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2:30 Workshop E: Coca-Cola Refreshments
Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR) is located in Brandon, Florida. The campus houses 800+ employees providing a variety of finance and human resources services. This site tour will focus on the organizational development functions that support CCR’s industry-leading global finance shared services center. We’ll get an inside look at training programs, leadership philosophies and corporate culture.
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Gwendolyn Lewis
HR Business Partner
Coca-Cola Refreshments
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Cheryl Puterbaugh
Organizational Change & Communication Manager
Coca-Cola Refreshments
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2:00 Workshop F: 3rd Largest University in U.S.: UCF Institute for Simulation and Training
The Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) is a research unit of the University of Central Florida
(UCF), located in Research Park, just south of the university’s main campus in Orlando, Florida. With a
current enrollment of more than 50,000 students from all 50 states and 150 countries, UCF is the third
largest university in the U.S. Founded in 1982, IST provides a wide range of research and information
services for the modeling, simulation, and training community.
This site tour will focus on human-centric simulation and blended learning research and development
initiatives for a wide range of partners in industry, government and military, health care, academic, and
non-profit sectors. Specific areas of research include:
- Strategic consulting for industry and government partners to align learning initiatives with business goals and increase performance
- Simulation of work practices in high stress environments
- Multimodal, narrative-based leadership and business simulations
- Enabling and enhancing learning, knowledge, and cognition through Web 2.0 technologies such as Mobile, Games and Simulations, Virtual Worlds, and collaborative tools (wikis, blogs, etc.)
- State-of-the-art simulators in healthcare, transportation, business/leadership, military, and education
Dr. David Metcalf, Director
Angela Hamilton, Researcher
David Rogers, Researcher
AJ Ripin, Researcher
Ron Tarr, Senior Researcher
The Institute for Simulation and Training (IST), University of Central Florida