About
the Conference
The
Spatial and Situational Awareness Conference provides a forum to
examine the role and potential that geospatial information
systems (GIS) can play in homeland security, crisis
management and everyday first response.
The conference focuses on emerging methods and
technologies that give stakeholders the ability to achieve
situational awareness for defense and homeland security
programs in information rich operating
environments. The conference
also examines how peer and ad hoc networks can provide new
levels of situational awareness, fusion and survivability
that rigid command and control hierarchies can't match.
New approaches to improve situational awareness including
mashups, geospatial platforms, web based applications and
other technological advancements will be highlighted in this unique
forum.
The
speakers will highlight how federal, state, tribal and local
stakeholders can accomplish the following:
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Connect
to/collaborate with groups with similar information needs
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Break
down barriers to information sharing and fusion
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Integrate field and geospatial data for incident
modeling analysis
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Achieve
and improve situational awareness in the mission critical
areas of prevention, protection, response, recovery and
preparedness
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Facilitate more efficient
decision making, faster response and more informative
post-incident analysis
Who Should Attend
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Executives responsible for situational awareness programs
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Planning Section Managers
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Risk Office Operations, Enterprise Business Continuity
Program Personnel
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GIS Managers and Specialists
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Corporate Strategy Technology Planners
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Personnel involved in Digital Mapping, Charting, Geospatial
Awareness Programs
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Emergency Operations, Disaster Management Center Personnel
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First Responders
Early Registrants Include:
3001, Inc, Area Director
Applied Science Associates, Director of Defesne Programs
BAE Systems, Project Engineering Manager
BAE Systems, Tech Fellow
BAE Systems, Director, Business Development
Boeing, Director HSP
Booz Allen Hamilton, Associate
Broward Emergency Management Agency, Planning Section Manager
Bureau of Land Management, Geographer
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Senior Public Health Analyst
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Director, Division of Workplace Programs
Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Director, Analysis
DARPA, Program Manager /IPTO
Digital Aerial Solutions, LLC, Director Program Management
DOC/NOAA/National Weather Service, CIO/IT Supervisor
Forterra Systems, Inc., Director, Marketing & Business Development
GeoEye, Director of Government Programs Intelligence, Security & Enforcement
GeoResources Institute at Mississippi State University, Executive Director
Greenhorne & O'Mara, Planner II
Harris Corporation, Director, Government Communications Systems
HHS/FDA/CDER, Information Specialist
Ionic Software, COO
James W. Sewall Company, VP, Geospatial Solutions
Lockheed Martin, Strategy Development
Lockheed Martin, Business Development
Lockheed Martin, GIS CTO
Microsoft, Geospatial Solutions Specialist
Missouri Information Technology Services Division, Geographic Information Officer
NOAA, Program Analyst
Northrop Gruman Public Health,
Office of Mgmt and Budget, Portfolio Mgr.
Olive, Edwards & Cooper, Principal
Olive, Edwards & Cooper, Founder and Principal
Onix Networking, Director, Sales
Onix Networking, Government Sales Manager
Overwatch Systems, Trade Show Coordinator
Perceptive Software, Inc, Direct Marketing Associate
Perceptive Software, Inc, Marketing Program Manager
Perceptive Software, Inc, Alliance Manager
Ryte Byte Homeland Security, President
SAS, Manager
Tele Atlas, Senior Project Manager
The Boeing Company, Senior Manager, Business Development
URS Corp, Senior Staff Scientist/GIS Specialist
US Army, SGM
US Army, ISG
US Army, Developer
US Dept of Agriculture, Physical Security Specialist
USFJCOM, SGM
Past Attendees Include:
Booz Allen Hamilton, Vice President
Broward Emergency Management Agency, Planning Section Manager
Capital One, Senior Director, Risk Office Operations & Enterprise Business Continuity Program
City of Charlotte, North Carolina, GIS Manager and Corporate Strategy Technology Planner
Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute. Chief, Department of Instructional Programs
MPRI, Director of Marketing
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Naval Research Laboratory Team Leader, Digital Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Analysis Program
NGB-J3-CDO-Q, Technical Projects/COR Liasion Officer
Northrop Grumman, Division Director
Parr Inspections, GIS Specialist
Ring Power Corporation, Assistant Vice President/Government Manager
SAIC, Manager, Emergency Operations Center
SPADAC
Telemus Solutions, Vice President
The Carbon Project, President & CEO
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chief, Office of Homeland Security and Provost Marshal, Directorate of Civil Works
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, RMS
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Technical Director, Office of National Capitol Region Coordinator
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Director, Disaster Management Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Vice President/CIO
Virginia Fusion Center, Lieutenant
Conference Speakers and Agenda
7:30 - 8:30 am |
Registration/Continental Breakfast |
8:30 – 8:35 am |
Opening Remarks: Brian Lake, Conference Director, Homeland Defense Journal |
8:35 - 8:45 am |
Introduction: Richard Cooper, Conference Chairman, Olive, Edwards & Cooper |
8:45 - 9:30 am |
Keynote Speaker: Dan Cotter, Chief Technology Officer, DHS |
9:30 – 10:30 am |
Panel: Privacy, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties – The Challenges
Panel Moderator, Rich Cooper, Conference Chair, Olive, Edwards & Cooper
Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy Officer, DHS
Dan Sutherland, Director, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, DHS
Barry Steinhardt Director, Technology and Liberty Program, American Civil Liberties Union
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10:30 – 11:00 am |
Networking Break: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal |
11:00 - 12:00 pm |
Panel: Current State of Geospatial Information Systems and the Contribution to the Homeland Security Mission
Panel Moderator: Richard Cooper, Conference Chairman, Olive, Edwards & Cooper
Brett Thomassie, Director, Civil Government Programs and President, DigitalGlobe Louisiana/Mississippi Operations
Craig Skalet, Emergency Operations Office, National Geospatial Program Office, U.S. Geological Survey
Jeff Harrison, CEO and President, The Carbon Project |
12:00 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch Keynote: Marko Bourne, Director of Policy and Plans, FEMA |
1:15 - 2:00 pm |
Panel: The Ultimate End-User: State and Local Government Agency GIS Uses
Panel Moderator, Brian Lake, Conference Director, Homeland Defense Journal
Carla Boyce, Deputy Director, Bureau of Preparedness, Florida Department of Emergency Management
Thomas J. Conry, Manager of Fairfax County’s GIS and Mapping Branch |
2:00 – 2:15 pm |
Networking Break: Sponsored by Homeland Defense Journal |
2:15 – 3:15 pm |
Panel: Emerging Technologies & Applications
Panel Moderator: Chris Doyle, Deputy Director, Infrastructure Geophysical Division, Science & Technology Directorate, DHS
Dr. Lori Mann Bruce, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Mississippi State University (MSU), and Associate Director of the GeoResources Institute (GRI) at MSU
Sam Bacharach, Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption Program, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
Joe Ordia, Founder and CEO, ORDIA Solutions |
3:15 - 4:00 pm |
Panel: Doing Geospatial Business in Homeland Security
Panel Moderator, Rich Cooper, Conference Chair
Craig Skalet, Emergency Operations Office, National Geospatial Program Office, U.S. Geological Survey
Glenn Schoonover, Chief Technology Strategist, Microsoft Public Sector |
4:15 – 4:30 pm |
Closing Concluding Thoughts & Remarks: Rich Cooper, Conference Chairman, Principal, Olive, Edwards and Cooper, LLC |
4:30 pm |
Adjournment |
Sponsors
Gold
Sponsors
Microsoft and its partners are dedicated to helping organizations augment their intelligence operations through innovations that enhance decision making and reduce response time. With this in mind, Microsoft offers Virtual Earth™, an integrated set of products and services that provide a robust platform for building cost-effective, flexible and accurate intelligence solutions. The strength of the Virtual Earth platform is in its ability to help users analyze data within the context of location. Through this, users gain an unmatched level of clarity and insight for analyzing business location intelligence data.
Corporate Sponsors
The
Carbon Project
pioneers innovative geospatial solutions and makes location-based
information accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere.
The Carbon Project’s flagship product, CarbonTools
PRO™ is a software development toolkit that enhances
the Microsoft .NET framework to support advanced location
content handling and sharing. With CarbonTools, .NET developers
can extend existing geospatial systems with new capabilities
and content sources or build exciting new location-based
social networking applications. The Carbon Project’s
new Gaia 3 application combines all types of location content
with the ability to share user-generated content through
the revolutionary
CarbonCloud™
peer-to-peer (P2P) content sharing framework. Gaia 3 provides
next-generation situational awareness and can be tailored
for different communities like incident response or network-centric
operations – and to the needs of your organization.
For more information contact
info@thecarbonproject.com.
Perceptive Software created ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow to help office workers efficiently capture and organize virtually any document type, then route and retrieve a precise page with a single click from within any business application at the moment it's needed. ImageNow's patented integration weaves tightly into any administrative or business software application, regardless of manufacturer or platform, without programming. Government and public sector customers worldwide can enjoy cost-effective document management by building on their existing technology investments.
NAUTIKARIS bv from Santpoort in the Netherlands, founded in 1965, has earned a solid reputation in hydrographic survey equipment and oceanographic systems. NAUTIKARIS’s acoustic underwater bathymetry division has designed, produced and supplied tailor-made systems for mammal detection and other applications. Their own in-house designed hydrophones with pre-amps offers a broadband frequency range. Either a towed array, fixed dome or seabed mounted stations might be the right solution for continuous observations.
Onix Networking is a small business provider of IT solutions including Google Enterprise Products. Google Earth solutions cut through the clutter of geospatial databases, allowing analysts and operatives to get the job done effectively and in record time. Google Earth distributes access to more people, providing fast, fluid, interactive earth views over secure networks.
The SAFETY Act provides important legal liability protections for providers of Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technologies – whether they are products or services. The goal of the SAFETY Act is to encourage the development and deployment of new and innovative anti-terrorism products and services by providing liability protections.
www.OrdiaSolutions.com is the leading provider of mission-critical, tactical, interoperable, collaborative, and mobile command & control solutions for public safety. Mobile Tactical Collaboration System™ and AdvanTraq™ GPS have been deployed successfully at counterterrorism exercises in Pittsburgh and Quantico; major sporting events in Richmond and Henrico; and at the “Annapolis Conference”.
CTC is a nonprofit applied research and services organization providing management and technology-based solutions to a wide array of clients in knowledge systems, system integration, data warehouse and data mining promoting SOA. Compusult is a world leader in providing the most comprehensive, open standards based, interoperable, geospatial web portal software suites.
DigitalGlobe is a leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information market. DigitalGlobe’s technical superiority and innovation, unparalleled commitment to customer service, extensive business partner network and open systems philosophy make DigitalGlobe the preferred supplier of imagery products to government and commercial markets.
Organizational Sponsors
The OGC® is an international industry consortium of more than 340 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the homeland security, emergency planning and response,Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org.
The GeoResources Institute (GRI) at Mississippi State University (MSU) is a research leader in GIS, remote sensing, data/image visualization, data fusion, scientific modeling, and high performance computing with applications to homeland security, coastal zone management and protection, and infrastructure protection. GRI performs funded research for NOAA, NASA, DHS, DOD, DOT, USDA, USGS, and other state and local agencies and private partner sectors. GRI has access to MSU’s supercomputing clusters, regularly ranked in the top 20 most powerful academic computing sites in the U.S.
Media Sponsors
Homeland Defense Journal is a monthly magazine now in
its fifth year of print. Our subscriber base of over
28,000 readers has been developed entirely from within
the homeland security sector. Our readers are federal,
DoD, state and local executives and decision-makers
charged with the development, testing and deployment of
solutions. Homeland Defense Journal focuses on
programs, projects, funding, grants, R&D, and
lessons-learned.
ATTENTION INDUSTRY AND SOLUTIONS PROVIDERS:
Our sponsors and exhibitors will have a unique opportunity
to showcase their products and services to leading government
decision-makers and leaders. If you would like to
learn more about this event and ways in which our market
research and media outlets can assist your sales program,
please contact
Russell Salazar,
(703) 894-1095.
Registration
Fee
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Industry
- $395 per person
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Small
Business - $295 per person
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Government
- $ FREE (please use the downloadable registration form to register)
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Conference
Location
The conference
will be held at the
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW Washington DC 20008. The hotel is
one block from the Woodley Park Metro stop on the red line.
The Omni's phone number is (202) 234-0700.
Please
note that the Omni
Shoreham Hotel
is holding a small block of guest rooms at the rate of $201+tax
until November 20, 2007. To secure a room, you can contact
the Omni Shoreham at (202)
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Map
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2008
Event Schedule
To download
a pdf of our planned training conferences and workshops
for 2008, please
click here.
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