Presentations

Topic:

Dynamic CAP Alerts Interrupt Online Advertising with ValueClick Technology

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Speaker:

Jason Bier is ValueClick's Chief Privacy Officer. He is an attorney and serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Network Advertising Initiative. He is also on the U.S. Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council, the U.S. Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Public Policy Council, and the U.S. Digital Advertising Alliance.

Topic:

CAP Weather Alerts Triggering Cell Messages Across the United States

Speaker:

Bob Bunge manages the software and data management teams of the Telecommunications Operations Center, the NWS central communications data switching and monitoring facility that is also a central source for products and observations. For many years, Bob has been a leader in operational use of CAP by the National Weather Service.

Topic:

Summary Report and Wrap-up

Speaker:

Eliot Christian is a consultant to and retired from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He is also a volunteer to and retired from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Eliot led broad programs for environmental data sharing and had a key role in several technical standards, including CAP. His primary expertise is information discovery and metadata.

Topics:

1. CAP in PSAP (call center) interoperability: two European experiences

2. JIXEL

Speaker:

Massimo Cristaldi began his career developing software and consulting on earthquakes effects in urban areas. He managed various European research projects and founded a seismic simulation company which later merged with IES Solutions. Massimo is now Chief Technical Officer of IES. IES has won many innovation awards for emergency services interoperability, and creates solutions related to several aspects of emergency management and 112 adoption in Europe.

Topic:

CAP in EUMETSAT and the Disaster Charter

Speaker:

Simon Elliott works for EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. As Product Integration Manager, Simon is responsible for operational deployment of product processing systems for satellite meteorology and climate monitoring from space. In support of the alerting process, EUMETSAT produces and disseminates CAP formatted messages relating the detection of active fires and volcanic ash.

Topic:

Design of CAP products and CAP applications of Deutscher Wetterdienst
(will co-present with Siegfried Fechner)

Speaker:

Petra Fechner works at Deutscher Wetterdienst, the meteorological organization of Germany. Petra is member of the Department "Basic Forecasts" and is responsible for basic rules for products including warnings and product presentation in internet.

Topic:

Design of CAP products and CAP applications of Deutscher Wetterdienst
(will co-present with Petra Fechner)

Speaker:

Siegfried Fechner works at Deutscher Wetterdienst, the meteorological organization of Germany.Siegfried works in the 'Dedicated Systems' department where he is responsible for the development of different data distribution systems for national and international customers. He also coordinates the introduction of CAP as an additional data format for warning.

Topic:

Thoughts from Google on the future of hierarchial structured data in CAP

Speaker:

Steve Hakusa has been a software engineer at Google since 2005. He is currently working with Google DotOrg's Crisis Response team, focused on critical information accessibility during natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Steve worked on Google's advertising system and helped improve access in Africa to health and agriculture information.

Topic:

Welcome from the ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunications Standardization Bureau)

Speaker:

Bilel Jamoussi contributes to the innovation and advancement of technology in the field of information and communications technology. Bilel now manages standardization initiatives and various groups and activities of the International Telecommunication Union Standardization Bureau (ITU-T). Prior to this, he was Chief Technical Officer for Nortel for 15 years.

Topics:

1. Overview of CAP

2. AlertSense

Speaker:

Elysa Jones is the Chief Technology Officer for AlertSense powered by MyStateUSA. She has chaired the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee since 2004. This committee is responsible for the development of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and other data standards for message distribution, resource messaging, hospital availability and situation reporting in support of emergency response. She actively consults with governments and organizations in the use of CAP.

Topic:

CAP in BMKG, Indonesia

Speaker:

Karyono is the Chief of Earthquake Operations Management at at the meteorological, climatological and geophysical agency of Indonesia (BMKG). His duties include monitoring and maintaining sensors and warning systems for the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning Center. He is an experienced systems engineer with a computer science education.

Topic:

Register of Alerting Authorities

Speaker:

Haleh Kootval is the Chief of the WMO Public Weather Services Division, guiding and assisting WMO Members in continual improvement of their public weather services. Her long experience in service delivery is bolstered by operational experience in the Brunei Meteorological Service and subsequent work on improving the skills of meteorologists worldwide.

Topic:

CAP in National Emergency Alerting System in China

Speaker:

LI Chao is an engineer at the Public Meteorological Service Center, which is crafting an all-hazards alerting system for China. The Centre is part of the China Meteorological Administration.

Topic:

Welcome from OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)

Speaker:

Laurent Liscia is CEO and Executive Director of OASIS, providing operational oversight and strategic vision, and representing OASIS internationally. Previously, he had co-founded several Web-related companies and served as a Media Attaché for French Foreign Affairs. He has also worked in Canada and is now based in San Francisco.

Topic:

CAP in the Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) Experience in Implementing CAP and its Role in SWFDP-EA as RFSC for Lake Victoria Basin
(will co-present with Samuel Muchemi and Roger Ndicu)

Speaker:

Hellen Msemo is Senior Meteorologist and Head Public Weather Services working with the Tanzania Meteorological Agency. She is involved in identifying training needs for public weather services, promotes public awareness on weather hazards and risks, designing and disseminating information on disaster related weather conditions. She is a TV weather presenter.

Topic:

CAP in the Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): CAP in the SWFDP - An Introduction
(will co-present with Hellen Msemo and Roger Ndicu)

Speaker:

Samuel Muchemi is the Scientific Officer, Public Weather Services (SO/PWS), WMO since 2006. He joined the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) in 1980 as a weather forecaster and later as a weather presenter on television for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). He was also in charge of the Public Weather Services Division of KMD.

Topic:

CAP in the Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): CAP Implementation in Kenya
(will co-present with Samuel Muchemi and Hellen Msemo)

Speaker:

Roger Ndicu is a Meteorologist in charge of weather products and climate information dissemination including meteorological related Alerts and Warnings. He is also involved in production and training in weather graphics and presentation for TV and Radio

Topic:

CAP at the NATO Summit and Plans for the World Cup

Speaker:

Daniel Niederman is responsible for client engagements internationally within Pinkerton’s Global Risk Group. He earned a B.S. Journalism from Boston University, and served as a licensed Private Detective with Pinkerton’s Boston office for nine years. Mr. Niederman formerly held positions as Information Architect, Emergency Medical Technician, and Adjunct Faculty at Northeastern University.

Topics:

1. The Business Case for CAP – without the technical chatter

2. CAP in the Cloud

Speaker:

Pete O'Dell is the Founder/Director of Swan Island Networks and former President or Chief Operating Officer of several technology companies. Pete also held technical positions at Microsoft and Digital Equipment, and he authored books on computer networking and on interoperability.

Topic:

Lessons Learned - End-to-End CAP-Based Alerting Systems

Speaker:

Norm Paulsen is a senior meteorologist for Environment Canada and a principle architect of the CAP Canadian Profile. He has expertise in systems design, and has been thoroughly involved in warning message production since 1991. His current position involves analysis and strategic planning for alerting programs of Environment Canada.

Topic:

CAP in Disaster Reduction: A Real-Life Case

Speaker:

Efraim Petel is a renowned security expert and he is the founder and CEO of Alerting Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a subsidiary of AtHoc. Under Efraim’s direction, ASI has become a leading provider of warning systems for national security and infrastructure protection used by various levels of government around the world.

Topic:

Early warning of weather and climatic extremes in Turkey and CAP needs for Commission for Climatology

Speaker:

Serhat Sensoy is Chief of the Climatology Division of Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS), responsible for monthly, seasonal, annual and long-term climatological analyses, climate atlas, and climate parameters modeling. He prepares monitoring and seasonal predictions of temperature and precipitation, and authored about 69 climate and agriculture papers in international proceedings and journals. Mr Sensoy currently serves as the Vice-President, WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl).

Topic:

Alerts and Warnings

Speaker:

James Tomkins is a Portfolio Technical Lead at the Met Office in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in public sector and commercial software development for over 15 years and is currently responsible for data processing and provisioning in the Met Office with a focus on interoperability and open interfaces.

Topic:

Implementation of CAP in Hong Kong Observatory

Speaker:

Tong Yu Fai (YF Tong) is a Scientific Officer of the Service Delivery Division of the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). He joined the HKO in 1997 to develop the HKO Internet website and then worked as a weather forecaster. He is now in charge of the operation and development of Internet weather services of the HKO.

Topic:

Welcome from WMO

Speaker:

Peiliang Shi is now the Officer in Charge of the WMO Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department and prior Director of the WMO Information System (WIS). Before coming to WMO, he was Director of the National Meteorological Information Centre at the China Meteorological Administration. He has been involved in the development and operational management of meteorological information systems for more than 25 years.

Topic:

Symbols in Alerting

Speaker:

Nuwan Waidyanatha is a member of the Sahana Software Foundation and he serves as the Chairs of the Sahana Standards and Interoperability Committee. He holds a master's degree in Operations Research and a degree in Computer Engineering. With expertise in ICT system design, Nuwan focuses on practical solutions for developing nations. His present research concerns early warning and emergency information exchange, including the use of CAP.

Sponsored by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
COMMON ALERTING PROTOCOL (CAP) IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOP WMO HEADQUARTERS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 23-24 APRIL 2013	PWS-CAP-2013/INF. 1 __________ ORIGINAL: ENGLISH ONLY

	Topic:	Dynamic CAP Alerts Interrupt Online Advertising with ValueClick Technology (supporting video file)
	Speaker:	Jason Bier is ValueClick's Chief Privacy Officer. He is an attorney and serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Network Advertising Initiative. He is also on the U.S. Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council, the U.S. Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Public Policy Council, and the U.S. Digital Advertising Alliance.

	Topic:	CAP Weather Alerts Triggering Cell Messages Across the United States
	Speaker:	Bob Bunge manages the software and data management teams of the Telecommunications Operations Center, the NWS central communications data switching and monitoring facility that is also a central source for products and observations. For many years, Bob has been a leader in operational use of CAP by the National Weather Service.

	Topic:	Summary Report and Wrap-up
	Speaker:	Eliot Christian is a consultant to and retired from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He is also a volunteer to and retired from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Eliot led broad programs for environmental data sharing and had a key role in several technical standards, including CAP. His primary expertise is information discovery and metadata.

	Topics:	1. CAP in PSAP (call center) interoperability: two European experiences
		2. JIXEL
	Speaker:	Massimo Cristaldi began his career developing software and consulting on earthquakes effects in urban areas. He managed various European research projects and founded a seismic simulation company which later merged with IES Solutions. Massimo is now Chief Technical Officer of IES. IES has won many innovation awards for emergency services interoperability, and creates solutions related to several aspects of emergency management and 112 adoption in Europe.

	Topic:	CAP in EUMETSAT and the Disaster Charter
	Speaker:	Simon Elliott works for EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. As Product Integration Manager, Simon is responsible for operational deployment of product processing systems for satellite meteorology and climate monitoring from space. In support of the alerting process, EUMETSAT produces and disseminates CAP formatted messages relating the detection of active fires and volcanic ash.

	Topic:	Design of CAP products and CAP applications of Deutscher Wetterdienst (will co-present with Siegfried Fechner)
	Speaker:	Petra Fechner works at Deutscher Wetterdienst, the meteorological organization of Germany. Petra is member of the Department "Basic Forecasts" and is responsible for basic rules for products including warnings and product presentation in internet.

	Topic:	Design of CAP products and CAP applications of Deutscher Wetterdienst (will co-present with Petra Fechner)
	Speaker:	Siegfried Fechner works at Deutscher Wetterdienst, the meteorological organization of Germany.Siegfried works in the 'Dedicated Systems' department where he is responsible for the development of different data distribution systems for national and international customers. He also coordinates the introduction of CAP as an additional data format for warning.

	Topic:	Thoughts from Google on the future of hierarchial structured data in CAP
	Speaker:	Steve Hakusa has been a software engineer at Google since 2005. He is currently working with Google DotOrg's Crisis Response team, focused on critical information accessibility during natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Steve worked on Google's advertising system and helped improve access in Africa to health and agriculture information.

	Topic:	Welcome from the ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunications Standardization Bureau)
	Speaker:	Bilel Jamoussi contributes to the innovation and advancement of technology in the field of information and communications technology. Bilel now manages standardization initiatives and various groups and activities of the International Telecommunication Union Standardization Bureau (ITU-T). Prior to this, he was Chief Technical Officer for Nortel for 15 years.

	Topics:	1. Overview of CAP
		2. AlertSense
	Speaker:	Elysa Jones is the Chief Technology Officer for AlertSense powered by MyStateUSA. She has chaired the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee since 2004. This committee is responsible for the development of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and other data standards for message distribution, resource messaging, hospital availability and situation reporting in support of emergency response. She actively consults with governments and organizations in the use of CAP.

	Topic:	CAP in BMKG, Indonesia
	Speaker:	Karyono is the Chief of Earthquake Operations Management at at the meteorological, climatological and geophysical agency of Indonesia (BMKG). His duties include monitoring and maintaining sensors and warning systems for the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning Center. He is an experienced systems engineer with a computer science education.

	Topic:	Register of Alerting Authorities
	Speaker:	Haleh Kootval is the Chief of the WMO Public Weather Services Division, guiding and assisting WMO Members in continual improvement of their public weather services. Her long experience in service delivery is bolstered by operational experience in the Brunei Meteorological Service and subsequent work on improving the skills of meteorologists worldwide.

	Topic:	CAP in National Emergency Alerting System in China
	Speaker:	LI Chao is an engineer at the Public Meteorological Service Center, which is crafting an all-hazards alerting system for China. The Centre is part of the China Meteorological Administration.

	Topic:	Welcome from OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
	Speaker:	Laurent Liscia is CEO and Executive Director of OASIS, providing operational oversight and strategic vision, and representing OASIS internationally. Previously, he had co-founded several Web-related companies and served as a Media Attaché for French Foreign Affairs. He has also worked in Canada and is now based in San Francisco.

	Topic:	CAP in the Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) Experience in Implementing CAP and its Role in SWFDP-EA as RFSC for Lake Victoria Basin (will co-present with Samuel Muchemi and Roger Ndicu)
	Speaker:	Hellen Msemo is Senior Meteorologist and Head Public Weather Services working with the Tanzania Meteorological Agency. She is involved in identifying training needs for public weather services, promotes public awareness on weather hazards and risks, designing and disseminating information on disaster related weather conditions. She is a TV weather presenter.

	Topic:	CAP in the Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): CAP in the SWFDP - An Introduction (will co-present with Hellen Msemo and Roger Ndicu)
	Speaker:	Samuel Muchemi is the Scientific Officer, Public Weather Services (SO/PWS), WMO since 2006. He joined the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) in 1980 as a weather forecaster and later as a weather presenter on television for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). He was also in charge of the Public Weather Services Division of KMD.

	Topic:	CAP in the Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): CAP Implementation in Kenya (will co-present with Samuel Muchemi and Hellen Msemo)
	Speaker:	Roger Ndicu is a Meteorologist in charge of weather products and climate information dissemination including meteorological related Alerts and Warnings. He is also involved in production and training in weather graphics and presentation for TV and Radio

	Topic:	CAP at the NATO Summit and Plans for the World Cup
	Speaker:	Daniel Niederman is responsible for client engagements internationally within Pinkerton’s Global Risk Group. He earned a B.S. Journalism from Boston University, and served as a licensed Private Detective with Pinkerton’s Boston office for nine years. Mr. Niederman formerly held positions as Information Architect, Emergency Medical Technician, and Adjunct Faculty at Northeastern University.

	Topics:	1. The Business Case for CAP – without the technical chatter
		2. CAP in the Cloud
	Speaker:	Pete O'Dell is the Founder/Director of Swan Island Networks and former President or Chief Operating Officer of several technology companies. Pete also held technical positions at Microsoft and Digital Equipment, and he authored books on computer networking and on interoperability.

	Topic:	Lessons Learned - End-to-End CAP-Based Alerting Systems
	Speaker:	Norm Paulsen is a senior meteorologist for Environment Canada and a principle architect of the CAP Canadian Profile. He has expertise in systems design, and has been thoroughly involved in warning message production since 1991. His current position involves analysis and strategic planning for alerting programs of Environment Canada.

	Topic:	CAP in Disaster Reduction: A Real-Life Case
	Speaker:	Efraim Petel is a renowned security expert and he is the founder and CEO of Alerting Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a subsidiary of AtHoc. Under Efraim’s direction, ASI has become a leading provider of warning systems for national security and infrastructure protection used by various levels of government around the world.

	Topic:	Early warning of weather and climatic extremes in Turkey and CAP needs for Commission for Climatology
	Speaker:	Serhat Sensoy is Chief of the Climatology Division of Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS), responsible for monthly, seasonal, annual and long-term climatological analyses, climate atlas, and climate parameters modeling. He prepares monitoring and seasonal predictions of temperature and precipitation, and authored about 69 climate and agriculture papers in international proceedings and journals. Mr Sensoy currently serves as the Vice-President, WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl).

	Topic:	Alerts and Warnings
	Speaker:	James Tomkins is a Portfolio Technical Lead at the Met Office in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in public sector and commercial software development for over 15 years and is currently responsible for data processing and provisioning in the Met Office with a focus on interoperability and open interfaces.

	Topic:	Implementation of CAP in Hong Kong Observatory
	Speaker:	Tong Yu Fai (YF Tong) is a Scientific Officer of the Service Delivery Division of the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). He joined the HKO in 1997 to develop the HKO Internet website and then worked as a weather forecaster. He is now in charge of the operation and development of Internet weather services of the HKO.

	Topic:	Welcome from WMO
	Speaker:	Peiliang Shi is now the Officer in Charge of the WMO Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department and prior Director of the WMO Information System (WIS). Before coming to WMO, he was Director of the National Meteorological Information Centre at the China Meteorological Administration. He has been involved in the development and operational management of meteorological information systems for more than 25 years.

	Topic:	Symbols in Alerting
	Speaker:	Nuwan Waidyanatha is a member of the Sahana Software Foundation and he serves as the Chairs of the Sahana Standards and Interoperability Committee. He holds a master's degree in Operations Research and a degree in Computer Engineering. With expertise in ICT system design, Nuwan focuses on practical solutions for developing nations. His present research concerns early warning and emergency information exchange, including the use of CAP.