Special event: Mobile Technologies in Emergency Response
- September 11, 2012 · 6:30 PM
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In the 11 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, technology has transformed the emergency response sector in numerous ways. Understandably, the majority of technology investments have been in prevention. However, it is not possible to prevent all emergencies and there is a growing need to enhance response operations.
Over the past five years, mobile devices have exploded in popularity and can now serve as a new, incredibly useful tool for emergency response but a technical strategy has not been fully addressed by Silicon Valley's engineering minds. While there may be many reasons for this, a key hurdle is domain knowledge.
This Meetup is designed to instigate a dialog among domain experts, investors, entrepreneurs, and engineers. We will attempt to demystify some of the domain and provide a networking opportunity for various experts to meet and learn from each other. We hope this will lead to creation of teams that build systems to exploit mobile devices in order to significantly transform selective aspects of emergency response operations.
Agenda:
6:30 – 7:00 Networking
7:00 – 8:30 Panel discussion and Q&A.
8:30 – 8:45 Cofounder pitches. One or two minutes each.
Panelists:
1. Chief Susan Manheimer, San Mateo Police. Chief Manheimer also was the President of the California Police Chiefs’ Association and is a Governor’s appointee to the State Advisory Group for Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Crime Prevention. She is on the Board of Fight Crime Invest in Kids California, the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center, and the University of San Francisco Law Enforcement Leadership Institute.
2. Dr. Eric Wang. Dr. Wang is a former surgeon turned radiologist who has worked in multiple level 1 trauma centers including Seattle's Harborview Medical Center which covers 20% of the US land mass and Miami's Jackson Memorial, a hospital where the US and Israeli military train for mass casualties. He is active in the healthcare startup community and serves as a medical expert for Medhelp, Healthtap, and ChickRx.
3. Susanne Jul combines a professional a career in software engineering, usability design and requirements analysis with a research career in human-computer interaction and technology for disaster management. She was a National Research Council Fellow at the Pacific Disaster Center, is past Vice-President of ISCRAM (the International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management), and is a volunteer with American Red Cross Disaster Services. Her interests lie in methods for preparing individuals and organizations to assume leadership unexpectedly in unfamiliar situations, integrating sustainable management practices with creative problem-solving and decision-making. Susanne holds a PhD in Computer Science and a BA in Theatre Arts, and is President and CEO of Amaryllis Consulting, specializing in user experience design. management, and group facilitation.
4. Justin Dombrowski is a community driven emergency management expert who has served as a volunteer to paid professional for over 20 years with experience working on major disasters and fires across the country including initial response to 9/11 WTC in NY to hundreds of smaller emergencies. Justin has served as an Incident Commander, Information Officer and Operations Section Chief among other positions including as a first responder and ground pounder. He started as a volunteer firefighter and continues to volunteer in his community to help his neighbors with emergency readiness and response.
5. Jaime Sedano is a Communications Specialist with Menlo Park Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Task Force 3 (CA-TF3) and is responsible for providing and supporting secure LMR communications for the 220 member team. When deployed Comm Specialists setup a portable LMR system to communicate with various groups such as rescue specialists, ER physicians, structural engineers, heavy equipment specialists, canine search dogs and handlers, hazardous materials technicians, and logistics specialists. The team also provides interoperability in order to communicate with any of the other 28 teams across the nation. CA-TF3 operates under the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Menlo Park Fire District is the sponsoring agency and has the responsibility of managing the team to make sure it is able to respond to any incident when requested to by FEMA/DHS. CA-TF3 is a specially trained and equipped Urban Search and Rescue Task Force consisting of 18 participating agencies and 60 civilians. This unique technical rescue team responds with 70,000 pounds of prepackaged search and rescue tools and medical equipment to conduct around the clock search and rescue operations at domestic and international disasters, both natural and man-made.
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A former member
It was quite interesting finding out how the police force and other emergency responders use technology, and what limits they encounter with technology as well.
September 25
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D. Marc Capobianco
Glad to have had the opportunity to present ResCue. our suite of mobile apps/desktop clients for emergency & non-emergency medical admissions. Please view our online demo at http://www.rescuetag.co/video.h...
. For further inquiries, feel free to reach me at [masked].September 12
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Omar Nawaz
The sessions did not start on time. i have to leave at 8:20.
Would have liked to see more structured discussion.September 11
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Ernest Semerda
Very informative! Great panel group. Good to see there are plenty of opportunities to make a difference and help save lives.
September 11
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KB
Red Cross: Mobile apps for emergencies gain in popularity
http://mobihealthnews.com/18402...September 11
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Bill Cui
Our successful medical app, iPharmacy, is approaching 2M downloads. iPharmacy is among the ”20 Ways To Use Your Smartphone” by Officer.com, a premium site for US law enforcement officers. Check out at medconnections.com.
September 2
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Mike Prince
I have a mobile app, detailed at http://www.citizen911.com
and can give a short demo if anyone is interested. This app is currently in use in Los Altos Hills and spinning up in Mountain View and Palo Alto.August 31
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thomas
hi my name is tom and just joined i am a WTC worker that got sick from the site iv'e been thriugh alot and would like to talk about my feelings and get the bugs out . need to have some other support other then Clinical.
August 17
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Bob
@Chun Xia... Thanks for the offer to help. I think that would be great. Please contact me via email - bob at quimba dot com, or call my cell [masked] and we can discuss.
August 11
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Bob
@bfsingh - thanks for the note and offer to help. I will likely take you up on that. We don't have a venue yet since we need to wait and see how the sign-ups track. Will keep everyone posted, of course.
In the meantime, any help getting the word out for this meeting would be greatly appreciated.
Bob
July 19
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B Singh
Hi Bob,
I know Chief Manheimer and she is a very good speaker. My close friend is her admin. If you need help with this event, please call or email ([masked]) What city were you thinking about having the event?July 15
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Bob
Let me know if you want to see a particular individual or product and I will try to include them in the program.
Bob
July 5
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