Join us for the 6th annual virtual Energy Storage Systems Safety & Reliability Forum Wednesday and Thursday, May 4-5, 2022. Sponsored by the DOE Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage Program, the Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Forum at PNNL will focus on the current state of energy storage safety and reliability, and identify additional R&D efforts to advance the DOE roadmap for energy storage. The forum will also examine...

The SAFE Association is presenting its 59th Annual Symposium. Composed of Government, Military, Industrial, and Academic interests, SAFE represents aviation, space, land, and marine safety disciplines for the protection of users worldwide. The Symposium provides an internationally attended marketplace for the exchange of technical information, product and service exhibitions, and the showcasing of industry capabilities for meeting challenges i...

Join us for a deep dive into the state of health care in the Birmingham region. Alabama's health care industry is quickly evolving while facing challenges and opportunities on a number of different fronts. Birmingham is at the epicenter of that evolution.

Though the world seems to be nearing the corner related to controlling the pandemic, the effects have been traumatic and will be long-standing. What remains plaguing our communities and society at-large is the need for criminal justice reform. Regardless of what side of the aisle that your perspective may come from, those involved in the broader justice community understand well that improvements in efficiency, parity in the application of the...

COVID inoculation rates in U.S. minority communities are dismal, hovering around 8%. They are currently eight times higher in white communities. Studies show that causes include misinformation about vaccine effectiveness and safety, lack of trust in government institutions and drug companies, the digital divide, language barriers, inaccessibility of vaccination sites, deportation fears by undocumented immigrants, identifying and reaching under...

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence and Global Strategy & Policy teams will provide a briefing on SolarWinds. They will cover the campaign's scope, timeline, impact, lessons learned, and policy implications in the wake of the most damaging supply chain attack in recent memory. This briefing will strictly focus on their knowledge of the SolarWinds hack and the threat it poses for government organizations at every level. The brief...

This is an interactive course designed to help participants learn about key tools that will help improve emergency preparedness and enhance communication during dam and levee failures and incidents. Participants will gain a better understanding of the emergency action planning process, including evacuation planning and emergency response methods. Key takeaways attendees will receive from this course: Learn how to improve the integrated operati...

The United States transitioned from just a recurring flu season to a full pandemic with the infiltration of the Corona Virus. This pandemic caused the healthcare system to turn upside down and develop new pathways, processes, and techniques for not only tending to and treating the COVID patients, but also treating the general populations with the daily medical and surgical conditions. So many changes occurred in the healthcare system in a very...

Interview with Q&A opportunities and optional networking featuring: Dong Shen, M.D., Ph.D. President and CEO, RNAimmune Dong Shen, M.D., PhD., graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is the founder and CEO of RNAimmune. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, RNAimmune’s messenger RNA proprietary technology is used to develop cancer and antibody therapies and vaccines and the company is focused on developing a mRNA vac...

Together Paul and Dean have offered this seminar 19 times in 17 states and it has been attended by more than 1,000 students. The seminar provides comprehensive instruction in inspection and evaluation techniques for dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught will be readily adaptable to any organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design standards. Participants learn about a variety of dam...