SXSW 2019
Austin Drone City: UAVs for Public Good
Description:
Recent tragic events including an active shooter at a Las Vegas concert and the bombing at the Boston Marathon illustrate how public events can quickly escalate into a life threatening situations.
Austin is a vibrant & progressive community that annually serves as host to many multi-day events that bring 10’s of thousands of attendees to its city. However, hosting events such as ACL Live, Formula 1 and of course the SXSW festivals creates significant challenges for local public safety organizations that must ensure the safe and secure environment for event attendees.
In our panel of Austin public safety leaders, we will discuss the use emerging technologies to better enable and prepare their organizations to rapidly respond to any type of public safety threat for event attendees.
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Takeaways
- Learn about the ever increasing public safety threat landscape and how first response organizations try to stay a step ahead of the bad actors.
- Better understand how new emerging technologies such as UAVs are becoming the first eyes and ears in emergency response situations.
- Learn about virtual policing of public gatherings. UAVs could be used to better assist with control crowd control by acting as a high tech deterrent.
Speakers
- Richard Davis , Assistant Fire Chief , Austin Fire Department
- John M. Jones , Division Director , Texas Department of Public Safety
- Deborah Giles , Executive Director , Intel Corporation
- Jennifer Stephenson, Commander , Austin Police Department
Organizer
Brian Dietrich, Business Development Manager , Intel Corporation
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