Emergency Alerting Policy Workshop (Agenda)

O A S I S , I T U , W M O , CAP-2012/1.6 Environment Canada, Public Safety Canada, Centre for Security Sciences (Canada) ______

EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP ITEM 1.6.8 ______Original: ENGLISH Montreal, Canada, 1-3 May 2012

EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP (AGENDA)

Day 1: Hilton Bonaventure, Room: Verdun/Lachine/Lasalle Montréal, Canada

May 1, 2012 Tuesday Speakers

08.15-08.45 Registration/Greeting

Session One Opening Moderator – Norm Paulsen 08.45-10:15

1.1 Welcome  World Meteorological David Grimes (President, WMO/ Organization (WMO)/ Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment Canada) Environment Canada

 Public Safety Canada Gina Wilson (Assistant Deputy Minister, Emergency Management and Regional Operations)

 OASIS Patrick Gannon

 International Brahima Sanou (Director of BDT) Telecommunication Union (ITU)

1.2 Keynote Presentation: Damon Penn (Assistant Administrator, National  CAP, The Next Big Continuity Programs, U.S. Federal Emergency Thing in Alerts and Management Agency) Warnings

1.3 Framing the Policy Exercise Norm Paulsen (Environment Canada)

10.15-10.45 Refreshment Break (no-host dinner sign up) Session Two Questions of Alerting Policy Moderator – Eliot Christian 10.45-12.30 (Part I) Interactive Panel Discussion

2.1 Policy Categories:  Authority Maurizio Blasilli  Authentication Art Botterell  Interoperability Mark Lucero  Funding Richard Moreau  Scope Doug Allport Nigel Snoad

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12.30-14:00 Break for Lunch (on own)

Session Three Joint Alerting Initiatives Moderator – Elysa Jones 14:00-15.30 (Plans, Strategies, Presence, etc...)

3.1 Canada (National Public Richard Moreau (Public Safety Canada) Alerting System/Multi Agency Situational Awareness System)

3.2 USA (Integrated Public Alert Wade Witmer (U.S. Federal Emergency Management and Warning System) Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

3.3 Migration of Washington Don Miller (AlertSense/MyStateUSA) State to CAP

3.4 Voice-Enabled CAP Nuwan Waidyanatha (LIRNEasia) Messaging for Emergency Coordination in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learned

15.30-16.00 Refreshment Break

Session Four Questions of Alerting Policy Moderator – Eliot Christian 16.00-17.30 (Part II) Interactive Panel Discussion

4.1 Open Policy Forum  Q &A from the Floor Maurizio Blasilli Art Botterell Mark Lucero Richard Moreau Doug Allport Nigel Snoad

17.30 Workshop Adjourns for the Day

No-Host Dinner (sign up to attend 12:00 pm)

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May 2, 2012 Wednesday Speakers

Session Five Lessons Learned Moderator - Patrick Gannon 08.30-09.05

5.1 Lessons from Previous CAP Eliot Christian Workshops – (WMO) 2008, 2009, 2011

5.2 CAP Usage Update Elysa Jones (OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee)

Session Six Policy Challenges & Solutions Moderator - Norm Paulsen 09.05-10.00 in Major Organisations and Vendors

6.1 ESRI Jeanne Foust (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

6.2 Google Steve Hakusa (Google)

6.3 Policy Challenges in Rick Ruth (TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.) Commercial Mobile Ventures

6.4 CellCast Paul Klein (CellCast Technologies)

Session Seven International Public Policy Moderator - Patrick Gannon 10.30-12.00 Challenges

7.1 International Orhan Osmani (ITU-BDT) Telecommunication Union (ITU)

7.2 How to Select an Alert Source Maurizio Blasilli (United Nations World Food Programme, Emergency Preparedness Branch)

7.3 Legal, Policy and Procedural Efraim Petel (Alerting Solutions) Challenges in Building CAP Warning Systems (includes Experiences with Mexico and the Caribbean)

7.4 European Union Project: Marcel Heckel (Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and IDIRA - Procedures in Large- Infrastructure Systems) Scale Multinational Disaster Response Actions

7.5 Space Weather CAP - David McCormack (Natural Resources Canada) Earthquake CAP (Canada) Khalil Hayek (Natural Resources Canada)

7.6 Global Policy Challenges Stephane Viau (Canadian Red Cross)

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12.00-13.30 Break for Lunch (on own)

Session Eight Weather Services (Part I) Moderator - Norm Paulsen 13.30-15.00

8.1 WMO Perspective Haleh Kootval (World Meteorological Organization)

8.2 Disaster Prevention Kenichi Kuma (Japan Meteorological Agency) Information Provided by the Japan Meteorological Agency

8.3 China Gao Kang (National Meteorological Information Center)

8.4 Switzerland Christoph Schmutz (Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology - MeteoSwiss)

8.5 Sweden Fredrik Linde (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological institute - SMHI)

8.6 United States Craig Hodan (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / National Weather Service - NOAA/NWS)

Session Eight Weather Services (Part II) Moderator - Norm Paulsen (continued) and Closing 15.30-17.00

8.7 Canada Norm Paulsen (Environment Canada / Meteorological Service of Canada - EC-MSC)

8.8 Open Question and Answer All attendees are invited to participate

8.9 Demonstration Overview Norm Paulsen (Environment Canada)

8.10 Conclusions and Next Steps Patrick Gannon (OASIS) Norm Paulsen (Environment Canada)

17:00 Workshop Ends

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May 3, 2012 Thursday Speakers

Demo Session One 08.30-10.15 MASAS & ESRI Doug Allport & Pierre Bilodeau IPAWS Wade Witmer & Mark Lucero ALERTSENSE/MYSTATEUSA Don Miller GOOGLE Steve Hakusa CELLCAST Don Beattie

Demo Session Two 10.15-12.00 MASAS & ESRI Doug Allport & Pierre Bilodeau IPAWS Wade Witmer & Mark Lucero ALERTSENSE/MYSTATEUSA Don Miller GOOGLE Steve Hakusa CELLCAST Don Beattie

12.00-13.30 Brea for Lunch (on own)

Demo Session Three 13.30-15.15 MASAS & ESRI Doug Allport & Pierre Bilodeau IPAWS Wade Witmer & Mark Lucero ALERTSENSE/MYSTATEUSA Don Miller GOOGLE Steve Hakusa CELLCAST Don Beattie

Demo Session Four 15.15-17.00 MASAS & ESRI Doug Allport & Pierre Bilodeau IPAWS Wade Witmer & Mark Lucero ALERTSENSE/MYSTATEUSA Don Miller GOOGLE Steve Hakusa CELLCAST Don Beattie

17.00 Demonstrations End

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