Vision for The Awakened Enterprise

Machine-augmented mindfulness to adopt a continuum mindset, enable adaptation by design, and act despite uncertainty

Thursday, 21 August 2025 | Online

07:00 (Los Angeles) | 10:00 (New York)
15:00 (London) | 16:00 (Berlin)

NAFEMS promotes the advancement of multidisciplinary modeling, analysis and simulation to address uncertainty and complexity in engineering. Ultimately, the most consequential result of these engineering simulations and analyses is the decision informed by those efforts. But pragmatic limitations on resources, time, and knowledge constrain what data and information may be assessed a priori. Therefore, inherent volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity must be addressed to engineer robust and resilient systems. Additionally, complexity and inconsistency can emerge as decisions are interlinked and made over spans of time and across organizational divides. We will discuss the opportunity for our human minds to collaborate with machine knowledge systems and agents to achieve mindfulness through systematic integration of sensitivities, learning, and adaptation by design.

V​isit: Awakened Enterprise @LinkedIn

A​genda

A​bout our speaker ...

Richard Arthur
Sr. Principal Engineer, Advanced Computational Methods Research at GE Aerospace Research

Special Government Employee (SGE), Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Energy

Rick leads pathfinding efforts in applying computational methods at GE Aerospace Research. Previously, prior to the corporate split-up, he supported products and services that spanned General Electric’s diverse industrial sectors such as healthcare, media, finance, plastics, air and rail transportation, security, defense and energy. Rick represents GE Aerospace in government policy and project discussions, including the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee. He holds a B.S. and M. Eng. In Computer Engineering and an MBA and is a Senior Member of ACM.