DICE Events

We host several events and workshops to facilitate collaboration and provide education.

Upcoming Events

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Third annual Digital Engineering Conference

May 20-21, 2025, Idaho Falls, Idaho

Watch this page for details on the third annual national laboratory-led Digital Engineering Conference in the spring of 2025. The conference will feature guest speakers from across the digital industry and provide an opportunity to foster collaborations that will enhance our nation’s digital future with discussions on:

  1. Unlocking the Power of Digital Twins: Revolutionizing System Integration
  2. Driving Innovation with Model-Based Systems Engineering
  3. Artificial Intelligence: The Catalyst for Transformative Solutions
  4. The Digital Thread: Connecting Data for Smarter Decisions
  5. Building Cyber Resilience: Advancing Instrumentation and Control
  6. Harnessing Decision Science and Visualization for Enhanced Insights
  7. Human Factors: Bridging Technology and Usability

Past Events

Second annual Digital Engineering Conference

April 29-May 1, 2024, Idaho Falls, Idaho

Back by popular demand! The second in-person, national laboratory-led Digital Engineering conference featured guest speakers from across the digital industry and provided an opportunity to foster collaborations that will enhance our nation’s digital future with discussions on:

  • Digital Twins
  • Model-Based Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Thread and Computing
  • Instrumentation, Control, and Cyber Resilience
  • Decision Science and Visualization
  • Model-Based Definition (CAD)

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Keynote speakers included Daniel HettemaCandice LingHarlan Bowers and Geri Richmond.

Digital Engineering Conference

April 25-26, 2023, Idaho Falls, Idaho

Idaho National Laboratory hosted the first in-person, cross-national laboratory Digital Engineering conference.

Digital engineering embodies a deliberate transformational approach to the way systems are conceptualized, designed, constructed, operated, maintained and retired.

The event featured guest speakers from across the digital industry and provided an opportunity to foster collaborations that will enhance our nation’s digital future with discussions on:

  • Digital Twins
  • Model-Based Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Thread and Computing
  • Instrumentation, Control, and Cyber Resilience
  • Decision Science and Visualization
  • Model-Based Definition (CAD)

Click below for more information about INL’s Digital Innovation Center of Excellence Digital Engineering Conference.

Digital Engineering Conference

Oct. 5, 2022

The inaugural national laboratory-led Digital Engineering conference, led by Idaho National Laboratory, hosted a two-hour virtual session in October 2022. This was followed by a more in-depth in-person event in April 2023.

The virtual event, “Digital Engineering: Aligning Federal Government Needs with National Laboratory Capabilities,” was hosted by Idaho National Laboratory’s Digital Innovation Center Of Excellence (DICE).

It connected federal program offices interested in pursuing digital engineering solutions with national laboratory staff members responsible for developing these solutions. Federal government representatives from across the Department of Energy and Department of Defense participated.

Enabling Technologies for Digital Twin Applications for Advanced Reactors and Plant Modernization

Sept. 14-16, 2021

This workshop provided a forum for the nuclear industry and digital twin stakeholders to discuss the application of digital twins and digital twin-enabling technologies such as advanced sensors and instrumentation, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence in the current light water reactor fleet and advanced reactor designs. The workshop also included an overview of the next steps toward regulatory realization of digital twins in the nuclear industry.

Next-Gen AI for Proliferation Detection: Domain Aware Methods

Feb. 23-24, 2021

This workshop focused on the use of domain-aware methods to develop AI systems that enhance U.S. nuclear proliferation detection and address the unique challenges of this mission.

Digital Twin Applications for Advanced Nuclear Technologies

Dec. 1-4, 2020

This workshop provided a forum for the nuclear industry and digital twin stakeholders to discuss the state of knowledge and research activities related to digital twin and their application in the nuclear industry. The purpose of the workshop is to assess the current understanding of digital twins and identify their potential benefits, opportunities and challenges for nuclear reactors.