Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit

Program Chair: Bill Mahoney , NCAR

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Tuesday, 23 October 2018

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Continental Breakfast
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Session
Call to Order and Welcome
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
9:00 AM
Call to Order (Bill Mahoney, Past Commissioner CWWCE)
Bill Mahoney, NCAR, Boulder, CO

9:05 AM
Meeting Preview (Stephen Early, Chair AMS ITS/ST Committee)
Stephen Early, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO

9:10 AM
NTSB Remarks & Room Safety Logistics
Don Eick, NTSB

9:15 AM
Keynote 1: USDOT Automated & Connected Vehicle Programs
Kenneth Leonard, Director, USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office

9:45 AM
Keynote 2: The Virtuous Cycle of the Commons
Jonathan Evans, Co-Founder and head of Innovation of Skyward, A Verizon Company

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Coffee Break
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

10:45 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Session
The Road to Auto-mation
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
Moderator: Rich Spaulding, Earth Networks
10:45 AM
NTSB Perspectives on AV Safety
T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, NTSB Board Member

11:15 AM
Microsoft Vision for Enabling Autonomous Operation and Data Sharing
Kurt Niebuhr, Lead Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles, Azure IoT, Microsoft

11:45 AM
Five Components for L5 Simulation
Heikki Laine, Director of Strategy and Policy, Cognata

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Lunch and Networking
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

1:15 PM-2:45 PM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Session
Vehicle Sensing & Testing Capabilities
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
Moderator: John D. Horel, University of Utah
1:15 PM
Safe AV Operation Requires Accurate Road Conditions Data on a Minute and Meter Scale
Dennis Schulze, Chief Meteorology Officer, MeteoGroup

1:45 PM
Testing Automated Vehicle Technologies
Andy Alden, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA

2:15 PM
Automated Vehicle Operations Under Various Weather Conditions
Paul Pisano, FHWA, Team Leader, Road Weather & Work Zone Management, Washington, DC

2:45 PM-3:15 PM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Coffee Break
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

3:15 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Session
Weather and Vehicle Automation
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
Moderator: Stephen Early, Vaisala Inc.
3:15 PM
New Approach for Weather Data to Answer the Needs of Autonomous Vehicles and UAVs
Daniel Rothenberg, ClimaCell Inc., Boston, MA

3:45 PM
Weather and Vehicle Automation: Reality vs. Vision
John Bosse, Offering Manager, Ground Transportation and Insurance, IBM

4:15 PM
Addressing Emerging Uses of Road Conditions Information Today
Bill Gail, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO

4:45 PM
Closing Comments for Day 1 (Past Commissoner, Bill Mahoney)
Bill Mahoney, NCAR, Boulder, CO

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 23 October 2018


Reception

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Continental Breakfast
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

9:00 AM-9:45 AM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Session
Day Two Opening Remarks
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
9:00 AM
Call to Order
Bill Mahoney, NCAR, Boulder, CO

9:00 AM
Keynote Speaker 3: UAS Traffic Management Program
Parimal H. Kopardekar, NASA UTM Program Director

9:45 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Session
Advanced Operational Concepts for UAVs
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
Moderator: Matthias Steiner, NCAR
9:45 AM
Managing Dynamic Flight Conditions: The Missing Link for Safe, Autonomous UAV Operations Today and Tomorrow
Peter Sachs, Airbus, Altiscope A3

10:15 AM
Delivering Lifesaving Medicines by Drones in Rwanda
Matthew Fay, Zipline International Inc.

10:45 AM
Coffee Break

11:00 AM
NOAA's Use of UAS in Tropical Cyclones: The Past, Present and Future
Joseph J. Cione, NOAA/HRD, Miami, FL

11:30 AM
Weather Operations in Support of DoD UAVs
Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Lunch and Networking
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

1:00 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Session
Advanced Weather Sensing, Prediction & Testing
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
Moderator: Donald H. Berchoff, TruWeather Solutions
1:00 PM
Characterizing the Boundary Layer
Brian Argrow, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO

1:30 PM
UAV Weather Sensing and Air Worthiness Certification and Testing Needs
Andy Thurling, Chief Technology Officer, NUAIR Alliance

2:00 PM
Provision of Weather Services to Support UAV Operations
Anuj Agrawal, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

2:30 PM
Micro Weather Research to Support Unmanned Aerial Systems and Urban Air Mobility
Matthias Steiner, NCAR, Boulder, CO

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Coffee Break
Location: NTSB Conference Center Foyer (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Session
Advancing AV Adoption Through Collaboration
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
Host: Automated Vehicles & Meteorology Summit
Moderator: William Hooke, Associate Executive Director of AMS
Panelists: Kevin Petty, Vaisala; Jonathan Evans, Co-Founder and head of Innovation of Skyward, A Verizon Company; Scott Stacy, FAA; Paul Pisano, FHWA, Team Leader, Road Weather & Work Zone Management
3:30 PM
Panel Discussion

4:45 PM
Closing Comments for Summit
Bill Mahoney, NCAR, Boulder, CO

5:00 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 24 October 2018


Conference Adjourns
Location: NTSB Auditorium (National Transportation Safety Board Boardroom and Conference Center)
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