The World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) is the pre-eminent conference of its kind - providing you with the opportunity to gain valuable education, training and best practices to assist you, your organization and your community mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies and disaster. The 20th WCDM will offer a unique and distinguished experience in a climate that fosters change. World Renowned Experts Learn from i...

A half day seminar on the fundamentals of government contracting The federal government procurement process presents a steep learning curve for individuals and companies new to the market. This seminar provides the essentials that will help you get a faster start to pursuing opportunities and growing your business. What You Will Learn: Structure of the federal government Federal budget process Federal buying cycle and selling approaches Key op...

HP Scale-Out NAS: An Architecture to Support both High Capacity and Performance Join HP for lunch and a short informative presentation including a demo on how HP's newest Scalable NAS Storage Solution can help businesses address their needs for managing explosive data growth while maintaining performance and scalability.

Federal grants account for nearly one quarter of all state and local government spending. INPUT’s Justice & Public Safety Grants: 2010 and Beyond webinar will provide insight into how this funding stream will affect state and local Justice/Public Safety technology spending through President Obama's current term in office and beyond. Drawing upon Jeff Webster’s May 26, 2010 presentation at the 34th Annual International Associati...

The 9/11 Commission recommended a biometric and comprehensive screening system of foreign visitors, including an exit system.In the wake of the Christmas Plot and the Times Squares near getaway by Faisal Shahzad already boarded on an international flight leaving the U.S. when arrested, we are once again reminded that border security is an essential element of national security, and EXIT may matter to that rubric. For 14 years, a law requiring...

CNi Expo will be the exhibition for solutions, products and ideas to effectively mitigate risk and ensure security from all threats to infrastructure.These threats and risks are applicable to many sectors whose assets or components are essential to the safe and continued delivery of essential services. The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) defines nine sectors which deliver essential services: Energy Food Water Transp...

Content ROT: How to Find and Treat It Class Format: Seminar Instructor: Delia Konizeski, WelchmanPierpoint Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Place: Department of Labor (DOL) Directions to DOL Fee: $50 federal, state, or local U.S. government; $75 for non–government Seminar Description With thousands of government websites, there is a lot of ROT (redundant, outdated, and trivial) content. You can't engage citizens...

The Governor's Hurricane Conference (GHC) is the largest hurricane conference in the nation. The primary purpose of the GHC is to improve hurricane preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation in the State of Florida and beyond in order to save lives and reduce property damage. The scope of interest includes all aspects of the hurricane threat. To accomplish this, the GHC ensures the annual program emphasizes the following: Lessons learned...

Video Bootcamp Class Format: Two–Day Course Instructor: Michael Rosenblum, Rosenblum TV Date: Tuesday – Wednesday, May 25 – 26, 2010 Time: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm NOTE: the time of this course is LONGER than other two–day WMU courses. Place: Mathematical Association of America Carriage House Conference Center Washington, DCDirections to MAA Fee: $1,950 federal, state, or local U.S. government; $2,925 for non–gover...