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UPDATE 20110901
Palantir wins World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award…
http://reports.weforum.org/technology-pioneers-2012/#videos-f9561ab7ece4fa5830f105556f7e2aac

UPDATE 20110711
From the ESRI #UC, the power of Community Analyst
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/community-analyst/index.html

UPDATE 20110614
Fareed Zakaria of CNN #GPS and #Google’s Eric Schmidt hold court at Direct Relief International in Santa Barbara and discuss #innovation -

Excellent presentation by Oculus & Azavea specialists on location-time analysis via CrisisMappers -

Webinar 2011: HunchLab: Azavea, Jeremy Heffner from Jen Ziemke on Vimeo.

Ongoing work by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Asymmetric Warfare -

Excellent Actionable Hot Spot analysis by RAND’s Dr. Ryan Keefe and Dr. Tom Sullivan

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR768.html

And nimble Palantir Solutions

http://www.palantirtech.com/government/videos/whitevideos

InfraGard Los Angeles STAR 2009
School Terrorism Awareness and Response Exercise
JRIC Overview Video

• Saturday, May 16th, 2009, from 8:30am to 4:00pm
• To be held on-site at El Rancho High School, 6501 South Passons Blvd, Pico Rivera, CA 90660
• A combined training and exercise event
• Focused on the issues surrounding a terrorist attack on a school

Exercise Format:
• Morning workshop addressing various topics related to terrorist attacks on children, emergency response plans, and attack prevention
• Afternoon mock school takeover and hostage scenario, with option to participate as hostage or observe emergency responders resolve the takeover
• Post-exercise debrief to share participant observations and experiences from their various perspectives

Participants:
• InfraGard members – Los Angeles and San Diego
• Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC)
• Emergency Responders
• School Officials
• Select Invitees

Registration:
• Individual registration will begin on Monday April 6th
• To register go to http://cawnps.org and click on the Event Registration Icon (beginning 4/6)

Agencies or departments interested in participating or observing should contact FBI Special Agent Regina Miles at regina.canale-miles@infragard.org or via (310) 629-9802. Additional program administrator contacts are provided below:

Rick Jones, immediate past-President/CEO of InfraGard Los Angeles
(818) 262-1854 / rlj@m2000inc.com
Scott Brewer, Naval Postgraduate School – Center for Asymmetric Warfare
(805) 989-7329 / ssbrewer@nps.navy.mil
Alan Jaeger, Naval Postgraduate School – Center for Asymmetric Warfare
(805) 989-1786 / ajaeger@nps.navy.mil