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Keynote Presentations
The keynote speakers for SimTecT 2007 are:
Opening Speaker
The Honourable John Mickel MP
Minister for State Development, Employment and Industrial Relations
Queensland, Australia’s Smart State, is a major aviation and aerospace hub. Located right on the doorstep of the Asia-Pacific region, Queensland has a dynamic, innovative and smart economy. Its growth rate is well above the Australian national average and is comparable to that of high economic growth countries such as Singapore and Malaysia.
With the fastest growing population in Australia – our drawcards include perfect weather and beaches, high living standards but low cost living costs and an economic environment with many investment opportunities.
Queensland’s aviation and aerospace industry is one sector leading the State’s economic growth. Increasingly, simulation activities are fuelling this growth and are being used in systems training, operations and maintenance – reducing costs and increasing efficiency on capital equipment.
Visit the Queensland Government stand at this Conference to find out more about the simulation opportunities currently available in the aviation, electronics, defence, construction, health, transport, mining and equipment manufacturing sectors.
To find out more contact Invest Queensland by telephone: +61 2 7 3224 4051 or visit www.investqueensland.com.au We look forward to working with you soon.
Defence Keynote Address
LTGEN Ken Gillespie
Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Australia
Lieutenant General Kenneth (Ken) James Gillespie was born in Brisbane on
28 June 1952. He enlisted in the Australian Army as an apprentice in 1968.
He graduated from the Officer Cadet School, Portsea in 1972 and was
commissioned into the corps of the Royal Australian Engineers.
Lieutenant General Gillespie has held a range of regimental and staff
appointments. These include: instructor appointments at the School of
Military Engineering and 1st Recruit Training Battalion; regimental
appointments in the rank of Captain and Major in the 2nd, 5th, and 2nd/3rd
Field Engineer Regiments and the 1st Construction Regiment; Company
Commander at the Army Apprentices School; and Senior Instructor at the
School of Military Engineering. During 1986 and 1987 he was the Australian Exchange Instructor at the
Royal School of Military Engineering in the United Kingdom. In 1989 he
raised, and then deployed as the second in command and operations officer,
the 2nd Australian Contingent to the United Nations Transition Assistance
Group in Namibia. In 1990/91 he was the Standing Chairman of the
Quadripartite Working Group - Engineers in the ABCA Armies Agreement. In
1999 and 2000 he was the Senior National Officer for Australia in the ABCA
Program. In 1985 he attended the Australian Command and Staff College,
Queenscliff. In 1991 he attended the Australian Joint Services Staff
College where he earned a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies. In 1998 he
was a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies in the United Kingdom. Senior appointments have included: the inaugural commanding officer of
the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment, Staff Officer Operations to the Chief of
the Defence Force, inaugural commander of the Australian Theatre Joint
Intelligence Centre (ASTJIC), and the inaugural Principal Staff Officer -
Intelligence, Headquarters Australian Theatre. Lieutenant General Gillespie
was promoted to Brigadier in January 1999. In this rank he was the Chief of
Staff Training Command - Army, he commanded the United Nations Sector West
multinational brigade in East Timor, and he was the National Commander of
Australia 's contribution to Operation Enduring Freedom. For his service as the Commander Australian Contingent, Operation
Slipper, Lieutenant General Gillespie was advanced to Officer of the Order
of Australia in the Military Division, having previously been a Member of
the Order for his service as Commander ASTJIC. He was also awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for his command and leadership in East Timor in
2000/2001 and the Conspicuous Service Medal for his work in Namibia in
1989/90. Lieutenant General Gillespie was appointed as Land Commander Australia
in January 2004. He was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed as
Vice Chief of the Defence Force in July 2005.
High Fidelity Simulations Across the Life Cycle
Mr Guy Higgins
Vice President Analysis, Modeling, Simulation &
Experimentation
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
As nations broaden the scope of their efforts to protect their national security, two significant questions arise - How do we understand what systems or equipment to procure? and How do we understand that the overall performance of equipment operating together is what we require? Advances in Systems Engineering may hold the key.
As Vice President of Analysis, Modeling, Simulation & Experimentation, Guy Higgins manages, leads and provides strategic direction for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems modeling, simulation and analysis. This includes the creation and execution of integrated analytic and experimentation capabilities for program support and business growth. As such, he is responsible for the conduct of complex analysis, the development of new analytic capabilities and the evolution and operation of an advanced laboratory network. He was named to this position in November 2004.
Higgins joined Boeing in 1999 after retiring from the U.S. Navy. During his 30-year Naval career, he served as program manager of Anti-Ship Weapons, program manager for Advanced Technology, and director of test and evaluation for the Tomahawk cruise missile. He also flew 4,300 hours as P-3 TACCO and Mission Commander.
His career at Boeing has included serving as director of the CVN-77 Integrated Warfare System, director of Deepwater, director of Network Centric Operations for Advanced Aircraft & Missiles, and more recently as director of Business Development for Space & Intelligence Systems and director of Advanced Information Systems.
Higgins has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master of Science Degree in Aerospace Structures from Columbia University. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and served as Project Officer for the S-3A Fleet Issue 4.0 and P3C Update II Navy Technical Evaluation.
Higgins' military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit awards, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, an Air Medal, a Joint Service Commendation Medal, a Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Navy Unit citation, two Meritorious Unit citations and numerous campaign and service awards.
Developing Serious Games
Mr Bob Bates
Games Development Expert
USA
Bob Bates will overview the trends to Serious Games, their potential and pitfalls.
Bob
Bates began his game writing career at Infocom in 1986. Since then he has
written, co-designed, produced, or otherwise assisted the development of
more than 30 games that have sold over 2 million copies and won over 55
industry awards, including two Adventure Game of the Year awards. His most
recent published title is Panzer Elite Action: Fields of Glory, released in
April 2006.
In 1989 Bob co-founded Legend Entertainment and served as its President
until the company's 1998 sale to Atari. He continued as an Atari executive,
Legend's Studio Head, and as an active game designer/producer until the
studio closed in January of 2004. He now works as an independent game
designer, writer, and producer. Bob is the immediate past Chairman of the International Game Developers
Association (IGDA) and currently serves as the chairman of its long-range
planning committee. A frequent speaker at worldwide industry conferences
and events, he is also the co-founder and organizer of the Game Designer's
Workshop, an annual invitation-only conference attended by many of the top
storytelling game designers in the business. Bob is also on the advisory
board of the European Games Convention Developer Conference (GCDC), and of
Project Horseshoe, a game-designer think-tank. Bob is the author of one of the industry's bestselling books on game
development, Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games, which is
currently being used as a textbook by several colleges and universities. He
has lectured on game design at MIT, Columbia, and George Washington
University, and he is also the editor of the Game Developers Market Guide
from Premier Press. Most recently, he co-authored a report on the Serious
Games Industry for a government think tank.
Simulation - the Human Factor
Professor Tom Triggs
Professorial Fellow, Monash University Accident Research Centre
Australia
Professor Triggs will introduce the role of Human Factors in simulation design and practice.
Professor Tom Triggs is associated primarily with the human factors and simulation program in road safety at the Centre. Formerly, he was Director of the Battelle Human Factors and Organizational Effectiveness Research Centre in Seattle, and Manager, Experimental Psychology Department at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Boston.
He was previously a member of the editorial board of Safety Science, and a member of the U.S. Transportation Research Board Sub-committee on driver training. His current research interests are in human factors of decision-aiding, human-computer interface issues and driving simulation. He obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and his Master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Sydney.
Professor Triggs is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society of Australia of which he is a Past President. He was awarded the Cumming Memorial Medal of the Ergonomics Society in 2000, and was co-recipient of the Alan Welford Award of the Society in 2002. He was previously Associate Editor of Human Factors for 21 years, and the Australian and New Zealand Associate Editor of Applied Ergonomics for 10 years.
His research interests are in the areas of human decision making, human factors in transportation, and attentional processes. At MUARC, he is involved in research related to young drivers, in particular, and to the use of simulation in the evaluation of driving performance. He was Deputy Director of the Centre from 1991 to 2005.
The Use of Modelling and Simulation in National Security
Dr Richard Davis
Head National Security
Science & Technology Unit
Prime Minister & Cabinet Department, Australia
Dr Davis has a BSc and MSc in Psychology and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction.
He worked as a Defence consultant in the UK for a number of years before moving to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in '91 to work on Command and Control systems. Initial projects included distributed collaborative planning, knowledge & information management and HQ analysis & design.
On promotion to Research Leader in 2000, the focus shifted to examining whole of force capabilities, with an emphasis on Joint Experimentation, Networked Warfare, Systems Engineering/Architectures and Modelling & Simulation. Dr Davis was the founding leader of the DSTO Modelling & Simulation Hub.
Most recently, in 2006, Dr Davis became Head of the National Security Science and Technology (NSST) Unit within the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet. The NSST Unit role is to act as a national focus for science and technology to support Australia's counter terrorism capability.
