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BAPCO seminar news ‘Towards a New Dawn’ is the theme of the BAPCO 2010 Conference and Exhibition taking place from 20th – 22nd April 2010 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. The event will give delegates an insight into what the future holds for improving and delivering public safety-civil contingency services through the effective use of integrated communication and information management technologies. Due to popular demand, the conference will once again feature a dual stream format offering a wide range of discussion under two key streams all with an educational focus. Plus, to support individual personal development programmes, all conference delegates receive a Certificate of Attendance. On day one of the conference Julie Stinson, Project Manager, 5 Star Team, will present on the 2010 Winter Olympics Communications Planning in Washington State. This presentation is a ‘must-see’ for all those communications officers who are involved in the 2012 Olympics. Following on the Tuesday, Dr Ahmed Aldabbagh, Principal Engineer at QinetiQ will present on seamless communication for crisis management (SecrIcom). Dr Ahmed Aldabbagh, a principal engineer with over 15 years involvement in resilient wired/wireless communications, will provide a brief background on SecrIcom, an EU funded FP7 research project addressing secure communications across all agencies involved in large scale crisis. The presentation will cover two aspects: firstly the work undertaken by BAPCO and QinetiQ to establish the user requirements and capability shortfalls and secondly the application of technologies to address these shortfalls, concluding with an illustration of how the implementation of SecrIcom can be achieved. On Day two Paul Holman, Operations Manager – Specialist Emergency response Department, Ambulance Victoria, will give an insight into Australia’s summer of 2009 entitled “Visited by Hell and all its Fury”. This presentation will outline the principles and key features of the Ambulance Victoria Emergency Response Plan in addition to its application in the Victorian Heat Wave in January 2009 and the catastrophic “Black Saturday” bushfire event of February 2009. Paul Holman will present the pre-event information that was available, how Ambulance Victoria prepared for each utilizing its plan along with the outcomes of each event and the lessons learnt. The Thursday sessions open with a presentation from Jeanette Innes, Assistant Director, Programme Manager for Telecommunications Resilience from the Civil Contingencies Secretariat Cabinet Office. Jeanette Innes will discuss in detail the relationship between The Cabinet Office and the Civil Contingencies Act.

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