Defense, Media & the Budget
The Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society will hold it's next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 2007. It will be held at the meeting room of Marie Callender's, 9503 Research Blvd. # 400., Austin, TX 78759 ( 512.349.7151 ) from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Laura Faulkner will speak on "Defense, the Media and Emotion: Identifying Future Shifts in Funding"
Attendance fee is $20 per person, for members, $25 for nonmembers, cash or checks only at the door. (Make checks payable to CenTexWFS.) Credit cards accepted online. The fee includes a meal but is charged for attendance.
The meeting room is at the back of the restaurant on the right.
Seating will be limited so please reserve your place and prepay at :
www.centexwfs.org/index_Register.htm
Agenda: Networking, Announcements, Meal, Speaker, Discussion
Defense budgets go up and down fairly predictably according to currentdefense circumstance. But within those fairly stable, predictablebudgets, the types and amounts of things funded vary wildly fromyear-to-year, and from beginning of fiscal year "planned" spending incontrast to and end-of-fiscal year “spend all the dollars we have leftover” spending. As a matter of fact, those end-of-fiscal year decisionsmay be the most telling of all: they are the gut instinct,non-thought- out, emotional decisions, often unconstrained by leadershipabove the sponsor-in-charge of disbursing those funds—few political stringsare attached to those funds. Dr. Faulkner examines the future of thesecycles through the lense of her expertise in human psychology, toward arecognition of what changes and what stays the same.
Laura Faulkner, Ph.D., fascination and passion is human behavior, asevidenced by more than 25 years of human sciences study, degrees insociology, anthropology and psychology, and a career in human-computerinteraction (HCI).Dr. Faulkner is currently a Senior Product Manager for AWARE Software,Inc., performing HCI applied research, and managing datamodeling/ontology,training, documentation and translation, related to software andrequirements engineering.
For the previous eleven years, Dr. Faulkner was with the Applied Research Laboratories (ARL:UT), The University of Texasat Austin (UT-Austin). As a Program Manager and Principal Investigator shecompleted multiple Department of Defense and industry projects, learningthe intriguing pathways of defense funding. Among other things, her workpioneered a team facilitation and collaboration initiative to stand up theInformation Operations Technology Alliance. Dr. Faulkner continues as aninvited instructor for UT-Austin's Software Quality Institute, and hasserved on the Human Systems committee of the international organization,the defense-centric Interservice/ Industry Simulation, Training, andEducation Conference.
For more information about the Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society, visit http://www.centexwfs.org/.
For more information about the World Future Society, visit http://www.wfs.org/.
Laura Faulkner will speak on "Defense, the Media and Emotion: Identifying Future Shifts in Funding"
Attendance fee is $20 per person, for members, $25 for nonmembers, cash or checks only at the door. (Make checks payable to CenTexWFS.) Credit cards accepted online. The fee includes a meal but is charged for attendance.
The meeting room is at the back of the restaurant on the right.
Seating will be limited so please reserve your place and prepay at :
www.centexwfs.org/index_Register.htm
Agenda: Networking, Announcements, Meal, Speaker, Discussion
Defense budgets go up and down fairly predictably according to currentdefense circumstance. But within those fairly stable, predictablebudgets, the types and amounts of things funded vary wildly fromyear-to-year, and from beginning of fiscal year "planned" spending incontrast to and end-of-fiscal year “spend all the dollars we have leftover” spending. As a matter of fact, those end-of-fiscal year decisionsmay be the most telling of all: they are the gut instinct,non-thought- out, emotional decisions, often unconstrained by leadershipabove the sponsor-in-charge of disbursing those funds—few political stringsare attached to those funds. Dr. Faulkner examines the future of thesecycles through the lense of her expertise in human psychology, toward arecognition of what changes and what stays the same.
Laura Faulkner, Ph.D., fascination and passion is human behavior, asevidenced by more than 25 years of human sciences study, degrees insociology, anthropology and psychology, and a career in human-computerinteraction (HCI).Dr. Faulkner is currently a Senior Product Manager for AWARE Software,Inc., performing HCI applied research, and managing datamodeling/ontology,training, documentation and translation, related to software andrequirements engineering.
For the previous eleven years, Dr. Faulkner was with the Applied Research Laboratories (ARL:UT), The University of Texasat Austin (UT-Austin). As a Program Manager and Principal Investigator shecompleted multiple Department of Defense and industry projects, learningthe intriguing pathways of defense funding. Among other things, her workpioneered a team facilitation and collaboration initiative to stand up theInformation Operations Technology Alliance. Dr. Faulkner continues as aninvited instructor for UT-Austin's Software Quality Institute, and hasserved on the Human Systems committee of the international organization,the defense-centric Interservice/ Industry Simulation, Training, andEducation Conference.
For more information about the Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society, visit http://www.centexwfs.org/.
For more information about the World Future Society, visit http://www.wfs.org/.
posted by Paul Schumann | 3:34 PM
1 Comments:
Mr. Schumann, I just don't understand how you might post this announcement on March 12, 2008 about "the next month's meeting" on "Tuesday, February 19, 2007."... For the record, when will be the next meeting of the central Texas chapter of the WFS?
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