Creating a Weather Ready Nation across the San Francisco Bay Area
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET (60 mins)Speaker: Cynthia Palmer, Meteorologist in Charge, National Weather Service Monterey
Details: The National Weather Service’s mission is to “provide weather, water, and climate data, forecasts and warnings for the protection of life and property and enhancement of the national economy.” In 2011 following the EF4 Tuscaloosa Tornado, the National Weather Service took a hard look at itself, and asked, how can we do better? How do we get communities to respond to our warnings? How can we create a Weather Ready Nation? To do this, the NWS underwent a major shift from focusing on the forecast and warnings alone towards working with the emergency management community to ensure the societal response equal to the risks that exist for communities, businesses, and the public. In this presentation, we will discussion the NWS’s role in the emergency management community as well as preparing for inclement weather as well as climate change.
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Bringing Order to Chaos:
Essentials of Mass Notification
Presenter:
Jed Soberal, Regroup Mass Notification
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When a crisis hits, there is no time to train your users, craft effective messaging or ensure receipt by all; you need a system that works. From ideation to refinement, every organization needs a Mass Notification System tailored to their size, climate, seismology, data configuration and processes. Jed will coach you through the nuance of determining your specific needs ranging from Communication Channels (Email, SMS/Text, Voice/TTS) to automating your data (SIS, HRM, ERP etc.), and even integrations with such endpoints as fire alarms, panic buttons and more. Finally, purchasing fatigue is real; when you complete the exhausting process of selecting a system, operationalizing your MNS can be your downfall or greatest success in Emergency Management.
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Wildfire MitigationPresenters:
Paul Roller and Daniel Face, Southern California Edison
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Daniel is the Fire Management Officer for Southern California Edison and Paul Roller is the Lead Meteorologist of the Weather Services group within the Business Resiliency Organization at Southern California Edison. Paul will be presenting several topics that cover the current and future efforts by SCE to prevent wildfires as well as respond to them. This will include current and emerging technologies that aid in situational awareness and expedite response from fire agencies.
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