Mike Adami-Sampson, vice president of product strategy for Aerospace and Defense solutions for Dassault Systèmes influences the optimal performance of the company's global customer base by understanding their business strategies and aligning ENOVIA PLM solutions to those requirements. Adami-Sampson was a founder of Adra Systems which became MatrixOne and acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2006.

Adami-Sampson has over 20 years in the aerospace industry, working for Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut and BAE Ssystems in Warton, England. His primary roles have been in structures design, composites R&D and PLM design and management. He brings his experience in aerospace engineering to Dassault Systèmes continuing his role of translating customer needs into product requirements.

Harold D. "Skip" Burns is the director of Strategic Learning at Raytheon Company. In this role Burns is responsible for providing leadership across Raytheon to accelerate the development of talent in strategic roles, including establishing program leadership as a core capability and source of market advantage. He has been in this role since October 2007. Previously, he was a member of the Raytheon Company Evaluation Team.

Prior to these assignments Burns was director of the Navy Radars product line within Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). As the Navy Radars director, he was responsible for the successful execution of the Aegis, SPS-49, SPS-73, TARTAR and NATO Sea Sparrow programs. In that role, he was responsible for development, production and support programs for both domestic and international customers. He is a certified Raytheon Six Sigma Expert.

Since joining Raytheon in 1982, Burns has held a variety of management and leadership positions within manufacturing operations. He supported Navy submarine and surface ship combat system and sonar sensor development and production programs; led various complex process developments; introduced teams of manufacturing engineers early in the design phase to improve producibility; implemented lean manufacturing methodologies; and managed the full scope of manufacturing operations.

Burns has a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Rutgers University and a master's degree in business administration from Clarkson College. He is a graduate of the Executive Program Manager's course at the Defense Acquisition University, IDS' program leadership curriculum and the strategic leadership program.

Raytheon Company, with 2010 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 89 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.

Carole Rickard Hedden is president of The Write Stuff and Aviation Week's Special Projects Editor. In this role she is responsible for Aviation Week's annual Workforce Study research and editorial product, and she leads Aviation Week's Program Management /Leadership initiative. In addition, she is the lead for Aviation Week's Executive Roundtables and Summit.

The Aviation Week Program/Leadership initiative was launched in 2005 to develop bench strength across the industry in program leadership and skills. The initiative combines identification of programs that are performing, evaluating what the program teams and their leaders are doing to overcome issues and challenges, and then share these lessons learned across the industry through a multi-media effort. Carole is responsible for developing evaluation criteria, facilitating the Evaluation board comprised of industry and government program management executives, and development of the lessons learned strategy.

Mr. Norris is Vice President for the Joint Tactical Radio Solutions unit within Lockheed Martin 's Information Systems and Global Solutions (IS&GS) Defense. His team is responsible for providing Joint Tactical Network systems to include software defined radios, Advanced Global Networks, and optical and laser communications.

Mr. Norris has more than 20 years of experience as a program manager of large-scale programs for the United States military. His experience includes financial management and control of operating budgets, management of technical resources, directing military and commercial marketing, directing program and project operations, and management of Research and Development and proposal efforts.

Mr. Norris has held roles of increasing responsibility which include program director for the Air Force 's U-2 Dragon Lady program, Chief Engineer for the Navy 's P-3 Orion and S-3 Viking Programs and a subsequent assignment as the Chief Engineer for Special Mission Programs (U-2, Big Safari, P-3, S-3, Korean T-50, Japanese F-2, Australian F-111 and C-27J). His most recent role is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the Airborne, Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System program that will form the foundation of radio frequency information transmission for the Department of Defense 's Joint Vision 2020.

Mark Norris joined the Lockheed California Company (Burbank, CA) in 1987. During his first years with the company he worked in the Advanced Design group, supporting numerous developmental efforts, including P-7, NATF and Multi-role Fighter (MRF). He transferred to Marietta, GA in 1991 where he continued to support advanced concepts programs. In late 1991 he was selected Design Group Lead for the Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics AFX team.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas, where he serves as a member of the Advisory Board. He was born in West Lafayette, Indiana and currently resides in San Diego, California.