Ieee IDEaS – Defence Excellence

International DEFENCE EXCELLENCE and SECURITY SYMPOSIUM (IDEaS) 2023

Download IDEaS 2023 program here.

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Date: 21 November 2023

Room 202, AGSE Building, Wakefield Street, Swinburne University, Hawthorne Campus.

Panel discussion: Improving test and evaluation efficiency and effectiveness in managing risk for capability equipment for defence and security operations

Panelists:

Air Marshal Mel Hupfeld, RAAF (Rtd)

Major General Kathryn Toohey, Australian Army (Rtd)

Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, RAN (Rtd)

Discussion Panel Moderator

Professor Gary Hogan AM, CSC

The International Defence and Security (IDEaS) Symposium is an Annual Event that brings together participants in innovation eosystems from Defence, Industry and Academia to exchange ideas and information and to foster connections and collaborations among Military operations, Defence decision-makers, Academic researchers and Industry capability developers.

This Symposium aims to bring together subject matter experts from Military, Government, Industry, and Academia to discuss the development of Defence and Industry Sovereign Capability for the Defence and Security of their nations. Key capabilities identified include, but not limited to:

Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Human-Autonomy Teaming
Command and Control
Decision Support
Power and Energy/Green Hydrogen
Information Warfare, Cyber and Network Enabled Capability
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Advanced and Networked Sensing
Health, Nutrition and Technology Driven Training
Quantum Technology for Sensing and Imaging, Communication and Cryptography and Computing and Simulation
Space Technologies

This is an invitation to academics, defence research institutions, industrial and commercial organisations, and the military to attend and/or offer ideas and experience in the field of developing Defence and Industry Sovereign capability and associated disciplines.

General Chairs:

Saeid Nahavandi (Australia)

Ming Hou (Canada)

Organising Committee

LCdr Adam Bradly (Medical Service Corps, United States Navy)

Jessie Chen (United States Army Research Laboratory, USA)

Maj David Dunwoody (Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, Canadian Armed Forces)

LCdr Joseph W Geeseman (Medical Service Corps, United States Navy)

Ming Hou (Defence Research and Development Canada)

A. (Anneloes) Maij (Royal NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Centre, the Netherlands)

Saeid Nahavandi (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

LCol Edgar Reuber (EUROCONTROL and German Air Force)

Dale Richards (Thales, United Kingdom)

Stefan Wolfgang Pickl, (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany)

Eddie Tunstel (Motive Space Systems, USA)

Michael Hardy (KBR, Australia)

Vinod Puri (CSIRO, Australia)

International Technical Committee

Dr. Adrian Stoica (JPL – NASA, USA)

Professor Rodney Roberts (Florida State University, USA)

Professor Abdollah Ebbie Homaifar, North Carolina A&T State University, USA)

Dr. Eddie Tunstel (Motive Space Systems, USA)

Professor Arash Mohammadi (Concordia University, Canada)

Professor Henry Leung (University of Calgary, Canada)

Professor Anthony A. Maciejewski (Colorado State University, USA)

Professor Mehrdad Saif (University of Windsor, Canada)

Professor Stefan Wolfgang Pickl (University of the Bundeswehr Munich , Germany)

LCdr Adam Bradly (Medical Service Corps, United States Navy)

Professor Vinod Puri (CSIRO, Australia)

Jessie Chen (United states Army Research Laboratory, USA)

Maj David Dunwoody (Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, Canadian Armed Forces)

LCdr Joseph W Geeseman (Medical Service Corps, United States Navy)

Dr. Ming Hou (Defence Research and Development Canada)

Michael Hardy (KBR, Australia)

A. Anneloes Maiji (Royal NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Centre, the Netherlands)

Professor Saeid Nahavandi (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)