Sunday, October 10 – Arrival
| Afternoon Citrus Piazza and Venetian Foyer | |
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| 4-7pm | Welcome Reception Only available in-person |
| 4-7pm | Registration Only available in-person |
Monday, October 11 (day 1)
| Morning Combined Session - Venetian 4-5 | |
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| 7:00am | Registration Opens - Hotel Conference Center |
| 8:30am | SimTech 2021 Opening Remarks and Introductions Jody Ryan, Chief Commercial Officer, CORYS Inc. |
| 9:00am | CEO Address Nicolas Lacand, CEO, CORYS Inc. |
| 9:15am | Keynote Address – “Convergence of physical and digital systems, building digital plants in parallel with their physical twins” Anthonie Cilliers, Senior Manager, Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical, Kairos Power  |
| 10:15am | Break |
| 10:30am | Keynote Address - “The Last Terrestrial Frontier - and the Pending Competition between Man and Machine to Explore it” William C. Stone, PhD, P.E., CEO, Stone Aerospace, Inc., CEO, Sunfish, Inc. President, United States Deep Caving Team  |
| 11:30am | Break |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon Location : Venetian 3 | |
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| 1:15pm | Improvements to Simulator Tools from the Users Community Jerry Gullick, Senior Engineer (Retired) Entergy - Indian Point Nuclear Station |
| 1:40pm | On-Line Simulator Training through Webinars John Shriver, Consultant to CORYS Inc. |
| 2:05pm | S3R for Next Generation Core Designs Jeff Borkowski, Senior Engineer, Studsvik |
| 2:30pm | What Should Be the Scope of Your Electrical Model Upgrade? John Stone, Senior Engineer, CORYS Inc. |
| 3:00pm | Break |
| 3:20pm | NRC Technical Training Center Modernization Efforts Mark Cunningham, Senior Engineer, USNRC |
| 3:45pm | Training With the THOR Flooding Models Skip Irwin, Simulator Supervisor, Dominion Energy, Surry Nuclear Station |
| 4:15pm | Day 1 Adjourned |
| 7-10pm | Social Event Margaritaville at Universal City Walk |
Tuesday, October 12 (day 2)
| Morning Location : Venetian 3 | |
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| 8:30am | Early Launch of Validation Via an Evolving Engineering Simulator (ELVEES) Jean-Christophe Blanchon, R&D Manager, CORYS SAS Guillaume Hemery, Systems Engineering Core Team – Stream Lead „Robust Design and Simulation“, Framatome |
| 09:00am | Digital Twin and Dynamic Simulation Didier Paen – Business Development Manager, CORYS SAS |
| 9:30am | Monticello Full Scope Glass Panel Simulator Joe Yarbrough, Simulator Engineer, Xcel Energy – Monticello Nuclear Station |
| 10:00am | Break |
| 10:20am | Virtual Machine Environment for Simulator Support Ryan Lipsky, Simulator Support, Duke Energy – Catawba Nuclear Station |
| 10:45am | Imagining the Possibilities of a VM Simulator Environment Jeremy Jefcoat, Southern Nuclear Company, Plant Farley |
| 11:15am | U.S. NRC Perspective on Training Simulators Bernard Litkett, Reactor Engineer, Operator Licensing and Human Factors Branch, USNRC |
| 11:45pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon Location : Venetian 3 | |
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| 1:15pm | Simulator Survival without Hardware Support Dale Richmond, Energy Harbor, Perry Nuclear Plant |
| 1:40pm | Developing an Entergy Simulator Training Academy Dave Williams, Fleet Operations Training, Entergy Corporation |
| 2:05pm | There’s More in Store for THOR Barney Panfil, Principal Engineer, CORYS Inc. Peter Andersen, Principal Engineer, CORYS Inc. |
| 2:30pm | Break |
| 2:50pm | New to Simulation – First Impressions Skyler Brandt, Simulator Software Specialist, NPPD, Cooper Nuclear Station |
| 3:15pm | Configuration Management – The Key to Simulator Reliability Gerry Wyatt, Simulator Engineer, Energy Northwest, Columbia Nuclear Station |
| 3:40pm | Simulator Impressions from Long-Time Instructor Brad Williamson, Consultant |
| 4:00am | Day 2 Adjourned |
Wednesday, October 13-Friday, October 15 (day 3 to 5)
| Training classes | |
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| THOR Training Course Only available in-person |
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