Digital Sandbox CEO to Chair Fusion Center Panel at ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit, Company Will Also Present Critical Infrastructure Protection Case Study
Jul 07 2009
Digital Sandbox, provider of the Risk Analysis Center (RAC) suite of risk management software and analysis services, is pleased to announce that CEO Bryan Ware will lead two sessions at the upcoming 2009 ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit. This event, the only geospatial conference dedicated to homeland security, is being held July 11-14 in San Diego.
The first session, the Fusion Center Panel discussion, brings together federal, state, local, and industry experts to examine the role of geographic information system (GIS) and related applications in enhancing the effectiveness of intelligence and homeland security missions. The second will focus on Critical Infrastructure Protection best practices, and will be supplemented by a separate case study session and by Digital Sandbox’s participation in the ESRI International User Group’s Public Safety Showcase later that week.
Mr. Ware, a co-founder of Digital Sandbox, is chief company strategist, lead designer, and the primary developer of the company’s patented all-hazards risk algorithms. He is also responsible for designing the breakthrough RAC security risk management product line and its underlying predictive analytics platform. He has been at the forefront of national innovation in risk analytics for over 15 years, leading threat mitigation technologies for terrorist attacks and helping identify and overcome military vulnerabilities, protect against bio-terrorism, boost infrastructure protection, contend with drug trafficking, and address Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). A frequent speaker, he is consulted regularly by Congress and at the Cabinet level on security and analytical risk management. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Optics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Digital Sandbox, an ESRI Business Partner, provides software products and services for analytic risk management to government agencies and large enterprises, enabling them to optimize their strategic, policy, and budgetary decisions for risk-based resource allocation. With the integration of ESRI’s ArcGIS Engine technology into its RAC software and managed services, Digital Sandbox has harnessed GIS technology as a powerful tool for risk-based resource allocation. Visit Digital Sandbox on the Web at http://www.dsbox.com.