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Emerging Techniques Forum (ETF)
Digital Reasoning
7-10 December 2020
Hilton Mark Center & Institute for Defense Analyses
Alexandria, VA

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Overview

The Emerging Techniques Forum (ETF) is driven to improve analysis and understanding throughout the defense community by seeking out novel and leading-edge approaches, methods, and techniques - wherever they are conceived. By sharing and incorporating the latest (and in-progress) developments across government, academia, private industry, and enthusiasts, the ETF aims to support and maintain relevant, timely, and early comprehension of lessons learned that may grow to have an outsized impact on the community at large.

2020 ETF seeks advancements in tools and techniques that enable decisive action in complex environments. Our tracks explore how information aggregation, processing, and computation can improve predictions of future needs and risk assessments of complex investment and operational strategies. Many of these efforts have seen rapid maturation and evolutionary leaps in analytic capability borne from recent global crises. By applying innovative experimental designs, methodologies and cross-domain techniques to analyze data, “digital reasoning” should increase the quality, context, value, and comprehension of real-time information that’s effectively delivered to the people and places where it’s needed most.

Abstracts:

Call for abstracts are now being accepted for the 2020 ETF based on the topics listed below.

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Track 1: Systems in Crisis

Possible topics include:

Forecasting demand of human services and supplies
Supply chain resiliency and manufacturing agility
Wargaming of pandemic and social conditions
Human performance and human systems integration
Rapid shifts in production, manufacturing, or labor use
Cross-organization data sourcing, aggregation, and planning
Human, AI, and robot teaming
Security, privacy, and propaganda
Medical simulation, healthcare performance, and error analysis
Workforce and productivity resilience

Track 2: Prescriptive Analytics

Possible topics include:

Spatio-temporal data mining techniques
Video-processing and image classification
Irregular event prediction and risk assessment
Supply chain optimization
Disaster preparation, humanitarian relief, and pandemic response
Advances in cost measurement
Resilience: infrastructure, network, and social connections
Anticipating operational impacts, quantifying mission success
Big data and prediction markets

Track 3: Interactive Discovery

Possible topics include:

Overcoming susceptibility tbias / fostering “intellectual humility”
Conveying uncertainty and quality
Interactive visualizations and trust
Mobile applications, Human in the (data) loop, and continuous data refinement
Distributed wargaming, assessment, and measuring operational effectiveness
Efficacy of crowdsourcing, and utility of expertise
Innovation and institutional inertia
Cognition, distributed cognition, and natural language processing
Assessments and continuous learning

Agenda:

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Registration

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U.S. Federal Government MORS Sponsor	Member	$300
U.S. Federal Government MORS Sponsor	Non-Member	$400
U.S. Federal Government	Member	$350
U.S. Federal Government	Non-Member	$450
IDA Employees Only	Member	$380
IDA Employees Only	Non-Member	$475
All Others	Member	$400
All Others	Non-Member	$500

Security

DoD Contractors, U.S. Government and Military Participants:
Security Office can send your visit and clearance information through the DoD Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS). You will need to provide IDA’s Security Management Office (SMO) Code 7A2934 and use Joseph Adams as the point of contact.

Non-DoD Participants/Non-JPAS Users:
Security Office can FAX your visit and clearance information via a Visit Authorization Letter (VAL) to 703-845-2588.

To confirm receipt of clearance information, call (703) 845-2000 or (703) 845-6900.

Lodging

Hilton Alexandria Mark Center
5000 Seminary Road
Alexandria, VA 22311

Cutoff date: 6 November 2020

Room Rate: $159 (or prevailing per diem rate)
Parking: $18 per day (discounted from $28)