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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Time
Location
7:30 am - 6:00 pm
7:30 - 8:30 am
8:30 - 8:45 am
Kara Orvis, PhD
Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA
Executive Vice President, Office of Science and Technology Aptima, Inc.  
8:45 - 9:30 am
Bob Ritchie
Chief Technology Officer, SAIC
 
9:30 - 10:00 am
Patrick Mason, PhD, SES
Department Head, Warfighting Performance, Code 34, Office of Navel Research  
10:00 - 10:30 am
10:30 - 11:00 am
Elizabeth Uhl, PhD
PAE&T Subarea Lead, Human Systems COI
Senior Research Psychologist, Army Research Institute
 
11:00 - 12:15 am
Design Heuristics for Developing an Effective Human-Agent Co-Learning Tool
Eric Sikorski, PhD
Director, Quantum Improvements Consulting

Four Steps to Modernize Defense Learning and Development
Sae Schatz, PhD
Co-Founder, Bedrock Learning, Inc.

Exploring the Tradespace for a Synthetic task Environment for Human-AI Teaming Research
James McCarthy, PhD
Vice President, Instructional Systems, Sonalysts  
12:15 am - 1:15 pm
1:15 - 2:15 pm
Henry Phillips, PhD
Director of Learning Technologies, Soar Technology
MODERATOR

Arwen DeCostanza, PhD
Program Manager- Catalyst Pathfinder, Strategic Partnership at DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory

BG Peter Palmer, USA (Ret)
President, P2Consulting Services, LLC
Vice Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA

CDR Tatana Olson, USN, PhD
Chief of Staff (Acting) DHA R&D Directorate & Prospective XO of the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory

John Taylor
Deputy Program Manager, Training Systems
Marine Corps System Command
 
2:15 - 2:35 pm
Graham Markiewicz
Defense Policy Advisor, Office of U.S. Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona  
2:35 - 3:20 pm
3:20 - 3:45 pm
Logan Williams, PhD
PS&WP Government Co-Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA
Lead, Human Performance Medical Product Area, Air Force Research Laboratory  
3:45 - 5:25 pm
Sleep is the Military's Most Critical Weapon System
Allison Brager, PhD
Chief Science Officer
United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School

Designing Human Performance Tools for US Army H2F Technology Enablement: Case Studies from the Army Application Lab's Pilot Project Using the CoachMePlus Warrior Performance Platform (WP2)
Kevin Dawidowicz
President & Co-Founder
CoachMePlus

Objective Prediction of Flight Performance from Physiology
Hrishikesh Rao, PhD
Technical Staff Member
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

A Research and Development Approach for Holistically Monitoring Warfighter Performance
Emily Mills, PhD
Senior Research & Portfolio Manager
Design Interactive, Inc.
 
5:25 - 5:35 pm
Lillian Asiala, PhD
Cognitive Scientist, Sonalysts
Deputy Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA  
5:35 - 7:00 pm
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Time
Location
7:30 am - 3:00 pm
7:30 - 8:30 am
8:30 - 8:35 am
Kara Orvis, PhD
Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA
Executive Vice President, Office of Science and Technology, Aptima, Inc.  
8:35 - 9:20 am
Jeremy Lanman, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Army Program Executive Office, Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)  
9:20 - 9:50 am
9:50 - 10:20 am
Mark Draper, PhD
SI&CP Government Co-Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA Lead
Adaptive Warfighter Interfaces Core Technical Competency, Air Force Research Laboratory  
10:20 am - 12:00 pm
JADC2: Getting Down to Work
John Flach, PhD
Senior Cognitive Systems Engineer
Mile Two, LLC

The Contagion Effect if Trust on Multi-UAV Systems
Blake Piper
Human System Researcher
Leidos

Understanding Human-Machine Interaction and Discourse Using a Brainstorming Task
Andrew Naber, PHD
Scientist
Aptima

On the Same Cognitive Wavelength: Reaching Calibrated Trust Through Cognitive Modeling and Adaptive Human-Agent Systems
Summer Rebensky, PhD
Research Scientist
Aptima
 
12:00 - 1:00 pm
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Stuart Michelson
Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute
MODERATOR

MAJ Brady C. Juelson, USA (Invited)
Executive Officer to the CG, Mission & Installation Contracting Command (MICC)

Kayla Riegner, PhD
Robotic Human Machine Interaction Team
CCDC | Ground Vehicle Systems Center | Ground Vehicle Robotics (GVR)

Dave Thomas (Invited)
Technical Program Manager, ManTech

Steve Dam, PhD
President, Systems and Proposal Engineering Company
 
2:00 - 3:00 pm
3:00 - 3:30 pm
George Salazar
A&M Government Co-Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA
Human Computer Interface Technical Discipline Lead, Avionics System Division, NASA

Eric Sikorski, PhD
Director, Quantum Improvements Consulting
 
3:30 - 5:10 pm
Developing a Simulation to Examine the Will to Fight and Sacrifice: Does Fidelity Matter
Aubrie Kuhrt
Cadet
UASF Academy

Improving Interview and Focus-Group Protocol for the Collection of Systems Data From Military Personnel
Eugenia O'Kelly
Researcher
Cambridge University

Compounding Design Insight: Integration of CSE in MBSE for Early HSI Design Rationale
Dylan Cravens
Design Engineer
Leidos, Inc

Tactical Research at the Edge: A New Paradigm for testing Emerging Warfighting Systems
Brian Higginson, PhD
Director, Warfighter Systems Integrations Lab
Galvion, Ltd3
 
5:10 - 5:15 pm
Lillian Asiala, PhD
Cognitive Scientist, Sonalysts
Deputy Chair, Human Systems Division, NDIA