June 14, 12:00-13:00

Geoff McGrath
Managing Director, McLaren Applied Technologies

Twenty years experience in technological innovation from conceptual engineering design and development through to sales and business development for blue chip and start-up companies alike.  A mechanical engineer by training his career spanned most branches of engineering from mechanical, aeronautical, civil, chemical and petroleum engineering before changing focus to the telecoms, media and entertainment in the Internet boom and now back to Mclaren Applied Technologies as MD.  Current focus in on realizing breakthrough’s in performance in fields as diverse as sports, health and logistics through the application of McLaren Technology and design. McLaren will present the history of development of what is arguably the best simulator in the motor sports industry.  Insight will be shared as to how the simulator is used from driver training through to design and testing of components in a virtual environment to accelerate engineering development.  Finally examples of application of know how from racing to other fields outside of racing will be discussed.

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June 14 13:00-17:00

Dr.Richard Marchand
Department of Medical Biology, Institute of Cardiology of Montreal

From 1989 to 1997, he led the laboratory of cellular immunology in the department of microbiology at the Sainte-Justine Hospital, and during the same period,  he led the flow cytometry laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Montreal. He is currently an infectious disease microbiologist in the Department of Medical Biology, Institute of Cardiology of Montreal. It focuses primarily on defence reactions of the organism to antiseptics, disinfectants and sterilization of biomaterials used in the construction of medical devices and implants. He is also interested in hygiene and modeling of buildings in the area of health. At the University of Montreal, he is a lecturer on the biocompatibility in the new curriculum in biomedical engineering. He co-directs the post-graduate students. Dr. Marchand is an active member of three different research teams.

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June 14 13:00-17:00
June 14 18:00-21:00

Dr. Sokolowski, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Visualization Center, Old Dominion University

Dr. John A. Sokolowski was born in Rocky River, Ohio. He graduated from Purdue University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. In 1998, he earned a Master of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University (ODU). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering with a Concentration in Modeling and Simulation from ODU in 2003.

Since 2001, Dr. Sokolowski has served as a Senior Research Scientist at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University. In 2005 he assumed the position of Director of Research at VMASC and in 2010 was selected as its Executive Director. His research interests include human behavior modeling, decision system modeling, multiagent system simulation, and modeling and simulation representation of social systems. He has published three books on modeling and simulation and is the author of numerous journal articles and conference papers. He is a member of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, Association of Computing Machinery, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to joining VMASC in 2001, he spent twenty-seven years in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer, retiring at the rank of Captain. During his years in the military, Dr. Sokolowski served on four submarines including Executive Officer of USS Hammerhead (SSN663), Norfolk, VA and Commanding Officer of USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), Charleston, SC. He also served as the Deputy Commander, Submarine Squadron Eight, Norfolk, VA with responsibility for the training and readiness of twelve assigned submarines. His shore assignments included Director of Afloat Safety for the Naval Safety Center and Head, Modeling and Simulation Division, Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC), U.S. Joint Forces Command. At the Naval Safety Center, he was responsible for overseeing all naval safety programs affecting surface ships, submarines, and diving units. At JWFC, he led the U.S. military’s most advanced simulation group in support of worldwide joint training. His responsibilities included design and management of complex simulation architectures and oversight of three major Department of Defense simulation programs.

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June 14 13:00-17:00
June 14 17:00-19:00

Chris Pogue
President at CAE Professional Solutions

President at CAE Professional Solutions is a leader and innovator in the field of Capability Engineering and his efforts over the past 5 years have seen the evolution and adaptation of Capability Engineering practices to the Department of National Defence and the Homeland Security sector in Canada. He has extensive experience providing capability engineering support and strategic guidance to Emergency Services training colleges, DRDC Ottawa’s Future Force Synthetic Environment Section (FFSE), the C4ISR capability area, aerospace strategic planning, and the Collaborative Capability Definition,

Engineering and Management TDP (CapDEM). Chris served in the Canadian Air Force accumulating over 3500, C-130 hours in Search and Rescue (SAR), Strategic and Tactical Airlift missions in Canada and around the world. He also served as the Aerospace Systems Flight Commander at the CF School of Aerospace Studies (CFSAS) and within the research and development community at DRDC Atlantic. Chris retired from the Air Force in 2003.

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June 14 13:00-17:00
June 14 17:00-19:00

Jacques Hamel
President Artifact Software inc.

President and CEO, Jacques Hamel is a learning solutions expert, MWO Ret., a retired military NCO with 20+ years of in class training design as well as online instructional design experience. He is also the chairman of ModSim World Canada, an international Modelling and Simulation Event. His depth of experience in the application and the design of learning solutions qualifies him to be one of the leading experts in North America.

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June 15 12:15-13:30
June 16 10:00-10:45

Frank Boosman
Program Management Director in Lockheed Martin’s Simulation, Training & Support (STS) division

Frank Boosman is a Program Management Director in Lockheed Martin’s Simulation, Training & Support (STS) division, where he leads STS’ efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care via simulation-based system-of-systems engineering and analytics. He joined Lockheed Martin when they acquired 3Dsolve, an award-winning simulation training firm for which he served as COO. In addition to co-founding 3Dsolve, he also was a co-founder of digital download publisher Republic of Fun, where he designed the physics-based game Tiki Towers for the iPhone and other platforms. Earlier, he served in a variety of VP-level roles for Be Incorporated, a vendor of software platforms for Internet appliances. He was a co-founder of Red Storm Entertainment, an entertainment software firm created by noted author Tom Clancy, where he served as VP of Product Development and where he co-created

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, the first realistic first-person tactical combat game. He has also served as VP and General Manager of Virtus Studios, a business unit focused on consumer software development for personal computers, at which he designed Tom Clancy SSN, the first 3D submarine simulation game, and as Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems, where he was a founding team member and the original product manager of Adobe Acrobat.

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June 16 12:15-13:30

Clark Aldrich
Global education consultant

He is a global education consultant, called a guru by Fortune Magazine. He works with corporate, military, government, and academic organizations at both the board level and as a hands-on implementer.

His projects have been patent winning and earned millions globally. He is also the author of four books including The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games - How the Most Valuable Content Will Be Created In the Age Beyond Gutenberg to Google (Wiley, 2009) and Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds (Wiley, 2009), scores of articles, is the recipient of numerous industry awards, created dozens of educational simulations (including the most popular leadership simulation in the world), was the founder of Gartner's eLearning coverage, and has a degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University.

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June 16 10:00-10:45

Richard G. Brown, PHD
Head, Synthetic Environment Coordination Office (SECO)

The Dept. of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Forces (CF) rely heavily on M&S technology in a number of areas such as training and R&D. Since the investment in M&S systems is so large and expanding so quickly, often in separate islands of activity, a strategic plan is required to optimize the return on investment and to maximize the collective capability of the DND/CF's current and future M&S resources. The DND/CF Synthetic Environment Coordination Office (SECO) is drafting the DND/CF M&S Strategic Plan for the Chief of Force Development. The background, vision and objectives of the draft plan will be presented.

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June 16 8:30-9:00

Roseann Runte
President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University

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