|  AIRR 2009 Presentations The Infrastructure Security Partnership Annual Infrastructure and Regional Resilience 2009 Conference | | PRESENTATIONS | Wednesday, December 9 | 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | TISP AIRR 2009 Conference Registration Open | 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Resilience of Infrastructure within an Action Plan for Regional ResilienceFacilitated by the Critical Infrastructure Resilience and the State & Local Emergency Management & Homeland Security Committees | 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | SAME Small Business Conference Exhibit Hall Open for Networking | 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch on Your Own | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Opening Plenary Session – Coordination of Homeland Security with Homeland Defense Preventing and Recovering from human caused and natural disasters continue to be key elements of our nation’s Homeland Security and Defense strategies. The U.S. Federal Government, (in collaboration with state, regional and local entities as well as private sector, academia, and other related institutions), has been working very diligently to provide leadership and support for addressing these ongoing threats. Essential to protecting our nation’s citizens and resources is the effective collaboration between Civilian and Defense agencies. A recent report released by the GAO in September of 2009, “Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has a Strong Exercise Program, but Involvement of Interagency Partners and States Can Be Improved,” raised some of the operational collaboration successes and challenges faced by government agencies and their leaders. In this plenary session, a distinguished panel of senior leaders from DHS, DOD, USNORTHCOM and Private Sector will share their insights and experience on some of the current success and challenges for such collaboration. They will provide an overview of some of the strategic initiatives, underway and planned, to maximize the effectiveness and efficiencies of the collaboration efforts between Civilian and Military agencies, along with key stakeholders in private sector and other organizations. A range of topics and questions covering technical, programmatic, policy, legal and technological considerations will discussed at this session. Moderator: Albert Romano, Michael Baker Jr. Inc. Speakers: Jamie Clark ,Defense Critical Infrastructure Office, U.S. Department of Defense James Plehal, Office of Infrastructure Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security | 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | SAME Small Business Conference Exhibit Hall Open for Networking | 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Plenary Session – Creating a Holistic Regional Strategy to Develop Bio-Event Resilient Infrastructures and Communities This session focuses on multi-jurisdiction, cross-sector and multidisciplinary initiatives now underway in different regions of the nation that are focusing on creating a model for developing bio-event resilient regions. The session will emphasize the importance of regional public-private collaborations to identifying capabilities, needs, and areas of improvement; how to set up these initiatives, highlight their outcomes, and focus on the role of public health in enabling infrastructure, communities, and regions to increase their disaster resilience. Speakers: | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Networking Reception | Thursday, December 10 | 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | TS1: Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies: Mapping a Path to a National Standard On November 17th, Secretary Napolitano unveiled a new Web site— www.dhs.gov/criticalinfrastructure—designed to provide stakeholders and the public with easily accessible information about their role in safeguarding critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR). An essential aspect of preventing and recovering from natural and man-made disasters is to fully understand and plan around the interdependencies between CIKR assets within and across sectors and regions. True CIKR resiliency cannot be attained without such understanding and planning. It is time to address how to systematically identify and prioritize CIKR interdependencies and develop national standards and best practices to reduce the risk of cascading events that impact multiple CIKR assets and sectors. In this session, a distinguished panel of senior leaders from public and private sector will share their insights and experience related to the vulnerabilities that result from CIKR interdependencies. They will provide an overview of some of the strategic initiatives, underway and planned, to identify vulnerabilities and improve resiliency across CIKR sectors. They will discuss the lessons learned from collaboration efforts between civilian and military agencies and private sector stakeholders. Panelists will focus on the need for a national standard and the technical, programmatic, legal and technological challenges to reaching this goal. Moderator: C. Ernest Edgar IV, PBS&J Speakers: | TS2: Variations among State Fusion Centers Protecting our nation’s Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources is a vital component of our national security and economic stability. Implementing protective measures requires partnerships to be developed between various public and private sector organizations. To this end Intelligence Fusion Centers have been tasked to begin addressing challenges faced within the states they operate in. This session brings together representatives from Fusion Centers across the nation in a town hall style debate to discuss best practices of their centers, as well as some of the major differences within their management, operations, information sharing, written protocols, and institutional partnerships. Moderator: Kathy McKeever, California Emergency Management Agency Speakers: | 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Beverage Break (Coffee, Tea, Water) | 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | TS3: The Evolving Paradigm: Emergency Management to Homeland Security and Back Over the past 50 years, the Nation's approach to planning for and responding to disruptive events has evolved in cycles. During the Cold War, the focus was almost exclusively on nuclear attack. In the late 1970's, the concept of "emergency management" gained traction, culminating in the creation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 1979. Although we were still very much concerned with the Soviet threat, attention to natural disasters grew. The bombing of the World Trade Center and the Murrah Building led to the concept of "crisis and consequence management" and concern about terrorism took center stage. This concern accelerated with the tragic events of 9/11 and the concept of "homeland security" was born. Then came Hurricane Katrina and the focus appeared to shift again to natural disasters and "emergency management." Today, we seem to have arrived at a reasonable balance between the natural and human-caused, between homeland security and emergency management. This session will examine the implications of this evolution in the planning and response paradigm for the community in general and critical infrastructure resilience in particular. Moderator: John W. Porco, PE, Homeland Security Services, Michael Baker Jr., Inc. Speakers: | TS4: Shared Roles and Responsibilities among Communities, States, and Regions Natural disasters and terrorists have the ability to disruption the economic and social vitality of urban and rural communities. Communities should have the capability to anticipate risk, limit impact, and bounce back rapidly through survival, adaptability, evolution, and growth in the face of turbulent change. In session we will examine the federal, state, and local government roles and responsibilities to enable a community to be truly resilient particularly in the ability to recovery. Moderator: Jay Manik, CMD, Inc. Speakers: | 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | TISP Awards Luncheon | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | TS5: Guiding Principles for the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure The sustainment of multi-funded, multi-jurisdictional, long-term construction, and long-term operation of critical infrastructure is an area of great importance to the Nation as reflected by the performance of the New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina and the ASCE Report Card. Large public projects present unique challenges as they cross multiple boundaries to include ownership, function, and funding. In response to these organizational challenges, ASCE has undergone an investigation of the challenges and developed a set of "Guiding Principles for The Nation's Critical Infrastructure". This session explores the importance, meaning, applicability of these guiding principles. Speakers: | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | TISP Board of Directors Meeting and Elections – Open to attendees |
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