When: Tuesday October, 12 – Thursday October, 14
Where: Virtually on SignalWire Events – Register now at no charge!
IIT Real Time Communications Conference
Welcome to 2021, and the potential end of “The Great Pandemic” – we hope. While the world struggled through a period of forced innovation and connectivity, thoughts and ideas that once seemed impossible, became reality. Few other industries saw such dramatic change as did public safety. The reason? No matter how dangerous conditions were, citizens still needed help when they were hurt; accidental fires still raged in homes and forests; hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and natural disasters did not take a vacation. Emergency services operations were forced to continue in an environment that was as alien to them as anything they had ever experienced.
IT innovators and engineers were challenged to “MAKE IT HAPPEN”. Overnight, untested theories, and unproven concepts were thrust into production, albeit still with caution. And, while caution was not thrown to the wind, it was balanced against the dangers present in current systems as decisions were being made. The effort was to use new and emerging technologies to directly benefit Public Safety. Under this pressure, innovative ideas were given the opportunity to mature, and be fine-tuned as operational challenges were met head-on, and in most cases overcome.
The Next Generation Emergency Services Track will highlight, not just the technologies, but their innovative utilization and use cases specific to the Public Safety sector. In addition to developers and engineers, this track will include IT administrators, addressing the means by which they achieved workflow and operational stability. Our speakers will describe how they implemented unfamiliar technologies, and the levels of trust in these new technologies that was required and generated during this difficult year.
Join us as this track continues to highlight the intersection of public safety and new technologies and the challenges presented as make these technologies operational. Next Generation emergency services is no longer a future technology. It is here and thriving in both the public and private sectors.
Track Highlights
- CalOES Self Assessment of a Statewide NG911 Deployment – The Good, the Bad, and the Lessons Learned – Mark Fletcher, 911Inform, LLC; Budge Currier, California Governors Office of Emergency Services; Laurie Flaherty, US Department of Transportation (DOT); Brooks Shannon, RapidDeploy – Track Keynote
- Fulfilling the Promise of i3: A Vision for i4 and the ECC – Billl Mertka, Synergem Technologies
- End-to-end NG911 – Scenario testing: Across the country and across the Atlantic – Carol Davids, IIT; Brooks Shannon, RapidDeploy; Joseph Cusimano, IIT; Bonny Angell, T-Mobile; Jeanna Green, T-Mobile; Wolfgang Kampichler, Frequentis AG
- Don’t Be Left in the Dark: Keeping 911 Going with Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery and Resiliency – Brooks Shannon, RapidDeploy
- The real world of NG 9-1-1 from three different interconnected perspectives – Mark Fletcher, 911Inform, LLC; Elisabeth English, EE and Associates, LLC; Martha Buyer, Law Offices of Martha Buyer, PLLC; Roberta Fox, FOX GROUP Technology
About the Conference
The IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.
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