Time

Session

Topic

Speaker(s)

Chairperson

0800

Travel to Venue

Transport to venue leaves hotel

Pre-booking required

0830

Registration

Refreshments in Foyer

0900

Welcome

Welcome to Australia and to Melbourne

Professor Sally Walker, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne

Peter Sydenham

(convenor)

0915

Scene Setter

Review of Progress of INCOSE Plan and involvement of Academics

Donna Rhodes, Past President

INCOSE, US

Heinz Stoewer, Space Associates, EU

0945

Question Time

Open Forum on the role of Academics in the INCOSE Plan

Speaker and Audience

Heinz Stoewer, Space Associates, EU

1030

Refreshments

Served in foyer

1100

Keynote Address 1

‘Academic Contributions Needed to Support Systems Engineering’

Prof Philip M’Pherson,

Consultant, UK

Elliot Axelband, University of Southern California

1130

Panel 1

Panellists first address this theme

- followed by open discussion with delegates on ‘contributions needed to satisfy the INCOSE Plan’

4 speakers for 8 minutes each.

Keynoter joins panel.

-Yupo Chan, US

-Leon Sterling, (host) Austr.

-Andy Sage, US

-Stephen Cook, Aust.

Elliot Axelband

University of Southern California

1230

Lunch

Served in Foyer

Included in fee

1330

Keynote Address 2

‘The non-Academic Viewpoint on how Academia can be used to Support Stakeholders’

Bob Tufts,

TASC Litton, US

Paul Componation

University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

1400

Panel 2

Panellists address above theme and open discussion with participants, again in line with the INCOSE Plan

3 speakers, 8 minutes each.

Keynoter joins panel.

-David Wright, UK

-Mary Simpson, Battelle, USA

-Jean-Philippe Lerat, LERAT, France

Paul Componation

University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

1430

Keynote Address 3

‘Existing Academic Activity in support of Systems Engineering’

Prof Dennis Buede

Chair E&R TC, INCOSE, US

Paul Componation

University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

1530

Refreshments

Served in Foyer

1600

Open Forum

‘What next?’ debate in ‘hypothetical’ style.

Errol Lawson,

Consultant, Australia

Errol Lawson

1645

Concluding Session

Summing up

Prof P H Sydenham (Convenor)

Peter Sydenham

1700

Session closes

1730

Transport to hotel leaves venue