Conference Program

SimTecT 2007 will held from Monday 4 June – Thursday 7 June 2007, at the Brisbane Convention Centre.

Detailed Program

Download the Conference Program V7.1 as of 3 June 2007.

Program at a Glance

Program

Monday 4 June 2007

Tuesday 5 June 2007

Wednesday 6 June 2007

Thursday 7 June 2007

Special Presentations

Wargame Cafe

Drop into a special part of the Exhibition area where PC "Games" are used for serious purposes.

It is hosted by the Army, and organised by Robert Carpenter.

SteelBeasts Pro

Steelbeasts is a virtual Leopard 2 and M1 tank simulation for gunners, crew commanders, troop/platoon leaders and squadron/company commanders. It depicts the firecontrol and weapons systems of a number of vehicles. It is in use with the German, Danish and US forces and is being evaluated by a number of other defence forces.

Full Spectrum Warrior

This is a Squad based first person game developed for the US Army.

TACOPS

TACOPS is a modern constructive battalion to brigade constructive wargame that has extensive multiplayer and multifaction capability. It has been developed from the base commercial product for the US Army. It is used by the US Canadian, New Zealand and Australian armies for all arms training of company and battalion level officers.

Combat Mission

Combat Mission is a WW2 constructive company to battalion level game played in a 3D environment. It has been evaluated by the US Army and a modern version is possible within the next few years.

Simulation in Defence

Standards

The SIAA has teamed with well-known Standards organisations SISO and Standards Australia to bring a special presentation on developments around the world.

After the SISO and Standards Australia presentations, and a Q&A session, standards-related papers will be programmed.

Team Training for the Unexpected

Werner Naef (Keynote SimTecT 2005)
Naef Limited
New Zealand

Experience shows that individuals – even extremely well trained – often start to dysfunction when getting under stress. Managers do not delegate anymore, they over-control and become very critical of others in terms of thinking clearly, cleanliness, order, money or on-time performance. Others attack staff for not being committed, not sharing the right beliefs and not being trustworthy. They focus on the 3% that have been done wrong and fail to see the 97% that had been perfect. Yet others under stress will over-adapt, become wishy-washy in their decision making - they invite criticism and rejection.

In other words: people under stress often start to unknowingly sabotage their professional and private life. The psychological mechanisms behind this are well known – our individual dysfunctional behavioural stress patterns being highly predictable. This is why NASA took this method onboard its astronaut selection, and training, as early as 1978!

The method is being successfully used on many continents and a many industries. Naef Limited have been offering such training with great success since the late 90s in Europe, in Australia and in New Zealand.

Stress training of teams based on this psychological background is enhanced by usage of a computer simulation pushing teams into high-activity, complex performance situations where the individual stress patterns will show up. Thus learners experience their stress behaviours in an authentic – but non-jeopardy – situation; they can then analyse the dysfunctional part of their behaviour and in a re-training session apply an alternative, successful behavioural pattern.

The paper focuses on recent such training events in Europe on the management level of a major European airport, and on staff of new operations centres of a major European Rail Operator.

Homeland Security Symposium

Following on from Dr Richard Davis Keynote in the morning, this Symposium allows those who are interested in Security to come to SimTecT for Thursday.

See the attached Registration Brochure (1,003KB PDF).

Presenters

1. Richard Davis – Head National Security, Science & Technology Unit, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australian Government (Keynote)


2. David McKeague – Principal, Xon Xoff Pty Ltd (Keynote SimTecT 2006)


3. Chris Pogue - President, CAE Professional Services, Canada


4. Dr Rick Nunes-Vaz, Senior Analyst, Land Operations Division, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)
   Rick is exploring the question of what 'capacity modelling' is being done in the national security context. He currently works with the Protective Security Coordination Centre (Canberra) to assist their Evaluation and Capability Development programs under the National Counter-Terrorism Committee. The National Security exercises are part of that evaluation/development process. However exercises represent only one of a number of mechanisms that help you learn how to deal with National Security problems - there are others that are joined under the heading 'capacity' problems. They are things like: How big does a problem have to be before you need to call for assistance from another agency, another jurisdiction, another State or National Defence? What are the thresholds and decision triggers that apply? Do the agencies adequately understand those thresholds and do they adequately understand their own capacities? In the event of an incident, there may be a policy to shutdown critical infrastructure such as transport, power or phones - if you over-react, what harm is caused? What about crowds - you can't play crowds in exercises? How do you learn about crowds, and how to manage them when a problem arises – for example in an incident inside a major stadium? There are many more 'capacity' problems, and most require modelling and simulation to inform and explore. Rick will explore these problems as look at what we need to do to address these.


5. Richard Hodge, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
   Mr Hodge will present an overview of the strategic and operational context for national security as it currently operates across the public and private sector.  In doing so, he will outline potential opportunities for modelling and simulation to assist the national security community to identify needs, determine capability requirements, consider capability options, support preparedness, training and operational activities and to support damage assessment and recovery.


6. Dr Michael Ling, Senior Complex Systems Analyst, Human Protection and Performance Division, DSTO
   Wargaming Against Invisible Enemies: One of the many great challenges posed by chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) threats is that the CB agents or radiological materials are usually invisible and can sometimes be difficult to detect and identify even with sophisticated sensors. Simulation technology can have an important role to play in support of exercise and operational planning, and wargaming. In this talk the speaker will first outline some of the recent developments in CBR modelling and simulation in DSTO. The speaker will then discuss the broader issue of wargaming in the context of civilian counter-terrorism.

Outline of Workshop

This Symposium encourages those agencies and organisations with security needs, to engage with local and international providers, to elicit areas of commonality, challenges, standards required, and a way ahead.

Who should attend

Federal, state and local government agencies, defence, utilities, telecommunications providers, major infrastructure owners, healthcare, national security consultants, simulation providers, data providers.

Outline of Program

Site Visits

This year the SimTecT 2007 Organising Committee has arranged a number of interesting site visits:

• Alteon's Aviation Training Facility
• Aviation Australia
• Queensland Rail and Vigil Systems
• Auran Games
• Queensland Health Skills Development Centre
• VR Solutions

Delegates will be transported from the Convention Centre to and from each venue, and then to the airport. For site visits near the airport (Alteon and Australian Aerospace), the buses will go to the airport first, before returning to the Convention Centre.

A packed lunch will be available to eat on the bus.

All site visits are subject to a minimum number of ten (10) persons.

1. Alteon's Aviation Training Facility

The Alteon facility in Brisbane provides training to civil aviation users including VirginBlue.

This site visit will provide a tour of the facility including the associated training equipment and a behind the scenes look at the computer rooms, together with a short flight in one of two available commercial aviation simulators (subject to last minute unavailability).

Note that numbers are limited to 24 delegates (4 groups of 6).

The Alteon facility includes simulators for:

• 717-200
• 737-700 / 800
• A320

Alteon is the industry leader in providing customized aviation training solutions. With a global network of training centres, airlines and Maintenance Repair Organisation (MRO) find strategic and effective training for flight crew, cabin attendant, maintenance technicians and engineers to support their operations.

Alteon offers an integrated services portfolio with more than 400 courses for training on 23 models at its 23 training centres in 13 countries on 6 continents. Alteon continues to expand, supporting the world's aviation community with more than 80 FFS.

Alteon is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company within the Boeing Commercial Airplanes' Commercial Aviation Services (CAS). CAS offers the industry's broadest selection of aviation support products and services Operators throughout the world, regardless of their fleet mix, turn to Alteon for training solutions that are as unique as their business.

2. Aviation Australia

A tour of Aviation Australia's cabin crew simulation systems and avionics technician training centre.

• Fire trainer
• 737 and Emb170 cabins
• Door trainers and
• Evacuation pool.

You can take a Virtual Tour as well!

3. Queensland Rail and Vigil Systems

This will comprise visits to two locations.

QR Train Simulator

At Queensland Rail, visitor's can inspect the passenger train driving simulator. The simulator is able to imitate the characteristics of all current Citytrain electric unit types (EMU/SMU/IMU) and is currently being upgraded to include the new IMU specifications.

The simulator is used for:

• Initial familiarisation with driving tasks in a safe environment
• Train / assess and reaccredit Drivers & Guards as well as Train Controllers and Station Staff
• Route Tuition
• Fault Finding
• Critical Incident Management (Emergency Procedures)
• SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) avoidance
• Post-SPAD Driver Training - Working with individually identified issues
• Accident Investigation.

Download a longer description.

Note that numbers are limited to 30 delegates (2 groups of 15).

Vigil Systems Driver Training Systems

Vigil Systems develops real-world advanced solutions for on-road training, evaluation and driver performance management to proactively manage risk and improve driver safety to reduce the costs and risks of accidents and incidents. Vigil Systems works in the transit, airport, emergency services and mining industries

VigilVanguard Driver Training System

The VigilVanguard Driver Training System revolutionizes the way drivers are recruited, trained, and managed to achieve desirable safety objectives. The portable in-vehicle logging and sensor system combined with visual-based software enables the recording, measurement, and detailed analysis of driving behaviour and performance.

Route Training System

VigilVoyage is a route profiling system, designed to effectively aid transit trainee drivers with visual-based route training. It works in conjunction with the VigilVanguard driver training system to construct maps, providing relevant information on each transit route. VigilVoyage assists trainers to reduce training times, allowing drivers to effectively undertake routes sooner than with traditional route training.

Pocket PC Assessment Tool

VigilPassenger is a handheld automated assessment and reporting tool that also monitors the physical forces experienced during a drive. Capturing this non-subjective data allows for consistent benchmarking and assessment of driving styles, with the ability to generate reports based on the captured data.

VigilView - Driving Performance

This visual-based management software program highlights several areas of driving performance including speeds, accelerations, braking, cornering, following distances, and driver alertness. VigilView provides a practical illustration of data captured through VigilVanguard's video and sensor system as well as trainer-highlighted events. Using mapping technology, the location of the driver's route is shown, giving a complete overview of the drive, including problem areas or significant events that may have occurred. The video playback feature enables specific areas of the driver training session to be accurately and specifically reviewed.

4. Auran Games

Auran develops PC games for the entertainment and business sectors.

Some of the business related titles are:

• Ship Simulator
• Xtreme King Air B200
• Ultimate Airlines Super 80
• Hotel Giant Fire Department 3
• War On Terror
• Trainz Driver and Railworld Simulator

Visitors will tour Auran's development facilities, and discuss industry issues with company representatives.

5. Queensland Health Skills Development Centre

Queensland Health Skills Development Centre is one of most technologically advanced and comprehensive skills development centres in the world.

Opened jointly on 23 September 2004 by the Premier of Queensland, the Hon. Peter Beattie and the then Queensland Minister for Health, Hon. Gordon Nuttall, it is the only one of seven in Oceania to have a complete suite of virtual reality and simulation training equipment.

It covers over 3500sqm, with 26 session rooms, laboratories, and even a fully-functional operating theatre and hospital ward.

Facilities

• Two large seminar rooms, capable of seating 130 participants;
• One fully-equipped operating theatre and emergency department resuscitation bay;
• A training ward that can be set up with an intensive care bay and recovery ward bay, complete with a patient ensuite for retrieving patients’ who have may collapsed;
• Surgical skills and virtual reality skills training laboratories;
• Airways laboratory, access laboratory and CPR laboratory;
• Two access grid rooms for high-end video-conferencing;
• An e-learning room with computer terminals;
• Eight communications suites with a central observation area. The communication suites may be set up to become a procedure room, an outpatient room, a GP’s surgery, and waiting room;
• Five debriefing and eight tutorial rooms;
• An audio-visual suite for editing;
• Visiting faculty areas with internet connectivity to allow visitors to stay in touch with their home or work base;
• Patients' lounge for patients or actors in scenarios to relax between sessions.

Equipment

• Multiple life-sized high, medium and low fidelity mannequins, (Adults, children and neonates);
• Three endo-vascular surgical trainers;
• Laparoscopic simulators. Several use haptic feedback (force-feedback) to enhance the simulated experience;
• Gastro-intestinal trainers;
• Box trainers & laparoscopic stacks for surgical skill training;
• Urological simulator;
• Part trainers for procedural skill training including Airways trainers, CPR trainers;
• Gynaecology simulator;
• Overhead cameras and projectors in all session rooms;
• High fidelity audio visual equipment, capable of real-time recording from multiple sources.

6. VR Solutions

VR Solutions will host SimTecT delegates for a visit to its development laboratory. On display will be a unique HDTV resolution display system, providing two channel coverage of a 160 degree field of view system. Application demonstrations will be provided of VRS work in the areas of Mining simulation, Command and Control Training, Ship simulation and battle space tactical planning.

Defence Synthetic Environment Courses

These courses are organised by the Australian Defence Simulation Office.

Download the Registration Brochure.

Social Functions

Included in your SimTecT conference full registration fee is the Welcome Reception and the Conference Dinner.

Golf Challenge

The SimTecT 2007 Golf Challenge will be held at the Indooroopilly Golf Club.

Welcome Reception

Social Evening

Conference Dinner

Pre-dinner drinks will commence at 7.00pm and dinner from 7.30pm

©2007 Simulation Industry Association of Australia
Updated: 29 May 2007