Modeling & Simulation Summit

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On October 13, 2009, Senator Warner hosted the Virginia Summit on Modeling & Simulation to help Virginians connect and continue to be a leader in modeling and simulation.

Speakers included:

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

You can watch their remarks here:

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Here is the tentative agenda for the summit:

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
  • General Martin Dempsey, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
  • Moderator: John Kao, innovation strategist

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

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