Icosystem, Inc. :
Founded in 2000 by Eric Bonabeau, one of the world’s leading complexity scientists, to incubate breakthrough ideas that solve society’s toughest problems that face us today. Icosystem includes a world-class team of forward-thinking scientists, technologists, and consultants who drive real-world results that satisfy clients in a broad range of settings. We use network analysis, behavioral modeling and complexity science to simulate a business or other environment and analyze innovations for their potential success. Our consulting services focus on building analytical tools and customized software to address a client’s specific needs and unique scenarios to help them identify better strategies, make more informed decisions, and respond more quickly to change.
VGO Associates:
VGO Associates is a leader in the use of advanced computer science as a tool for business, industry and government. Founded by complexity science pioneer David Davis, VGO Associates was launched in 2006 as a place to apply emerging science to difficult business problems. The more than 30 VGO associates have worked on hundreds of real-world engagements. Our expertise includes assessments, schedule and operations optimization, advanced data mining techniques and simulations and agent based modeling systems. We help clients save money, increase efficiency and predict the behavior of customers or cyber attackers. Many VGO associates are published authorities in their fields, and several chair university computer science departments. VGO Associates creates smart systems for a complex world.
Alchemy Sims:
A full service virtual space building, sim designing, and 3D visualization company. The founder of Alchemy Sims, Ann Cudworth, is a 2 time Emmy award winning production designer for network television. Her sets are seen on CBS, CBS.com, as well as a host of other networks and media outlets. Over the last 3 years she has gathered the best and the brightest of builders, programmers, and artists for her collaborative. Alchemy Sims is dedicated to virtual space building and creating sim designs that support your concepts and marketing goals.
Raytheon, Inc.:
Raytheon recognizes our nation’s critical need to understand rapidly emerging social and technical dynamics of how the world is using the Internet and networked systems. As SENDS has identified, cyber is assuming its place as the fifth operational domain beside Air, Land, Sea, and Space. Our nation must develop the talent pool necessary to support cyber operations upon which both kinetic and non-kinetic battlespaces are dependent. Likewise, the future growth of commercial and civilian enterprise is also dependent upon the availability of a highly trained cyber-savvy workforce. The path to growing the needed workforce lies in STEM-based cyber education, as SENDS has noted devoting an entire task to academic curricula. To this end, Raytheon is committed to its support of SENDS Consortium research and how it can be harnessed to educate tomorrow’s generation of engineers and scientists.
Science Center of Pinellas:
This non-profit and privately owned facility is located on seven acres in west St. Petersburg. Each year the Center educates more than 22 thousand school children through field trip classes; offers winter, spring and summer workshops for 2,000 more; takes science education courses to the community, holds science showcases and science fair workshops, teaches seniors how to use computers, offers a Lecture Series with world renowned speakers and holds many science oriented events and activities for the community.
