SMi Group's Joint Forces Simulation & Training conference building on last year's success returns for its sixth year next February in London.

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SMi presents the 6th annual…
Joint Forces
Simulation & Training
Chairman:
Andy Fawkes,
Director, Thinke Company Ltd
Key Speakers Include:
Brigadier General Dzintars Roga, Assistant Chief of
Staff, Joint Education, Training and Exercises, Joint
Force Trainer, Allied Command Transformation, NATO
Brigadier General Recep Unal, Commander, Air
Training, Turkish Air Force
Wing Commander Matt J Grafton BEng RAF, Officer
Commanding Air Battlespace Training Centre, RAF
Waddington
Major Roar Wold, Head of Educational Support and
Sims, Norwegian Army Military Academy,
Norwegian Army
Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education
Programmes, Air Combat Training School, Swedish
Armed Forces
Colonel Andrew Cuthbert, Commander, British
Military Advisory Training Team (Czech Republic),
BMATT (CZ) (Vyskov)
Colonel Uwe L. Heilmann, German Air Force,
Branch Head, C4ISTAR, NATO Joint Air Power
Competence Centre
Jonathan Read, Head of UK, Bohemia Interactive
Simulations
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• New for 2015 – Presentations from Estonia, Turkey and
Czech Republic
• Learn how to create a warfighting capability that
can rapidly react as a collective force
• Examine the impact of utilising virtual training
programs in a single environment to maximize
benefits and keep costs down
• Discover how future capabilities will be implemented
and how military simulation & training will be
affected
• Hear cutting edge presentations spotlighting
operational experiences from militaries across the
globe
• Join our two interactive panel discussions
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Wednesday 4th February 2015, Holiday Inn Bloomsbury Hotel, London UK
eLearning revisited
A practical, wide-ranging review of the techniques, tools and strategies essential for delivering successful eLearning
Workshop Leader: Tim Neill, Independent eLearning Consultant
08.30am – 12.30pm
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2. Joint Forces Simulation & Training
Day One | Monday 2nd February 2015
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd
TRAINING TOOLS
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OPENING ADDRESS
09.10 5th generation Aircraft and the digital era students: do we
have to change the training methods?
• The Swedish experience and concept for training fighter pilots
- Are we doing it right? – 10 years of experience of basic flight
training for 4th gen fighter pilot
• Future requirements
• Downloading or not (from 4/5th gen fighter to phase 3/4)
Captain Bjorn Persson, Head of Education Programmes, Air
Combat Training School, Swedish Armed Forces
09.50 Virtual training tools for the human domain
• Gaps and needs in the human dimension
• Virtual role players: uses and possibilities
• Architecture of a virtual human
• Rapid avatar capture for virtual worlds
• Tools for building interactive characters
• Future vision of interaction with virtual humans
Randall Hill, Ph.D., Executive Director, USC Institute for Creative
Technologies
10.30 Morning Coffee
10.50 Implementing air-ground simulation to enable effective
cross-training
• Exploring the concept of introducing cross-training in a
Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) environment as an
effective training tool
• Analysing how cross training enables hands-on experience
and increases insight into the needs and requirements of
others
• Exploring the value of this method to aide military
personnel to perform efficiently in dynamic team settings
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hegele, Senior S3-Officer,
German Army Aviation School, German Armed Forces
11.30 Virtual training in a world of uncertainty
- why we need to get smarter
Jonathan Read, Head of UK, Bohemia Interactive Simulations
12.10 Networking Lunch
13.10 Introducing modelling and simulation for
autonomous systems
• Reviewing how more autonomous and robotic
military systems will effect training
• Rules of engagement…understanding what steps are required
to train people to work and use these systems… what are the
rules of engagement?
Major Roar Wold, Head of Educational Support and Sims,
Norwegian Army Military Academy, Norwegian Army
Randall Hill, Ph.D., Executive Director, USC Institute for Creative
Technologies
Captain Meelis Sõukand, Teacher of Modeling and Simulation
Systems, Estonian Defence Forces, Estonian National Defence
College/ Simulation Center
13.50 To foster enduring self-reliance
• The inherent power and potential of games; the value of
playing games
• Wargaming and the command & control / leadership
competence
• A viable education and training model
• To establish a prudential mind-set
Colonel Uwe L. Heilmann, German Air Force, Branch Head,
C4ISTAR, NATO Joint Air Power Competence Centre
LAND TRAINING INITIATIVES
14.30 Discovering how Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is
changing education in the Norwegian Armed Forces
• Evaluating the success of ADL in terms of efficacy,
sustainability and ROI
• Analysing the challenges of implementing ADL and
assessing how these obstacles can be overcome
• Setting out future plans & strategies for ADL in Norway
Major Roar Wold, Head of Educational Support and Sims, Norwegian
Army Military Academy, Norwegian Army
15.10 Afternoon Tea
15.30 Evolution of OneSAF to provide next generation simulation
services
• Highlighting a series of deliberate OneSAF investments to
enable turnkey simulation services for:
- testing
- training
- experimentation
• Discussion on new opportunities with embedded
simulations aligned to larger army common operating
environment architectures
Amit Kapadia, OneSAF Lead Systems Engineer, U.S. Army PEO STRI
SEA TRAINING INITIATIVES
16.10 Training in the U.S. Marine Air Ground Task Force; fire support
structure and training
• An overview of the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training
Command, from company to battalion level and how they
are dealing with training
• Combined arms live fire
• Exercise design
• Trends
• Future outlook
Colonel Andrew Kennedy, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, Marine
Air Ground Task Force Training Command Marine Corps Air
Ground Combat Center
16.50 Rapid Authoring Tools – are suppliers’ claims too good to be true?
• Why you can’t de-skill eLearning program development
• Review of the major eLearning project development stages
• Where in the process can these ‘rapid authoring tools’
bring savings?
• A case study (using articulate ‘storyline’) with time savings
quantified
· • Summary and Q&A
Tim Neil, Independent eLearning Consultant
17.30 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
17.40 Drinks Reception sponsored by
Bohemia Interactive Simulations
PANEL
DISCUSSION

3. Day Two | Tuesday 3rd February 2015
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd
CASE STUDIES
OPENING ADDRESS
09.10 An assessment of the Connected Forces Initiative (CFI)
• What are the goals of the CFI
• How are NATO and the nations implementing the Connected
Forces Initiative
• Introduction to NATO's expanded education and training by
utilizing improved technology
• Improved Industry involvement in exercises
Brigadier General Dzintars Roga, Assistant Chief of Staff, Joint
Education, Training and Exercises, Joint Force Trainer, Allied
Command Transformation, NATO
09.50 Utilising Simulation to support NATO education and training
under the Smart Defence Programme
• How NATO is adopting simulation for Education and
Training
• Current projects and national co-operations
• Immersive training - Where can we go with it?
Paul Thurkettle, Education & Training Technologies Manager,
Education & Individual Training, Allied Command
Transformation, NATO
10.30 Morning Coffee
10.50 British Military Advisory Training Team (Czech Republic)
[BMATT(CZ)] and Simulation in Multinational Training
• Overview of the role and mission of BMATT(CZ)
• The advantages and disadvantages of multinational
training
• Balancing Live and Simulation Training
Colonel Andrew Cuthbert Commander, British Military Advisory
Training Team (Czech Republic), BMATT (CZ) (Vyskov)
11.30 Virtual humans and virtual reality for cultural awareness
training in a simulated Afghan village
• Designing ‘virtual Afghans’ with complex behaviours for an
authentic and interactive cultural experience
• Developing training scenarios in accordance with learning
goals
• Creating an immersive and user-friendly simulation by using
low-cost VR and gaming components such as Oculus Rift and
Kinect
Dr Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Associate Professor, Faculty
of Social Sciences and Technology Management, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
12.10 Networking Lunch
13.10 How simulation training supports leaner motivation, based on
the experience of the Estonian Defence Forces
• Learning by playing is the best choice
• New generations of leaners are different
• Variety and wow emotion is important in the training
process
• Our plans for the future, how to support motivation with
simulation
Captain Meelis Sõukand, Teacher of Modeling and
Simulation Systems, Estonian Defence Forces, Estonian
National Defence College/Simulation Center
13.50 What are the current issues for delivering training
for contingency in a joint environment?
• Where are we likely to deploy? What challenges
do these theatres present?
• What challenges do these theatres present and what Mission
Specific Training (MST) is needed to tackle those challenges?
• What are the issues for getting this MST? Routes to
procurement – flexibility, speed and cost
• Industry and Customer collaboration – Innovation
in both camps
Chair: Tess Butler, PR Director, Bohemia Interactive
Simulations, CEO, Ruddy Nice Ltd
AIR TRAINING INITIATIVES
14.30 Cost-effective ways for the military flight training
• Training concept
• Selection of nominees for high success rates
• Adaptation of technology like simulator/synthetic systems to
flight training
• International cooperation in training
Brigadier General Recep Unal, Commander, Air Training,
Turkish Air Force
15.10 Afternoon Tea
15.30 UK Forward Air Control - operating and training challenges
• New operating environment (transition from Afghanistan to
Contingent Operations)
• Resource realities and implications
• New ways of operating
• New ways of training
Wing Commander Andy Eccleston, SO1 Equipment
Capability, Joint Air Land Organisation (JALO),
Joint Forces Command, Royal Air Force High Wycombe
Squadron Leader Joseph Doyle, SO2 Synthetic Training Delivery,
Air Capability (Air Enablers), Air Command, RAF High Wycombe
16.10 Synthetic Warfighting at the RAF Air Battlespace Training
Centre
• A focus on aspects of the training centre
• How does it work
• Highlighting the successes and lessons learned from training
Wing Commander Matt J Grafton BEng RAF, Officer
Commanding Air Battlespace Training Centre, Royal Air Force
Waddington
16.50 Inducing a state of flow in simulator training - achieving
maximum learning transfer
• What is ‘flow’?
• Scenario based training – the key to learning transfer
• Can we achieve full immersion? If so what should be
considered as a consequence
• Facilitated training – how to maximise capability in a cost
effective manner
Tom Ball, Technical Director, Close Air Solutions
17.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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PANEL
DISCUSSION

4. HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Wednesday 4th February 2015
08.30 - 12.30pm
Holiday Inn Bloomsbury Hotel, London UK
eLearning revisited
A practical, wide-ranging review of the techniques,
tools and strategies essential for delivering
successful eLearning
Workshop Leader:
Tim Neill, Independent eLearning Consultant
Overview of Workshop:
This workshop will explore and suggest solutions to some of the
most crucial topics facing any organisation planning or
expanding its use of eLearning material. The session will be
packed with working examples illustrating proven and effective
techniques for learning and assessment, devised by industry
expert Tim Neill and his development team over the past 25
years.
Why should you attend this workshop:
Genuinely unbiased guidance and opinion is hard to find, since
most individuals have a product or a philosophy to sell.
Tim Neill is a totally independent eLearning consultant with a
worldwide reputation for delivering engaging, candid guidance
based on his years as a practitioner. Attendees will receive
straight answers and practical suggestions for any queries or
specific challenges they wish to bring and raise during the
workshop. This will be an active, participative session in which all
attendees will benefit from discussion of the topics raised. The
workshop will not rely on PowerPoint slides...
Programme:
08.30 Registration and coffee
09.00 Opening remarks
09.05 Session 1 – a brief history of eLearning
• Technologies – the ‘enablers’
• The shift from ‘Training’ to ‘Learning’
• Contemporary eLearning – personal, accessible,
tracked, easily updated
09.30 Session 2 – The importance of defining achievable
‘Learning Objectives’
• Why people get them wrong
• How to make them relevant, measurable and tied
to the content
• Working examples
10.00 Session 3 – Designing effective content
• Analysing what staff really need to do their jobs
• Separating ‘underpinning’ material from ‘job aids’
• Working examples
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Session 4 – What can you really expect from
eLearning?
• Designing material that builds understanding as well
as knowledge
• How far can eLearning develop and measure
competence, skill and even ‘sound judgement’?
• The importance of challenging and engaging the
learner and how to achieve it
• Working examples
11.40 Session 5 – eLearning development tools and
approaches
• A brief history (1984 – 2015)
• Benefits and drawbacks of contemporary tools
• ‘In-house’ versus sub-contracted development –
pros and cons
• Rapid Development software for non-programmers
– benefits and pitfalls
• Working demo of a low cost tool – with critical
commentary
12.15 Closing discussion and final remarks
12.30 End of workshop
About the workshop host
Tim Neill has held positions in the UK and USA in
engineering computer sales and sales management,
software product management and corporate
training. For 24 years his company (TNA Ltd) was
responsible for the design and delivery of hundreds of
bespoke eLearning courses and assessments, including the 3D
game-based ‘Fire Safety’ project developed for BskyB. His clients
included National Grid, Nestle, London Underground, Anglian
Water, Deutsche Bank, Nokia, Police Service of Northern Ireland
and Vodafone.
Now an independent eLearning consultant, he is the author of
numerous articles on eLearning technologies and
implementation and has presented many entertaining and
thought-provoking papers on eLearning topics at conferences
worldwide. www.timneill.org.uk.

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