Digital Models, Shadows & Twins Townhall

Digital Catapult in collaboration with Team Defence Information will host a hybrid Defence Support Digital Twin COP Town hall at the Digital Catapult offices on Wednesday, 23 November.

This event will be an opportunity to share Defence ambition and plans for digital models, shadows, and twins with a view to collaboration and exploitation with wider activities and investment across industry sectors.

The agenda of the day is structured in three sessions covering:

• Session 1: Context for Federation
• Session 2: Design & Manufacture
• Session 3: Test, Evaluation & Use

09:00  – Registration and welcome coffee

09:30  – Welcome and site safety
Nick Wright, Digital Catapult

09:35 – Introduction and Agenda
Steve Green,  Team Defence Information

Session 1: Context for Federation

09:45 – UK Digital Twin Programme
Alexandra Luck, BEIS

10:00 – Enterprise Architecture and Support Chain Digital Thread
Richard Puttick, Def Sp CIO

10:15 – Digital Twin Centre and International Best Practice
Robert Smith, Digital Catapult

10:30 – Q&A

10:45 – Networking Break

Session 2: Design & Manufacture

11:30 – Digital Tread & Through Life MBE
TBC, Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Digital Workstream

11:45 – Design to Manufacture and Market readiness levels DE&S FCG High
Richard Hamber, Value Manufacture

12:00 – Appollo Protocol
Jonatan Eyre, AMRC

12:15 – Q&A

13:00 – Networking Lunch

Session 3: Test, Evaluation and Use

14:00 – Digital Test and Evaluation
TBC, Mil Cap Future T&E

14:15 – Digital Engineering and Strategic Asset Management
Phil Tullit,  Defence Support Engineering Support Transformation

14:30 – TBC
Mark Enzer, Connected Places Digital Twin Hub

14:45 – Q&A

15:00 – End