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. Learning objectives attendees will receive from this course: Learn how to improve the integrated o...

With a growing number of dams approaching their design service life, dam safety engineers are looking for ways to mitigate the risks related to public safety, aging infrastructure and rising maintenance costs. Modernizing dam monitoring and maintenance practices with digital advancements, including the latest automated condition monitoring solutions, drone-captured reality modeling and digital twins, are giving public sector dam operators tool...

Due to popular demand and capacity limitations, Conference registration is now closed, and we are unable to accept additional registrations. There will be no onsite registration this year. Thirty-four years ago, the Crimes Against Children Conference started with just 50 attendees. That year, two speakers – Brian Killacky, who was a detective with the Chicago Police Department, and Ken Lanning, who was a Supervisory Special Agent with th...

New surveillance technology and smart analytics allow technology to supplement and sometimes even replace physical security guards. Deploying this technology has the potential to make a facility much more secure, but security experts have a tendency to neglect the most vulnerable areas because of local power or connectivity issues. In a world where the power grid is increasingly unreliable, we'll explore new technology solutions that allow for...

Internationally recognized, the Crimes Against Children Conference is the premier conference of its kind, providing practical and interactive instruction to those fighting crimes against children and helping children heal. The conference is presented annually by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. The conference is conducted to provide training to those employed by government or nonprofit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, chi...

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...

Many dam failures have been averted by dam owners and engineers taking quick and effective action to intervene and stop an active dam failure from progressing. The focus of this webinar is to present the most common failure modes at dams and provide information on actions that can be taken to prevent or delay each failure mode. Case studies will be used to show examples of successful interventions. Actions that could potentially do harm and ma...

Dam engineering is about dams, but is done by and for people. As a result, in order to achieve dam safety, we need to understand not just dams, but also the people (including ourselves) involved in designing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and benefitting from them. Social scientists have been studying people scientifically for more than a century, and we are now at a point historically where the social sciences have generated valuable...

Communicating is more important now than ever before. After all, people need to know the process and procedures for reopening public lands and facilities, or how to stay safe and healthy while visiting National Parks.Getting your message out to citizens and internal employees in a trusted and timely manner is critical. And how government communicators reach and engage stakeholders continues to evolve.Sometimes government communicators simply d...