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Best Practices, Technology Drive Secured Cities Private sector and public safety unite for real world solutions in Houston

Coordinating efforts among public and private

municipal stakeholders allows for a cohesive

security and risk mitigation plan. That is the

mantra of Secured Cities, the only con-

tent-driven national conference providing an interactive

forum for public safety, law enforcement and manage-

ment-level security personnel – both public and private

– to address trending topics relevant to securing munic-

ipal, educational, healthcare and transportation sectors.

Funding and rapid technology advancement are two

issues both public safety and security personnel are

challenged with when it comes to today’s strategic

planning. As public and private partnerships emerge

across the country, having a venue where law enforce-

ment, emergency management, security and govern-

ment officials can meet in a collaborative environment

is essential. Secured Cities is that venue.

Whether you are accountable for understanding and

implementing government funding and grant initiatives,

emerging technologies, security and emergency man-

agement policy and operations, best practices and peer-

led applications, Secured Cities provides the educational

and networking opportunities to help you establish the

programs and build the relationships to address today’s

security and emergency management challenges.

Secured Cities 2015 will be held November 10-12, in

Houston, TX, at the Reliant Crowne Plaza Hotel. The

one-of-a-kind event showcases the wireless capabilities

of our nation’s cities and suburbs, featuring three-days

of classroom sessions/panel discussions, a two-day

sponsors’ hall featuring the latest in new products and

technologies, and several interactive venue security

tours including, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Texas

Medical Center, The Port of Houston, Reliant Stadium

complex, and the City of Houston’s Office of Emergen-

cy Management Operations Center (note: subject to

change). For more information and a complete list of

classes, please visit www.securedcities.com.

Also, Security Technology Executive magazine, in co-

ordination with Secured Cities, are again honoring the

most innovative integrated deployments the security

industry has to offer. For the 9th consecutive year,

security, risk, emergency management and law enforce-

ment professionals, along with systems integrators and

PE firms are invited to showcase their unique projects.

When you submit your collaborative project in the high-

ly competitive Security Innovation Awards program,

you will receive some well-deserved recognition at the

Secured Cities Awards Luncheon at the hotel on No-

vember 12, 2015. Information on submission require-

ment s can be seen by clicking under the Innovation

Awards menu on the Secured Cities web site.

Don’t miss your opportunity to join your peers from

the public and private sectors charged with keeping

their cities, campuses and infrastructure safe in today’s

24/7 world of threats. Make your city a Secured City.

Steve Lasky, Conference Director for Secured Cities

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Secured Cities ConferenceAdmission to all pre-conference and conference sessions. Includes exhibit-hall admission

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Secured Cities Conference & Security Innovation AwardsAdmission to all pre-conference and conference sessions, Innovation Awards Luncheon and Awards presentation. Also includes exhibit-hall admission.

$259 $289

Security Innovation Awards Luncheon Admission to Security Innovation Awards Luncheon and Awards presentation

$199 $235

Secured Cities Exhibit HallIncludes exhibit-hall admission and all show floor product demonstrations

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CONFERENCE/EXHIBIT HALL

Tuesday, November 1011:00 AM - 5:00 PM / Registration

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM / Sessions• Handling Lock-Downs and Active Shooter Threats in School/University Environment• Investigating Use of Force Incidents in a Healthcare Setting• Mass Transit and Campus Security: Mobile Screening Comes of Age • Real-time Video for Crowd Sourced Crime Prevention

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM / Sessions• Making the Grade: Successful Use of Mid-Service, Unarmed Response in a School

Setting • Public-Private Partnership to Improve Community Security along the US-Mexican

Border • Secured Cities and Video Surveillance: How to Properly Apply this CPTED

Concept • University Campus Surveillance Design Best Practices: An Analysis of the University of

Texas – Pan American System

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM / Sessions• Connecting Campus/School Security with Law Enforcement • Healthcare Security and Resource Justification: Where Science Meets Art • Houston and Harris County Interagency Video Surveillance Collaboration • Real-time Cyber Analytics, Dashboards and Assessment Tools: City of Houston

Cybersecurity Best Practices

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM / Sessions• Extracting Value from Recorded Video • Minimize the Need for Armed Response: How Temple University Hospital Deploys an

Intermediate Response Solution • Public Assembly - Mega Events are Mega Targets: Houston Prepares for 2017 Super

Bowl • The City as Brownfield - A Case Study: How to Integrate New Security Investments with

Operational Implementations

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM / Tours

Wednesday, November 118:00 AM - 5:00 PM / Registration

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM / Opening Remarks/Keynote

10:00 AM - 1:30 PM / Exhibits Open

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM / Sessions• Roving DID Teams for Security and Contraband Interdiction• Security Sensitive Areas in Hospitals & Infrastructure Security Planning for Public

Health Emergencies• Current Events and Funding Fast Track Body Worn Cameras• The Need for Public Safety Data Lakes

Conference At-A-Glance More than 40 sessions to choose from!

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM / Sessions• Protecting a Changed Public- What is Different and How to Adapt• The Coming Impacts of Rapid Technology Change• The Whole Community Plan for a Biologic Disaster• Using CPTED to Enhance a Major Transit Corridor

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM / Sessions• A Case Study with City of Cincinnati PD: Maximizing Security Investments and Keeping

Citizens Safe• Cyber Threats to Law Enforcement: Is Your Department Prepared?• Emergency Management Coordination in Major Metropolitan Areas• Improving Campus Safety & Reducing Security Manpower Requirements

4:00 PM - 4:50 PM / Sessions• Gunshot Recognition Analytics: Delivering Actionable Information to Law Enforcement

and First Responders• Inside the Digital Sandbox: How Houston Public Safety Risk Analysis and Information

Sharing• Managing Risk at Texas Medical Center: From Technology to Operations• Understanding the Impact of Social Media on Security Operations

5:00 PM - 5:50 PM / Sessions• ASAP to PSAP: Streamlining the Alarm Co. to Police Reporting Process• Changing the Industry Dynamics Connecting & Safeguarding Communities Through

Public/Private Partnerships• Managing the Unmanageable: Evacuating a Major City during No-Notice Massive Event• Security and the Forensic Patient: Providing Care with Caution

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM / Reception

Thursday, November 127:30 AM - 1:00 PM / Registration

8:00 AM - 8:50 AM / Sessions• Is Our “Security” Tech Secure? • The 2015 West Virginia Prevention and School Resource Officer Program

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM / Sessions• Proactive Technology to Secure Hospital Campuses • Today’s Secure, Urban City: It Takes a Village

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM / Sessions• Increasing Security while Reducing Cost and Liability via Mobility Applications • Information Sharing and the National Economic Security Grid • Video Surveillance Infrastructure - Intro to Hyper-Convergence and Increased Mobility

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9:30 AM - 1:00 PM / Exhibits Open

12:50 PM - 2:30 PM / Exclusive Security Innovation Awards Luncheon

Steve Lasky

Program subject to change.

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TOURS TOURS

THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (OEM)Times and tour capacities to be announced.

Visit SecuredCitiees.com for updates.

Tour Description:

The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) assists the City of Houston in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. As the chief coordinating body for the City, OEM works year-round with City Departments, regional emergency management and public safety officials, elected officials, private and social sector organizations to develop a plan to lessen the impact of disasters on City residents. OEM Staff come from various backgrounds and specializations, and work together in the four areas of emergency management: preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation.

OEM is a division of the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety & Homeland Security.

Preparedness

OEM provides information to City residents and departments to develop plans to deal with the effects both natural and manmade hazards. This includes the publishing of the Disaster Prepared-

Houston Emergency Management operations center

Houston’s OEM command center

Houston TranStarTimes and tour capacities to be announced.


Tour Description:

Houston TranStar is a partnership of four government agencies that are responsible for providing transportation management and emergency management services to the Greater Houston Region. Established in 1993, TranStar provides management of the region’s transpor-tation system and has evolved into a primary resource from which multiple state, county and local agencies respond to incidents and emer-gencies in Harris County, Texas and elsewhere. The following agencies are currently part of the Houston TranStar partnership:

• Texas Department of Transportation

• Harris County, Texas

• Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas

• City of Houston

Emergency management

When emergency conditions arise such as hurri-canes, floods, industrial explosions or terrorist attacks, the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at Houston TranStar is activated. Repre-sentatives coordinate from all four collaborating agencies—as well as such diverse entities as the U.S. Army, Salvation Army, Harris County Toll Road Authority, amateur radio operator volunteers, the American Red Cross, and area local governments. The Automated Flood Warn-ing System, Doppler Radar Imagery, Satellite

Houston’s TranStar Control Center

Houston’s TranStar Control Center

All tours are subject to change. Visit SecuredCities.com for the latest Tour information.

HOUSTON TOUR SITES INFORMATIONSecured Cities 2015 will be hosting several on-site security tours of venues in the Houston area. All tours will be scheduled for

Tuesday, November 10. Tours will leave directly from the Reliant Crowne Plaza Hotel via bus. All tours are subject to change

and will be limited in attendance. Some venues may require vetting and will be first come, first served.

Weather Maps, Road Flood Warning Systems and the Regional Incident Management System (RIMS) comprise some of the tools used to address the emergency.

Transportation management

Monitoring traffic incidents with more than 800 regional closed circuit television cameras, staff at the TranStar center dispatch vehicles to remove debris or hazardous materials, commu-nicate with emergency vehicles about the most direct routes to an accident scene, and send tow trucks to stalled vehicles. More than 1,280 direction freeway miles are equipped with speed

sensors to monitor and broadcast real-time travel speeds on the Houston TranStar website. About 150 Dynamic Mes-sage Signs (DMS), deployed from Houston TranStar, inform travelers

about expected travel times and traffic issues ahead. Synchronized traffic signals, Highway Advisory Radio, ramp meters and other devices are also put to use with the goal of keeping the region’s traffic moving.

Innovation

Houston TranStar was the first center in the nation to combine Transportation and Emergen-cy Management centers, and the first to bring four agencies together under one roof. Houston TranStar’s web site, nationally and locally rec-ognized for the breadth of information it offers the general public, allows subscribers to receive personalized travel time updates and incident warnings, as well as providing up-to-the-minute traffic and weather information.

In 2010, Houston TranStar pioneered the use of traffic monitoring using Anonymous Wireless Address Matching (AWAM). AWAM currently uses anonymous addresses from Bluetooth™ network devices to identify probes and calculate travel times and speeds on instrumented road-way segments. This innovation allows Houston TranStar to provide travel updates to drivers during daily commutes as well as in emergency evacuation situations.

ness Guide, updating of HoustonOEM.org and performing work within the community that encourages emergency preparedness.

Response

The most visible work that OEM does is during an emergency As the chief coordinating body for City Departments, OEM works with various City, regional and State entities to respond to emergency situations. This includes bringing in supplies and equipment from neighboring

jurisdictions through mutual aid agreements, coordinating evac-uation response and management during catastroph-ic incidents, and providing recom-mendations to the Mayor on what actions should be taken to minimize the impact of a disaster.

Recovery

After impact, OEM coordinates a response to ensure that individuals have what they need to survive; this includes the setting up of Points of Distribution (PODs) to provide basic supplies to individuals in need. An assessment of physical damage is also performed, this information is provided to governmental entities such as the State of Texas and the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency (FEMA) to assist in acquring funding to help residents recover from cata-strophic incidences.

Mitigation

By developing programs that either minimize the impact of a disaster, or reduce the City’s vulner-ability to the disaster, lives and property can be saved. OEM participates in mitigation projects designed to do just that, including developing new flood control systems, and tools for the community to better understand the threats that could impact them.



NASA’s Johnson Space CenterTimes and tour capacities to be announced.


Tour Description:

For more than 50 years, NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston has led our nation and the world on a continuing adventure of human exploration, discovery and achievement. The center has played a vital role in powering our country into the 21st century through technological innovations and scientific discoveries.

The dedicated professionals who work at JSC have made advances in science, technology, engineering and medicine that enable us to explore our world and universe as never before, and to derive unparalleled benefits from that exploration.

The Johnson Space Center was established in 1961 as the Manned Spaceflight Center, the

TOURS TOURS

NRG Stadium

NRG StadiumTimes and tour capacities to be announced.


Tour Description:

NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, USA. NRG Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,054, a total area of 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) with a 97,000 sq ft (9,000 m2) playing surface. NRG Stadium employs two different playing surfaces; a natural grass field is used for professional football games while an artificial surface, AstroTurf GameDay Grass, is used for college and high school games. Both surfaces are laid out on interlocking trays.

The stadium is the home of the National Football League’s Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, host to many international soccer matches for the USA National Soccer Team, and other events. The stadium served as the host facility for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004 and WrestleMania XXV on April 5, 2009.

NRG Stadium is part of a collection of venues (includ-ing the Astrodome), which are collectively called NRG Park. The entire complex is named for NRG Energy under a 32-year, $300 million naming rights deal in 2000.

The stadium was constructed at the cost of $352 million. NRG Stadium is the first facility in the NFL to have a retractable roof. NRG Stadium will host Super Bowl LI in 2017.

The stadium was designed by the architectural firms of Hermes Reed Architects and Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam who were teamed to create the Houston Stadium Consultants (HSC). The architects of Populous (then HOK Sport) and the HSC worked together with engineers from Walter P Moore and Uni-Systems to design the stadium utilizing the principles of kinet-ic architecture. The facility offers a sense of transparency, with its fabric roof and expansive

Houston NASA Space Center

Houston MCC space shuttle flight control room

areas of glazing. At night, the building appears to glow from within. The extensive use of glass provides an open-air feel to the concourses, which are open to the field of play. NRG Stadium has over 7,000 club seats, 186 luxury suites, and multiple lounges and bars. The stadium can be configured to utilize a 125,000-square-foot space for meetings, specialty functions, exhibits, and concerts.

One of the most notable aspects of the design is the stadium’s retractable, fabric roof. The roof mechanization consists of two large panels that split apart at the 50 yard line, lying over and

above each end zone when fully retracted. Ten parallel, tri-chord trusses ride on two parallel rails, each supported by a large, 675 feet -long super-truss. Roof operation is controlled in the stadium press box via computer, containing live images of the travel path of each roof panel; plus, furnishing live feedback from all roof components throughout the operation. The roof panels can be opened or closed in as little as 7 minutes, moving at a speed of up to 35 feet- per-minute.

home and Mission Control Center for the U.S. human space flight program. In 1973, it was re-named in honor of the late President, and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Johnson Center’s $1.5 billion complex occupies 1,620 acres southeast of downtown Houston, in the Clear Lake area.

In its early days, the center led the Gemini,

Apollo, and Skylab projects. JSC presently serves as the home of mission control, NASA’s lead for International Space Station operations and missions, home to the Orion Multi-purpose crew vehicle, and numerous advanced human explora-tion projects. The center also plays an important role in NASA’s Commercial Crew programs.

All tours are subject to change. Visit SecuredCities.com for the latest Tour information.



Secured Cities and Video Surveillance: How to Properly Apply this CPTED ConceptTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Technology SolutionsRandy Atlas, President, Atlas Safety & Security Design Inc.

This session gives an overview of Crime Preven-tion Through Environmental Design (CPTED), for which one of the three basic concepts is surveillance, the others being access control and territoriality. Within these concepts there are three approaches: mechanical organizational and natural. This session puts in perspective the proper application of mechanical, organizational (guards, police officers, capable guardians), surveillance so that the Secured Cities Approach can survive, thrive, and prosper. Case studies will be given of cities using camera systems and what are the areas needed for improvement and refinement.

University Campus Surveillance Design Best Practices: An Analysis of the University of Texas – Pan American SystemTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Technology SolutionsJasper Bruinzeel, Vice President, Wi4Net, CelPlan Technologies, Inc.Carlos Rodriguez, Manager Public Safety Systems, University of Texas – Pan American

In 2013, with deployment in 2014, the Univer-sity of Texas – Pan American (UTPA) started an effort to modernize its surveillance system. At that time, it had a mix of old analog systems, and a central IP-based system that was propri-etary in nature, expensive to expand, and outdat-ed from a technology perspective. It selected an open-architecture, best-of-breed approach with a large wireless component, and created a single, scalable solution to cover its existing cameras, and add a campus-wide, wireless high-megapixel camera system (5MP) to cover its parking lots and outdoor areas. The system currently manag-es hundreds of cameras campus-wide, aggregat-ed into a single, scalable, future-proof solution. This session reviews the UTPA case study, as well as campus-wide system design best practices in general.

Connecting Campus/School Security with Law EnforcementTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Secured CampusColin Gallagher, Director of Safety and Security, Wichita Area Technical College

Today, with an increase of school attacks and increased responsibilities and pressures on law enforcement agencies, there is an even greater need to partner for assistance in the time of a scare or disaster. Unfortunately, there have been a number of past failures in cooperation between campus/school security and law enforcement. In this session, you’ll learn about what has his-torically separated the efforts of campus/school security teams and law enforcement agencies, and you’ll also learn tactics for overcoming these barriers. Some issues addressed in this presen-tation will include: the history of security-law enforcement relationships, differences in re-sponsibilities and roles, communication, training, expectations, and creation of mutual respect. Together as a group we will address current campus threats and explore how adaptive leadership, organization, cooperation (resource pooling), communication and training can make us all more effective.

Healthcare Security and Resource Justification: Where Science Meets ArtTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Management/OperationsBryan Warren, Director Corporate Security, Carolinas Healthcare System

This presentation will offer methods for exam-ining the current security culture of an organi-zation and demonstrate methods for translating personnel, equipment and capital resource needs into applicable key performance indicators, metrics and other language which can be better understood and accepted by Administrators. It will also give examples of how to utilize existing regulatory standards and industry best practices to your advantage when seeking funding sources and validation for such security related requests for additional resources.

Houston and Harris County Interagency Video Surveillance CollaborationTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Technology SolutionsJulie Stroup, City of Houston

Since 2006, the City of Houston has been devel-oping a Public Safety Video System to improve situational awareness of public venues, critical assets, transportation and commerce corridors, and public safety areas of interest. With a focus on cameras in public spaces and video sharing through partnerships, they have created a capa-bility to collaborate for incident management and response between qualified public safety person-nel from major regional stakeholder agencies and private sector venue security organizations. To date the City has implemented over 675 cameras in the region as well as gaining access to over 500 more through partnerships with key stake-holders. This session will provide an overview of how they went out implanting the system, lessons learned, and considerations for others seeking to leverage this technology. Additionally, a panel session following the presentation will provide access to functional management and users of the system who can address questions regarding how they are operationalizing this technology.

Real-time Cyber Analytics, Dashboards and Assessment Tools: City of Houston Cybersecurity Best PracticesTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Best PracticesDavid LaPlante, Chief Information Security Officer, City of HoustonJonathan Wiggins, Regional Planner, City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Public Safety

This panel will provide insight into how the City of Houston works with various government and Public Safety agencies to provide Cybersecurity and risk analysis. Discussions will focus on the Cybersecurity Control Implementation Interface (CCII), and the Cyber Disruption Readiness Assessment Tool (CDRAT). The CCII is a web based application/collection of tools that provides access to the policy and procedure boilerplates, interactive utilities, FAQ’s, a step-by-step road

CONFERENCES: TUESDAYTuesday ConferenceHandling Lock-Downs and Active Shooter Threats in School/University EnvironmentTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 12:00PM - 12:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured CampusColin Gallagher, Director of Safety and Security, Wichita Area Technical College

This is probably the hardest thing to address – each College/University is unique. When an active shooter or terroristic event occurs there are some basic actions that should be taken to mini-mize collateral and personal damage and injuries. This class is a broad look at the basics of school shootings and how best to initiate a lock-down on a limited budget. There are some necessities each college will need to consider obtaining to better protect and prevent this type of incident.

Investigating Use of Force Incidents in a Healthcare SettingTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 12:00PM - 12:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsRalph Cummings, Investigator/Trainer, Carolinas HealthCare System

A use of force incident in healthcare setting by security is unfortunately a common occurrence. This session will provide even the most experi-enced security investigator the tools on how to investigate these events. Learn how healthcare regulations impact these investigations and how to collect evidence from the newest technology.

Mass Transit and Campus Security: Mobile Screening Comes of AgeTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 12:00PM - 12:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Best PracticesChris Weber, HaxMat Tech/SME, Boulder County HazMAtDean DeMark, Hazmat Spec, Cumberland Road Fire, Fayetteville, NC

X-ray equipment and chemical identification stations are expensive to acquire and are bulky - witness airport access points. Mobile x-ray vehicles coupled with fast, portable, battery

powered IMS explosives and drug detection can provide the solution for systems - such as events, schools and mass transit - where package and people screening are desired, yet multiple fixed checkpoints cannot currently be fiscally justified. Mobile checkpoints can be established quickly and unpredictably based upon intelligence reports and dynamic events within the system.

Real-time Video for Crowd Sourced Crime PreventionTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 12:00PM - 12:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Technology SolutionsRomulus Pereira, CEO and Founder, Vidcie

Learn how crowd sourced, metadata-enhanced live video can deliver improved situational aware-ness, forensic evidence and citizen engagement in public safety scenarios. In this informative session, Romulus Pereira, CEO and Founder of Vidcie will discuss the benefits and tactics of leveraging the ubiquitous mobile phone as a real-time broadcast endpoint. Examples of this include modifying existing mobile-phone based community apps to act as real-time video streaming cameras which transmit video, audio and metadata to a secure central server, ready to be viewed by public safety officials and emergen-cy response teams.

Making the Grade: Successful Use of Mid-Service, Unarmed Response in a School SettingTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured CampusRichard Palomo, Chief of Police, Laredo Independent School DistrictSchool districts face security challenges that were unheard of in the not too distant past. With the variety of challenges being seen, school security personnel need options beyond armed and unarmed response to address them. Laredo Independent School District (LISD), a 33-campus, 25,000 student school district, will discuss how the implementation of a mid-service security response solution has delivered flexibility in meeting the district’s security needs. LISD will share how this mid-service solution has allowed security personnel to address secu-rity incidents at a higher level than could be

provided by unarmed response but with-out the need for armed response service, delivering critical protection for students, faculty, staff and officers. They will also discuss how they sourced their mid-service response equipment working with a leading security solution provider, trained officers and will offer case study examples of suc-cessful use of the solution.

Public-Private Partnership to Improve Community Security along the US-Mexican BorderTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsBen Butchko, Butchko Inc.

What are the most pressing issues facing com-munities, landowners and businesses along the US-Mexican border? Perspectives of the issues for various stakeholders will be presented along with a discussion of Public-Private partnerships that increase collaboration and security in a sus-tainable manner. This panel will discuss the key factors and solutions for success and achieving broad participation. An example program that allows small to medium-sized cities to band together to improve conditions and reduce indi-vidual investment will be presented in a manner to facilitate interaction between the panel and the audience. This panel will attempt to resolve security risk issues by cutting through layers of complexity leveraging the use of advanced information technology. Data that is collected and information that is shared on a trust-based agreement between industry, landowners and law enforcement in conjunction with the Border Security Operations Center (BSOC), Joint Operations and Intelligence Center (JOIC) and Operation Border Star. This program provides a unique suite of services including: security incident reporting, predictive threat and security trend analysis, law enforcement trend and threat analysis, security alerts, incident reporting and feedback, and access to member-commissioned security operation assessment results, with the goal of increasing the effectiveness of all partici-pating parties.

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Wednesday ConferenceRoving DID Teams for Security and Contraband Interdiction

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Technology SolutionsChris Weber, HaxMat Tech/SME, Boulder County HazMAtDean DeMark, Hazmat Spec, Cumberland Road Fire, Fayetteville, NC

Layered protection at events, in mass transit operations, and at schools and universities is vital for venue protection and contraband interdiction. Extremely mobile and agile roving security teams with the ability to assess and analyze suspicious people and packages are a powerful and unpre-dictable deterrent. New lightweight and accurate detection and identification technology make roving interdiction teams possible and practical.

Security Sensitive Areas in Hospitals & Infrastructure Security Planning for Public Health Emergencies

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured HealthcareBryan Warren, Director Corporate Security, Carolinas Healthcare System

In hospitals there are security sensitive areas that require additional planning and countermea-sures to provide a constant state of readiness to keep the entire facility functional during patient surge events. While hospitals do not typically present a primary target for terrorism or criminal action, they are excellent secondary “soft” targets. Regardless of the cause, any incident resulting in injuries (be it man made or naturally occurring) will require local hospitals and healthcare providers to become involved. As such, these facilities are Critical Infrastructures/ Key Resources for the regions which they serve and require specialized planning for patient surge events. If proper planning and consideration is not given to security /traffic control issues, such events can drastically impact a healthcare facility, disrupting its ability to provide medical care for the community.

Current Events and Funding Fast Track Body Worn Cameras

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Lynn Mattice, CEO/President, Mattice & AssociatesSteve Ward, CEO, VieVu ProductsRick Smith, President & CEO, Taser InternationalSamuel Hood III, Lieutenant, Citiwatch, Baltimore Police DepartmentRepresentative from the City of Houston Police Department

Recent police shootings have made news and fueled the debate for the use of body-worn camera technology among law enforcement agen-cies around the country. Experts say that those departments implementing body-worn cameras over the past several years have seen a substantial reduction in the use of officer force, along with a reduced number of citizen complaints against of-ficers. In fact, the Department of Justice recently announced the establishment of a $20 million Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Pilot Partnership Program to respond the immediate needs of local and tribal law enforcement agencies. Included in the investment program are $17 million in com-petitive grants for purchasing body-worn camer-as, another $2 million for training and technical assistance and $1 million for the development of metric and evaluation tools to create a baseline of best practices. In a memorandum released by the DOJ, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says, “This body-worn camera pilot program is a vital part of the Justice Department’s comprehensive efforts to equip law enforcement agencies throughout the country with the tools, support, and training they need to tackle the 21st century challenges we face. Body-worn cameras hold tremendous promise for enhancing transparency, promoting accountability, and advancing public safety for law enforcement officers and the communities they serve.” Join us for what promises to be a highly interactive panel discussion related to the imple-mentation, polices and best practices, funding resources and community outreach surrounding body-worn camera technology. Join moderator Lynn Mattice, former Chief Security Officer at Boston Scientific and Director of Corporate Secu-rity at both Whirlpool and Northrup Grumman, and now a leading security consultant, as he asks the hard questions to our panel of technology experts from VieVu and Taser, along with several law enforcement veterans.

The Need for Public Safety Data Lakes

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 1:00PM - 1:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Best PracticesKen Mills, Sr. Manager Global Business Development, EMC²

Public safety applications are exploding. Cameras are being deployed everywhere and at higher resolutions than ever before. Retention times are increasing. The Internet of Things can now add real value in Public Safety. Applications like Body Cameras, Drones, License Plate Recognition, and others are requiring that we look at Public Safety differently. It is no longer acceptable to have silos across applications. Today’s Public Safety operators need an enterprise approach to address their needs. In this session we will present the concept of what a Public Safety Data Lake is. We discuss best practices on how to deploy a Public Safety Data Lake. The panel will also discuss the challenges in moving to a Data Lake approach and how to overcome these challenges.

Protecting a Changed Public- What is Different and How to Adapt

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Best PracticesBonnie Butlin, Co-Founder, Security Partners’ Forum

The relationship between populations and the state is shifting significantly. Some of the factors driving how cities will be secured include: more reactive civilian responses to domestic attacks, adjusting to state cyber surveillance, a grow-ing wealth gap, human migration patterns, a changing legal landscape, and a new international geopolitical balance.

CONFERENCES: WEDNESDAYmap and event best practices for the implemen-tation of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. This is a scalable “stand alone” tool that gives regional partners the ability to measure their own cyber risk posture and offers a road map on what sections of the framework to carve out for processes based on their risk score. The CDRAT is designed to help organizations recognize areas where sufficient capabilities exist to respond to a cyber-disruption incident and provides informa-tion to feed a planning effort to improve capa-bilities in less developed areas. As a final output, the tool generates a report of to-do items that organizations can use to follow up on capabilities needing more attention. Multiple facilities can be entered into the tool and managed from the homepage. Revisions can be made to existing assessments, and new reports can be generated at any time to provide organizations the ability to run the assessment, improve the capability, revise their entry, and recreate the report for the next planning cycle.

Extracting Value from Recorded VideoTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Secured TransitAmit Gavish, General Manager - Americas, BriefCam, Inc.Bob Grado

An end user from Rapid Transit Denver (RTD) will present RTD as a case study related to increasing the value of their video surveillance operations. Using BriefCam for rapid video review and analysis indexes, the solution recalls and displays events in a condensed format with-out losing events and without changing original evidence. Users search video by parameters: color, direction, size, speed, similarity, area-of-in-terest, path, dwell time, and more. BriefCam’s next-generation tracking engine transforms raw video data into usable information provides in-sight into metadata, making it usable for a range of purposes - security and non-security - and extracting added value from surveillance video.

Minimize the Need for Armed Response: How Temple University Hospital Deploys an Intermediate Response SolutionTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured HealthcareDavid Kisela, Former Security Director, Temple University Hospital

As more and more hospitals seek solutions to address increasingly diverse security needs, the consideration of a mid-service response option grows. Temple University Hospital (TUH), serving 45,000 patients annually, will share how deploying an intermediate security re-sponse solution has minimized or in some cases, eliminated the need for armed security response. TUH will discuss how they are providing a higher level of unarmed security response to protect staff, patients and visitors without compromising the overall security of this major metropolitan hospital. Attendees will learn how TUH evaluated available options, sourced non-lethal equipment and trained for its 40+ officers. TUH will discuss impacts this solution has made on overall hos-pital security, how they worked with a leading security solution provider to identify this mid-point level of service and partnered with them to successfully deploy the solution.

Public Assembly - Mega Events are Mega Targets: Houston Prepares for 2017 Super BowlTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Management/OperationsSamuel Hood III, Lieutenant, Citiwatch, Baltimore Police DepartmentRyan Boros, Security and Parking Manager, SMG-NRG ParkLeah Mastaglio, Assistant General Manager, SMG-NRG Park

When the Super Bowl heads to NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas 2017 the whole world will be watching. Rest Assured Houston will be prepared come 2017. In this panel session Public – Private Safety and Security officials will discuss their best practice of a Common Operational Picture to provide situational awareness capability for ef-fective decision making, rapid staff actions, and

appropriate mission execution. It is an integrated mission of responding to threats and hazards to the City by collecting, sharing and displaying multi-dimensional information that facilitates collaborative strategic planning, and responses to these threats either natural or manmade.

The City as Brownfield - A Case Study: How to Integrate New Security Investments with Operational ImplementationsTUESDAY, Nov. 10 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsMiki Calero, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), State of Ohio - Public Safety

AAs the number of safe cities initiatives continues to grow across the world, knowledge sharing of the critical how-to’s expands to the benefit of all. How to integrate new security investments with operational implementations? What IT infrastructure can be used to meet both physical and information security needs? How to prepare for what will prove itself an explosion of sensors with security applications in the city’s Internet of Things? A city’s assets make it the brownfield that makes all this possible. The key is recogniz-ing the opportunities. Join Miki Calero a security visionary and innovator, as he challenges you to see what you have in place to build on.

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Improving Campus Safety & Reducing Security Manpower Requirements

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured CampusEric A. Mardian, RSM, Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi)William Redding, Assistant Director of Security Technology and Card Services, University of Tulsa

This presentation will share Tulsa University’s experience in utilizing a comprehensive video an-alytics solution for improving campus safety and reducing security manpower requirements. With some 400 cameras on site, the solution enables the immediate detection and extraction of events and valuable data from the surveillance footage, and replaces the manual and time-consuming tasks of monitoring the live video feeds and sift-ing through recorded video during time-sensitive investigations.

Gunshot Recognition Analytics: Delivering Actionable Information to Law Enforcement and First Responders

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 4:00PM - 4:50PMROOM: San Jacinto 4TRACK: Technology SolutionsLloyd Uliana, Business Development Engineer, Bosch Security Systems, Inc.Samuel Hood III, Lieutenant, Citiwatch, Baltimore Police DepartmentSally Fernandez, President, Safety Dynamics, Inc.Mike Flannery, SecureXperts, Inc.Charles Butler, MPA, CPP, CEO, The Security Oracle

The April 2013 attack on a Pacific Gas and Energy substation in San Jose, CA exposed the vulnerability of the nation’s electric power grid to vandalism and disruption. Captured on surveil-lance video, snipers opened fire on the substation for more than 19 minutes. By the time police arrived, the adversaries were gone. In that time, they knocked out 17 transformers that supply power to Silicon Valley. Replicated across the country, incidents such as these could take down the U.S. grid and black out much of the country bringing the economic, social and political fabric

of the country to its knees. Predicting these events is impossible and we may not be able to prevent them, but current technology exists to minimize the damage. This session explores the use of gunshot recognition technology that immediately provides actionable intelligence to first responders so they may reduce the time a shooter has to act and minimize casualties.

Inside the Digital Sandbox: How Houston Public Safety Risk Analysis and Information Sharing

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 4:00PM - 4:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsJack Hanagriff, City of Houston Public Safety Office

In this panel, various Public Safety agencies from the City of Houston will discuss their Digital Sandbox solution. Digital Sandbox is a risk analysis and information sharing tool that supports all disciplines related to asset protection and response throughout the Houston-Galveston Region. By combining “on-board” analytical ca-pabilities with assessment data, users are able to obtain a risk posture of their jurisdiction to plan for and respond to various threats and hazards. The system supports multiple aspects of public safety related to response and recovery efforts by incorporating asset data with real time feeds from field personnel and media sources into a single dashboard for situational awareness of the incident and its cascading effects.

Managing Risk at Texas Medical Center: From Technology to Operations

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 4:00PM - 4:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured HealthcareCheyne Day, Director of Security Services, Texas Medical Center

The Texas Medical Center (TMC)—the larg-est medical complex in the world—is at the forefront of advancing life sciences. It receives more than 7 million visits a year, more than the populations of Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco combined, and has 106,000 employ-ees spread out across 21 hospitals, 13 support organizations, eight academic and research institutions, six nursing programs, three public health organizations, three medical schools, two universities, two pharmacy schools, and a

dental school. Providing security and emergency management direction for an organization of this size requires collaborative planning, strategic thinking and advanced technology. Learn how Cheyne Day, the Director of Security Services for TMC, leads his staff in its mission to mitigate risk and protect all those that work, come for care and service this huge healthcare city.

Understanding the Impact of Social Media on Security Operations

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 4:00PM - 4:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Management/OperationsSteve Surfaro, Security Industry Liaison, Axis CommunicationsDonald Zoufal, Safety and Security Executive, SDI (System Development Integration LLC)

Social media powers a myriad number of virtual communities in the discussion of a wide scope of topics. Those conversations have implications for a range of organizational functions including security operations. Understanding and reacting to those conversations can improve intelligence and provide security personnel with valuable information to assist in securing persons, prop-erty, and assets. This panel of security, technol-ogy, and legal experts will offer an interactive dialogue examining the growing suite of tools that help organizations understand the social media conversations occurring around. The panel will provide case studies of security successes through use of these social media monitoring tools. Discussion will also explore how to join use those tools consistent with privacy concerns and legal requirements.

CONFERENCES: WEDNESDAYCONFERENCES: WEDNESDAYThe Coming Impacts of Rapid Technology Change

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Technology SolutionsRay Bernard, President, RBCS, Inc.

Seven technology trends are ready to make your current roadmap for physical security technology obsolete, providing vastly greater capabilities that are more affordable than your current systems. Discover how to take rapidly changing technology into account to further advance your security program. Find out how to utilize the force multiplier effects that traditional security systems could not provide. Learn about the game-changing advances in real-time physical access control. Prepare yourself to achieve strong system security despite the growing interconnectedness of systems and the advent of cloud services.

The Whole Community Plan for a Biologic Disaster

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured HealthcareMitchell Moriber, Chairman, Catastrophic Guidelines and Triage CommitteeMike Beimer, Member, Catastrophic Guidelines and Triage CommitteeMike Elliot, Member, Catastrophic Guidelines and Triage CommitteeMichael Lambert, Member, Catastrophic Guidelines and Triage CommitteeMike Megna, Member, Catastrophic Guidelines and Triage Committee

Operating in an environment where mission crit-ical resources are in short supply or exhausted, a framework for integrating healthcare providers into regional catastrophic preparedness and response efforts will be developed based on les-sons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Preceding such a catastrophic mass casualty or terrorism incident, critical gaps will be identified, and a consortium of political jurisdictions, health-care coalitions, public/private sector agencies and businesses, will format the Whole Commu-nity Plan to sustain vital healthcare and societal functions.

Using CPTED to Enhance a Major Transit Corridor

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 2:00PM - 2:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Secured TransitRandy Atlas, President, Atlas Safety & Security Design Inc.

This session addresses the recent effort to upgrade the 3rd Avenue traffic corridor in Se-attle. CPTED and Defensible Space was used to enhance a coordinated effort to provide a func-tional and safe transit corridor for buses, trains, people and vehicles in a large urban center. The presentation will address the challenges of coordinating key agencies and persons to work together in goal setting and establishing planning priorities in the use of video surveillance, police intervention, challenges by homeless, challenges of legalized drug use and activity, and applica-tions of CPTED in choices for streetscaping, signage, and groundless. Learning objectives: Attendees will become familiar with the master planning process, the challenges of bureaucracy in consensus building; the attendees will see ex-amples of risk assessment and crime analysis to establish a base level for dealing with street level crime; attendees will see examples of CPTED application to improve surveillance access control and territoriality on an active existing traffic corridor in a large NW urban center.

A Case Study with City of Cincinnati PD: Maximizing Security Investments and Keeping Citizens Safe

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Technology SolutionsLen Kowalkowski, Regional Sales Manager, GenetecBarry Whitton, Computer Systems Analyst, Cincinnati Police Department

The Cincinnati Police Department serves to protect over 2.2 million people in the metropol-itan area. While police officers, coast guards and dispatchers all actively ensure community safety, it is not without ‘eyes on the street’. Learn how Cincinnati effectively responds to incidents and protects public privacy, while garnering commu-nity support.

Cyber Threats to Law Enforcement: Is Your Department Prepared?

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Management/OperationsLynn Mattice, CEO/President, Mattice Consulting

What would happen if your 911 Call Center was taken out by a Denial of Service attack? Is it possible for gangs or organized crime elements operating in your community to hire top notch hackers to tap into your computer system and intelligence data bases to monitor the investiga-tions you have under way involving them? Could criminal elements utilize hackers to identify con-fidential informants and in the case of criminal court proceedings identify and take out witness-es? How about tapping into your investigative files or labs and alter or eliminate evidence? These are but a few of the cyber related issues that can and will affect your department and community. They may already have and you may or may not even know it. Find out what you and your department can do to respond to attacks, mitigate their impact and prevent future attacks.

Emergency Management Coordination in Major Metropolitan Areas

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 3:00PM - 3:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsBen Butchko, Butchko Inc.Charles Andrews, MSME, CPP, CFE, CFCI, ICPS

This session will feature the use of technology to advance preparedness, response and recovery for normal and crisis events. Discussion will center on where we are today and what is a vision for significant operations improvement. We will focus on accessibility of reliable information and timely communication to empower the multiple resources brought to bear into a solution making positive impacts for immediate resolution and recovery. Addressing the politics of overlapping jurisdictions which influence buy-in and success will also be discussed. This panel will include participants from an emergency management, law enforcement, community support services and industry/business perspectives.


and to respond to dangerous school situations. We have included all extra-curricular and after school events with customized/tailored crisis plans for each individualized school. The PRO program places certified WV Police Officers who are also certified Prevention Resource Officers in local middle and high schools. The officers maintain an office in the school, are in that one school 35-40 hours per week, attend extra-curricular activities, facilitate classes on non-traditional educational topics such as juvenile law, domestic violence, underage drinking, drug and alcohol prevention, and child abuse and neglect. They work on safety issues, prevention, and learning more about youth and interacting with them. There is a difference between a PRO and a SRO. The difference is that the PRO program focuses on prevention, mentoring, and safety while most SRO programs focus on policing and security. Our PRO Program is unique to West Virginia and unlike other programs. We are where Education and Law Enforcement Meet. We are now including SRO’s in our state to be part of our overall prevention program.

Proactive Technology to Secure Hospital Campuses

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 9:00AM - 9:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured HealthcareJennifer Kang, Director of Marketing, DVTel, Inc.

The healthcare industry is expanding as hospital campuses expand to drive new levels of revenue growth in targeted areas. This often-rapid expansion places more stress on security teams as they are forced to cover more buildings and acreage with limited resources and budgets. IP-based surveillance provides security teams with comprehensive views of their infrastruc-ture and intuitive video management systems provide tools that allow teams to be more proactive. Intelligent analytics deliver campus security the ability to cross reference captured data with criminal databases. In addition, open platforms are simplifying integration. In this interactive panel discussion, learn how a major hospital is leveraging HD surveillance, open stan-dards-based video management solutions and, soon, intelligent analytics to keep its patients, staff and visitors safe.

CONFERENCES: THURSDAYToday’s Secure, Urban City: It Takes a Village

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 9:00AM - 9:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Best PracticesDouglas Smith, Senior Adviser, Strategic Alliances, Chesapeake Crescent InitiativeAdrian Szwarcburg, Principal, Head of Energy and Transportation Group, National Standard FinanceJan Petrenko, Principal, Head of Energy and Transportation Group, Verint

In September 2014, the Chesapeake Crescent Initiative (CCI), a public-private collaborative, spearheaded the development of a “Safe + Smart Cities” coalition to help cities optimize operational performance and harden resiliency through the efficient use of technology. In this educational session, learn how CCI assembled a group of world-class experts from various stakeholders including technology partners, academic leaders, government agencies, non-governmental organi-zations (NGOs), law enforcement, and the finan-cial sector to provide expertise and recommenda-tions to selected municipalities in the mid-Atlantic region of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Speakers will discuss how they helped build a strong vision of security and safety for urban communities while maintaining a focus on economic growth and quality of life for area residents. They will also share recommen-dations for how other localities can build similar models and initiatives in their regions.

Increasing Security while Reducing Cost and Liability via Mobility Applications

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 10:00AM - 10:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsBrian Simons, Vice President, Firetide

The demand for mobility continues to climb. The ability to send HD quality video along with other mission critical data to and from police cars, emergency service vehicles and public or private transportation is seen as key factor in both ensur-ing safety but also reducing financial liability. In response to demands for enhanced passenger ex-periences, greater mobility management, improved safety and heightened operational efficiencies, the number of smart vehicles has increased rapidly. Smart vehicles such as municipal and private bus-es, school buses and police cars are equipped with

ASAP to PSAP: Streamlining the Alarm Co. to Police Reporting Process

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 5:00PM - 5:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Technology SolutionsRon Lander, Chief Specialists, Ultrasafe Security SpecialistsBill Hobgood, Project Manager, City of Richmond, VAChris Vinson, Chief, Town of Highland Park, TX, Dept. of Public Safety

This presentation will focus on how commu-nities can implement ASAP to lower response times dramatically. A demonstration of how ASAP works for Police will be presented. ASAP provides a secure portal between alarm central stations and police dispatchers (PSAP) to help expedite the process of advising the police of a robbery, burglary or medical alarm. The audience will also hear how a new Server is streamlining the connectivity of hundreds of alarm monitor-ing companies and offering the opportunity for additional PSAP participation. ASAP phase II will offer video confirmation to facilitate priority responses to confirmed crimes-in-progress. This is planned to be a panel demo/discussion.

Changing the Industry Dynamics Connecting & Safeguarding Communities Through Public/Private Partnerships

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 5:00PM - 5:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 4Track: Management/OperationsMisty Stine, EVP BD, eX2 Technology LLCCraig Shrader, Shrader President / Managing Principal, Shrader Engineering Inc.Eric Robins, Assistant Chief of Police, City of Sugarland, TX, Magellan Advisors

How Communities and Public Agencies building or expanding intelligent communications and sur-veillance networks are looking for unique Public/Private Partnerships to help make their project a reality. Learn how to effectively market your assets and attract private partners to help fund your future programs.

Managing the Unmanageable: Evacuating a Major City during No-Notice Massive Event

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 5:00PM - 5:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 2Track: Management/OperationsYilmaz Halac, Director, SDI

Evacuating a major city during no-notice massive events such as Chemical, radiological attacks or HazMat spills can be an overwhelming task for the first responders. This task becomes expo-nentially complicated if the evacuation area is affecting large areas, like region. The objectives of the presentation is share multi-modal regional transportation model that allows for the analysis of different evacuation scenarios and emergency response strategies to build a library that can be used to develop appropriate regional emergency response plans. The evacuation modeling tool (RTSTEP) project was developed for the Chicago Metropolitan Area that emergency responders can use to pre-plan evacuation strategies and was used during 2012 NATO to create various scenarios.

Security and the Forensic Patient: Providing Care with Caution

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 / 5:00PM - 5:50PMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Secured HealthcareBryan Warren, Director Corporate Security, Carolinas Healthcare System

This program will define forensic patients, re-view scientific studies regarding escape attempts by this specialized patient population from hospitals, and offer mitigation techniques for preventing and responding to such occurrences. Participants are to be educated on the inherent security risks of housing and treating prisoner patients in healthcare facilities and the unique as-pects of the healthcare environment, the results of recent scientific studies and trends regarding this issue, how to orient and educate custodial agents per regulatory standards and specific preventative measures that should be considered to prevent escape attempts, related workplace violence and other incidents from occurring due to the presence of these types of patients.

Thursday ConferenceIs Our “Security” Tech Secure?

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 8:00AM - 8:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Technology SolutionsJenner Holden, Vice President of Information Security, TASER International

Those of us in the business of providing public safety and security rely heavily on technology solutions to accomplish our jobs. But are the technology solutions we are using to provide security, secure themselves? How can we deter-mine if the security solutions we are using meet acceptable security standards themselves? Cloud computing and internet connected devices (Inter-net-of-Things or IoT) are critical to the future of public safety. We need to understand the security requirements of our public safety technolo-gy, and expect appropriate security from our technology solution providers. This presentation will provide practical advice on how to determine the security posture for cloud providers and IoT devices.

The 2015 West Virginia Prevention and School Resource Officer Program

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 8:00AM - 8:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Secured CampusThomas Howard, Sergeant, Wheeling Police Department

The PRO Program is a cooperative effort between schools and law enforcement to: improve student’s attitudes and knowledge of criminal justice and law enforcement, to prevent kids from committing crimes, to mentor youth with law enforcement officers to provide a safer school environment and to combine safety and child advocacy assuring a better school experience for all WV youth. The program has three main components: prevention, mentoring, and safety. Prevention – The officers facilitate classes on non-traditional educational topics; Mentoring – Officers are trained on how to be a positive mentor to students they interact with daily; and Safety – Officers are trained to recognize potential danger, prevent violence,

THURSDAYWEDNESDAYon-board information systems that include CCTV or IP-based cameras, computers, Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Digital Video Recorders (DVRs); and other vehicular communication devices.

Information Sharing and the National Economic Security Grid

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 10:00AM - 10:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 3Track: Management/OperationsLynn Mattice, CEO/President, Mattice Consulting

Information Sharing has become a hot topic that few really grasp the importance and value it cre-ates. Information sharing at the local and national level can mean the difference between survivability of local economic stability and the viability and survivability of communities. This session will explore past failures and future opportunities to get information sharing right.

Video Surveillance Infrastructure - Intro to Hyper-Convergence and Increased Mobility for VSS

THURSDAY, Nov. 12 / 10:00AM - 10:50AMRoom: San Jacinto 1Track: Technology SolutionsBrandon Reich, Senior Director, Surveillance Solutions, Pivot3Phil Lisk, Director of Information Technology, Bergen County Sheriff’s Office

The importance of video surveillance data contin-ues to increase. New innovations have drastically improved image quality, and video has evolved from a forensic tool to a critical business application. As a result, the amount of data generated, transmitted, stored and protected has increased exponentially, and IT departments realize that surveillance must be a top priority. The challenge is that traditional video infrastructure – server and storage technolo-gies – are in most cases suboptimal for the unique needs of modern IP video surveillance. As a result, organizations risk system disruptions, loss of critical video data and incurring significant additional costs. Additionally, the need for mobility among end users - especially those tasked with city surveillance - creates a greater need for new technologies to meet this need. This session will explore the technical differences, design challenges and cost consider-ations of enterprise storage technologies for video surveillance, and introduce the latest IT trend of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, as well as address the mobility needs of today’s security end users and security personnel.


Agent Video Intelligence 404Aiphone Corporation 318Alpha Technologies, Inc. 308AtHoc 315Axis Communications 402BluePoint Alert Solutions 211Bosch Security Systems, Inc. 405BriefCam, Inc. 418CelPlan Technologies, Inc. 208Christie Digital Systems 415Consolidated Resource Imaging, LLC (CRI) 302DetectaChem 409DVTel, Inc. 303EMC 410EX2 Technology 408Firetide, Inc. 205FLIR Systems, Inc. 314Genetec, Inc. 311Geofeedia, Inc. 319Guardian 8 Corporation 202IndigoVision 307Intergraph Corporation 305iOmniscient Corporation 203ISONAS, Inc. 407Milestone Systems 403MOBOTIX Corp. 406Pivot3 309QNAP, Inc. 204Quantum Corporation 414TASER International 411Tech Systems Inc. 223Teleste, LLC 310Verint 215Vidcie 209Vidsys 304VIEVU 212

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40 hours before the digital video recorder would overwrite video; so, if something happened on a Friday evening, we would have to send someone out over the weekend to retrieve the video. It was time-consuming and inconvenient for our team.”

With consultancy services from Jacobs Engi-neering Group, an international engineering, architecture and construction firm, a detailed request for proposal was submitted for public tender that stipulated specific requirements and the need for a working proof of concept. After careful consideration, MBTA chose the Genetec Omnicast video surveillance system proposed by Minuteman Security Technologies.

The Genetec Omnicast system offered by Min-uteman Security Technologies met budgetary and technical specifications — the latter included access to live video from our operations control center (OCC), automatic offloading of video to long-term archiving when buses reached the ter-minals, police officer data access to nearby bus systems via cruiser mobile terminals, and a few other custom applications.

Simplified Video Access Provides Clearer Views on BusesTo date, the Genetec Omnicast video surveil-lance solution has been installed on 225 buses. Each bus is outfitted with two 360-degree cam-eras — one interior fixed high-definition cam-era and three external 720p high-definition cameras, all from Panasonic. Video is continu-ously recorded and stored on each of the bus’s network video recorders (NVR). To support the sophisticated infrastructure of this application, Ethernet switches from Moxa were selected for industrial-grade reliability, network redundancy and seamless integrated security. On the bus, a monitor displays a live camera feed to passen-gers, acting both as a public advisory of video monitoring and as an added deterrent against criminal activities.

“Leveraging the security technology to pro-mote an innovative and interactive public advi-sory forum allows us to encourage passengers to report incidents on the bus,” explains Adam Peters, Transit Security Projects Administrator at MBTA. “A message displaying, ‘See something? Say something’ alongside a phone number for the MBTA police, is displayed below the video feeds. Passengers can also use an interactive app from their mobile device to anonymously and discretely report events. This gives our commu-nity a voice and allows them to become actively involved in keeping our city safe.”

Two departments within the MBTA have live access to the system from their own con-trol rooms, including OCC operations and

the MBTA police dispatch. MBTA transportation executives also have system access.

What makes the installation one of the most unique in the country is the dual-mode radio that allows for simultaneous wireless and Verizon 4G LTE connectivity. This has led to the most notable advantage of the surveillance system for the bus fleet — we have multiple ways in which the video can be easily accessed. For exam-ple, in the event of an incident, dispatchers and analysts can view video from the bus through the cellular Verizon 4G LTE connection, facilitating both real-time emergencies and investigations.

“Recently, there was a report of an assault on a bus driver and the dispatcher was able to pull that bus’s cameras up and quickly identify the suspect,” Deputy Chief Sprague says. “Within minutes, responding officers had a full descrip-tion and were able to apprehend the suspect. Video surveillance onboard our buses has defi-nitely made our jobs easier and has been an invaluable tool to law enforcement.”

Leveraging the LTE connection is also an invaluable part of the investigative process for customer service agents and operators who need to quickly identify the specific time periods of video for passenger disputes or criminal investi-gations. Instead of guessing or transferring mas-sive amounts of data over the LTE connection, users can simply view video through the LTE con-nection, identify which segments are required and submit the transfer request.

The transfer itself is facilitated through a customized video requester tool that has sim-plified the retrieval of video on-board buses for long-term archiving. Once the bus is back at the terminal, the system will automatically offload

any people know the city of Boston for its his-torical implication in the onset of American lib-erty; yet, many are unaware Boston is also the birthplace of American mass transportation. It all began with a family-operated ferry service in 1631 which served to lessen the travel time between the Boston peninsula and other parts of the mainland.

Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transporta-tion Authority, often referred to as the MBTA, operates a massive fleet of sophisticated vehi-cles including buses, subways, commuter rails and ferries in the greater Boston area. The entire mass transit system accommodates more than 1.3 million passenger trips each weekday, ranking the MBTA as the nation’s fifth-largest

mass transit system.When a Department of Homeland Security

grant was secured to improve the security of its fleet, our mass transit organization appropriat-ed the funds to a first-phase upgrade for video surveillance technology aboard 225 of more than 1,100 buses, which serve 180 routes throughout the city. The existing video surveillance systems onboard buses were much older and offered lim-ited video quality.

Kenneth Sprague, Deputy Chief, MBTA Inves-tigative Services Division, explains that retrieving the video was also a much longer process: “If an incident was reported, we would have to go to the bus to retrieve the hard drive, and then down-load it at the crime scene unit. We also only had

Driving Security Innovation Aboard

Boston Buses “Leveraging the security technology to promote an innovative and interactive public advisory forum allows us to encourage passengers to report incidents on the bus.” — Adam Peters, Transit Security Projects Administrator at MBTA.

MBTA has received DHS funds to a first-phase upgrade for video surveillance technology onboard 225 of over 1100 buses, which serve 180 routes throughout the city.

Greater Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority extends video surveillance on buses and provides access to multiple agencies to enhance mass transit and public safety

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By Chief Quentin Jude

SECURITY INNOVATION AWARD HEALTHCARE PROJECT WINNER

S

Navicent Health a lso

includes The Medical Center,

Navicent Health, a designated

Level I Trauma Center and

one of 42 twice-designated

Magnet hospitals for nursing

excellence nationwide. Distin-

guished nationally for its excellence,

The Medical Center, Navicent Health

is one of the premier teaching hospitals in the

United States and serves as the primary teach-

ing hospital for the Mercer University School of

Medicine. Navicent Health supports residency-

training programs in family practice, general sur-

gery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecol-

ogy and pediatrics with more than 100 medical

residents and fellows in training. As a teaching

hospital, The Medical Center, Navicent Health is

able to attract the best and the brightest to the

area. Today, The Medical Center, Navicent Health

is a 637-bed, full-service, acute care hospital that

now serves an estimated population of 750,000

residents in central and south Georgia and is the

second-largest hospital in the state. Accredited

by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), the medical facility

serves a primary service area of 30 counties and

treats patients from nearly 80 percent of Geor-

gia’s 159 counties.

The objective of Navicent Health’s Police

Department is to provide a safe, secure and hos-

pitable environment for its patients, staff and

visitors. Selecting the right security systems, part-

nerships and integrations helps us to achieve our

goals and accommodate the

organization’s growth with

an appropriately scaled use of

manpower. The organization’s

goals needed to align with our

departmental goals, and they

had to support one another tech-

nically, operationally and fiscally.

Collaboration and Identification of

Organizational Challenges

Before we could start looking at new products

and prices, we had to understand our needs. My

long tenure at Navicent Health was an asset in

this process as I could relate to the patrol offi-

cers, the mobile units, the dispatchers and the

supervisors. I have been in every one of those

positions at one time or another, so the con-

cerns they had were understood and considered

throughout the process. Similarly, it was impor-

tant to engage the right administrative team

members and leaders from other departments to

understand their needs and challenges. Internal

collaboration was the first step.

The team included members from nursing,

the risk management team, the human resourc-

es department, the IT department and local law

enforcement. Security considerations included:

• Unpredictable environment and activity in the

Emergency Center;

• Infant and pediatric security;

• Pharmacy regulations;

electing an enterprise access control system is

a critical decision for security directors. The

financial investment, the operational impact

and the long-term strategy can be of great ben-

efit to the organization, but if not handled prop-

erly, it can also be catastrophic.

After hearing the news that our exist-

ing access control system would no longer be

supported by the manufacturer as it reached

its end-of-life, we had to make a change. This

would begin the most innovative and expan-

sive security systems integration project of my

32-year career at Navicent Health (formerly

known as The Medical Center of Central Geor-

gia or MCCG). The project required several

months to complete and comprised approxi-

mately 500 doors, 500 cameras and a host of

other integrations. We were successful thanks

to our strong relationships with our service pro-

vider and manufacturers.

The Project Footprint

Navicent Health provides a broad range of com-

munity-based, outpatient diagnostic, primary

care, extensive home health and hospice care, and

comprehensive cancer and rehabilitation services.

The

organization’s

goals needed to

align with our

departmental

goals, and they

had to support

one another

technically,

operationally

and fiscally.


W I N N E R

Navicent

Health is one of

Georgia’s largest

healthcare

organizations,

with highly

integrated video

surveillance and

access control

systems.

Collaboration, communication create successful roadmap in revamp of

organization’s physical security system and compliance needs

Navicent Health Invests in Long-Term

Safety and Security Solutions

Navicent Police Chief Quentin

Jude takes notes as he assesses

real-time video surveillance in

the command center.

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