The Los
Angeles Chapter has experience putting together conferences and is leading the
initial planning. Currently, the San
Diego, Central and Southern Arizona Chapters are also engaging in supporting
this regional conference. Bill Sanders,
Dave Mason and I are representing our chapter.
We are learning about the logistics involved in putting on a
conference: finding keynote speaker(s),
finding a venue, advertising the event, setting up registration, defining
technical program, call for papers and review/selection. The latter is most important to ensure that
participants find the investment of time and money to attend is rewarding.
The original
plan was to try and have the conference in the fall of this year. But that did not afford sufficient time to
organize the technical program. The team
has agreed that we should delay it until spring of next year. This will provide the time to gather and
review potential papers in order to promote a quality event.
The objective
of the regional conference is to offer local INCOSE members who may not have
the resources to attend the International Symposium in July the opportunity to
discuss and learn about innovative applications of systems engineering to new
domains and challenges and network with other professionals.
The theme planned
for the conference is Systems Engineering – One
Discipline Providing Global Value: Fundamentals,
Applications, and Innovation. This conference will consider that systems engineering is a
global discipline, and that its concepts and fundamentals can be adapted for
many different applications to solve worldwide
concerns and create value.
The details
of what technical tracks will be offered are still being defined. The proposed tracks that are being considered
are:
•
Value of SE in Bio, Trans, etc.
•
Agile
•
Entertainment SE
•
MBSE
•
SE Processes / Tools
•
Biomedical
•
Cybersecurity / Data Analytics
•
Autonomous Systems and Vehicles
You are
invited to submit a paper for consideration on any of these topics or other
topics that are germane. There is an
opportunity to present the papers planned for the Transformation Caucus series
to be submitted this fall to Insight.
This is an excellent opportunity for members to get published, share
their knowledge with systems engineers, and be recognized. If interested, please prepare an extended abstract, a page or two, that describes your
work in enough detail for a good review. Authoring guidelines will be provided
later. Please submit your abstract to
rollieolsonjr@gmail.com.
By Rollie
Olson
INCOSE SFBAC President