Program Overview

Keynote Speeches

• “Public Private Partnerships - Whats In It For Me?” - Michael Cummings, FEMA Region 9 Private Sector Liaison (including panel)
  
• “Burning Man: Temporary IT and Communications” – Joseph Pred, Communications Coordinator for Burning Man
• “National Guard's Role in Emergencies” – Major General Scott Johnson, Commander - 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guard

Participate: Hands-on participation in Exercises, Classes & Workshops

• Plugfest Exercise
• Basic ICS Training, Strategy and Tabletop Exercise – National Disaster Resiliency Center
• Disaster Communication Exercise  - Cal EMA and Santa Clara County OES
• Amateur Radio: Digital and Packet Radio Talk and Workshop - DMI
• Red Cross Communication  - Planning and Practice – American Red Cross
• Personal Emergency Preparedness (PEP) Class - City of Mountain View Fire Dept
• Interoperability Skills Exercise - Cal EMA
• Interoperability Configuration Best Practices - Cal EMA
• Geocam Demonstration/Exercise - NASA
• Common Operating Picture Demo and Hyperwall Demo - DMI
• Coding and Communications - InSTEDD
• Mobile Hastily Formed Network Interoperability – Naval Postgraduate School, Cisco
• Radio Communications – Audio to Text - DMI

Learn: Presentations and Panels

• IT Volunteering in Disasters – California Resiliency Alliance
• Rapid Disaster Communications Setup Panel Session – Naval Postgraduate School, Cisco
• Long Term Evolutio:n 4G Wireless - Alcatel Lucent
• Base Camp Orientation and Etiquette
• Ipad Talk - IBM
• Enterprise Resiliency - IntraPoint
• Geocam: Network of Citizen Disaster Responders – NASA
• A Common Operating Picture - GGSN
• NASA’s International Adventures in Emergency Communication - NASA
• Santa Clara Emergency Wireless Network - SCEWN
• Developing the Incident Aide System - eCLIC, DMI
• A Next Generation Emergency Operating Center - DMI
• ICS Overview
• Incident Action Plans
• Antenna Optimization - DMI
• ProBIN: Probabilistic Inertial Navigation – CMU
• SensorFly and Beyond: Autonomous Flyer Sensor Swarms in Disasters - CMU
• Interoperability and Narrow Banding for Non-Techies
• UDOP: Crowdsourcing Situational Awareness - DMI
• Voice Control for Smart Apps for Disaster Management
• Setting Up a 911 Ambulance Service in India – CMU Pittsburgh
• San Bruno Disaster Debrief Panel Session