Program – Day Three

Being prepared for the changing threat environment can benefit greatly in mitigating its impact on infrastructure and the broader community, ensuring resilience, safety and security. How can we counter these emerging physical and cyber threats to minimise loss of service and financial impact?

– Improvised Explosive Devices and Critical Infrastructure Protection – Douglas DeLancey, Chief, Strategy Branch, Office for Bombing Prevention
– The Importance of Embedding Security into the Design of CNI Facilities – Sarah Jane Prew, Senior Security Consultant, Arup, UK
– The Insider Threat – Catherine Piana, Secretary General, Help 2 Protect, Belgium
– Implementing the NIST CSF – Glenda R. Snodgrass, President, The Net Effect, LLC

America’s critical infrastructure preparedness trajectory continues to decline. In an increasingly dangerous domestic and international environment, America must have, an objectively measurable, achievable, and sustainable critical infrastructure and by extension National preparedness condition — one built from Communities to Washington, DC. The biggest obstacle to the continuous modernization of America’s community-based, and inextricably cyber-reliant critical infrastructures has been funding. In view of the foregoing, the panel will address business and community perspectives on CI preparedness and (via pre-recorded presentation), an historically and operationally proven initiative now before the US Congress: The creation of a community and state CI requirements driven, private sector organized and operated National Infrastructure Bank.

– Chair: Jeff Gaynor, President, National Resilience
– Minna LeVine, CEO/President, SMART Community Exchange
– Tedra Cheatham, CEcD, Executive Director, State Economic Competitiveness Louisiana Economic Development
– Alphecca Muttardy, Member, National Infrastructure Bank Coalition, Former Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund

How to we develop and plan the best resilience strategies within our CI community? Through discipline in information sharing and making infrastructure preparedness personal, we can help to build resilience into our infrastructures that benefit the whole community.

– The P.A.C.E. of Risk Society – Dr. William T. Spencer PhD, Deputy Associate Director of Operations, District of Columbia’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management
– Resiliency Benefits of a Holistic Identity – Charles Burton, Technology Director, Calcasieu Parish Government
– The Health Analysis Research for Public Events (HARPE) Tool – Stephanie Jenkins, Cyber Security Analyst, Argonne National Laboratory
– Overcoming infrastructure security and response challenges – Matt Sexton, Cybersecurity and IT Expert, Hexagon

What are some of the latest and future technologies, from ground surveillance, space based or cyber technology, to predict or detect the wide range of potential threats to CNI.

– Secure Tomorrow Series: A Strategic Foresight Toolkit to Prepare for the Future – Noel Kyle, Program Lead, CISA
– How Unified Physical Security Solutions Help You Thrive in Evolving Times – Stephen Homrighaus, Account Executive, Enterprise Markets, Genetec
– Overcoming infrastructure security and response challenges – David Armstrong, vice president and general manager of North America government, transportation and defense for Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial;
– The Next Evolution of Security Technologies, Clark Harbaugh, director of strategic sales, JCI Security Products
– Gawain Guerdy of Thermal Imaging Radar