WRIGHT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT (WITS) 2020 VIRTUAL EVENT AGENDA

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6 October 2020 - Tuesday
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Time (EDT)

Topic

Speaker

0845-0900  Login  

0900-0910

Welcome & Opening Remarks

David Dodds, Dayton-Wright AFCEA President

Dr. Tim Meixner, Wright IT Summit Chair

0910-1000

Keynote: Digital Enterprise Overview 

Maj Gen William T. (Bill) Cooley, Special Assistant to the Commander of Air Force Materiel Command, AFMC Digital Campaign Lead

1000-1010

Break

 

1010-1100

Keynote: Industry 4.0, The Connection of Everything: What It Is, Where It Is Going and Why It Is Important

Dr. Nathan (Nate) Hartman, Dauch Family Professor of Advanced Manufacturing and Department Head of the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University; Director of the Purdue University Digital Enterprise Center; and Co-Executive Director of the Indiana Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC)1100-1110


Break

 

1110-1200

Keynote: Edge Computing and the Next Generation: Where the AF is Heading

Nicolas (Nic) Chaillan, Chief Software Officer, Air Force, Co-Lead DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative

1200-1300

Lunch

 

1300-1400

Panel: Edge Practitioners & Providers

1410-1420

Break

 

1420-1450

Keynote: AF Chief Data Office (CDO) Overview and Perspective

Col Charles (Chuck) Destefani, AF Chief Data Office (SAF/CO) Chief Architect and AFMC Liaison Officer

1450-1500

Break

 

1500-1550

Panel: AF Big Data Initiatives: BLADE, CDO VAULT, JPSAWG, AFRL Data Strategy

1550-1600

Wrap-Up

David Dodds

1600-1700

Virtual Networking Session

 

7 October 2020 - Wednesday

Time (EDT)

Topic

Speaker

0845-0900
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0900-0910

Welcome and Recap

David Dodds, Dayton-Wright AFCEA President

0910-1000

Keynote: Air Force Digital Transformation and the Strategic Landscape

Col Scott McKeever, Director, Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF) Strategic Studies Group at Headquarters Air Force

1000-1010

Break

 

1010-1100

Panel: Defending the Cyber Realm in an Edge Environment 

1100-1110

Break

 

1110-1200

Panel: Industrial Control Systems and Utilities: Edge Computing, Scalability and Cybersecurity 

1200-1300

Lunch

 

1300-1350

Panel: Impact of Cyber Security Across Industries

1350-1400

Break

 

1400-1450

Panel: Business Realization/Value: Smart Factory / Smart City / Smart Base

1450–1500

Break

 

1500-1550

Panel: AF Opportunities in the Digital Environment

1550-1600

Closing Remarks

Dr. Tim Meixner

1600-1700

Virtual Networking Session

 

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