Information Sharing & Exploitation: Giving The User What They Need, In The Right Format & On Time

8:25 Chair's Welcome Address Susanne Yoakum-Stover, Executive Director, Institute For Modern Intelligence Chair's Welcome Address Susanne Yoakum-Stover Executive Director, Institute For Modern Intelligence Suzanne Yoakum-Stover is a data scientist dedicated to developing Modern Intelligence - the science, practice, and governance of intelligence at Ultra-Large Scale (ULS). Since earning her Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook University in 1992, she has contributed, both as a research scientist and as an educator, to a range of technical fields including physics, artificial intelligence, medical imagi [read more]

8:30 Developing A Dynamic & Mission Management Approach To Sharing & Exploiting Data: Australian Case Study Brian Sloan, Acting Director of the Office of the Capability Coordinator - Geospatial Information, Department of Defence, Australia Developing A Dynamic & Mission Management Approach To Sharing & Exploiting Data: Australian Case Study Brian Sloan Acting Director of the Office of the Capability Coordinator - Geospatial Information, Department of Defence, Australia Brian Sloan is the acting Director, Office of Capability Coordination for Geospatial Information, Australian Department of Defence. Brian graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1986 joining the Royal Australian Survey Corps and later transferring to the Royal Australian Engineers. His service included appointments to operational, training, staff and advisory positions including post [read more]

9:00 Development Of Information Superiority: Providing Data & Analysis To The War-fighter Jim Hockenhull, Head Military Strategic Planning, MOD UK Development Of Information Superiority: Providing Data & Analysis To The War-fighter Jim Hockenhull Head Military Strategic Planning, MOD UK Brigadier Hockenhull was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1986 after reading Politics at the University of York on a University Cadetship. His early postings were as a platoon commander with KORBR in Northern Ireland and in intelligence appointments in the UK, Cyprus and Berlin. Between 1991 and 2003 he served for eight years over three tours in Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) as [read more]

9:30 Implementing An Effective Data Sharing Environment In The Allied Forces & Across Europe Casper E F Wienburg, JISR, NATO Implementing An Effective Data Sharing Environment In The Allied Forces & Across Europe Casper E F Wienburg JISR, NATO

10:00 Sharing GEOINT Information and Analysis Using Cross Domain Technologies Marc Hocking, Senior Director of technology, Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions Sharing GEOINT Information and Analysis Using Cross Domain Technologies Marc Hocking Senior Director of technology, Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions Marc Hocking is Senior Director of Technology in support of Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS) international growth. In this role, Mr. Hocking, who is located in London, works closely with the company’s Chief Technology Officer to expand RTCS’ current international presence by promoting the benefits of their cross domain access and transfer capabilities throughout the United Kingdom (UK) a [read more]

10:30 Morning Coffee Morning Coffee

11:00 Big Data and Game-Changing Technologies Major General John Custer, Director, EMC Federal Strategic Missions and Programs, EMC Corporation Big Data and Game-Changing Technologies Major General John Custer Director, EMC Federal Strategic Missions and Programs, EMC Corporation Major General USA (ret) John M. Custer is the Director of EMC’s Federal Strategic Missions and Programs. EMC is a leader in enabling government agencies to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – informati [read more]

11:30 Effectively Exploiting & Sharing Data: Strategy & Policy Barry Barlow, Director, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Effectively Exploiting & Sharing Data: Strategy & Policy Barry Barlow Director, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Barry Barlow, Director, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Reston, Va., is the Functional Manager for Acquisition Systems. Mr. Barlow is responsible for systems engineering, program management and contracts management for the development and deployment of the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) worldwide, and for delivering systems and solutions to meet [read more]

12:10 Creating A Centre Of Data Management Excellence: How Does It Change Your Organisation? Jason McCallion, Head of Market Reference Data for Global Banking and Markets, RBS GBM Colin Gibson, Head of Data Architecture for the Global Banking and Markets (GBM), RBS GBM Creating A Centre Of Data Management Excellence: How Does It Change Your Organisation? Jason McCallion Head of Market Reference Data for Global Banking and Markets, RBS GBM Colin Gibson Head of Data Architecture for the Global Banking and Markets (GBM), RBS GBM Colin is Head of Data Architecture for the Global Banking and Markets (GBM) division of Royal Bank of Scotland. Colin graduated from Durham University with a degree in Physics and Mathematics and spent the early part of his career in software development and operational analysis in the defence sector. He joined Smith New Court in 1990 and progressed though a number of roles in Front Office Technol [read more]

12:40 Lunch Lunch

13:30 Breaking the Data Barriers Susanne Yoakum-Stover, Executive Director, Institute For Modern Intelligence All data-intensive endeavors share the same problem: Our assets, which include data, information, and knowledge, as well as analytics, tools, and applications, are fractured in physically and semantically disparate systems. In short, our data enterprise is broken. As a result, insight is obscured and operations are impeded by our inability to fully search, explore, enrich and exploit those assets. In order to understand the full picture, we must break the data barriers. In this presentation, Dr. Yoakum-Stover describes a practical, Ultra-Large Scale systems solution for unified data storage and processing - one that addresses both the scale and diversity of data and processing without imposing constraints on what data must be or how they should be used. She describes how the core innovation underlying the approach - the Artifact, Data, and Model Description Frameworks (AD&M DFs), can accommodate all data, information, and knowledge regardless of modality, structure, and semantics without data loss or distortion, and in particular how geospatial and temporal information are handled. Her talk concludes with a discussion of an instance of the complete system, the Data and Processing Syndicate, built on cloud compute and storage technology (HDFS, Map Reduce, Accumulo) that her engineering team is currently building for the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Susanne Yoakum-Stover Executive Director, Institute For Modern Intelligence Suzanne Yoakum-Stover is a data scientist dedicated to developing Modern Intelligence - the science, practice, and governance of intelligence at Ultra-Large Scale (ULS). Since earning her Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook University in 1992, she has contributed, both as a research scientist and as an educator, to a range of technical fields including physics, artificial intelligence, medical imagi [read more]

14:00 Using Common Standards For Synchronising Data On & Off Line Mark Reichardt, President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium Using Common Standards For Synchronising Data On & Off Line Mark Reichardt President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium Mark Reichardt is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). Mr. Reichardt has overall responsibility for Consortium operations, overseeing the development and promotion of OpenGIS® standards and working to ensure that OGC programs foster member success. He works with other standards development organizations and professional associations [read more]

14:30 New Tools For Complex Systems Modelling: Predicting The Future By Using Geospatial & Other Data Jonathan Chetwynd, Complex Data Modelling Expert, Peepo Tools For Complex Systems Modelling: Predicting The Future By Using Geospatial & Other Data Jonathan Chetwynd Complex Data Modelling Expert, Peepo Jonathan Chetwynd conceived, designed and built peepo.com, one of a small number of web applications that use open web standards technologies to visualise complex data in real time that helps users to forecast outcomes. He incorporates recent successful advances in risk analysis that use mathematical forecasting models, such as MCTS with information sharing, and contributes innovative visualisatio [read more]

15:00 To be confirmed Malcolm Chisholm, President, AskGet To be confirmed Malcolm Chisholm President, AskGet

15:30 Afternoon Coffee Afternoon Coffee

16:00 Dealing With Data Governance In A Multi-National Environment: Effective Collaborative Approaches Adriano Baptista, Head of Operations Division, European Union Satellite Centre Hervé Touron, Operations Manager , European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) Dealing With Data Governance In A Multi-National Environment: Effective Collaborative Approaches Adriano Baptista Head of Operations Division, European Union Satellite Centre Hervé Touron Operations Manager , European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) Hervé Touron is currently Operations Manager of the Operations Division of the European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC). The EUSC is an Agency of the Council of the European Union (transferred from the Western European Union (WEU) in 2002), which provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products and services to support the decision-making of the European Union including EU crisis management operati [read more]

16:30 Sharing Data Across The Government Organisations Jim R Hill, Director, Geospatial Intelligence Directorate, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, USA Sharing Data Across The Government Organisations Jim R Hill Director, Geospatial Intelligence Directorate, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, USA Jim is the Director of the Geospatial Intelligence Directorate (GID), Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) located in Quantico, VA. He manages a staff of 100 professionals providing GEOINT support to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Operational Marine Forces, and the Intelligence Community. Jim provides strategic direction, technical mentorship, resource management, and is re [read more]