SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 1, 2015 BRUSSELS

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1 SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 1, 2015 BRUSSELS 1

2 SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 1, 2015 BRUSSELS Square Brussels Meeting Center Rue Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels 2

3 A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS OF THE 2015 LUCIAD USER CONFERENCE UNIFLY 3

4 SEPTEMBER 30 AGENDA PLENARY MORNING 9:00-9:45 REGISTRATION, BRUSSELS BREAKFAST & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) 9:45-10:00 CEO Welcome Marc Melviez, Chief Executive Officer, Luciad 10:00-10:30 CTO Keynote Accelerating Insight through Visual Analytics Frank Suykens, Chief Technology Officer, Luciad 10:30-11:00 EATC: A Blueprint for Multinational Cooperation Projects? Major General Chris Badia, Commander, European Air Transport Command 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) 11:30-12:00 Componentisation of C4ISR Systems Yavuz Okur, NATO NCIA 12:00-12:30 Transforming Asset Management through Geographical Information Systems Dr. Caroline Lowe, Principal Engineer, Network Rail UK 12:30-13:00 Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS): A Transformational Capability for NATO James E. Edge, NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Agency 13:00-14:00 NETWORKING LUNCH & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Agiltech S.A. is a software company established in 2002 that reinvents emergency management software by supporting its customers to efficiently manage their emergencies. Agiltech s main product is APOCRISIS, an Emergency Management Software Platform. APOCRISIS allows a holistic emergency management approach. It offers all the prerequisites for effective emergency management plus rich mapping abilities through interactive maps and live data fusion of geographical information. APOCRISIS also features an advanced workflow mechanism that allows for an easy design of operational flows and their immediate activation in the event of an incident. 4

5 SEPTEMBER 30 AGENDA AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS MANAGEMENT TRACK Hall :00-14:30 Luciad Product Overview Christoph De Preter, Luciad 14:30-15:15 Lightweight Situational Awareness for the Future Soldier & Beyond Stéphane Juigné, Impact; Colonel Diard, L Etatmajor de l Armée de terre (EMAT) & Christophe Delhaise, ATOS BULL DEVELOPER TRACK Studios Use of Luciad in Thales: The next generation Situational Awareness Tool for the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) Matthew Tucknott, Thales GPU Accelerated Multispectral Image Processing in LuciadLightspeed Tom Nuydens & Thomas De Bodt, Luciad 15:15-15:45 COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) 15:45-16:15 Luciad Product Roadmap Bart Adams, Luciad 16:15-16:45 Opera Touch powered by LuciadLightspeed Salvador Lopez, Dassault Aviation 16:45-17:15 Lockheed Martin Air and Missile Defense Testbed product set SMARTset John Warnke, Lockheed Martin How to Make a Reusable & Interoperable Map Component Geert Claeys, Luciad Aeronautics Industrial Agency: At the Heart of Coherent Aircraft Maintenance Thierry Léal, Aeronautics Industrial Agency (French MOD MRO) Achieving Maritime Domain Awareness: Implementing Battlespace Awareness and Assured C2 Fusion Fernando A. Cancel III, DuChancell Engineering Consulting, LLC LCP / NEW MARKETS TRACK Studios Latest & Greatest on the Luciad Certified Partner Program Riordon Kossen, Luciad Precision Farming & Agriculture: ibec & Luciad George C. Zalidis, ibec Lead Generating Programs for Luciad Certified Partners Riordon Kossen, Luciad Receiving ADS-B using a raspberry-pi & Integrating LuciadLightspeed & JavaFX Sascha Schleich & Jens Epstein, H & D GmbH Security in Modern Operational Environments Esteban Proaño, LMI International 17:15-19:15 SOCIAL EVENT & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) 20:00-22:30 EXECUTIVE DINNER AT BELGA QUEEN (upon reservation) 5

6 OCTOBER 1 AGENDA BREAKOUT SESSIONS 9:00-9:30 WELCOME COFFEE & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) MANAGEMENT TRACK Studios :30-10:15 Using Luciad Technology to Develop applications for Simulation & Fire Support within the Artillery Corps of the Colombian Army Lt. Colonel Norberto Salgado, Colombian Army 10:15-10:45 SAP Innovations for the Internet of Things Stephan Brand, SAP DEVELOPER TRACK Studios Accelerate Your Application Development with Luciad Lucy Stijn Debruyckere, Luciad Enabling LuciadLightspeed from a secure cloud using NVIDIA GRID Alastair Houston & Mike Walsh, NVIDIA 10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) 11:15-12:00 Adding Geo to the Web Framework of Your choice Tom Mahieu & Glenn Croes, Luciad with Christian Mohr, SAP Services 12:00-12:30 Bridging Military and Civil Airspace Demand Dirk Schindler, Airbus Defence & Space Big, bigger, biggest: Geospatial big data with Hadoop and LuciadLightspeed Andrew Wils, Luciad TBA EUROCONTROL 12:30-14:00 WALKING LUNCH & EXHIBITION (Panoramic Hall) 14:00-14:30 Design for Use: User Experience (UX) in Focus Prof. Dieter Wallach & Christian Kaspari, Ergosign 14:30-15:00 Giant Shoulders: Improved operations with Lufthansa Systems Christoph Krüger, Lufthansa Weather Integration with Luciad Hakan Bahçivancı, Luciad C2I Services for Mobile Operations Andreas Pankratz, CGI LCP / NEW MARKETS TRACK Studios Geospatial Standards: What You Need to Know to be Successful Frédéric Houbie, Luciad Create Value through Big Data & Machine Learning Thomas Graindorge, OpenValue APOCRISIS: Enriched and Easier Emergency Management along with Efficient Market Penetration Christos Pazianas & Anargyros Roussos, Agiltech Integrating Closed and Open Source Intelligence to Secure Borders (C7i) Peter Karidis, PALAMIR Geospatial Big Data - Understanding Our World at a Scale Like Never Before Dave Benson, DigitalGlobe SkyBridge, the management platform which enables the safe integration of drones into the aviation system Andres Van Swalm, UniFly 15:00-15:45 LuciadRIA 3D: Bringing a New Dimension to the Browser (Studios ) Daniel Balog, Luciad 15:45-16:00 CLOSING NOTE (Panoramic Hall) 6

7 LUCIAD USER CONFERENCE PRACTICAL INFORMATION EXECUTIVE DINNER: The Executive Dinner will take place at the Belga Queen restaurant on September 30 at 8 p.m. Only attendees who pre-booked the dinner while registering will be able to attend. For those who did not book the Executive Dinner and would like to join, please speak to Luciad staff to see if there is any availability. The cost of the dinner is 100 euro. Belga Queen Rue Fossé aux Loups Brussels TRAINS: Square Brussels is located just next to Brussels Central Station. From there, you can take a train to the airport. Trains run to the airport every minutes and it takes approximately 17 minutes to reach the airport. TAXIS: There are taxi stands at Brussels Central Station or you can call a taxi at _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the world s leading constellation, our imagery solutions deliver unmatched coverage and capacity to meet our customers most demanding mission requirements. Each day customers in defense and intelligence, public safety, civil agencies, map making and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, navigation technology, and providers of location-based services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and expertise to gain actionable insight. 7

8 9:45 SEPTEMBER 30 SPEAKERS PLENARY HALL 400 MARC MELVIEZ Chief Executive Officer, Luciad CEO Welcome Marc Melviez joined Luciad in 2004, when the company was still a start-up. His first roles at Luciad were to create the company s efficient organizational structure and to assemble a team of skilled managers. In 2013, he was appointed as Group CEO and is now leading Luciad s ambitious technological and corporate development plans. Mr. Melviez holds a master s degree in Business Engineering from the Solvay Brussels School. His career started at KPMG, where he was a Financial Auditor, and at Management Science America (MSA), where he was software applications specialist. He later created and managed several software companies, which he drove to fast growth and high profitability. 10:00 FRANK SUYKENS Chief Technology Officer, Luciad CTO Keynote Accelerating Insight through Visual Analytics Sensors surge and big data grows. Two billion smart phones and many more GPS sensors are active today. What if we equip all cars, ships and aircraft with environmental sensors? How can we gain knowledge from all that data? How can we find the needle in this big digital haystack? In real-time? Visual analytics, the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces, can be a key enabler to tackle this challenge. In this keynote Luciad shares its vision that with the right data architecture, analysis tools and visualization capabilities, any user can be turned into a powerful analyst who can make sense out of today s mass amounts of geo-enabled and temporal data. Frank Suykens is the Chief Technology Officer at Luciad. He has been leading the development, roadmap and strategy of Luciad Products for over 10 years and is responsible for all research at Luciad. Prior to joining Luciad in 2003, Frank was R&D Engineer at Barco and held positions of Researcher and Postdoctoral associate at the Computer Graphics Research group at the University of Leuven. Frank obtained a M.Sc. in Engineering at the University of Leuven in Belgium in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Engineering at the same university in :30 MAJOR GENERAL CHRIS BADIA Commander, European Air Transport Command (EATC) EATC: A Blueprint for Multinational Cooperation Projects? In a broader sense the presentation will focus on the business model EATC is based on, expand on capabilities and performances as well as on the fields of operation. Furthermore the benefits of being a member in such a multinational organization will be discussed. With the introduction of the A400M transport airplane into service, user nations are facing new challenges in the field of a common operated aircraft. This challenges in respect to data networks and systems within the A400M will also be discussed. Major General Chris Badia actively served the German Air Force for many years, both in Germany and abroad. As of 2003, the focal point of his career was in the politico-military arena with various staff positions with the German Ministry of Defence in Berlin, amongst which a few years working directly under the Deputy Minister of Defence in Berlin, first as a staff officer then as his personal staff officer. Just before taking on the responsibility as Commander of the European Air Transport Command in the Netherlands in 2014, Major General Badia was closely engaged in the future planning of the German Armed Forces, the foundations of the German Armed Forces such as we know it today. _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT About Lockheed Martin Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 112,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation s net sales for 2014 were $45.6 billion. Visit For information regarding Lockheed Martin Space System Company SMART Products, contact John Warnke at and john.warnke@lmco.com. 8

9 SEPTEMBER 30 SPEAKERS PLENARY HALL :30 M. YAVUZ OKUR Technical Lead, DAS Implementation Office, NATO Communications and Information Agency Componentisation of C4ISR Systems The session outlines the NCI Agency/DAS approach for componentisation of C4ISR systems and re-use concept within the Bi-SC AIS projects. Componentisation is one of the implementation strategies to define the method, processes and tools to support the Systems Engineering of complex software systems into smaller, reusable parts. Geospatial visualisation is an important functionality for each C4ISR system and its conceptual architecture will be briefly mentioned in the briefing. M. Yavuz Okur is a Principal Scientist at the NATO Communications and Information Agency. DR. CAROLINE LOWE Principal Engineer, Network Rail Transforming Asset Management through Geographical Information Systems (GIS) GB railway is the oldest in the world with the national network forming in the 1840s. Asset management is a real challenge; some of the infrastructure dates back to Victorian times. Over the last 20 years passenger numbers have doubled and we are now at a record high. In response to this challenge NR is transforming the way we do business. Our workforce is changing from a traditional heavy engineering company to a modern enterprise with a desire to exploit technology. Vast sets of data collected over many decades are now being exploited through data mining and statistical analysis. But one of the key changes is the utilisation of Geographical Information Systems both for display and analysis. This presentation will outline 2 recently developed GIS systems: The first provides tactical information for those maintaining Over-Head-Line equipment across the network. The second is used to help define strategic investment decisions to improve the weather resilience of the network. 12:00 Dr Caroline Lowe is a principle engineer within the Safety Technical & Engineering Directorate at Network Rail HQ in Milton Keynes, UK. Following a mathematics degree at Manchester University she worked for almost 10 years as an academic at the College of Aeronautics (Cranfield) and the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics (Cambridge). During this time she lectured in fluid dynamics and published within academic journals. She moved into industry at Lockheed Martin Ampthill during which she progressed to the role of Chief Engineer. During this time she delivered C4ISTAR and protection systems to UK troops which until recently were deployed in operations in Afghanistan. She has also provided independent consultancy to central Government to support strategies for carbon reduction. Caroline leads the Asset Management Modelling Team. The Team support a range of decision support tools that satisfy a variety of needs across the organisation. These include infrastructure monitoring systems, weather resilience and climate change adaptation intelligence, whole-life-cost tools and structural dynamics modelling. JAMES E. EDGE General Manager, NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Agency Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS): A Transformational Capability for NATO James E. Edge became the General Manager for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Management Agency (NAGSMA) on 21 January Mr. Edge leads a diverse team of 50 specialists fielding a system that provides real-time ground battle management and intelligence information from the world s largest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. He is responsible for technical and functional integrity of the program through effective resource allocation, financial analysis, strategic planning and exploitation of cutting-edge technology. Mr. Edge oversees contracts in excess of 1.2 billion; he justifies and manages the agency s multi-million Euro annual operating budget. 12:30 9

10 14:00 SEPTEMBER 30 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS CHRISTOPH DE PRETER Chief Commercial Officer, Luciad Hall 400 Luciad Product Overview At Luciad, we work with software components. But what does that mean? What can you do with Luciad s geospatial software? In this presentation you will understand the wide-ranging capabilities of Luciad s product suite, as well as how others are using Luciad to solve their geospatial challenges. Christoph de Preter is the Chief Commercial Officer of Luciad. He oversees and directs the Sales and Marketing departments and drives the international development of the company through Luciad s network of local subsidiaries and Luciad Certified Partners. He has joined Luciad in In 2014 he was appointed member of the Board of Directors of AFCEA International. MATTHEW TUCKNOTT Software Specialist (GIS), Thales UK Studios Use of Luciad in Thales: The Next Generation Situational Awareness Tool for the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) This presentation will introduce Thales and describe how Thales UK is using Luciad Products. It will focus on the Airscape Situational Awareness (SA) Viewer as a case study. It will describe the development methods and technologies used to create the next generation Situational Awareness tool for the RAF, showing how Thales UK has leveraged the capabilities of Luciad LightSpeed, Luciad Lucy and Luciad Fusion to develop a highly capable desktop SA tool. Finally the issues that have been encountered will be shared, together with the future roadmap. Matthew Tucknott is a Thales Specialist in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and is recognised as the GIS Expert by the Thales UK HCI/GIS Speciality Engineering Team (SET). He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the BCS with over twenty years software development experience in the defence sector. Since 1996 Matthew has worked on a variety of systems that use a geographic capability (a map 2d or 3d) from mission planning systems to mission replay systems. Matthew acts as a specialist in the use of GIS throughout Thales (UK) this involves defining guidelines, evaluating, consulting and developing using a number of GIS packages. RIORDON KOSSEN Channel Program Manager, Luciad Studios Latest & Greatest on the Luciad Certified Partner Program (Access for Luciad Certified Partners only) The Luciad Certified Partner program is the platform through which the Luciad Certified Partners have access to Luciad sales tools, marketing & sales support and lead generation programs. During this presentation we will introduce some exciting new ways of communication that will increase the knowledge sharing between Luciad and the Luciad Certified Partners. Furthermore you will get a sneak preview to some of the upcoming lead generation programs that will be launched in the last quarter of Riordon Kossen is Luciad s Global Channel Program Manager and in this role he is responsible for the Luciad Certified Partner program. His career at Luciad started in 2004 as software engineer and over the years he held different positions at Luciad covering Solutions, Marketing and Sales. Since the beginning of 2015 Riordon has taken up the responsibility to manage and grow the Luciad Certified Partner program. Riordon s long term involvement at Luciad has given him a great understanding of the potential of Luciad products and the sales opportunities that go with it. 14:30 STÉPHANE JUIGNÉ President, Impact Hall 400 COLONEL JEAN-MICHEL DIARD L Etat-major de l Armée de terre CHRISTOPHE DELHAISE Directeur du programme SICS, Atos Bull Lightweight Situational Awareness for the Future Soldier & Beyond A special forces veteran, Stéphane Juigné founded IMPACT in 2012 to meet the needs of special forces with Delta Suite, a tacticallevel software solution that offers customizable domain functionality. Delta Suite is the fusion of a Geographical Information System (GIS), with Luciad Lightspeed at its core, and multiple communication capabilities that conform to NATO standards. Developed for land and air use, Delta Suite is currently proving its worth in foreign operations. 10

11 SEPTEMBER 30 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS 14:30 Colonel Jean-Michel Diard is a decorated serviceman currently serving as Chief of the Army HQ CIS Programme Office. Prior to his current role, he gained noteworthy field experience as Signal LOS Platoon leader, Commander of 40th Signal Battalion and Office chief and deputy at the G6 of the Army Force Command. He was the French liaison officer at the U.S. Signal Center of Excellence in Georgia in the United States and served in missions in both Kosovo and Afghanistan. Colonel Diard will discuss the new French digitization during the presentation. Christophe Delhaise is an IT engineer with 20 years of experience in IT, primarily in the realm of defense. Prior to his current role with Atos Bull, Christophe worked six years on an inter-army program at Steria, where he managed the conception and implementation of the system for major armed forces. He also worked at Bull on the development of the Combat Management System (CMS) for DCNS on the NG4 submarine and FREMM frigates. Building on this experience, he now directs and leads the SICS program of Atos Bull and the development of IT systems for the defense sector. TOM NUYDENS R&D Project Leader, Luciad Studios THOMAS DE BODT Senior R&D Software Engineer, Luciad GPU-Accelerated Multi-spectral Image Processing in LuciadLightspeed LuciadLightspeed provides developers with a complete and refined framework for the GPU-accelerated processing of multi-spectral imagery. This session will use real-world use cases to introduce the features and benefits of the imaging framework. We will also take an in-depth look at the main API concepts that make up the framework, using hands-on examples to demonstrate its flexibility and ease of use. Tom Nuydens is a project leader within Luciad s R&D department. He holds a Bachelor in Applied Computer Science and has over 15 years of experience in the field of interactive visualization and GPU programming. Tom was a key member of the initial LuciadLightspeed development team and is currently involved in bringing 3D capabilities to LuciadRIA. Thomas De Bodt is a senior software engineer in Luciad s R&D department. He holds a Master in Computer Science and Engineering and is an expert in interactive visualization and GPU programming. Thomas is one of the minds behind LuciadLightspeed s GPUaccelerated image processing framework and is currently involved in bringing 3D capabilities to LuciadRIA. GEORGE C. ZALIDIS Scientific Coordinator, i-bec Studios Precision Farming and Agriculture: ibec Luciad Soil variability defines the diversified ability of soil to provide the plants with the water and nutrients they need. Zones with different soil characteristics can be defined with the use of Earth Observation data. The response of the plants to cultivation management is expected to follow the pattern of this soil zoning. This can be verified by measuring selected plant indexes as is the thermal stress of the leaves as a result of the irrigation management. In this context, the image editing and visualisation performance of Luciad Lightspeed were leveraged for assessing cultivation management. The application developed aims at the dynamic visualisation of the status of the cultivated crop as well as the outcome of the zoning management. Professor George Zalidis is a Council Member, Professor in the Laboratory of Applied Soil Science and Director of the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and G.I.S., at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at the Faculty of Agriculture. Professor Zalidis also acts as Scientific Coordinator for the Interbalkan Environment Center (i-bec). i-bec, a member of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO), engages in the integrated management and protection of both transboundary watersheds and natural resources by developing and managing integrated environmental data information systems to support development initiatives, entrepreneurship and competitiveness in multiple sectors of the regional economy and society. These applications are designed to serve the needs of territorially focused policy makers, businesses and the public at regional, national and international levels. _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT For two decades, NVIDIA has pioneered visual computing: the art and science of computer graphics. Our invention of the graphics processing unit the engine of modern visual computing has led to thousands of patented inventions, breakthrough technologies, deep industry relationships and a globally recognised brand. This uniquely powerful medium has transformed the PC from a tool for productivity into one for creativity and discovery. GPUs are now driving new fields like computer vision, image processing, machine learning and augmented reality. In enterprise, NVIDIA s GRID technology has delivered on the promise of virtualisation by enabling businesses and institutions to deliver graphics-intensive applications to any user on any device. Find more information at and 11

12 15:45 SEPTEMBER 30 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS BART ADAMS Manager Products & Innovation, Luciad Hall 400 Luciad Roadmap Where are Luciad s products going? This presentation will give an overview of key new features in the latest Luciad product releases and discuss new features for At the same time, we will provide insight into our longer term product roadmap vision. This presentation gives you the opportunity to provide feedback and input to help shape the evolution of Luciad s products. Dr. Bart Adams, Manager Products & Innovation, has been with Luciad since He holds an MSc and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Leuven and spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University before joining Luciad. He heads the Product Management & Innovation Division within the Technology Department. This division is responsible for technical sales and marketing support, product roadmap evolution, and research & innovation. GEERT CLAEYS Software Engineer, Luciad Studios How to Make a Reusable & Interoperable Map Component Make a reusable map component that can be plugged into (m)any web application and easily interact with other applications is this possible? This session shows you one way to accomplish this. Illustrated with an example, we will demonstrate how to combine LuciadRIA, AngularJS and the Commmon Map API to build such a map component and share with you the additional benefits of this approach as well as some of its pitfalls. Geert Claeys is a Services software engineer who joined Luciad in the summer of He is an experienced Web engineer using AngularJS and Bootstrap. He works mainly on tailored customer projects, but also created a component that allows customers to integrate LuciadMap and LuciadLightspeed in non-java environments like C++ and.net while retaining the same performance and flexibility as in a pure Java environment. RIORDON KOSSEN Channel Program Manager, Luciad Studios Lead Generating Programs for Luciad Certified Partners (Access for Luciad Certified Partners only) The Luciad Certified Partner program is focused on supporting each Luciad Certified Partner through specific Marketing activities and help them to achieve the sales objectives. Generating leads and opportunities are an essential element of the Luciad Certified Partner program and throughout 2015 Luciad has already launched several programs. During this session we will go into more detail on these active programs and highlight the benefits, opportunities and commercial advantages for the Luciad Certified Partners. 16:15 See bio on page 8 SALVADOR LOPEZ Head of Military Crew Support, Dassault Aviation Hall 400 Opera Touch powered by LuciadLightspeed Dassault Aviation aims at providing valuable support solution to its customer while following a just enough just in time strategy. The Military Crew Support Department develops OPERA Touch, the mission planning system of Dassault Aviation manufactured combat aircraft (Mirage 2000 and Rafale). OPERA development started in early It is now being re-factored in order to improve its GIS engine with Luciad LightSpeed. Salvador has over 15 years of experience with Dassault Aviation both on Combat Aircraft and Business Jets. After 10 years involved in Human Factor Engineering, he takes the program lead of NEURON UCAS Ground Segment. Since 2014, he head the Military Crew Support department. Salvador holds a Master of Science in Engineering with a major in mechanics (ENSTA-ParisTech, Paris, France). THIERRY LÉAL Project Manager, Aeronautics Industrial Agency (French MOD MRO) Studios Aeronautics Industrial Agency: At the Heart of Coherent Aircraft Maintenance A Mission Preparation and Playback System or Mission planning System is a ground tool to prepare data loaded on an aircraft media to initialize the combat system. It consists of several modules according to the type of data to prepare. The compatibility with the visualization system embedded for cartographic appearance becomes increasingly paramount. Thierry Léal joined the French Ministry of Defence in 1981, he is now Divisional Engineer and serves as the project manager in charge the changes to French E-2C aircraft and mission planning systems in the establishment of the Service Industry Aerospace (AIACP), which is located in France near Toulon. 12

13 SEPTEMBER 30 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS 16:15 SASCHA SCHLEICH Project Manager, H & D GmbH Studios JENS EPSTEIN Project Manager, H & D GmbH Receiving ADS-B using a raspberry-pi & Integrating LuciadLightspeed & JavaFX ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) is a technology used for air traffic control independent from radar stations. A plane equipped with an ADS-B technology automatically broadcasts its position, speed, altitude and other information on 1090 MHz every second. The presentation will show how ADS-B data can be received and visualized using a raspberry-pi and a commercial DVB-T USB stick. The (ADS-B) application uses Lightspeed and JavaFX for visualization. Jens Epstein holds a diploma in computer science from the University of Koblenz. He has worked for Unternehmensberatung H & D GmbH since For over 15 years he has gained deeper experience in Java and Java EE. Since 2012 his focus has also included projects with geospatial content. Sascha Schleich holds a diploma in computer science from the University of Siegen. He has worked for Unternehmensberatung H & D GmbH since For over 7 years he has gained deeper experience in Java and Java EE. Since 2013 his focus has also included projects with geospatial content. JOHN WARNKE Senior Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Hall 400 Lockheed Martin Air and Missile Defense Testbed product set SMARTset: SMARTPlan, SMARTSim & Advanced Visualization and Analysis Components The Exportable Lockheed Martin Air and Missile Defense Testbed (SMARTset) allows for the construction and evaluation of a Blue Force Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Plan. SmartPlan allows the user create or import ATO/ACO information, CAL/DAL, and US NATO and non-nato Blue Order of Battle Systems and End Items operating in Air, Space, Sea, or Ground Based domains. The analysis includes traditional MOEs such as Defended Area Footprint and Launch Are Denied, as well as sophisticated timeline, trajectory, and flight path red-blue interactions. The SmartSim component is fully integrated with SmartPlan and allows the user to create or input TBMs, ABTs, UAVs, CMs, and emerging threats defined as the Red Order of Battle and simulate a variety of many-on-many air and missile defense battle operations with a full range of firing doctrines, integration levels, and inventory/operational availability constraints. The Visualization and Analysis components offer detailed reporting and Data Reduction and Reformatting as well as filterable, infinite perspective, 3D visualization of the simulation results. John Warnke has over 35 years of military and industry experience in air and missile defense. A former US Army Lt Colonel, he served in tactical air defense artillery units overseas and in the United States. While on active duty, he also had research and development assignments with PATRIOT and missile defense test range operations. During his career at Lockheed Martin, he has been a program manager for multiple international battle management programs. He is a graduate from West Point, and has a MS in Aerospace Engineering. 16:45 FERNANDO A. CANCEL III President & CEO, DuChancell Engineering Consulting, LLC Studios Achieving Maritime Domain Awareness: Implementing Battlespace Awareness and Assured C2 (Command and Control) Fusion Fernando A. Cancel III is the current Lead Architect and System Engineer leading a team of other Architects, Integrators and Engineering Leads in support of the PEO C4I NITROS Prototype. The NITROS Prototype efforts include leading the integration of multiple Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR), Command and Control (C2), CYBER, Maritime Fusion Anomaly Detection Services (MFAS) workflow convergence and Tactical Cloud migration. He provides Support Engineering and Technical Assistance services to a variety of customers. ESTEBAN PROAÑO CEO & VP International Sales, LMI International Studios Security in Modern Operational Environments Today s world is more complex and dynamic than ever. Operational environments require tools that can instantly adapt and adjust to process millions of events and incidents. The challenges faced by decision makers are significant, and they demand modern solutions capable of collecting big chunks of data, processing and converting this data into valuable and reliable information which can help and support them in taking timely, conscious and assertive decisions, which can often involve extreme situations, where incorrect decisions can produce costly results. With over 10 years of experience primarily in the simulation technology industry, Mr. Proaño has lead LMI International Corporation into a multinational business focused mainly in the South American region and becoming the leading vendor in the defense and security markets. Nowadays, LMI has become a prime supplier of core technologies for private, military and government agencies that require reliable and top of the line solutions for mission critical applications in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Brazil. 13

14 9:30 OCTOBER 1 SPEAKERS MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS LIEUTENANT COLONEL NORBERTO SALGADO Studios Director of Artillery, Colombian Army Using Luciad technology to develop applications for simulation and fire support within the Artillery Corps of the Colombian Army Lieutenant Colonel Norberto Salgado is currently the Colombian Army s Director of Artillery. This honorable position can only be assumed by one person of each promotion in the Army. Previously he was the Commander of the Artillery Battalion #9 Tenerife for 24 months, achieving amazing results against paramilitary units and criminals. A total of 148 catches: 43 members of the FARC between leaders and guerillas fighters, 50 people belonging to common crime and 55 belonging to drug trafficking are part of the achievements obtained by his military unit. STIJN DEBRUYCKERE R&D Manager, Luciad Studios Accelerate your application development with Luciad Lucy During this talk you ll get a short introduction of Lucy, how it relates to other frameworks and libraries, and how it relates to LuciadLightspeed. It shows how Lucy can be a springboard for developing your own application, and gives a high-level walk-through of how to add new capabilities. Stijn Debruyckere holds a master s degree in informatics and is R&D manager at Luciad. Lucy is one of his responsibilities, next to being usability specialist. Thanks to his long-term involvement with Luciad, he knows both the products and their target markets inside and out. FRÉDÉRIC HOUBIE Senior Product Manager, Luciad Studios Geospatial Standards: What You Need to Know to be Successful The use of geospatial information is increasing rapidly. There is a growing recognition in both government and the private sector that geography is a vital component of effective decision making. In order to effectively leverage the value of geospatial information, the information must be easy to access and use. Given that geospatial information comes from many different sources, and is managed by a very large number of different providers from mapping agencies to commercial data providers to volunteered geographic information - there is an overwhelming requirement to easily discover and share this information. Standards have a key role in this respect and are essential to delivering authoritative geospatial services and products which meet the requirements of the wider community of users. Involved in standardization for 10 years, Frédéric Houbie has contributed for Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in multiple standards defining Geospatial Web Services, Data and Metadata models. He has participated to ISO TC 211 normalization and has joined multiple working groups of experts for the INSPIRE regulation. Since 2010, he has a seat at the OGC Architecture Board. 10:15 STEPHAN BRAND Vice President, SAP P&I Customer Innovations & IoT, SAP SE Studios SAP Innovations for the Internet of Things It s a new digital age in business, with the Internet of Things (IoT) heralding transformative technology. Connections are being made every second between businesses and customers, businesses and machinery, and customers and machinery. The potential for this kind of symbiotic information sharing is so great that industries are changing the way they think about their products and services. The great potential for the auto industry lies in the concept of the connected vehicle. By bringing together telematic data, geo position and movement as well as business data, SAP unlocks the potential of new business models. Stephan Brand is Vice President at SAP AG and is responsible for the development and the go-to-market strategy for innovative SAP IoT solutions in various industries. Stephan Brand joined SAP AG in 1996 and held various management positions in sales and development in Europe and Asia Pacific and as Executive Assistant to the Executive Board. He holds a master in Business Engineering from University of Karlsruhe, Germany. 14

15 OCTOBER 1 SPEAKERS MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS 10:15 ALISTAIR HOUSTON Business Development Manager, NVIDIA Studios MIKE WALSH Solution Architect, NVIDIA Enabling LuciadLightspeed with NVIDIA GRID from a Secure Cloud Nvidia s GRID technology will be introduced, which enables a virtualized Lightspeed session to be deployed securely to any device from a remote datacentre (or Cloud capability). Potential use cases will be identified. The Talk will conclude by discussing the technical considerations for an effective roll-out. Alastair Houston is responsible for Nvidia s business with UK Defence and National Security Agencies. He has worked at Nvidia for 6 years, and prior to that at Sun Microsystems and IBM. Mike Walsh is a Senior Solutions Architect and has been at NVIDIA over 7 years. His responsibilities are pre/post sales support for Quadro and Grid products across a wide range of verticals. THOMAS GRAINDORGE Marketing Director, Openvalue Studios Create Value through Big Data & Machine Learning With its Machine Learning platform, Openvalue offers to its clients to create new sources of value thanks to data analytics. Our presentation will show a concrete business case of our platform and present how Luciad is the final brick of our product. Passionate about how Big Data will change our world, I am proud to be part of Openvalue. Our start-up main objective is to analyse large volume of data in order to create new benefits for companies and for the people. TOM MAHIEU R&D Manager, Luciad Studios Adding Geo to the Web Framework of Your Choice Everything is Geospatial, but Geospatial isn t everything. Every information system contains geospatial data, however not every information system can appropriately visualize geospatial data. In this talk, three people will discuss their experiences with integrating LuciadRIA in different web application frameworks. Glenn Croes (Luciad) will discuss LuciadRIA-Sharepoint integration, Christian Mohr (SAP) will talk about LuciadRIA-SAPUI5 integration and Tom Mahieu (Luciad) will address the integration of LuciadRIA in the Common Map API. Each case illustrates different geospatial visualization needs and requires a different integration approach. LuciadRIA s rich feature set and adherence to open standards, among others, contributed significantly to a swift and effective integration. 11:15 Dr. Tom Mahieu is an R&D Manager within Luciad s Technology department, with over 15 years of professional experience in software development. He holds an MSc and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where his research focused on distributed computer systems and computer networks. At Luciad, he focuses on Rich Internet Application technologies and the development of the LuciadRIA product. ANDREW WILS Project Leader, Luciad Studios Big, bigger, biggest: Geospatial big data with Hadoop and LuciadLightspeed What is geospatial big data? How do you interact with it? When and how can you use Hadoop? And what about LuciadLightspeed? In this talk we ll explore some interesting use cases where we interact with large geospatial datasets to answer the above questions. We ll take a cab in the Big Apple, explore what s happening in the world, and analyze Dutch highway traffic. Andrew Wils received his PhD in computer science in 2007, after working in the research group on distributed systems and networks at the KULeuven university. At Luciad, he quickly became a LuciadMap GXY view expert, adding multi-threaded rendering and modernizing the controller functionality. Nowadays he leads the development of many LuciadLightspeed product features, while keeping close ties to the research world. _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Openvalue is an innovation booster in data analysis and management (Big Data), in infrastructures (Cloud Computing) and in connected devices (Internet of Things). Thanks to its community of talents, Openvalue s ambition is to build innovation strategies for its clients and assist them in the new IT universes. With its software solutions, Openvalue offers to externalize and manage data and connected devices. 15

16 11:15 OCTOBER 1 SPEAKERS MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS CHRISTOS PAZIANAS CEO, Agiltech Studios ANARGYROS ROUSSOS Software Development & Services Director, Agiltech APOCRISIS: Enhanced and easier emergency management along with efficient market penetration, using Luciad s software components A live demonstration of the web-based emergency management platform APOCRISIS that will showcase the rich mapping experience offered, the easy design and use of organisation workflows and finally the platform s ability to efficiently penetrate new markets. Christos Pazianas shapes the vision and mission of the company and sets goals and objectives. He makes decisions on capital allocation and leads team building and company culture. He has significant professional experience in sales and account management, management and co-ordination of large scale projects. He holds a B.Sc. in Marketing from the American College of Greece. Anargyros Roussos leads the design and implementation of Agiltech software products. He works in Agiltech since 2006 and he has more than ten years of experience in software development and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). He holds a diploma in Informatics from the Technical Educational Institution of Athens and a M.Sc. in Management of Software Projects from The Open University. He holds extended depth of knowledge regarding the technology behind APOCRISIS and always aims to create software that covers customer needs with appealing software design. 12:00 DIRK SCHINDLER Project Leader, Luciad Studios Bridging Military and Civil Airspace Demand The SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) Programme currently drives research and development in the European ATM environment. Together with Luciad, Airbus Defence & Space developed the CAPS (Collaborative Airspace Provision Service) application to optimize 4-D trajectories that define the movement of a single aircraft within the Single European Sky. Dirk will present the award-winning CAPS application that helps with achieving the goals of SESAR by reducing flight time, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, while also taking static reservation of Airspace (ARES) into account. Dirk Schindler is an operational expert in SESAR WP11.01 for the Wing Operations Centre at Airbus Defence and Space. After serving as a helicopter pilot in the German Navy from 1986 to 2000, he studied business science at the German Armed Forces University in Munich. Upon graduating in 2004, he began his two-year career as a developer of military elearning modules at a small IT-company called ARITHNEA. In 2006 Mr. Schindler joined Airbus Defence and Space as a system engineer and, subsequently, technical manager. SPEAKER TBA EUROCONTROL Studios PETER KARIDIS MD & Founder, PALAMIR Studios Integrating Closed and Open Source Intelligence to Secure Borders (C7i) PALAMIR s vision is to provide a new level of situational awareness for intelligence, defence and national security organisations using big data techniques to provide relevant, accurate, timely and actionable information for improved decision making. Every day 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created globally and this is growing exponentially with 90% of all data created in the last two years alone. Data comes from many sources; sensors, social media, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, cell phone GPS signals the list goes on. PALAMIR-C7i platform is designed to link data silos, whether internal or external to an organisation, ingest and fuse disparate data formats, whether structured or unstructured, rapidly analyse data using automated processes and provide accurate real-time data streams that power situational awareness applications. We deliver this from a range of SOCMINT, OSINT, IoT and internal systems to deliver high level Actionable Insights for analysts. Peter Karidis is a passionate IT and Innovation supporter. Co-founded a leading Wireless Mesh Telco, one of the co-founders of m.net 3G CRC Australia s first 3G foray, involved in Medical IoT POCT Systems and PALAMIR Big Data. 16

17 OCTOBER 1 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS 14:00 DIETER WALLACH Managing Director, Ergosign GmbH Studios CHRISTIAN KASPARI Principal UX Designer, Ergosign GmbH Design for Use: User Experience (UX) in Focus High usability and a positive user experience when interacting with technical devices is becoming an increasingly important non-functional requirement especially when dealing with complex systems. In this talk we present an overview of a human-centered design process that is targeted at the development of truly usable systems. In addition to outlining the core phases of the process, we discuss the key deliverables and artifacts of each stage using real-life examples. Finally, a case study is presented that focusses on the development of a comprehensive Style Guide to ensure visual and interactional consistency across different data- and map-based applications. Dieter Wallach is a founder and Managing Director at Ergosign, a leading European User Experience company. Besides his activities at Ergosign, he is also a Professor for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern. Christian Kaspari is working at Ergosign as Principal UX Designer for about 10 years and has gained lots of experience for small intervention projects up to large-scale design integration projects within european organisations. He is also working as Product Manager for Ergosign s UX design tool Antetype. HAKAN BAHCIVANCI Senior Software Engineer, Luciad Studios Weather Integration with Luciad Luciad visualizes Asterix Category 8, Grib and NetCDF weather data. Each data format has specific features and purposes. In this presentation, you will see how Luciad deals with those different formats in three steps: first, decoding the weather data, second, filtering it on multiple dimensions and third, processing the data with Imaging API. Before joining Luciad, Hakan was mainly occupied with electronic warfare area and accomplished several projects for Turkish Air Force and for other international customers as well. Therefore he brought his expertise and knowledge in defense sector together with him to Luciad. After working many years in Turkish Defense Industry, Hakan has joined Luciad Technology Department on May, 2014 as a Senior Software Engineer and now he is responsible for military symbology and NetCDF weather data. DAVE BENSON Regional Sales Director, DigitalGlobe Studios Geospatial Big Data - Understanding Our World at a Scale Like Never Before Geospatial Big Data is a living digital inventory of the surface of the earth: every structure, vehicle, road, tree, rock, field and patch of dirt. It is enabled by DigitalGlobe s ability to collect over 4,000,000 km2 of high resolution satellite imagery every day. By converting this imagery into searchable, analytics ready information layers, we are able to understand correlations and interactions at city, regional and even global levels helping decision makers make more informed decisions saving time, resources and even lives. Dave Benson works for DigitalGlobe as the Regional Sales Director with responsibilities for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mr Benson focuses on the environment, mining and agriculture market sectors and is responsible for both direct business with government and multi-national organizations as well as managing partners providing value added services to these segments. He has 20 years experience of geographic data sales in roles for HarperCollins Publishers, Infotech Enterprises, TeleAtlas and DigitalGlobe in diverse range of markets with a particular expertise in building ecosystems to address the requirements of the market to solve business problems with geographic data as the core. _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 293,500 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit 17

18 14:30 OCTOBER 1 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS CHRISTOPH KRÜGER Enterprise Architect, Team & Project Manager, Lufthansa Systems Studios Giant Shoulders In 2014 Lufthansa Systems started to explore the idea of an in-memory operational data store. After the first promising results the need for a high performance visualization addition arose. Together with Luciad, Lufthansa Systems implemented a prototypical application to show the potential of combining the leading technical solutions of SAP and Luciad with the business know-how of Lufthansa Systems. In this presentation Christoph Krüger will share the results and the lessons learned along the way. Christoph Krüger studied electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. He joined Lufthansa in 2002 and has spent the last two years overseeing architectural decisions for the Lido Product Suite with Lufthansa Systems. His main tasks include architecture management, product innovation and R&D focused on architecture. ANDREAS PANKRATZ Key Account Director Defence & Bundeswehr, CGI Studios C2IX mobile C2I Services for Mobile Operations In today s defense environment appropriate support for mobile operations is one of the major key success factors. C2IX mobile is a mobile multi-form factor based software solution which supports operators in various operational scenarios focused on the plotting, aggregation, visualization and analysis of geo-referenced data. C2IX is highly flexible and employs a modular and scalable service configuration kit which allows CGI s customers to deploy and configure C2IX mobile cost-efficiently regarding to the specific operational demand. Luciad geographical products integrate seamlessly as services into this approach, providing maximum operational user experience and flexibility. The presentation will focus on the added value of such a service oriented and modular approach and provide specific use case examples of the Luciad components integration into C2IX mobile. Andreas Pankratz currently is key account director for defense at CGI, where he originally started as senior consultant in October After graduation at the Bundeswehr University Munich in 2004, he started his 7 year during career at The German Air Force. Here, he first served as consultant and chief consultant for interoperability and C2 systems and eventually as envoy for enterprise architectures. Before pursuing his career at CGI, he also worked as a solutions engineer at Frequentis for 2 years. ANDRES VAN SWALM CEO, UniFly Studios SkyBridge, the management platform which enables the safe integration of drones into the aviation system The usage of drones in our airspace is expanding rapidly. In addition to this, drones are too small to be detected by traditional air traffic control radar systems, which are currently used to safeguard our airspace. Therefore drones form a real threat not only for the safety of manned aviation but also for the overall security and safety of the public at large. A management system allowing a safe integration of small drones into the aviation network is urgently needed. This where UniFly created a solution, called SkyBridge. SkyBridge is a software platform that allows the integration of low flying drones into the aviation system while guaranteeing an equivalent level of safety in comparison with manned aviation. Andres Van Swalm started his career in 2004 as military officer in the Belgian Air Force. He worked as Tower and Approach controller on the military Aerodromes of Koksijde and Beauvechain. In 2012 he cofounded Flight Plus, a Belgian consultancy company providing dedicated services to the manned and unmanned aviation community. Flight Plus is also specialized in ATM (Air Traffic Management) related matters and more specifically in Unmanned Aviation Systems. Recently he co-established a new limited company called UniFly. The primary goal of UniFly is to facilitate the safe integration of drones into the aviation system, and this by creating a software platform that allows the safe integration of low flying UAS. This system is called SkyBridge. _ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT UNIFLY SkyBridge the solution for the safe integration into the aviation system The usage of UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) in our airspace is expanding rapidly, drones are too small to be detected by traditional air traffic control radar systems, which are currently used to safeguard our airspace. If this situations continues without an intervention, these UAS will form a real threat not only for the safety of manned aviation but also for the overall security and safety of the public at large. A management system allowing the safe and secure integration of UAS into the Low Level aviation network is urgently needed. This where UniFly created a solution, called SkyBridge! 18

19 OCTOBER 1 SPEAKERS AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS 15:00 DANIEL BALOG Senior Software Engineer, Luciad LuciadRIA 3D: Bringing Another Dimension to the Browser Web applications are everywhere nowadays, but the technology behind them is continuously evolving at a fast pace. And here at Luciad, we like to be on the front line of this evolution. In this session, we will present you our latest progress and innovations in the field of Rich Internet Applications. Using the power of WebGL, we will demonstrate how 2-D & 3-D hardware acceleration can be brought to the browser on a wide array of platforms. This talk will also delve deeper into a few optimization techniques we have applied to our geospatial engine to achieve unparalleled performance and quality. Finally, you will get a sneak peak of the future of the LuciadRIA product and how all these innovations can be used in your LuciadRIA application. Daniel Balog is a senior software engineer within Luciad s R&D department. He holds a diploma of Master in Computer Science and Engineering, with a specialization in artificial intelligence. As an expert in OpenGL / WebGL, OpenCL and HTML 5, he is part of the R&D team that develops innovative product capabilities in the domain of computer graphics and Rich Internet Applications. Daniel is also active within the Open Geospatial Consortium, where his research focuses on applying and advancing OGC standards in support of ATM information management needs defined by SESAR & NextGEN. 19

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