Modeling & Simulation Summit
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