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EMSINA PDP at the AFAC Conference 2024

FREE

Welcome to EMSINA's Professional Development Program for the 2024 Conference sponsored by Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand.

Through full presentations, lightning talks and facilitated discussions, EMSINA will present examples of the use and the growing demands of Geospatial intelligence technologies as applied in within the emergency services organisations, Local/State/Federal Governments and also those used to feed public information demands. During this professional development opportunity, you will see presentations from our Emergency Service Organisations and Government from across Australia along with some of the major vendors of location technologies. We will hear about the latest applications and tools that drive data driven decision making, trends and common national scale directions and most important we will focus on what the future holds in an ever-increasing need for Geospatial in modern digital solutions....read more

This year's PDP event is free to attend with all participation costs and expenses kindly covered by Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand. Be quick to reserve you seat as this event will sell out again.

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09:00

ACT

Housekeeping

Steve Forbes (ESM)

Acting Chief Officer

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ACT State Emergency Service

09:05

ACT

Program Plenary

Rob Webb

Chief Executive Officer

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AFAC

09:25

ACT

Elevating National Intelligence Gathering Capability

Deb Sparkes

Aviation Research and Evaluation Manager

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National Aerial Fighting Centre (AFAC)

09:40

ACT

Spatial tools and data to support and inform evidence-based decision making for service delivery in Victoria

Teena Speirs

Modelling and Products Manager

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Country Fire Authority

09:55

ACT

Overview of Fire & Rescue NSW's Computer Aided Dispatch Upgrade

Marina De-Gabriele and Darren Yu

Manager, ESCAD and GIS Operations | ESCAD GIS Administrator

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NSW Fire and Rescue

10:10

ACT

Live NSW and Spatial Digital Twin

Brenton Ray

Partnership Manager

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Spatial Services

Morning Tea

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10:50

ACT

Seeking Support - A National View of Resources and Assets

Julian Fox | Emerson Zabat

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Digital Acceleration Services

Fujitsu Australia

11:20

ACT

Spatial Update from the National Bushfire Intelligence Capability

Petter Nyman

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National Bushfire Intelligence Capability

11:35

ACT

Latest innovations in NSW Government’s operational Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) program

Dominic Lawler

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Remote Sensing Scientist

Spatial Imagery Services

11:50

ACT

NEMA working with data in a crisis at a National scale

Adi Chopra

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Director, Geospatial Analytics

National Emergency Management Agency

12:10

ACT

Historic Bushfire Modelling

Warwick Hehir

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Supervisor Bushfire Analysis

NSW Rural fire Service

Lunch

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13:00

ACT

EMSINA’s resources, what we have done and what we are doing and where to find it for Spatial in Emergency Management

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Kane Orr & Aurora Foo

EMSINA Secretariates and Data Integration Section

EMSINA and Geoscience Australia

13:15

ACT

Redefining Flood Risk Management: Integrating StoryMaps, Geospatial Data, and Community-Lead Innovation

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Melissa Daley

Manager, Geospatial Intelligence

NSW State Emergengy Service

13:30

ACT

Bringing bushfire simulation to the cloud: Modernising the simulation landscape

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Simon Webster

EMSINA Chair and Executive Manager, DataSciences and Advanced Capability

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services

13:45

ACT

Evaluation and testing of Fire tower Cameras and fire recognition AI

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Jamie Carter

GIS Manager

New South Wales Forestry Corporation

14:00

ACT

From Data to Decisions: Enabling place-based decisions Digital Atlas of Australia

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Catherine Flower

Digital Atlas Australia

Geoscience Australia

Panel Session

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14:15

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Simon Webster

QFES

Qld
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Aaron Cashion

NRE

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Adi Chopra

NEMA

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Julian Fox

Fujitsu Australia

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Closing Remarks

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