Abstract: 13:30 Introduction
13:45 Evolving MBSE to Enable the Digital Future - David Long For over ten years, the systems engineering community has focused on transforming from document-centric to model-based techniques. But the challenge is not to transform systems engineering. The challenge is to transform the holistic engineering lifecycle. How must we evolve model-based systems engineering to enable the digital future?
14:05 Changing the World with Models - Troy Peterson Models are incredibly powerful. They change perceptions, provide deep understanding, remove bias, reveal patterns, uncover opportunities and they even inspire us to change. The power of models, however, is dependent on many factors such as the accuracy of thing it represents as well as how insights are communicated to others. This talk will demonstrate through examples how models change people, programs, and systems and it will share principles to realize the power of models to change the world.
14:25 Seven Reasons to Trust/Distrust Models - Donna Rhodes Based on recent research, this talk shares the collective wisdom of experts on reasons why we trust (or distrust) models as a basis for making system decisions
14:45 ROI on the edge of MBSE - Mark Sampson Why do we have to continue to justify the investment in MBSE despite the fact that today’s complex products are out running traditional means of predicting product costs and ROI (in fact can’t be built without them). This talk shares current thinking and experience around ROI on MBSE—attempting to answer the value question of MBSE.
15:05 Break
15:20 Autonomous Vehicle Development Using MBSE - Chris Davey Ford shares real-world MBSE experience related to autonomous system of system design
15:40 Using MBSE to Decrypt the Innovation Process and Corporate Memory - Bob Sherman This talk will make some assertions about key elements of MBSE that must be addressed to solve the juggernaut of minimizing work process complexity while evolving process and knowledge asset models to win in an increasing complex and rapidly changing world.
16:00 Modeling Counterintuitive Results - Ricardo Valerdi This talk provides examples of counterintuitive results in the military, product development, and sports. Models play an important role in identifying counterintuitive situations because they help describe the underlying phenomena that makes the result counterintuitive.
16:20 Manufacturing Software: Opportunities and Obstacles - Stephen Mellor Why should we manufacture software and what is topping us?
16:50 Panel/Forum
17:10 Closing