I/ITSEC 2023 Personas & Sample Agendas

Personas help define users and their needs so curated program development can occur. Personas for I/ITSEC 2024 will be posted in early September.

Industry Personas

  • Program Manager: “I want to see high level content related to DoD trends.”
  • Modeling & Simulation Engineer: “I want to see technical content related to developing modeling and simulation tools.”
  • Business Development: “I want to meet leaders in the DoD and industry to identify future collaboration opportunities.”

Government Personas

  • Program Manager: “I want to see how technology is evolving and how it can be used to effectively equip the warfighter.”
  • Enlisted: “I want to dive deep technically into state-of-the-art training techniques to effectively equip the warfighter.”
  • Officer: “I want to learn about a diverse range of interdisciplinary technologies to help me effectively set direction for a cross discipline team.”
  • Human Performance Assessment: “I want to learn about what state of the art human performance assessment methods so I can apply them to my role.”

Academic Personas

  • Engineering Graduate Student: “I want to learn about what engineering methods industry and the DoD uses to effectively equip the warfighter.”
  • Psychology Graduate Student: “I want to learn how the DoD and industry evaluate warfighters as they train.”
  • Professor: “I want to see emerging technologies and how they are being leveraged in the DoD space.”