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Symposia
Special Symposia
SimTecT 2009 is presenting two Special Symposia:
Symposium: Emergency Management / National Security
Thursday 18 June, 1130–1700
Adelaide Convention Centre
Hall BC
Including the Emergency Management Keynote Address in the morning, this Symposium allows those who are interested in Emergency Management / National Security to come to SimTecT for Thursday.
This is included in the Full Conference Registration, or Thursday Day Registration, or attendees can register just for the Symposium for $395.
Outline of Symposium
This symposium, hosted by the SIAA's Emergency Management and National Security Special Interest Group, builds on the SimTecT 2008 symposium to further develop the key issues, concepts, technologies and challenges associated with the use of simulation within Emergency Management and National Security.
Applications in this space include:
- Training for first responders
- Training and planning for rescue operations, including mining
- Command and control for emergency management
- Response planning and analysis
- Inter-agency collaboration in planning, exercises and operations
- Critical infrastructure protection, and
- Capability development and acquisition.
The Symposium includes a range of speakers who will provide an introduction, problem statements, case studies and lessons learnt, followed by panel discussions where the issues can be explored in an interactive forum.
Objective
This symposium encourages those agencies and organisations with emergency management and security needs to engage with local and international providers, and to elicit areas of commonality, challenges, standards required, and mechanisms to jointly solve the complex problems. This event will provide an ideal forum for networking and discussion between government and industry groups working in Emergency Management and National Security.
Who should attend
Federal, state and local government agencies, defence, utilities, telecommunications providers, major infrastructure owners, healthcare, emergency management and national security consultants, simulation providers, data providers.
This symposium has broad applicability, from senior management and government officials who are seeking an overview of training, analysis and operational support in Emergency Management, to trainers, technologists and engineers who are interested in applications and new developments in this area.
Presenters
Chief Fire Officer Grant Lupton
Chief Executive Officer
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
Chief Fire Officer Grant Lupton is a Keynote Speaker at SimTecT.
Associate Professor Jill Slay
Associate Research Professor
University of South Australia
Dr Jill Slay is Associate Professor: Homeland Security in the Defence and Systems Institute at the University of South Australia, and leads the Forensic Computing Lab. She holds an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Diplomas in Applied Computing and Further Education and a PhD from Curtin University of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (past-SA Computer Chapter Chair) and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Currently, she carries out collaborative research in Forensic Computing, Information Assurance and Critical Infrastructure Protection with industry, State and Federal Government partners in Australia, and her ongoing work focuses on 4 major Category 1 funded projects in Forensic Computing.
She has extensive teaching experience in the tertiary sector at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is currently supervising 9 PhD students with 3 others recently completed. She has personally supervised more than 40 cross-disciplinary honours and coursework masters students in their theses and projects.
She is an affiliate faculty member at Idaho State University and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. Jill has published one book and more than 90 refereed book chapters, journal articles or research papers in information assurance, critical infrastructure protection, complex systems and education.
Dr John Finnigan
Director of the CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science
Dr Finnigan's research focuses on: complex systems science, network theory and agent based modelling in relation to earth system dynamics and global change atmospheric boundary layer flow over vegetation canopies and complex topography, theory, measurement and applications.
Prior to joining CSIRO in 1972, Dr Finnigan was employed by Hawker-Siddeley Aviation in the United Kingdom from 1968.
From 1989-95, Dr Finnigan served as head of the CSIRO Centre for Environmental Mechanics.
From 1995 to date, he has been Chief Research Scientist, with CSIRO Divisions of Land and Water, Atmospheric Research, and Marine and Atmospheric Research.
He has served as Director of the CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science since 2001.
Dr Finnigan was a co-investigator in European and US programs on measuring the global carbon cycle and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the international science program: Interactions between Land Ecosystems and Atmospheric Processes (iLEAPS), an initiative of the IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Program).
Panel Discussions
The Symposium will include panel discussions, which will provide a forum for the interactive discussion of controversial issues:
Inter-agency Coordination and Collaboration
Facilitator: Mr Nick Howden, CAE Professional Services
Emergencies and security events require disparate agencies to work together in a high tempo, high stakes environment – with often sub-optimal results. What are the difficulties? How can simulation help?
Live Exercises
Facilitator: Ms Dawn Hayter, Igor Human Science Consultancy
The traditional way to prepare for emergencies is by a large, costly and often disruptive live exercise. Can simulation replace these? What are the limitations and opportunities?
Climate Change
Facilitator: Mr Kenny Macleod, TMN Simulation
Many believe this is the greatest threat Australia will face. Do we know the full direct and consequential impact of this? How can modelling and simulation help in getting the answers – and preparing the public.
Outline of Program
| 1130 | Keynote Address | Grant Lupton, CEO of SAMFS |
| 1230 | Lunch | |
| 1300 | Plenary Speakers | As Above |
| 1445 | Panel Discussions | As Above |
| 1600 | Wrap-up | Nick Howden |
| 1630 | Networking Drinks | |
| 1700 | Close |
Symposium: Serious Games: The Experience
Friday 19 June 2009, 0900–1600
Adelaide Convention Centre
Riverbank Rooms 2 and 3
Note that this is an additional cost ($395) to the SimTecT Conference Registration.
Download the Serious Games Flier and Registration Form.
On-line Registration
Use our secure On-line Registration facility
Lucky Door Prize - Nintendo Wii!
Outline of Symposium
“Serious” Games (or experiential learning using games technology) is becoming an increasingly attractive and yet still not fully understood or appreciated training methodology. The US Army has just announced a further investment of US$50M to progress its serious games capability - there’s something substantial in what serious games can deliver and more importantly not just within defence. Wherever procedural, attitudinal, experiential and engaging training is necessary, whatever the industry, there is likely to be some component that can be delivered through the application of a serious game.
The aim of this course is to move past the question of what is a serious game and provide examples of current real time, interactive applications in a diverse range of applications, from defence and medicine to heritage and education. Through a series of discussions, demonstrations and hands-on participation, with direct access to experts and practitioners in this field, this event will provide a more comprehensive understanding of what serious games can achieve than any other event.
- Training & Learning
- Technology Demonstrations
- Capabilities & Solution Types
- Hands-on – Hardware & Software
Who should attend
Training Managers, training end users and Training Simulation developers requiring an understanding of the uses/potential of serious games in their various forms, as well as wanting the experience of practitioners in the field.
Benefits of Participation
Participation will generate a broad knowledge in use of various gaming technologies to support Training. It will provide lessons learned from practitioners and how it can be best managed and deployed for optimal training transfer.
Outcomes for Participants
Participants will gain broader knowledge of the technological and human-centred design issues encountered in the use of gaming technologies and how to optimally apply it in their own areas of application.
Symposium Opening
The South Australian Minister for Science and Information Economy, the Hon. Michael O'Brien, has been invited to open the symposium.
Presenters / Panel
Professor Robert J. Stone
BSc (Hons) MSc CPsychol AFBPsS FErgS EurErg
FIoN FVRS
Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems
Director, Human Interface Technologies Team
School of Engineering, the University of Birmingham
Professor Stone is a Keynote Speaker at the SimTecT 2009 Conference.
Mr John Welsh
Emerging Business Development Manager
Sydac Pty Ltd
John Welsh is a program and business development manager with Sydac Pty Ltd, one of Australia's leading providers of simulation capability. Based in Adelaide, South Australia, he oversees the provision of simulation solutions to various industries including rail and defence.
Passionate about experiential learning he is also spearheading serious game initiatives in this part of the world, building from his broad career in the video games industry, where he was involved in the production of critical franchises including Harry Potter and the Legend of Spyro as well as applying training skills and knowledge gained through managing outdoor development training and 10 years as a Royal Engineers Officer in the British Army.
Having travelled extensively including time spent operating a marina and watersports business in Jamaica and 2 years living in Queensland he and his family have settled in Adelaide. By his own admission and to his son's despair John is a very mediocre games player...but he's getting better!
Dr Elyssebeth Leigh
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Education University of Technology, Sydney
Elyssebeth's research is on the design and use of simulations and games for learning in academic and workplace contexts for achieving goals such as improved teamwork, project and change management, and organisational development.
She values taking action to learn, and emphasises the indivisible nature of practice and action especially in complex, uncertain contexts subject to unexpected change.
She contributes to international programs on simulations and games for learning, including the 2007 Summer School recently held in Venice.
Elyssebeth is General Secretary of the International Simulations And Gaming Association (ISAGA), a Design Team member for the Society for Organisational Learning (SoL) biennial Global Forums and heads the SimTecT technical committee - having done so for the past two years.
She publishes in the areas of project management, simulations and games,
experiential learning and knowledge management, and has two books - Learning
Through Fun and Games and Fun and Games for Workplace Learning.
Mr Robert Carpenter
Deputy Director, Simulation Development
Army Simulation Wing
Robert has been instrumental in applying COTS games to defence applications. In particular, Virtual Battle Space 2 is now widely used in the Australian and New Zealand armies.
Ben Kilsby
Chief Executive Officer
Holopoint Interactive
Ben Kilsby is CEO of Holopoint Interactive, an independent video game development studio. He brings a wealth of management and creative problem solving skills and experience following a successful career in the Australian music industry.
In 2006 Ben retrained as a 3d artist, earning an Advanced Diploma of Computer Game Art. Since obtaining his diploma, he worked for a successful animation studio in Adelaide and then founded his own studio in 2007 along with his business partner Richard Taylor.
Ben's game development experience includes idea and content generation on over 10 game titles across multiple hardware platforms including PC, console and high-end simulators.
As CEO of Holopoint, Ben is a passionate evangelist of technology-based training solutions and a champion of the serious game industry in Australia. Holopoint specialises in 3d content generation, rapid prototyping, video game and serious game development.
Hands-on Activities
In the afternoon, delegates will be able to experience a variety of platforms and games in an interactive area, including:
- Nintendo Wiis (one to be given away as a Lucky Door prize!)
- xBox 360s
- PCs - thanks to Xenon
Outline of Program
| Time | Event | Description | Host |
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Registration | Arrival and Refreshments | |
| 08:45 – 08:50 | Opening | Symposium opened by the Hon. Michael O'Brien | |
| 08:50 – 09:15 | Panel Introductions | Setting the scene with the expert panel | Elyssebeth Leigh |
| 09:15 – 10:30 |
Serious Games – An Introduction and Overview | Context and background to what serious games are, where they have come from and how they are being applied both now and considered for the future | John Welsh & Prof Bob Stone |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee | ||
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Serious Games – It’s In The Design – Part I | How do you know if a serious game is appropriate; how do you go about designing a serious game; what advice is available and where can you get it; and what should be considered from the outset. In insightful, considered and deterministic approach to the skill of serious games design from one of the industry’s leading experts in the field | Prof Bob Stone |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Serious Games – It’s In The Design – Part II | DIY Serious Games – putting the theory into practise | Expert Panel |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Design Presentations | Group presentations illustrating design considerations and application approach | Expert Panel |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Comments, Questions and Close | Final summary, comments and questions | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Serious Games - A Hands On Approach | An opportunity to gain first hand experience with games and serious game applications. Using current technologies review the capabilities that are already on offer or that can be adapted to meet specific needs, including current game engines, haptic controller devices and multi-player connectivity | John Welsh |
Cost
The cost is $395, which includes morning / afternoon tea, and lunch.
On-line Registration
Use our secure On-line Registration facility
Sponsors
The SIAA greatly appreciates the support of:
The Government of South Australia, Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology.
PC Serious Games Café
Want to see some other Serious Games? Drop into the SimTecT Conference, from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 May, and navigate to the Serious Games Café
Symposium Secretariat
For further information about the Symposium, contact Michaela at the Conference Secretariat:ConSec - Conference Management
PO Box 3127
Belconnen Delivery Mail Centre ACT 2617
Telephone: +61 2 6251 0675
Facsimile: +61 2 6251 0672
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