Conference Programme 2012

8.30am - 9.30am	Registration and coffee
9.30am - 9.35am	Welcome by Conference Chairman Tony White, Director of Advanced Technology, Ultra Electronics
9.35am - 10.00am	Morning Keynote Presentation Open Systems Architecture for the Land Domain Merfyn Lloyd, Science Advisor to Chief of Materiel (Land), MoD DE&S.
10.00am - 10.25am	Advance in Processing Density with Open VPX Philip Morris, Director and Chief Technologist of Mercury Computer Systems	Embedding MACsec Encryption Cores into an FPGA Paul Dillien, Consultant, Algotronix
10.25am - 10.45am	Coffee and an Opportunity to Visit the Exhibitors

	Stream A	Stream B	Workshop 1
10.45am - 11.15am	Agile Modelling of Military Generic Architecture in a Tough Economy Chris Raistrick, Professional Services Director, Abstract Solutions Ltd	Gateway Strategies for Heritage Systems with Open Standards Networks Glenn Dorsey, VP, Power and Data Products, Moog Components Group	Extreme Engineering Solutions Bob Senko, Director of Sales for Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. - Discussion of VPX and Small Form Factor Solutions Optimized for SWaP VPX systems are revolutionising rugged COTS applications and delivering extreme performance in extreme environments. As a proven supplier of rugged VPX and OpenVPX components and systems, X-ES has the experience to deliver VPX to your most demanding applications. The session will demonstrate the ways in which Extreme Engineering Solutions can package OpenVPX and COTS based hardware and give delegates the opportunity for interactive discussion.
11.20am - 11.50am	Why Defence Equipment Needs to be CE Marked Steve Hayes CEng MIET, TRaC Global Ltd	Fully Integrated Rugged COTS Computers - Simple Quick and Hassle Free David Saar, VP, R&D Aitech Systems Ltd
11.55am - 12.25pm	Safe and Secure Virtualisation for the Next Generation of Avionics Chris Hills, Director, Phaedrus Systems Ltd	Ultra-Portable Cellular Networks for Next Generation Warfare Harry Jenson, Director Aerospace & Defense, Radysis

12.25pm - 1.30pm	Lunch and Exhibition Time
	Stream C	Stream D
1.30pm - 2.00pm	VPX and SWAP: Are We Missing Something? Vincent Chuffart, Product Marketing Team Manager, Kontron UK	A Time Triggered Ethernet Based Network Transport for the Data Distribution Service Tim Murray, Senior Engineer, QinetiQ
2.05pm - 2.35pm	Moving Towards Deterministic Ethernet As Single Vehicle Network Backbone David Abdulmasih, Vetronics & Matthias Maeke-Kail, TTTech	Securing your Device and Data for Military Communications and Systems Julian Day, Senior Field Applications Engineer, Green Hills Software
2.40pm - 3.10pm	GVA and COTS, a Chicken and Egg Relationship Colin Davies, Business Development Director, GE Intelligent Platforms	Floating Point Co-processing for FPGAs Reduces Power Consumption while Increasing Productivity Jeff Milrod, President, BittWare
3.10pm - 3.30pm	Coffee and Exhibition Time
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Fast and Safe Implementation of High-Reliability Designs in FPGA Andy Jolley, Application Consultant, Synopsys will present this paper.	Digital Certificate Platform for Embedded Systems Sergio Serna, Académico Investigador, Parque Empresarial Tecnosoft
4.00pm - 4.30pm	Panel Debate - International Collaboration
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Chairman's Closing Remarks

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