Conference Day One: Wednesday February 27, 2008
7:00 Continental Breakfast & Registration
7:45 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Keynote
8:00 Meeting The Security Needs Of The Nation’s Mass
Transit Systems
Hon. Asa Hutchinson
Former Congressman and First Undersecretary
Border and Transportation Security
8:45 Embracing A Culture Change In Transit Security
- Capital investment in security solutions
- Maximizing federal funding allocations
- Embracing joint responsibility for security initiatives
Harold Neil
Director of Transportation Security Office of Homeland Security
New Jersey Department of Transportation
9:30 Networking And Refreshment Break
10:15 Advancements In Bio-Threat Detection
- New technology to detect bio-threats in minutes
- Bioagent signatures and signature recognition methods
- Cutting-edge microfluidics research
Dr. Yolanda Fintschenko
Manager, Microfluidics Group
Sandia National Laboratories
11:00 Research On Transit Safety And Security Without
Sacrificing Ridership
- Countermeasure selection guides & operations-oriented guidelines
- Practical, applied research vetted by your peers
- Supportive of ANSI-compliant APTA voluntary consensus standards development efforts
Stephan Parker
Senior Program Officer
Transportation Research Board
11:45 Lunch
12:45 Problems And Solutions Of Facial Recognition Technology
- Review the issues associated with planning, training, and deploying facial recognition software
- Digitally map characteristics of the human face for comparison against identified offender photographs
- Instantly compare and analyze suspect photographs against millions of arrest, corrections, and parole images
Harry Giordano and Luci Stone
Pennsylvania Justice Network
1:30 Data Center Consolidation
- Integrating multiple sensors to one command center
- Better Disaster Recovery
- Lower Maintenance Costs
David Kamien
CEO and Co-Founder, MindAlliance
Inc
2:15 Networking And Refreshment Break
3:00 Emerging Threats To Mass Transit Systems
- Identification and analysis of emerging threats
- Analysis of adversary intentions and capabilities
- Assessment of information sharing strategies, policies, processes, procedures, and protocols
Dr. Philip Anderson
Director
The Homeland Security Institute
3:45 Unified Command Exercises: How To Play Well With
Others
- Joint response planning
- Full scale exercise development: beyond HSEEP
- Exercise planning considerations
- Metro-City of Seattle full scale exercise
Mike DeCapua
Homeland Security Program Manager
King County Metro Transit
4:30 End Of Day One
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