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Collaboration When It Counts: Esri Partner Technology Addressing Domestic Terrorism

Since 2013, more than 160 active shooter situations have taken place in the United States. Imagine for a moment if those incidents could have been prevented through the use of modern technologies such as mapping software, drones, social media analysis and other real time sensors.
The Smart City Tech Summit, to be held March 29 – 31, 2016, in Kansas City, MO, will showcase how four Esri Partners, along with other hardware and software providers, can create smart solutions to combat domestic terrorism and active shooter threats. Attendees will have the opportunity to see and experience the capabilities of leading public safety technologies from established providers and emerging startups in order to foster more innovation, collaboration and to better understand how technology can help keep us safe.
“This is the first time a collaboration of teams, tools and technologies have come together to showcase how the Next Generation Officer will plan and respond to an active shooter or crisis event,” said Ken Carter, Vice President at AllSource Analysis and an Esri Emerging Partner. AllSource Analysis, and their Guardian Platform has been played a key role in the integration and vision of the technology interoperability demonstration. “Our primary goal is to improve crisis management, collaboration with both first responders and the command center, and accelerate response times to an active shooter event”.
A full-scale, live technology demonstration that will feature an active shooter threat response by the Kansas City Police Department will take place at an abandoned high school and will include live actors, police, and SWAT teams. The demonstrated technology solution will utilize an integration of advanced software and data analytics, combined with satellite, UAV, satellites, sensor, social media, mobile technologies, and recently declassified technologies for public safety to deliver a comprehensive situational awareness of the event. Each of the Esri Partners play a key role in this demonstration:

Attendees will learn how the latest trends, lessons learned, developments of new strategies, and deployment of public safety technologies will help protect citizens in their daily lives. The conference will foster the type of collaboration and partnership that is the hallmark of American problem-solving, and we can think of no more important problem to tackle.
Together, Esri and our partners are helping solve emerging real-world challenges by working together to embrace technology in order to create solutions that combat domestic terrorism and active shooter threats. Technology plays a major role in helping detect and manage these threats and selecting the right public safety technology is critical. This has never been more difficult due to rapid technology advances through innovation, new lessons learned from real life incidents, and being able to properly assess your security risks in an era of dynamic and evolving security threats. For every city, organization and citizen around the world, one thing is very clear: the threat of domestic terrorism and an active shooter incident is very real.
Learn more: smartcitytechsummit.com
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