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LOCATE15 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES SPEAKERS FOR THE

SECURING OUR NATION, DISASTER & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STREAM

Locate15 is Australia and New Zealands leading spatial event being held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 10-12 March. Locate15 is designed to energise the location industry, inspire both producers and consumers of location information, and drive greater awareness, adoption and innovation.

The Securing our Nation, Disaster & Emergency Management stream at Locate15 will present not only innovative spatial technologies used to improve response time but also the ways response teams receive data, manage recovery efforts and the overcome challenges encountered in these complex situations.

Stream Key Speaker:

Matt Thomas Infrastructure & Traffic, Sensing City, Christchurch New Zealand Mr Thomas has worked as a consultant in Business Architecture and Programme Management for over fifteen years in the UK and New Zealand and started his own consulting company in early 2013 and has been working on Sensing City since April 2013. He has been working Christchurch City Council in support of their Capital Programme Group,

and the Canterbury Earthquake Rebuild Authority in prioritisation frameworks and decision modelling.

Stream Presentations and Speakers:

AFP Response to MH17 Disaster in the Ukraine James Harris, Australian Federal Police There were a large number of Australian Citizens and residents on board Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, which triggered Australias response as a humanitarian mission to recover the remains. Australia sent a large contingent to Holland and the Ukraine to undertake the recovery of human remains and the identification of these remains through the AFPs DVI capability. Mr Harris will present an outline of the complexities of the situation, including the technical difficulties in supplying support to teams highly isolated in extreme risk situations with little or no communications; the multi-agency response; timeline pressures, the products created and delivered; and the feedback from international partners. Spatiotemporal changes in economic activity following the Canterbury earthquakes. Chris Bowie and Vivienne Ivory, Opus Research, Opus International Consultants Businesses take care to locate themselves in the best place. What happens when their locations are forcibly changed? This paper presents initial findings of the recent changes in economic activity in Christchurch, New Zealand following the 2010-2011 earthquakes. Using multiple formal and informal secondary datasets we developed area indicators of the physical and economic neighbourhood environments (numbers of merchants, number of businesses, damage to land and buildings), and examined their relationship with neighbourhood levels of economic activity (retail and accommodation and food expenditure). We found initial increases in business numbers to the less damaged west and north of the city, but also continuing change as the city rebuilds. Multiple general linear regression analyses compared changes over time and across neighbourhoods after adjustment for indicators of land and building damage within neighbourhoods.

Emergency Vehicle Priority a safer, faster response Justin White, Public Safety Business Agency The innovative Emergency Vehicle Priority (EVP) technology is an intuitive and dynamic system that provides emergency response vehicles with priority access through a controlled road network. EVP automatically interrupts normal traffic signal operations, providing a green traffic light signal to emergency response vehicles in advance of their arrival allowing them to proceed through the intersection without needing to stop or slow down, when safe to do so. EVP capability is delivered by the Public Safety Business Agency and the Department of Transport and Main Roads, supported by Queensland Ambulance Service, Queensland Fire and Emergency Service, Queensland Police Service and local authorities in each rollout area. Delivery of Australian Fire and Disaster Feed via Cloud Services Brett Madsen, Permuto and Kristin Milton, Geoscience Australia Emergency Management Australias mission is to provide situation awareness data for government. The Australia Fire Service feed is a proof of concept project by Geoscience Australia that aims to consolidate the current multiple state emergency feeds into a single CAP_AU standard feed. The entire process will be hosted on an FME Cloud instance and will allow this process to run outside of any internal government IT infrastructure, utilising Amazon AWS and is fully scalable with demand and will store the data, so end users can view time series data. Realtime information helps emergency responders to see the whole picture Peter Timmers, Public Safety Business Agency, Information and Data Services Ensuring resources are swiftly dispatched to bushfire hotspots is a critical focus for emergency responders. To meet this crucial need, the Public Safety Business Agency (PSBA) has implemented an innovative Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology solution to strengthen their mitigation efforts during a fire event. At the start of the 2014 bushfire season, the PSBA and Queensland Fire and Emergency

Services (QFES) replaced their laptop-based mapping system with iPads equipped with a new app, which has significantly improved their ability to monitor and understand fire behaviour. PSBA and QFES are working on projects to develop additional emergency management strategies and replace existing mobile GIS systems with the new app including Rapid Damage Assessment, fuel hazard assessment and community engagement. Using geospatial & social crowd source data with cloud technology to support an emergency response in a zombie apocalyptic scenario Michael Fitzpatrick, 1Spatial Mr. Fitzpatrick will use a zombie apocalypse scenario to demonstrate how spatial data can be combined in real time with crowd-sourced social media content and be managed by a range of web services and technologies such as, Google Maps Engine, PostGIS, FME Cloud and Web Based Collaboration tools. The response scenario will demonstrate the potential of a seamless, machine-to-machine interaction over a network, combined with on-the-fly data integration. This zombie scenario will demonstrate how it is possible to establish an effective emergency management response that could be applied to a wide range of real world situations. Exhibition Opportunities There are a limited number of exhibition stands available for Locate15. If you are interested in showcasing your business please contact Caryn Morgan caryn@cmaevents.com.au, call +61 02 9810 2701 or visit http://www.locateconference.com/sponsor.