Robert N. Bernard is the Lead Technologist of the Strategy and Business Development department in Boeing's Integrated Information Systems division.

In addition, he is the vice-chair of the division's Big Data Council. For over 20 years, he has been a designer, project manager, and programmer in diverse industries including national security, entertainment, urban and regional planning, and academia. He has specialized in simulation, forecasting, text analysis, wargaming, computational social science, agent-based modeling, and other predictive analytics.

He has a Bachelor's degree from Princeton University, a Master's degree from the University of Michigan, and spent time at the Santa Fe Institute.

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