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Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Workshop Agenda

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C.

10:00–10:30 a.m.

Welcome to the Workshop

 

Jon Eisenberg, Study Director and Senior Program Officer, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board/National Research Council (NRC)

Charles Brownstein, Director, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board/NRC

Ramesh Rao, Chair, NRC Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management—Improving the Use of Information Technology in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery; and Professor, University of California, San Diego

Barry West, Chief Information Officer/Director of Information Technology Services Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Topic 1: The Critical and Evolving Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Disaster Management

10:30 a.m–12:00 p.m.

Context for and Visions of the Future, Grand Challenges for ICTs in Disaster Management

15-minute presentations by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

John Harrald, Director, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, George Washington University (Moderator)

David G. Boyd, Director, Office for Interoperability and Compatibility, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Helen Wood, Senior Advisor, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Satellites and Information Service, and Chair, National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction

Jack Potter, Director, Emergency Medical Services, Valley Health, and Vice Chair, COMCARE Board of Directors

Peter Miller, Program Manager, Mission Support Office, Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

 

How might we better manage future crises? What impact will major technology trends have on how disaster management is handled in the future? How can we leverage commercial technology cost-performance curves yet meet special requirements? What new technologies, approaches, and policies would help, and what research directions are promising?

12:00–12:45 p.m.

Lunch

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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12:45–2:00 p.m.

Perspectives on the Current State of the Art: ICTs in Disaster Management Practice

15-minute presentations by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Ellis Stanley, General Manager, Emergency Preparedness Department, City of Los Angeles, California (Moderator)

Mark Deputy, Senior IT Specialist and Urban Search and Rescue Team Assistant Task Force Leader, Montgomery County, Maryland

William Maheu, Executive Assistant Chief of Police, San Diego Police Department

Robert Roth, Fire Technology Specialist, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

What lessons have been learned from past crisis and exercises? What gaps in IT capabilities are evident, and how might they be addressed? Where is the state of the art not sufficient to meet our needs?

2:00–2:15 p.m.

Break

2:15–3:30 p.m.

Emerging Applications and Other Drivers for ICTs in Disaster Management

15-minute presentations by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

William Maheu, Executive Assistant Chief of Police, San Diego Police Department (Moderator)

William Metz, Director, Center for Integrated Emergency Preparedness, Argonne National Laboratory

Jaime Gomezjurado, Project Manager and Vice President, Business Development, Medical Emergency Response Network Research Project, Semandex Networks, Inc.

Lois Clark McCoy, President, National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue

Peter Brooks, Institute for Defense Analyses

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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What are especially demanding aspects of disaster management? What initiatives are underway to address them? What specific requirements are there from specific groups or application areas? What general lessons can be learned?

3:30–3:45 p.m.

Break

Topic 2: Research Directions for ICTs in Disaster Management

 

What research areas have application to disaster management? How might leading-edge research be applied to disaster management? How should the research agenda be established and evolved? How can research results best be transitioned into deployed capabilities? What are the commonalities between commercial, civilian, and military capabilities and research and development activities, and how can technology advances and knowledge be transferred from one to the other?

3:45–5:00 p.m.

Current ICT Research Programs Related to Disaster Management

15-minute presentation by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Peter Steenkiste, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (Moderator)

Larry Brandt, Program Manager, Digital Government, National Science Foundation

Gary Ham, Senior Research Scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute

Earnest Paylor, Program Director, Pacific Disaster Center and Senior Advisor for Interagency Programs, Office of the Special Assistant and NASA Liaison to the Assistant Secretary of Defense—Networks and Information Integration

Pamela Sydelko, Leader—Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Group, Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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5:00–6:00 p.m

ICT Everywhere: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Mobile (Ad Hoc) Communications and Networking

15-minute presentation by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Timothy Brown, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder (Moderator)

Richard Howard, Research Professor, Wireless Information Network Laboratory, Rutgers University

Scott Midkiff, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Topic 2: Research Directions for ICTs in Disaster Management (continued)

8:30–9:45 a.m.

Identifying and Aggregating Useful Data— Information Integration and Fusion

15-minute presentation by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Gio Wiederhold, Professor (Emeritus), Stanford University (Moderator)

Yigal Arens, Director, Intelligent Systems Division, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Craig Knoblock, Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California

Peter Scott, Associate Professor, University of Buffalo

Zachary Ives, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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9:45–10:45 a.m.

Information Overload: Making Useful Data Actionable—Decision Support, Collaboration, Situational Awareness

15-minute presentations by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Robert Neches, Director, Distributed Scalable Systems Division, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (Moderator)

David Mendonça, Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

William Wallace, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10:45–11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m–12:15 p.m.

Sensor Networks, Autonomous Devices, and Geographic Information Systems

15-minute presentations by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Robin Murphy, Professor, University of South Florida, and Director, Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Safety Security Rescue (Moderator)

Ayman Mosallam, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Susan McGrath, Associate Research Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College

David Kehrlein, Senior Consultant, Environmental Science Research Institute; formerly GIS Manager, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services

12:15–1:00 p.m.

Lunch

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Topic 3: Collaboration, Coordination, and Interoperability: Pressing Issues in a Need-to-Share World

1:00–3:00 p.m.

Current Initiatives, Technical and OrganizationalObstacles, and Opportunities in ICT Interoperability

15-minute presentations by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Art Botterell, Contra Costa County, California, Office of the Sheriff (Moderator)

Ellis Kitchen, Chief Information Officer, Maryland Office of Information Technology, and Member, Interoperability and Integration Committee, National Association of State Chief Information Officers

Steve Cooper, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Red Cross

Lloyd (Gene) Krase, Administrator, Kansas Division of Emergency Management

Otto Doll, Commissioner, Bureau of Information and Telecommunications, South Dakota

Dave Smith, Implementation Director, Indiana Integrated Public Safety Commission

Robert Fletcher, President, Readiness Consulting Services, LLC, and Member, National Fire Protection Association NFPA 1600 Technical Committee

 

What policy and technical initiatives are currently underway to improve wireless interoperability across federal, state, and local levels? What results are anticipated, and over what time frames? How are data (including voice) generated, used, and shared across organizational boundaries today? What can be learned in terms of technology and practice from efforts to create systems capable of greater interoperability? How are standards helping or not helping? What kinds of interoperability are desired in the future? What technical, operational, economic, and policy challenges are likely to be unresolved, and merit further research? How do communication systems

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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relate to other information management systems related to disaster management? What obstacles to technology transition must be overcome?

3:00–3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15–4:30 p.m.

Envisioning, Enabling, and Building Networks of the Future

15-minute presentation by each panelist, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A

 

Nancy Jesuale, President, NetCity Engineering (Moderator)

Nader Moayeri, Manager, Wireless Communications Technologies Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology

James Morentz, Vice President, Homeland Security Technology, and Director, Public Safety Integration Center, Science Applications International Corporation

Chip Hines, Program Manager, Disaster Management eGov Initiative, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Emergency Preparedness and Response/FEMA, Department of Homeland Security

 

What should communications and other IT capabilities look like in the future? How do wireless communications systems relate to the emerging broader architecture for public safety, national security, and disaster response? What are the implications of major information and communications technology trends for how we respond to crises? How can these opportunities better be exploited? What kinds of research, experimentation, and pilot programs would help?

4:30–4:45 p.m.

Concluding Remarks

 

Ramesh Rao, Chair, NRC Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management

Suggested Citation:"C Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human-made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this area, the Congress, in the E-government Act of 2002, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to request the NRC to conduct a study on the application of IT to disaster management. This report characterizes disaster management providing a framework for considering the range and nature of information and communication needs; presents a vision of the potential for IT to improve disaster management; provides an analysis of structural, organizational, and other non-technical barriers to the acquisition, adoption, and effective use of IT in disaster; and offers an outline of a research program aimed at strengthening IT-enabled capabilities for disaster management.

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