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February 2016 VCAT Meeting Agenda
AGENDA
VISITING COMMITTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Administration Building, Portrait Room
Gaithersburg, MD
February 3-4, 2016
ALL VISITORS MUST PRE-REGISTER.
Contact stephanie.shaw [at] nist.gov (Stephanie Shaw )by January 26, 2016
| Overview and Safety | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Call to Order Roberto Padovani, VCAT Chair |
| 8:40 a.m. | NIST Update and Agenda Review Willie E. May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 9:40 a.m. | Discussion |
| 9:50 a.m. | Safety Update Richard Kayser, Chief Safety Officer |
| 10:00 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:10 a.m. | Break |
| NIST Workforce: Employee Survey results, actions and HR practices and policies | |
| 10:20 a.m. | Context Setting |
| 10:30 a.m. | Improving Employee Engagement at the local level Carroll Thomas, Director, Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Laurie Locascio, Director, Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) |
| 11:30 a.m. | HR Recruitment and Engagement Activities Susanne Porch, Director, Office of Human Resource Management |
| 11:50 a.m. | Ensuring a word-class scientific and technical NIST workforce: Thoughts from two NIST Fellows |
| 12:20 p.m. | Discussion |
| 12:35 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Deliberations and Presentation on Observations, Findings, and Recommendations of 2015 Annual Report, Part 1 |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | Adjourn Day 1 |
| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Call to Order Roberto Padovani, VCAT Chair |
| 8:40 a.m. | Commerce Digital Economy Agenda Alan Davidson, Director of Digital Economy, U.S. Department of Commerce |
| 9:20 a.m. | Deliberations and Presentation on Observations, Findings, and Recommendations of 2015 Annual Report, Part II Roberto Padovani, VCAT Chair |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | VCAT Elections and Administrative Business |
| 10:45 a.m. | Meeting Adjourn |