
Ann Dunkin
2023 WSC Keynote Speaker
Modeling for Energy Resilience: How DOE Uses Simulation to Model and Manage Everything from the Power Grid to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The U.S. Department of Energy’s responsibilities run the gamut from managing the nuclear stockpile and the strategic petroleum reserve to running the power grid in 36 states to performing basic and applied research to protect national security, ensure stable power sector operations and accelerate the clean energy transition. Leveraging the power of DOE’s computing infrastructure, including the world’s fastest supercomputer, simulation models are used to accelerate advancements in nearly every field of research across DOE. Through a series of examples highlighting grid management, cybersecurity, cavern modeling and fundamental physical phenomena, this keynote will illuminate how DOE applies modeling and simulation to both research and operations.
2023 Titans of Simulation

John Fowler
Motorola Professor of Supply Chain Management
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University

Enver Yücesan
Professor of Information Management
INSEAD
Ensuring Food Security under Climate Change: How Simulation Can Help in Making Agricultural Supply Chains More Resilient
Climate change and the resulting increased frequency of unpredictable extreme weather events create new operational challenges for the commercial seed industry, which is a key pillar of a sustainable and secure global food supply. More specifically, extreme weather events translate into two main effects on agricultural production: higher yield variability and lower expected yields. In recent years, extreme weather events already caused reductions in the yields of cereals, maize, and other staple crops. It is also projected that a warming of +2C (+4C) would increase the coefficient of variation of corn yield by 62% (192%) in six countries that collectively account for 73% of global production. In this presentation, we first examine how the increased likelihood of extreme weather events affects agricultural supply chains in terms of R&D, production planning, contracting, allocation, and storage decisions. We then discuss the key challenges associated with each stage and highlight how simulation can help address them under increased volatility.
MASM Keynote

Hans Ehm
Senior Principal Supply Chain
Infineon Technologies AG
Simulation, Optimization and AI for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Supply Chains:
Four Decades of Progress and a Vision for the Future
Military Keynote

Imre Balogh
Research Associate Professor and Director, MOVES Institute
Naval Postgraduate School, New Mexico State University
Creating Live Virtual Constructive Environments to Evaluate Human and System Resilience
Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) exercises are becoming ubiquitous for training and mission rehearsal in the Military domain because the use of LVC provides the most realistic environment available short of actual military operations. The mixture of live exercises with simulated components (constructive simulations and virtual simulators) allows for the creation of a context for the training or rehearsal that is richer and more representative of the real world than would be possible with only live events. This ability to embed live activity into synthetic environment to provide realism has attracted the interest of the Test and Evaluation community (T&E) and recently there are increasing efforts to start including LVC in the T&E tool suite. I’ll discuss some of the work we have been doing at the Naval Postgraduate School with LVC and look at how these environments can be used to assess and improve system and human resilience in operational environments.