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Monday, February 16

7:30am-8:30am Registration  
8:30am - 9:45am Unique Governance Models for Public Safety Communications Systems Steve Proctor, Utah Comm Agency Network
10:00am - 11:00am

Update on 700 MHz, E9-1-1 Accuracy and Other Major Policy Issues

 Robert Gurss, APCO International; Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth
11:15am - 12:15pm 800MHz Rebanding - Learning From Those that Went Before Panel Presentation with Alan Tilles, Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch  
1:30pm - 2:30pm

The VHF/UHF Narrowbanding:  It Is Closer Than You Think

 Farokh Latif, APCO International
2:45pm - 3:45pm Project 25 Competition & Trends Joe Ross, Televate, LLC
4:00pm - 5:00pm Deployment of Large-Scale Radio Networks Jack Hart, Tusa Consulting Services
5:30pm - 7:30pm Welcome Networking Reception  

Tuesday, February 17

7:30am - 8:30am

Registration

  
8:30am - 9:45am KEYNOTE:
INSIDE TECHNOLOGY'S 'BLACK BOX':
Pre-adapting the Organization to What Comes After What Comes Next		 Thornton May, IT Leadership Academy*
10:00am - 11:00am Next Generation 9-1-1, A “State of the States” Overview Bob Currier, Intrado, Inc.
10:00am - 5:00pm Tech for Execs  
11:15am - 12:15pm Next Gen 9-1-1 Without the Acronyms Sam Bard, microDATA
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch  
1:30pm - 2:30pm On the Path to Next Gen - Implementation Studies Paul McLaren, Positron
2:45pm - 3:45pm Text Messaging: The "Killer App" for NG9-1-1  
4:00pm - 5:00pm APCO/NENA Project: The IP Capable PSAP Joe Gallelli, Gallelli Group, Inc.

Wednesday, February 18

7:30am - 8:00am Registration  
8:00am - 9:45am Web 2.0 Putting the Internet to Work in the Comm Center Brian Humphrey, Los Angeles Fire Department
9:45am - 11:15am

Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Emergency Communications

Charles Hoffman, FEMA, DEC
11:30am - 1:00pm APCO-NENA Joint Luncheon Joe Dittmar, WTC Suvivor/Always Remember Initiative

*Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, February 17



Thornton May
Executive Director and Dean at the IT Leadership Academy


INSIDE TECHNOLOGY'S 'BLACK BOX':
Pre-adapting the Organization to What Comes After What Comes Next

Al Toffler [futurist and author of Future Shock] believes, the future arrives at the wrong time, in the wrong order and no straight-line extrapolation is ever accurate.  Clayton Christensen [Harvard professor] suggests, "Stop trying to predict the trajectories of disruptive technologies because predictions just won't work."  If we can't extrapolate and we can't predict, what options remain open to future-focused Public Safety Communication Officials?
Very few organizations have shown themselves proficient at prospicience -the act of looking forward. Few have mastered the art of extracting full-value from the technology they have purchased.  And only a micro-minority have been successful at applying the technology loofa to exfoliate legacy systems which have outlived their usefulness.  This session will showcase best practices associated with managing the 'what comes next portion of the technology life cycle.'