Collaborating on Land and Sea: Fall 2007 VAC Consortium Meeting

Meeting Agenda

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7:30am	Registration Opens
7:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:15am-8:45am	(optional) Visual Analytics Update Jim Thomas, NVAC Director
8:45am-9:00am	Welcome & Opening Remarks Mike Kluse, PNNL Interim Director Jim Thomas, NVAC Director Mark Goodwin, VAC Consortium Director
9:00am-10:00am	Keynote Address: LCDR Jim Ford, Office of Naval Intelligence, USN
10:00am-11:30am	Panel Discussion: Maritime Domain Awareness Bill Peterson, PNNL (Moderator) Larry Donovan, Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center, Pacific LCDR Jim Ford, Office of Naval Intelligence, USN LCDR Steve Wheeler, U.S. Coast Guard
11:30am-12:30pm	Lunch & Networking
12:30pm-2:00pm	Canadian Partnership: Power, Borders, Olympics [ppt] Andrew Vallerand, Defence R&D Canada (Moderator) Andrew Csinger, University of British Columbia [pdf] Brian Fisher, Simon Fraser University
2:00pm-2:30pm	Break
2:30pm-5:00pm	Poster/Demo Session Current technologies demonstrated by NVAC/RVAC teams and consortium members.
6:00pm	Transportation from hotels to Dinner 6:00 Guest House 6:15 Red Lion 6:20 Hampton Inn
6:30pm-8:30pm	Dinner at Anthony's Banquet and Event Center 450 Columbia Point Drive, Richland, WA 99352 (The event center is just before Anthony's Restaurant)
8:30pm	Return transportation to hotels

8:00am-8:30am	Full Breakfast & Networking
8:30am-8:40am	Opening Remarks [ppt] Joe Kielman, Department of Homeland Security
8:40am-9:40am	Keynote Speaker: “Geospatial Information in Support of Diplomacy: a View from the Department of State” [pdf] Lee Schwartz, Department of State
9:40am-10:10am	National Science Foundation Partnership [ppt] Maria Zemankova, National Science Foundation
10:10am-10:40am	Break
10:40am-Noon	Selected Project Briefings from NVAC, RVAC, Industry NVAC, Active Products - Bill Pike NVAC, Power Grid - Pak Wong [pdf] RVAC, Purdue - David Ebert [ppt] RVAC, Georgia Tech, Digital Library - John Stasko Intern, UNCC - Shree Chhatwal Intern, Penn State - Ritesh Agrawal UAC, Rutgers University - Fred Roberts Industry, Tableau - Christian Chabot with Gus Calapristi
Noon-1:00pm	Lunch & Networking
1:00pm-2:00pm	Guest Speaker “The Perils of the Ostrich Defense” Peter Kuper, Morgan Stanley
2:00pm-2:15pm	Closing Remarks Jim Thomas, PNNL: NVAC Director
2:15pm-2:30pm	Break
2:30-5:00pm	VAC Consortium Members-Only Class “(Why) Do They Hate Us? Understanding the Motivations of Terrorist Groups” Bidisha Biswas, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terror (START)