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Attendees: Mike Gesing mike@neohio.org, Jean Epson jupson@lorainccc.edu, Doug Reichard doug.reichard@gmail.com, Florin Muscutariu fmuscuta@lorainccc.edu, Barb Oney bsiss@adelphia.net, Terry Green tgreen@lorainccc.edu, Mike Substelny msubstel@lorainccc.edu, Hikmat Chedid hchedid@lorainccc.edu, Susan Altshuler susanaltshuler@gmail.com, Rick Pollack rpollack@one.net

 

Helpful Links:

 

http://www.defragohio.pbwiki.com

Keith Krach - Keynote speaker April 12. See CVKrach bio official.doc

New England Modeling and Simulation Coalition. New England Models Jobs of the Future

Tower of Learning , Tom Nosek's project incorporating medical school curriculum into a gaming/e-learning platform

 

We need to look at three themes throughout the conference:

 

1) Economic Development

 

2) Business Development

 

3) Sources of support --> Grants, venture capital, micro funding, giving circles

 

4) Technology opportunity

 

Conference Topics:

 

Education: Dale Cook/KSU partnership

 

Computer Forensics & CSI:

Hikmat Chedid

Robotic surgery

Campus EAI

 

 

Business Development

 

Video Storytelling

 

Health Care & Medical

 

Engineering

FAB Lab

 

Sustainable Development

Communications

VR

 

Marketing

 

Destination - Place Based

Narrow casting - how to take tech to application

New creative application

Distance learning - poscasting/streaming

Conferencing

Leverage LCCC Cable subscribers during the Defrag conference week

 

Students

 

Marketing Defrag

D Moss - design an ad for Defrag

Publish a call for stories

get an article in Cool Cleveland with T Mulready/videography

 

MMOLG

Gaming

Education MMOG standards - Rick Pollack

Entertainment

Virtual environments

 

Marketing & Rich Media

 

Can we get some White Papers going to establish the case for rich media applications, funding, etc.?

Can we collect links to good models and research?

Is there research on regions challenged by auto manufcturing transitions?

Department of Labor: supporting immersive trainging - see our partners at Shawnee State University

Can a grant writting team come together to support initiatives and the Defrag network?