WRIGHT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT (WITS) 2020 VIRTUAL EVENT AGENDA
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6 October 2020 - Tuesday*Click on Speaker Name to Link to Bio
Time (EDT)
Topic
Speaker
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
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
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
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
Welcome and Recap
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
Panel: Defending the Cyber Realm in an Edge Environment
Panel: Industrial Control Systems and Utilities: Edge Computing, Scalability and Cybersecurity
1300-1350
Panel: Impact of Cyber Security Across Industries
1350-1400
1400-1450
Panel: Business Realization/Value: Smart Factory / Smart City / Smart Base
1450–1500
Panel: AF Opportunities in the Digital Environment
Closing Remarks
Dr. Tim Meixner