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Keynote Speakers
 Speaker Abstracts
Update: Due to unavoidable changes in Mr. Kennedy's meeting schedule, Russel R. Romanella will speak at Monday's Opening Plenary instead.
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Monday Opening Plenary Speaker, Russell R. Romanella
Director, International Space Station/Payload Processing Directorate, NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center
Mr. Romanella joined NASA in 1981 as a co-op student while attending Florida State University. After graduation in 1984, with a degree in mathematics and computer science, he joined NASA as an operations engineer in the Space Shuttle Processing Directorate. Mr. Romanella became project manager for the Payload Data Management System (PDMS) in 1990 responsible for the development, management, and operations of the Management Information System, which supported all payload processing including Space Station, Shuttle and Expendable Launch Vehicle payloads. In 1996, he moved to the Space Station Hardware Integration Office (SSHIO) as chief of the Integration Operations Office. In 1997, he became element manager for International Space Station missions including those flying the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules (MPLMs) and the Canadian Space Station Robotic Arm. In September 2003, Mr. Romanella became deputy director of the International Space Station/Payload Processing Directorate, and in November 2005, he became director of the same Directorate. In this, his current position, Romanella is responsible for launch site ground processing of the International Space Station and Shuttle Payloads. While in these positions, critical elements of the International Space Station have been successfully assembled at KSC, tested, and launched to orbit. These critical space station elements, including the U.S. Laboratory, robotic arm, airlock, and large solar arrays, are now on orbit and supporting the permanent station crew.
Mr. Romanella has received numerous group achievement and performance awards, including NASA's Exceptional Service for his outstanding leadership in the development and operation of the Payload Data Management System and the Center Director Award for his management and leadership efforts in preparing Space Station elements for launch at the Kennedy Space Center.
Born in Miami, Fla., he graduated in 1976 from Southwest Miami High School. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1984 from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Tuesday Plenary Speaker, Annik Magerholm Fet
Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Dr. Annik Magerholm Fet is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where she is an expert in environmental management and life-cycle analysis. She currently leads multidisciplinary initiatives within NTNU for Corporate Social Responsibility. Annik has a MSc in Physics and a PhD in Systems Engineering from the University. She has authored five textbooks in Physics and sits on the editorial committee of several internationally recognized periodicals, including Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. Much of her experience comes from working on projects that combine education, research and industry partners, and she has published numerous research papers and reports. Her teaching and research have included guest positions with the University of California Santa Barbara and MIT in the USA, Lloyds Register of Shipping, UK, Delft University, the Netherlands, and Wuppertal Institute in Germany. She is an active participant in several international research networks and projects and has been a member of several Evaluation and Selection Committees for Norwegian and international research appointments Professor Fet has extensive experience in the Maritime sector and has been recognized as a Fellow by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, IMAResT. She is also the Director of Education and Research for the Norwegian Systems Engineering Council.
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Wednesday Plenary Speaker, Robert C. Stow
Vice President of Engineering & Technology, BAE Systems
Robert C. Stow leads the management of engineering and networking of technology development across Operating Groups for BAE Systems Inc. – a $10 billion leading transnational aerospace and defense systems company. He is responsible for Engineering Life Cycle Management processes used throughout the businesses and also leads numerous world-class enterprise-wide common process improvement initiatives and associated efficiency savings to achieve performance excellence across the corporation. In addition he facilitates and supports technology strategy and planning collaboration across US Operating Groups and U.S. access to BAE SYSTEMS p.l.c. U.K. technology. He has 38 years of increasing engineering, technology, and project management experience in defense electronic systems and software with Singer Kearfott/ Plessey/ GEC, now known as BAE SYSTEMS. He has also previously held responsibility for Project Management in addition to Engineering processes across the US enterprise. The application of systems engineering to network centric sensor to shooter defense systems has been a focus area throughout Bob’s career.
Prior to his current position Bob was Vice President of Engineering for GEC-Marconi Hazeltine - now the CNIR (Communications, Navigation, Identification and Reconnaissance) Business Unit within BAE Systems Inc. He became Vice President of Engineering at this site in 1994. His last assignment, prior to becoming a Vice President, was Director of C3I Systems – one of the company’s major product areas.
Mr. Stow was a prime innovator and engineering project manager for CNIR’s (formerly Singer Kearfott) JTIDS (Joint Tactical Information Distribution System) Class 2 Terminals, which provided jam resistant digital communication, relative navigation, TACAN and inherent identification. Follow-on programs such as the Air Force/Army JTIDS Full Scale Development (FSD), Army PJH, U.K. FSD programs, MIDS, and other development activities in the vast C3I market all benefited from his technical expertise and project management leadership. For his outstanding technical contributions, Bob received the Singer Kearfott Engineer of the Year Award in 1983.
Mr. Stow holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and two graduate degrees (M.S. and Engineers) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bob’s professional affiliations include memberships in AFCEA, ADPA, and the Association of Old Crows (Electronic Defense Association). He serves on the Technical Operations Council (TOC) of the Aerospace Industries Association, the Lean Aerospace Initiative executive board, the Systems & Software Consortium Inc executive board and the Network Centric Operation Industry Consortium (NCOIC).
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Thursday Closing Plenary Speaker, Dr. Herbert Negele
Project Manager, BMW Group
Dr. Herbert Negele is project manager for the implementation of systems engineering at BMW Group, presently with focus on Driver Assistance Systems. Prior to this assignment, he was leading major project, risk, and process management initiatives within the electrics/electronics system development and at the overall vehicle level. Until November 1999 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Astronautics in the field of systems engineering with special focus on systems modeling and simulation, integrated product and process development, and project management. He received a Master’s Degree in aerospace engineering in 1993 and his Ph.D. in systems engineering in 1998 from the Technische Universität München. Herbert is a co-founder of the German Chapter of INCOSE (Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering, GfSE e.V.) and was its first Vice President in 1997 and 1998. He has authored/co-authored more than 30 articles and technical papers on various systems engineering topics and received several best paper/presentation awards, including the Outstanding Paper Award from Systems Engineering for the best journal paper in the years 1998-2003. Herbert is Co-Editor of the German Systems Engineering book series in the Herbert Utz Verlag and a member of the INCOSE Commercial Steering Board.
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