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VAC Consortium Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
 Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD

7:30am Registration Opens
7:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30am-8:40am Welcome and Overview Jim Thomas, NVAC Director
8:40am-9:30am Guest Speaker: Update and Vision Joe Kielman, DHS
9:30am-10:30am Keynote Address: “Collaboration and the Emerging Media Group in the Open Source Center”
  • Randy Barber, EMG Director
  • Kelley Tataro, EMG Deputy Director
  • The Emerging Media Group (EMG) was created in August 2007 as a transformative endeavor of the DNI's Open Source Center. It collaborates with regional offices in the OSC in its response to requirements from across the community. Its main goal is to transform analysis of publically available data. The keynote speakers will describe their current mission and projects as well as their use of visual analytics and video production looking into the future.
10:30am-11:00am Break
11:00am-12:30pm Panel Discussion: Analytic Needs and Practice in Law Enforcement
  • The panel will focus on daily challenges faced by law enforcement agencies and thoughts from the panelists on the types of support needed from the visual analytics community to reduce or alleviate these challenges.
  • Richard May, PNNL (Moderator)
  • William Ford, US Department of Justice
  • Rodney Giacomelli, Baltimore Police Department
  • Pam Scanlon, ARJIS
  • Mike Tobia, NY/JY Port Authority
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch & Networking Sponsored by Endeca
1:30pm-2:15pm Guest Speaker: “Analyst Space for Exploitation (A-SpaceX): Considering how Virtual World technologies could be the basis for changing the way Intelligence Analysts do work.” Jeff Morrison, IARPA
2:15pm-2:45pm Guest Speaker: “Financial Analytics Workshop and Resultant R&D Agenda” Bill Ribarsky, UNCC
2:45pm-5:00pm Poster/Demo Session
Current technologies demonstrated by NVAC/RVAC teams and consortium members. Demo teams each get a few minutes to pitch their demo to the audience before moving into the demo space.
6:30pm-8:30pm Sponsored by
NVIDIA logo Dinner at Sheraton Columbia Hotel
10207 Wincopin Circle
Columbia, MD 21044

Thursday, May 22, 2008

7:15am-8:15am Full Breakfast & Networking
8:15am-8:30am Opening Remarks: Welcome Jim Thomas, NVAC Director
8:30am-9:30am Analytic Methods Panel Discussion
  • Kris Cook, PNNL (Moderator)
9:30am-10:00am Guest Speaker: “The Canadian Interoperability Technology Interest Group - Improving Public Safety Interoperability” Inspector Lance Valcour, Canadian Police Research Centre
10:00am-10:15am Break
10:15am-10:45am Guest Speaker: “The Advantage of Technology in Homeland and Global Security” Pamela Drew, Boeing
10:45am-Noon Selected Project Briefings from NVAC, RVAC, Industry: 10-minute talks
  • Kris Cook, PNNL (Moderator)
  • Dave McColgin, NVAC: “Rapid User-Guided Analytics”
  • Shawn Bohn, NVAC: “Information Fusion and Synthesis Research”
  • Anthony Robinson, Penn State: “Exploring Analyst Information Synthesis”
  • John Gerth, Stanford: “Visual Analytics for Cyber Security”
  • Fred Roberts, Rutgers: “Sensor Management for Nuclear Detection”
  • Anne Kao, Boeing: “Visual Analytics at the Boeing Company”
  • Jeff McCrindle, CHI Systems: “Mednet Medical Decision Support”
Noon-1:00pm Lunch & Networking
1:00pm-2:00pm Capstone Speaker: “Analytic Gaming and Advanced Analytic Tools” Joe C.
2:00pm-2:30pm Closing Remarks Jim Thomas, NVAC Director
2:30pm-5:00pm
Join Today! 		VAC Consortium Members-Only Workshop: “Paving the Path: Advancing the science and delivery of visual analytics through interoperability” This workshop will explore the issue of interoperability guidelines and standards as a method to rapidly advance the state of the science and to facilitate the transfer of technology into operations.

Full information available on the workshop website » http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_spring08/workshop/
Special thanks to meeting co-sponsor: Boeing