Network with leading experts at the JFS&T conference, taking place in 1 week

SMi’s 3rd annu­al Joint Forces Sim­u­la­tion & Train­ing con­fer­ence, to be held in Lon­don on 24th and 25th Jan­u­ary 2012, is designed to address the ever-chang­ing oper­a­tional train­ing needs, tech­no­log­i­cal aspects & chal­lenges with­in the glob­al train­ing & sim­u­la­tion com­mu­ni­ty.

The two-day con­fer­ence will focus on how the com­bined multi­na­tion­al forces of land, sea and air work togeth­er to pre­pare for mod­ern com­bat. Del­e­gates will have the chance to explore the joint train­ing exer­cis­es that coali­tion forces under­take in their quest to sim­u­late real warfight­ing sce­nar­ios and there­by pro­vide their per­son­nel with the best avail­able training. 

JFS&T 2012 will allow del­e­gates to hear expert insight on top­ics includ­ing the DOD Vir­tu­al World Frame­work, edu­ca­tion and train­ing at the SACT, the future of USMC train­ing and urban war­fare sim­u­la­tion training. 

SMi is delight­ed that this year’s open­ing Keynote Lec­ture will be made by Dr. Dai Mor­ris, Head of Capa­bil­i­ty Joint Train­ing Eval­u­a­tion and Sim­u­la­tion, Min­istry of Defence, UK. His pre­sen­ta­tion will dis­cuss the role of the Defence Change Pro­gramme to enable sim­u­la­tion in deliv­er­ing defence train­ing. This keynote address will update on cur­rent MoD activ­i­ty as well as give invalu­able insight to future plans and pro­grammes from the UK MoD. 

Net­work with the fol­low­ing reg­is­tered atten­dees, including: 

• BAE Sys­tems
• Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters
• Baltic Defence College
• CAE Mil­i­tary Sim­u­la­tion & Train­ing Division
• Avi­a­tion Train­ing Inter­na­tion­al Ltd
• Lock­heed Mar­tin UK
• Min­istry of Defence, UK
• Cubic Defense

Hear from a lead­ing line-up of key speakers: 

• Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al Karl­heinz Viereck, Deputy Chief of Staff Joint Force Train­ing, NATO
• Colonel David Smith, Pro­gram Man­ag­er Train­ing Sys­tems (PMTRASYS), US Marine Corps
• Dr. Dai Mor­ris, Head of Capa­bil­i­ty, Joint Train­ing Eval­u­a­tion & Sim­u­la­tion, UK MoD
• Brigadier Gen­er­al Meel­is Kiili, Com­man­dant, Baltic Defence College
• Charles Redlinger, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er, King Abdul­lah II Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Train­ing Center
• Dr. Stephanie Lack­ey, Pro­gram Direc­tor, Uni­ver­si­ty Of Cen­tral Florida
• Andy Fawkes, Deputy Head of Capa­bil­i­ty Joint Train­ing Eval­u­a­tion and Sim­u­la­tion, Min­istry of Defence, UK
• Andrew Gray, Heli­copter Projects Man­ag­er, Euro­pean Defence Agency

Vis­it www.jointforcestraining.com for more infor­ma­tion or to reg­is­ter your place. Alter­na­tive­ly, con­tact James Hitchen at Tel: +44 (0)207 827 6054 or Email: jhitchen@smi-online.co.uk