Agenda

FEMA's CIO discusses the efforts to build new and innovative technology solutions that support all of the

enterprise's diverse missions.

In the unfortunate event of an incident, there are three key challenges to overcome – time to respond, time to remediate and improving on intra and inter agency collaboration.  Working across disparate agencies or with a coordinated attack, these three challenges can become exponentially more difficult.  This session will help you better understand how certain technologies can help you reduce your time to respond,  remediate attacks, and increase collaboration both within and across an organization.

Increasing crime rates during Covid, coupled with a Fentanyl Epidemic, has made police work more challenging,  and the existing tools that served police well in the past,  beg for change.  In this discussion, you will learn how police departments are using new technology to identify and apprehend suspects faster while changing the way they serve their community with increased safety. 

The NOAA CIO will provide an overview of NOAA’s public safety missions, with a focus on weather-related disasters and supporting technologies across the observation to warning and response value chain.

Platforms like Google, Amazon, and Lyft have increasingly become an integral part of everyday life. And as those platforms continue to grow with more and more people relying on them, the expectation that the same level of accessibility and seamlessness be available across every aspect of their lives will only intensify. One area ripe for innovation in this space lies in how residents and public safety agencies interact with one another. Platforms like Salesforce, the world’s #1 Customer Relationship Management software, have the opportunity to transform public safety. Agencies can apply Salesforce’s customer-centric model into their policing efforts by prioritizing the resident experience while harnessing the power of the secure cloud platform.  Public safety agencies who apply this digital omnichannel approach to engaging with residents can offer them the same ease and simplicity when interacting with police. Not only will it enhance the resident experience overall, but it will also build trust knowing that public safety agencies will be proactive and data-driven as they respond.

Small drones are prolific today in the commercial world, but how do we make them work and train together autonomously in difficult environments? In this talk, we will go over a novel partnership between MIT and the Department of the Air Force to improve state-of-the-art algorithms to make small robots more agile in search and rescue applications.

Across the country, police & fire departments have been using video-enabled collaboration tools to improve public safety operations and capabilities. This has improved clarity, transparency, and mitigated the “fog of war” where resources on the front lines, dispatch centers, and command locations lack a shared and real-time understanding of conditions.

This session will present Zoom’s research on how cloud-based video-enabled collaboration can support your existing and future deployments of drone video, body cameras, fixed and mobile camera and sensor systems, audio sensors, public safety radio communications - and more.

This presentation will explore multiple innovation initiatives occurring within the DOJ and its Component Agencies to bring new technologies and techniques to ensure mission effectiveness and achieve efficiencies. Data management efforts in the DOJ will also be briefly examined.