Twitter and Google Maps are being used in mainstream emergency management, and projects like InSTEDD will push them even farther. This session shows you what is working, what isn’t, and what’s next in Disaster Tech.
Jesse Robbins is passionate about Operations, Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerance, and Resilient Design.
He currently serves as the Director of Infrastructure at Etelos, co-chair of the Velocity Performance & Operations Conference, and is part of O’Reilly Radar. He previously worked at Amazon.com where his title was “Master of Disaster” and where he was responsible for Website Availability.
Jesse is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina.
Mikel Maron is co-founder of Mapufacture, and web developer for hire, specializing in Open Geospatial and Wiki tech. He’s been active in the standardization of GeoRSS and in the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project, and several open source projects. He’s developed two of the first Wikis in use at the UN. Previously, Mikel worked as senior developer of My Yahoo! and researched evolutionary models of ecosystems for an MSc at the University of Sussex.
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Yvonne Romaine at yromaine@oreilly.com.
Download the Where 2.0 Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus
Download the Media & Promotional Partner Brochure (PDF) for more information on trade opportunities with O'Reilly conferences, or contact Avila Reese at mediapartners@oreilly.com.
For media-related inquiries, contact Maureen Jennings at maureen@oreilly.com.
To stay abreast of conference news and to receive email notification when registration opens, please sign up for the Where Conference newsletter (login required).
View a complete list of Where 2.0 contacts.