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	Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Counter-Terrorism:  Emerging Technological Solutions   Though our memory of the events of 9/11 begins to fade, the lessons learned that day and afterward, are still with us.   Suitcase nuclear weapons, wide-scale chemical attacks, human-engineered pandemics, and debilitating cyber attacks were once the subject of spy movies and techno-thriller novels.  Today they are all too real.  What steps are being taken to detect, monitor, protect, and mitigate these threats?  Are we safer now than eight years ago?  What about four years ago?  In the battle against terrorism, are our defensive technologies up to the task of countering such weapons?   On September 15th a panel of experts will answer these questions and provide useful insight into the business opportunities associated with combating terrorism with technology.  Starting with an update on current government and international initiatives, we will quickly move to a discussion of some of the innovative technologie4s being deployed in the battle against domestic and  international terrorism.   If you are interested in learning about evolving national and international standards, what can and is being done to protect the public and business community against terrorist attacks, and the direction of technology, you should attend this conference. Moderator/Keynote: Don Byrne, North River Solutions Panel: John Bagley, Mission Innovation, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems W. Russ Webster, Federal Preparedness Coordinator, DHS Rich Pietravalle, Principal, MITRE Corp Jim Burrell, Special Agent, FBI Donald R. Byrne, North River Solutions As the former CEO of several companies, Don Byrne brings an executive perspective to the field of continuity planning. A Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), Don’s expertise includes computer technology, energy, healthcare, financial services, and the hospitality industry. He serves on the Board of Trustees of one the largest hospitals in New Hampshire and is active on the boards of several high tech companies. He has extensive experience working with firms in the legal, insurance, manufacturing, and transportation sectors. An entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, he has helped launch several successful computer technology firms. Don is the founder of North River Solutions, a boutique consulting, training, product development, and research firm. The company maintains offices in North America, Egypt, and China; and offers a full range of business resiliency consulting services including pre-audits, crisis management, risk assessments, business impact analysis, strategy development, training and awareness programs, executive communications training, and plan testing and evaluation. North River Solutions has teamed with OneBeacon Insurance to develop specialized resiliency programs in the areas of progressive heath, medical devices, technology, manufacturing, and non-profit institutions. Working together the firms have developed the Resiliency-1 Index™, a benchmarking tool that assesses the overall quality of an organization’s resiliency program. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Don has serves as a Director of several professional societies. Currently he is the ACP representative to the ANSI National Accreditation Board’s Committee of Experts (ANAB-COE). This group is charged with developing standards for the United States in the area of Business Continuity Management (BCM). He is also a member of Technical Committee BCM-1 of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International) which is working on a related BCM standard. A Lead Auditor, Don is the Program Manager for Business Continuity at the third largest certification firm in the US. This organization is among the first in the world authorized to conduct audits against the guidelines of BS 25999, an internationally recognized BCM standard. In parallel, Don is working to develop a small business continuity standard and a community resiliency benchmark in combination with other interested parties and organizations. A graduate of the U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Warfare School, Don has spent much of the past thirty years working in the fields of software development, emergency management, business continuity, IT management, and operational resiliency. His technical expertise includes storage technologies, customer relationship management, document management, and workflow solutions. He has been the CEO of several high tech firms involved in the development of risk management software and is active in the emerging area of electronic discovery. Don holds degrees in mathematics and philosophy, has a Masters in Business Administration, and has earned several professional certifications. He is part of the adjunct faculty at several colleges including Boston University’s Graduate School of Business, Los Angeles University, and Shanghai University. John B. Bagley, Jr., Mission Innovation,  Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems John is an experienced technical expert and engineering manager. He joined the Mission Innovations (MI) team in October of 2008. Prior to joining MI, John was the Chief Engineer on the Air Warfare Destroyer program for the Commonwealth of Australia. In this role John managed the day to day activities for a team of over one hundred and fifty engineers and technical contributors. Focus areas in this role included team leadership, engineering planning & scheduling, systems engineering, architecture, and customer collaboration. John was also recently the Technology Area Director for Architecture and Integration working for Raytheon’s Corporate Office for Technology. In this role John managed Raytheon’s Enterprise and System Architecture policies, coordinated the identification and training of system architects, and coordinated the deployment of architecture tools, reference architectures and Architecture frameworks across the Raytheon Enterprise. John acted as Raytheon’s external point of contact for architecture standards organizations such as the Open Group and SEI, commercial technology companies such as IBM and Sun Microsystems and technical forums such as the System Architecture Forum chaired by the Stevens Institute and ESRI. John also served as chair of Raytheon’s Corporate Architecture Review Board. John has 22 years experience based in Naval Combat Systems, robotics & control systems, software engineering, systems engineering & architecture, complex systems integration & test. John was selected as a Raytheon Engineering Fellow in 2007. W. Russell Webster, Federal Preparedness Coordinator, DHS W. Russ Webster is a 1977 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. During his 26 year military service, he served in two ships and commanded two shore stations, including USCG Group Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the largest shore rescue unit in the United States. During that tour, he was the Coast Guard's Incident Commander for the response to both the JFK Jr and Egypt Air flight 990 air crashes in 1999. In 2001, he was the director for Coast Guard operations from Maine to New Jersey and coordinated regional operations in response to the 9 -11 terrorist attacks. Upon retirement from the Coast Guard in 2003, he transitioned to DHS civilian service with the TSA, where he occupied three positions at Boston's Logan Airport, a Category X airport that was the hub for seven other airports within the state. During his four and a half years with TSA Boston, he co-led a planning effort with all regional stakeholders with a vested interest in preventing and responding to terrorist attacks in the transportation systems. That effort produced agreed upon memorandums of understanding and a shared strategic plan developed by and for the partners. Russ Webster transitioned to FEMA R1 as the region's first Federal Preparedness Coordinator on February 4, 2008. As the FPC, he is responsible for enhancing individual, community and state preparedness throughout New England. He does this with a professional staff of 20, who plan, train educate and exercise with all six states and select constituencies including schools, the private sector, nuclear power plant communities and government agencies. He and his wife Elizabeth live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with their two children Andrew, 21, and Noelle, age 15. Russ was recently named as one of two Deputies for Secretary Napolitano’s H1N1 Regional Coordination Team. Richard Pietravalle, Principal, MITRE Corporation Richard Pietravalle is a Principal at MITRE corporation (www.mitre.org ) in the Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems.  He has been a project manager and consultant for applications in defense and civilian agencies, the intelligence community, and homeland security, including technologies for computer network defense, information protection, and tamper resistance.  He serves as MITRE’s representative to the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (www.thei3p.org).  Richard also has over twenty years experience in the private sector in the USA and Europe including information science, security, networking, personal computers, and systems management technologies.
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