Sunday, September 22 – Arrival
| Afternoon Ryman Terrace, Mezzanine Level | |
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| 4-7pm | Welcome Reception |
| 4-7pm | Registration |
Monday, September 23 (day 1)
| Morning Boone & Crockett, Mezzanine Level | |
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| 7:00am | Breakfast Marketstreet, Lobby |
| 8:30am | SimTech 2024 Opening Remarks and Introductions, Awards Jody Ryan, Chief Commercial Officer, CORYS Inc. |
| 9:00am | CEO Address Nicolas Lacand, CEO, CORYS Inc. Charles Rosmorduc, CEO, CORYS SAS ( France) |
| 9:20am | CORYS 2024 Career Achievement Bobblehead Award - Yves Lacombe |
| 9:30am | Welcome to Nashville: Let's Get This Party Started! Learn how we roll in the Music City! |
| 10:15am | Break |
| 10:30am | Special Feature: How AI Will Change Simulation Using AI to Write Code for Apps Stanley Chan, CTO, CORYS, Inc. Creating Training Scenarios with AI Varun Sharma, Sr. Engineer, CORYS, Inc. Using Simulation to Train AI Nicolas Lacand, CEO, CORYS, Inc. Process Simulation AI Application TBD, CORYS, Inc., Sr. Enginner Round Table Discussion |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Markestreet, Lobby |
| Afternoon Boone, Mezzanine Level | |
|---|---|
| 1:15pm | Neutronics Topic TBD Jeff Borkowski, Vice President , Studsvik |
| 1:40pm | Building a THOR Feedwater Model In-House Stuart McDonald, Senior Simulator Engineer Constellation Energy, Limerick Nuclear Station |
| 2:05pm | Training on the "Indispensable" Monticello Video Display Simulator Jeremy Jackson, Senior Simulator Engineer Scott Gundlach, ILT Training Supervisor Xcel Energy, Monticello Nuclear Station |
| 2:30pm | Surry Digital Modernization: The Critical Role of the Simulator Chris Davis, Digital Modernization Project Manager Dillon Figurelle, Simulator Engineer Dominion Energy, Surry Nuclear Station |
| 3:00pm | Break |
| 3:20pm | Instructor Challenges: Bringing Palisades Back to Life Mark Holbein, Senior Instructor, Holtec Corp. Palisades Nuclear Station |
| 3:45pm | NRC Update on Topics of Interest Jesse Seymour, Senior Reactor Engineer, USNRC |
| 4:30pm | Day 1 Adjourned |
| 7-10pm | Social Event Johnny Cash Bar & BBQ, Nashville |
Tuesday, September 24 (day 2)
| Morning Boone, Mezzanine Level | |
|---|---|
| 7:00am | Breakfast Markestreet, Lobby |
| 8:15am | Into the Belly of the Beast: My First Year at CORYS Joe Poisson, Production Manager, CORYS, Inc. |
| 8:40am | The Limerick Glass Panel Simulator: Why We Built It, How We Use It Scott Messner, Senior Engineer Constellation, Limerick Nuclear Station |
| 9:05am | The North Anna Digital Modernization Begins! Rebecca Fawls, SLR Digital I&C Project Manager, Dominion Energy, North Anna Nuclear Station |
| 9:30am | Catawba Topic TBD Ryan Lipsky, Senior Simulator Engineer, Duke Energy, Catawba Nuclear Station |
| 10:00am | Break |
| 10:15am | Things that Simulator Instructors Should Know, but Don't John Shriver, Instructor & Operations Consultant, CORYS, Inc. |
| 10:40am | The Coming Impact of T-REX Gen II on Simulator Instructors and Testers Jody Ryan, CCO, CORYS, Inc. Stanley Chan, CTO, CORYS, Inc. |
| 11:05am | ANO-1 Turbine Upgrade Project: The Simulator Impact Scott Cupp, Simulator Supervisor, Entergy, Inc. |
| 11:30pm | Lunch Markestreet, Lobby |
| Afternoon Boone, Mezzanine Level | |
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| 1:00pm | In my Spare Time: Building an Electrical System Model with ThunderElectric Carl Runion, Simulator Engineer C, Tennesse Valley Authority, Sequoyah Nuclear Station |
| 1:25pm | Four (!) Simulators in One: The Innovative NRC Reconfigurable Glass Panel Simulator George McCullough Jr. & Mike Galle, Sr. Engineers, USNRC Technical Training Center, Chattanooga |
| 1:50pm | Highlighting the Value of the Simulator Engineer R&D Efforts to Mitigate Obsolescence and Improve Simulator Reliability Ted Modica, Senior Engineer, Entergy, ANO-1 Nuclear Station |
| 2:15pm | Break |
| 2:40pm | Topic TBD TBD |
| 3:05pm | Topic TBD TBD |
| 3:30pm | Topic TBD TBD |
| 4:00pm | Day 2 Adjourned |
Wednesday, September 25 (day 3)
| Whole day | |
|---|---|
| 7:00am | Breakfast Markestreet, Lobby |
| 8:00am | T-REX and THOR User Groups Robertson, Mezzanine Level |
| 10-12:00pm | T-REX Gen II Advisory Group Meeting Robertson, Mezzanine Level |
| 12:00pm | Lunch for Advisory Group Marketstreet, Lobby |
| 8-11:30am | T-REX Engineer Ryman 1 T-REX Instructor Ryman 2 THOR Training Ryman 3 3 different Classes in parallel |
| 11:30am | Lunch for Classes On Your Own |
| 1-4:00pm | T-REX Gen II Advisory Group Meeting Robertson, Mezzanine Level |
| 1-4:30pm | T-REX Engineer Ryman 1 T-REX Instructor Ryman 2 THOR Training Ryman 3 3 different Classes in parallel |
Thursday, September 26 (day 4)
| Whole day | |
|---|---|
| 7:00am | Breakfast Marketstreet, Lobby |
| 8-11:30am | T-REX Engineer Ryman 1 T-REX Instructor Ryman 2 THOR Training Ryman 3 3 different Classes in parallel |
| 11:30 | Lunch for Classes On Your Own |
| 1-4:30pm | T-REX Engineer Ryman 1 T-REX Instructor Ryman 2 THOR Training Ryman 3 3 different Classes in parallel |
Friday, September 27 (day 5)
| Morning | |
|---|---|
| 7:00am | Breakfast Marketstreet, Lobby |
| 8-11:30am | T-REX Engineer Ryman 1 T-REX Instructor Ryman 2 THOR Training Ryman 3 3 different Classes in parallel |
| 11:30am | End of Conference |
