David Woods, Professor Emeritus in Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at Ohio State University

David Woods (Professor Emeritus in Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University; Chief Scientist, Adaptive Capacity Labs) is one of the pioneers of Resilience Engineering that looks at how people adapt to copy with complexity, across different roles and organizations.  His work highlights the dangers of dramatic failures due to increasingly brittle systems, for example, through accident investigations in critical digital services, aviation, energy, critical care medicine, disaster response, military operations, and space operations (advisor to the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident Investigation Board).  As a scientist, he has discovered the key ingredients that allow systems to build the potential for resilient performance and flourish despoit complexity penalties that accompany growth (his research has been cited @44K times). As a systems engineer, he shows organizations how to uncover and overcome points of brittleness and then how to build the capability for resilient performance when, inevitably, shock events occur (e.g., awards from Aviation Week and Space Technology, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society). His books include Behind Human Error, Resilience Engineering (the 1st book in the field), Resilience Engineering in Practice, Joint Cognitive Systems.  He started the SNAFU Catchers Consortium,, a software industry-university partnership to apply the new science to build resilience in critical digital services (see stella.report).  He is Past-President of the Human factors and Ergonomics Society.  He is frequently asked for advise by many government agencies, and companies, both domestically and aboard (e.g., DoD, NASA, FAA, loM; Air France, TNO, IBM; UK MOD, NHS, Haute Authorite de Sante).

Brian Haan, Director of Model Based Systems Engineering & Simulation Process Data Management Process Consulting, DASSAULT SYSTEMES

Brian Haan has 30 years of Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering Management experience. His first notable application of MBSE methodologies reaches back nearly 20 years where he led the development of MBSE models to understand the interplay of system reliability and system security requirements for a particular system. That activity seeded a career where he often exercised a specialization in modeling and simulation of adversarial resilience to identify and develop requirements to address how missions, systems, and organizations could withstand, adapt, and recover from adversarial disruption or attacks. The common objective of modeling adversarial resilience was to identify vulnerabilities, implement safeguards, and to proactively develop mitigation and response strategies to an adversary that both learns and adapts. Today, he serves as Director of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Simulation Process Data Management (SPDM) Process Consulting for Dassault Systemes where his responsibility is to help clients experience the value of MBSE, SPDM, and their integration in the development of complex systems