FW: [emergency-adopt-events] Potential Topic Areas for the EI Summit

["Dee Schur" <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

Informal Minutes - provided by Dee Schur

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Attended: Tom, Rex, Dee, Werner, Dean (chair)

Baltimore venue: is there internet connectivity?

Seems like our first choice venue.

**Excellent opportunity to clear up confusion between NEIM and EDXL**

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Keynotes:

Keynote speaker - Craig Fugate (Head of FEMA).

AI: Dee to ask Bill Kalin to invite Craig Fugate or ask for contact
information.

AI: Jane invite Donna Roy (would be good keynote speaker). 

Related industry maybe telecom?
AI: Dee to check on BT, Franc-Telecom and Duetsche-Telecom.

Gartner starting process area around emergency.
AI: Dean has contact at Gartner - he will distribute data on Gartner - his
contact may be too focused on top line not necessarily interoperability.

Arlington, Virginia and Contra Costa County have good implementations at
county level.

Someone from NOAA?

Eliot Christian - WMO potential speaker.

AI: Dee to send Dean list of vendors that have ever been involved in EM plus
list Carol and I have been working on for outreach.

Industry Associations but they are also having events at the same time.

AI: Rex to contact Carl Reed - OGC - speak about coordinating interop across
specifications and organization. Maybe ask OGC to co-sponsor - GIS. Not
keynote but topic speaker.

ESRI, Google, etc.


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They would like to do two full days as opposed to 1.5 days.
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Topics:

Seem broad enough, may evolve as we get closer to event.

ADD ONE TOPIC: How NEIM and EDXL work together. 

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Description is good to go. Just need reply from Donna.

Best,
Dee


-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Harnad [mailto:jane.harnad@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:49 AM
To: 'Dee Schur'
Subject: FW: [emergency-adopt-events] Potential Topic Areas for the EI
Summit
Importance: High


Hi Dee -- thanks for helping me.  Here is what I planned to discuss today...


* Attached revised version of the announcement -- need folks to double check
all the changes...

* Review of the below list of potential topic area -- need to discuss them,
add to them, and/or delete those that don't make sense...

* Begin to make a list of potential keynote presenters...dialogue was to be
initiated already (but I haven't seen anything)...

* And finally, talk about the facility search status, to include...

1. Jane to look into the auditorium of the National Academy of Sciences,
located at 500 Fifth St NW, Washington DC and will report back to the
committee as soon as I hear back from them...

2. New option from Donald R. Ponikvar, PhD...recap includes:  Donna Roy,
from the DHS Office of the CIO, the current chair of the NIEM Steering
Committee, scheduled a major NIEM training event in Baltimore from 29 Sept
through 1 October, and have already paid the hotel conference room and other
facility costs.  They also have a larger block of rooms than what they will
likely fill (even though they anticipate about 600 attendees).  She would
love to have the OASIS Interoperability Summit co-located with her event,
since a number of her attendees also play in the OASIS data standards world.
She indicated to me after the meeting that she would not require OASIS to
fund the meeting room, but any OASIS attendees would obviously have to pay
their own travel and hotel expenses.  

FYI:  We do want to be careful to guarantee that they won't charge us
anything until I speak to Donna.  I have a meeting with Donna scheduled for
first thing on Monday morning.  I will report back to the group on Monday.
It would be great if the committee could outline any specific questions they
had on the joint event and/or location -- as well as any other feedback
information.  

3. Of course we still have the NIST location as our fall-back location. 

Decision should be done no later than Monday or Tuesday at the latest. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Harnad [mailto:jane.harnad@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:05 AM
To: emergency-adopt-events@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [emergency-adopt-events] Potential Topic Areas for the EI Summit
Importance: High

Hello Everyone,

Below is a list of potential topics ideas for the upcoming Emergency
Interoperability Summit, for review.  Please feel free to forward comments
and/or adjustments.  Thanks, Jane

BTW:  Also attached is the latest version of the EI Summit announcement.  

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List of Potential Topics:

* Improving Emergency Management (EM) throughout the entire lifecycle of
emergency incidents from planning and preparations

* Identifying and overcoming EM operational challenges 
 
* Addressing the fractured market of EM tools, the operational and economic
benefits of making them interoperable, and a coherent framework to get there

* illustrating a growing array of innovative tools that are effective at
handling specific aspects of EM

* Challenges for EM ahead  

* Governance and management of EM projects, the how, why, and results of
implementation

* Coherent framework for EM interoperability

* Demonstrating the amount gained from interoperability, not only in terms
of cost and operational effectiveness for the EM community

* Facilitating wide-scale interoperability, defined by independent bodies
and accessible publicly as open standards

* Alerting and warning messages, in any medium

* Packaging and distributing digital emergency communication 

* EM software applications, the operational and economic benefits of
implementing making them interoperable applications

* Uniform methods of arranging and accounting for logistical operations that
allow responders to do their jobs while the resources are managed
automatically

* Providing the means for a uniform method of reporting a snapshot of
available healthcare facilities, equipment and personnel during emergencies 

* Work underway that will provide the means for a uniform method of
reporting critical information for EM decision making in a timely way

Emergency Interoperability Summit.docx