Computational Modeling Pacific Northwest National                          Laboratory
1650-1700       Closing Remarks: <A HREF="http://usgif.org/system/uploads/4433/original/Gauthier_Bio.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. Dave Gauthier</A>, Director, NGA Office of Strategic Operations
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<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">Day 2, 19 July 2018</H3>
Deep-dive Technical Exchange Meetings
0800-0845       Sign-in, Networking
0845-0900       Welcome: <A HREF="http://usgif.org/system/uploads/4433/original/Gauthier_Bio.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. David Gauthier</A>, Director, NGA Office of Strategic Operations
0900-1100       Mission Imperatives: Identify and prioritize use cases for which coupling models may enable significant value-added benefit and anticipatory advantage; capture desired spatial and time scales; determine interested parties and potential for partnering on collaborative efforts; identify potential way forward to include rules of engagement (design principles) and metadata requirements.
1100-1200 Lunch Break
1200-1400        Integrated Modeling Extensibility & Interoperability: Capture the best-practices and approaches to interdisciplinary modeling across the community and identify the gaps inhibiting the coupling of models; discuss current and emerging research to address those gaps; elicit needed research focus areas; explore progress and challenges with establishing community-based standards.
1400-1415 Break
1415-1600          Building an Enterprise-Ready Computational Environment: Define enterprise-level needs and the unique challenges to establishing an interoperable, enterprise-friendly multi-modeling and simulations capability across domains and different computational environments (i.e. allied, NSG, IC to defense, etc.). Discuss how the government can foster to more efficiently pull solutions from private industry, labs or academia and port them into operational networks for rapid application to mission problems.
1600-1615       Wrap-Up: <A HREF="http://usgif.org/system/uploads/4433/original/Gauthier_Bio.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mr. Dave Gauthier</A>, Director, NGA Office of Strategic Operations
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Representatives from Australia, Canda, New Zealand & United Kingdom are invited to attend; please note important information on registration check-out.
For additional information, please contact the OSO Communications Team: <A HREF="mailto:OSOCommunications@nga.mil" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OSOCommunications@nga.mil</A>

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