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The Conference will provide a forum for innovators to discuss ideas, concepts and findings to date. The conference will bring together innovators from leading universities, research laboratories, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, small businesses, system integrators and the end user community.
New this year, the Conference will feature parallel tracks with invited talks in non-overlapping technical sessions. Also, the Conference will contain a planned session on Detecting and Protecting Against Terrorist Surveillance.
Background
Our Outstanding Leaders:
The conference will be chaired by Ambassador Henry Cooper of High Frontier and Chairman of Applied Research Associates, Inc., Technical Program Chaired by Brig. General (Ret.) Phil Stowell, Applied Research Associates, and Program Development Chaired by Robert Hooks, Director of Transition of the US Department of Homeland Security. They will guide the conference towards solving real, imminent and developing threats to our Nation.
Networking:
The conference, business panels and technical exhibits provides an ideal opportunity for developers and implementers of technologies, consultants, entrepreneurs and business funding sources interested in the security and critical infrastructure dependability marketplace to meet with governmental leaders and owners and operators of major private sector infrastructure.
Sponsored By:
The eighth Conference is sponsored by the Boston Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE-USA and the IEEE Critical Infrastructure Dependability Initiative and organized and managed by the IEEE Boston Section Homeland Security Conference Steering Committee
GENERAL THEMES
Transportation Security focused on Chemical, Biological and High Explosives with special sessions on Radiological /-Nuclear. Both Transportation focus areas will emphasize their own specific technology issues with respect to detection, prevention, response, and recovery.
Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Security with the emphasis on protecting the financial sector, communication sand electric power networks, focusing on SCADA systems and threats to the chemical and refinery sectors
Incident Management, Information Sharing, and Interoperability technologies, high level risk assessment and supporting technoilogies of modeling and simulation emphasizing tools development
The Overall Program Includes:
Reception on the evening of the first day of the Conference
2 day Technical Conference including:
Wednesday Morning Plenary Keynote Session featuring government representatives and major private sector infrastructure operators
Invited Track Theme Papers by top scientists
Parallel Sessions of Contributed Technical Papers
Poster Session
Business Panel – How to Do Business with DHS S&T and how to obtain seed funding to bring research to reality
Technology Exhibits
Networking Opportunities
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