Name: IT²EC 2022
Start: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
End: 2022-04-28T00:00:00Z

Join James White on our show floor theatre

Join us and James White - the Managing Director of The Decision Hall Company & Climate Action Center for the DisTec conference. Our experts will discuss cutting-edge technology and its pioneers from the industry sector who have worked together with defence in order to revolutionise the military training domain.

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The Defence and Security Accelerator: Tackling defence challenges for a safer future

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

An introduction to The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), and how people work with us. Discussing how we help tackle defence challenges through innovation, whilst showcasing our case studies and ...

Speakers

Anita Friend, Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator - DASA

Enabling Command, Operations and Training in a Complex World

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Complexity in an era of constant competition: Inefficient Force Preparation Poor Understanding Difficulty obtaining technical agility and dominance Next gen (Distributed cloud) platforms overcome thro ...

Speakers

Nick Brown, Product Marketing Director - Hadean

Alan Roan, Managing Director - Cervus Defence

Tim Colebrooke, Business Development Manager - BAE Systems

Lunch Break & Exhibition

60 mins

Large Scale Simulation: Current Approaches and Future Challenges

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

There has been a lot of interest recently in Large Scale Simulation. While some parts of the industry are still struggling to simulate hundreds of objects, others are pushing forward to multiple milli ...

Speakers

Jim Kogler, VP Products of MAK Technologies - MAK Technologies

VR/XR for Defense and Aerospace: Recent Lessons Learned and Latest Trends

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

The rapid evolution of VR/XR technologies in aerospace and defense has brought to light many key insights that are crucial to building a strong foundation for the next phase of development and deploym ...

Speakers

Seppo Aaltonen, Chief Commercial Officer - Varjo

Using Data to Accelerate Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training in the Marine Corps

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Training developers lack methods for determining the benefits of integrating live, virtual, and constructive training. The United States Marine Corps future shift from predominately live training towa ...

Speakers

Garrett Loeffelman, Science, Technology, and Analysis Lead - Training and Education Command (TECOM), USMC

Jesse Attig - United States Marine Corps

Ryan Brown, Resource Integration Coordinator - United States Marine Corps, Training and Education Command's Training Support Center

Afternoon Break & Exhibition

30 mins

Unreal Facilitating Future Force Augmented and Virtual Training

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

The presentation will be designed to brief on the work conducted by Lockheed Marin in collaboration with Epic Games, to develop a reusable virtual Reality (VR) Augmented Reality (AR) architecture to s ...

Speakers

Mark Collins - Epic Games

Nigel Jones, Chief Training System Architect - Lockheed Martin UK Ltd

Accelerating Flying Proficiencies with XR tech

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

In an effort to find efficiencies in flying training, the USAF innovated with Pilot Training “Next” (PTN) in 2018. From this, several proven innovation concepts emerged that were scaled across USAF pi ...

Speakers

Tim 'TJ' Moser, Air Force BU lead - Vertex

Evening Break & Exhibition

0 mins

Disruption, made constructive: changing how industry works so the military can transform how it trains

DisTec Theatre

40 mins

The transformation of defence demands the transformation of our industry. We need to forge new relationships with government – and with one another – so we can get the latest technological innovations ...

Speakers

Jason Kennedy, VP Engineering (defence and national security) - Improbable

Training at the point of need – why and how to adapt mixed reality into military and security training

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

During the session we will explore the context of the need for change in how training and learning is delivered in the defence and security environment. How we are moving from linear relationship whic ...

Speakers

Bob Cargill, Industry Advisor - Defence - Microsoft

Duncan McSporran, Chief Operations Officer, VP Defence & Public Sector - Kognitiv Spark

Lunch Break & Exhibition

70 mins

One step back, two steps forward - Technology and tactical performance

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

During this presentation 4GD will discuss the background to their approach to synthetic training and where they think it can have the maximum impact

Speakers

James Crowley, Business Development Director - 4GD

Haptic technology under the microscope – the challenges of new product development and the application of haptics in simulation

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Ever wondered how to get from a thumbnail sketch to a full-scale manufacturing operation? Keen to know how to launch with commercial success into the global market, learning how to avoid common challe ...

Speakers

Nigel Clarke, CEO of Morgan Innovation & Technology Ltd - Morgan Innovation & Technology Ltd

Afternoon Break & Exhibition

40 mins

Simulation through NATO’s eyes – NEXTGEN simulation capability

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Speakers

Mark Madden, Branch Head, Modelling and Simulation (M and S) - Training Technologies) - Joint Force Development (JFD), Allied Command Transformation (ACT)

Stephen Nelson, Programme Director NATO Next Generation M&S - NATO

Evening Break & Exhibition

30 mins

Busting the myths - How to be your own VR Training company in 30 minutes

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Speakers

Bradley Friend Woodward, Managing Director - RiVR

VR on stage – Sandbox Crime Scene Investigator kit

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Speakers

Alex Foster - Reality in Virtual Reality (RiVR)

Morning Break & Exhibition

30 mins

Adaptive VR Training and Teslasuit – Human-Centred Design for immersive training

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Speakers

Andy Higgs, Project Manager - AVRT

Paul Nickeas, VP of Global Partnerships - Teslasuit

Drop the Controller: The Impact of Haptics on Virtual Training & Simulation

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Leading head-mounted displays deliver immersive visuals and audio, but they’re packaged with plastic controllers that are designed for gaming. Military VR users need to use their hands naturally and f ...

Speakers

Joe Michaels, Chief Revenue Officer - HaptX

Making Training As Real As It Gets

DisTec Theatre

30 mins

Winners of the 2021 DisTec Challenge - for being the world’s most disruptive, up-and-coming technology for military training and simulation. IFTech’s focus is on helping soldiers come home. At IFTec ...

Speakers

Brodie Stanfield, Founder and co-CEO - IFTech Inventing Future Technology