Emerging

Technologies

Software and Systems Engineering

Developing and Deploying Secure

Systems

Power and Energy

Computational Intelligence

Biotechnologies

Financial and Professional

Development

7:30 Welcome Address: Diane Bowen Collier, IEEE MetroCon 2016 General Chair

7:45 -

8:25

Plenary Address : Wireless Ultrasonic Leak Detection for International Space Station Ali Abedi, Professor & Director, Center for Undergraduate Research, University of Maine, Orono

8:30 - 9:25

A Mobile Application Design That Eliminates

Government Data At Rest Paul Nelson

Thursby Software

Mutation Testing: Biggest Benefit to Software Testing

in 40 Years John H. Robb UT Arlington

Structure Assurance Modeling

Ben Calloni Lockheed Martin

Power System Physi-cal & Cyber Security

Colin Gordon SEL

Panel: What is Computational

Intelligence Compared to AI

Neuroprotection: A Challenging Frontier of

Biotechnology Raghu Krishnamoorthy

UNTHSC

Unlocking Your Pro-fessional Network:

The Secrets to a Successful Career

Tim Worboys LinkedIn

9:25-9:55

Break - Student Poster Presentations The Student Poster Competition is open to IEEE Student Members who are either undergraduate or graduate students at the time of the competition

10:00-10:55

Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN)

Technologies Ed Hightower Ingenu, Inc.

AeroVis Flight Visualization: Ena-bling the Engineer Kyle Ringgenberg Lockheed Martin

Current Cyber Threat and Trends

Dallas FBI Office

Integrating Big Data Sets and Deep

Renewables in Power Systems

Le Xie TAMU

Intelligent Autonomy in Long-Duration

Persistent Activities Michael T. Cox Wright State

University

Biodegradable Elastomers for Tissue

Repair and Replacement

Yi Hong UT Arlington

ETF Education Matt Digges

Pacer Financial

11:00 - 11:55

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Secure

Communications and Infotainment

Platforms Clayton Weimer AICAS Realtime

Reference Security Architecture for

Private and Public Cloud

Micki Boland Check Point

Considerations for a Multi-Disciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Secure Systems

Dawn Beyer Lockheed Martin

Cloud Computing for Power System Applications

Xiaochuan Luo ISO-New England

Perceptive Emotive Spoken-Dialogue

Companion Robots

Rodney Nielsen UNT

Study of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

– Development of a Novel Mouse Model

Hongli “Catherine” Wu UNTHSC

Maximizing Retirement Planning through Life Insur-ance Retirement

Plans Kevin Cox

Lincoln Financial

12:00 - 1:15

Luncheon - Keynote Address: Engineering Through Discovery Romelia H. Flores, IBM Global Solution Center

1:15 - 2:00

Exhibits and Networking

2:00 -

3:10

Directional Vehicle-to-

Vehicle Signaling with

Intervening Vehicle

Relay

John Lindsay

Lindsay Patent Law

Data Analytics: A 10-Step Recipe for

Quantitative Decision Support

Walter Storm Lockheed Martin

Tool Output Integration Framework

(TOIF) Trey Jones

Lockheed Martin

Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Approaches for Utility Companies

Yannan Sun PNNL

Evolution of Neural Networks

Risto Miikkulainen UT Austin

The Lazy Man’s Exercise: Intermittent Hypoxia and its Health

Benefits Robert Mallet

UNTHSC

The Secret to Proper Estate Planning

Gary Haynes The Wynne Law Firm

3:10- 3:40

Break in Exhibits Area

3:45- 4:40

Spiral Modulation David Shaw

Astrapi Corporation

Structured Data Archiving and

Retirement Ali El Kortobi

Hewlett-Packard

Leveraging Splunk for Cyber Security Rich Voninski Splunk, Inc.

Energy Storage as a

Smart Grid Strategy William Muston

ONCOR

Re-Inventing Unstructured Data Analysis by Using Machine Learning

Dave Copps Brainspace

Application of Scaffolds for Tissue

Regeneration Ashwir M Nair UT Arlington

I Need to Get a Job Now

Debbie Mrazek The Sales Company

5:00 - 7:00

Reception

Plenary Speaker, Ali Abedi is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) at the University of Maine, Orono. Ali served as Principal Investigator on several NASA, Army, and NSF funded projects including Wireless Sensing of Lunar Habitat and Leak Detection for the International Space Station. His presentation discusses hardware, software, and algorithmic challenges for localizing leaks on the ISS using an array of ultrasonic sensors. Three devices were built, flight certified, and scheduled to deploy to the ISS for data collection in the Fall of 2016.

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Keynote Speaker, Romelia Flores is one of IBM's top 500 technical executives, earning the titles of IBM Distinguished Engineer and IBM Master Inventor. She has collaborated with some of IBM's largest clients around technology innovation, and holds 25 patents with an additional 25 patents pending. Romelia is an alumnus of the University of Texas, Austin and a Baylor Honorary alumnus. In 2015, Romelia was named Dallas Metroplex’s Inventor Tech Titan Finalist. Recently she was honored with a HENAAC Great Minds in STEM 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award and named as one of Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Technology. In her presentation, Romelia will discuss the history of IBM's Watson Cognitive technology along with today's IBM Quantum Experience, both of which are driving discovery-based innovation.

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Conference Tracks: Emerging Technologies • Software and Systems Engineering • Developing and Deploying Secure Systems Power and Energy • Computational Intelligence • Biotechnologies • Financial and Professional Development

October 26, 2016 Arlington

Convention Center

Presented by IEEE Fort Worth Section

Keynote Address:

Engineering Through

Discovery

Romelia H. Flores IBM Distinguished Engineer

and Master Inventor IBM Global Solution Center

MetroCon 2016 features seven tracks on the latest technology developments in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. This year’s event features an industry exhibits program and a poster compe-tition for area college students. MetroCon takes place at the Arlington Convention Center located mid-way between Dallas and Fort Worth, immediately off of I-30 in front of Globe Life Park in Arlington. From both Dallas and Fort Worth, take the Ballpark Way exit. See map for further directions.

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