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SUMMARY:M-STEP 8th Annual Minnesota Symposium on Terrorism and Emergen
 cy Preparedness
DESCRIPTION:\n\n2009 8th Annual Minnesota Symposium on Terrorism and E
 mergency Preparedness (M-STEP): Living In a World with Terror\n\nOnlin
 e: http://m-step.com/\n\nThe 2009 8th Annual Minnesota Symposium on Te
 rrorism and Emergency Preparedness (M-STEP): Living In a World with Te
 rror is hosted by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Hennep
 in Technical College on November 17 and 18, 2009, in Brooklyn Park, MN
 .\n\nThe conference is open to all individuals interested in making th
 eir communities safer, stronger, and better prepared for any type of h
 azard. The conference brings together high-level government and securi
 ty experts that share strategies and insights on preparing for the une
 xpected. Registration is capped at approximately 500 participants to i
 nclude Federal agency personnel, state and local elected officials, ed
 ucation and school personnel, emergency management professionals, mili
 tary personnel, law enforcement and fire services, public health and e
 mergency medical services, non-governmental organizations, private bus
 iness and industry.\n\nThis annual conference brings together security
  professionals, law enforcement officials and government representativ
 es, who plan, manage and/or respond to threats posed by terrorism. The
  conference will address the latest, most sophisticated terrorist and 
 other unconventional threats. It is a ‘must’ for everyone concerne
 d with the safety of their most valuable resource—their personnel.\n
 \nThe conference features over 25 in-depth presentations and 27 topic 
 expert speakers providing the latest updates and best practices on pre
 paredness from across the nation and selected foreign countries. Atten
 dees share best practices on collaborative emergency planning, discuss
 ed preparedness outreach and education for targeted populations, learn
 ed innovative approaches to preparedness, hear updates on Department o
 f Homeland Security (DHS)/FEMA initiatives, obtained updates on findin
 gs from preparedness research, networked with other participants, and 
 much more.\n\nPandemics, improvised explosive devices, “homegrown”
  radical terrorists, cyber attacks and identity theft are a few of the
  topics to be explored.\n\nScheduled speakers and instructors include\
 nKeynote Session – The Resilient Homeland: How to Prepare for, Preve
 nt, and Withstand Terrorist Attacks\nKeynote Speaker - Professor Amos 
 Guiora, SJ\n\nKeynote Session – Terrorist Attack Tactics and Techniq
 ues\nKeynote Speaker - Howard Linett, Esq., was a member of the Suicid
 e/Homicide Bomber Tactical Analysis Focus Group of the National Terror
 ism Preparedness Institute (NTPI), U.S. Department of Homeland Securit
 y and the Technical Support Working Group, (TSWG) U.S. Department of D
 efense. He is a Sergeant-Major and sniper instructor in the Israeli Po
 lice (volunteer) Civil Guard and a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forc
 es Combat Engineers.\n\nKeynote Session – Virginia Tech Crisis Manag
 ement - “Lessons Learned,”\nKeynote Speaker - James W. Satterfield
 , President/Chief Operating Officer Co-Founder\n\nKeynote Session – 
 Living with Terrorism\nKeynote Speaker - John Sulka is a nationally re
 cognized fire training professional who has been a featured presenter 
 at the Firehouse Expo in Baltimore, the Fire Department Instructors Co
 nference (FDIC) in Indianapolis, the Fire Department Institute (FDNY) 
 and the NY Firefighters Burn Center seminar Program, to just name a fe
 w. Chief Sulka is a contributing editor for Firehouse Magazine, and al
 so writes articles for Fire Engineering, WNYF, and Size-up Magazines. 
 He was also the recipient of the “2001 Training Achievement Award”
  at the 2001 Fire Department Instructors Conference in Indianapolis, I
 ndiana.\n\nPlease check http://m-step.com/ for full program content.\n
 \nFor more information visit https://my.firefighternation.com/events/m
 step-8th-annual-minnesota
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091118T170000
CATEGORIES:"training seminar"
LOCATION:Northland Inn Hotel Brooklyn Park, Minnesota USA
WEBSITE:http://www.northlandinn.com/
URL:http://www.northlandinn.com/
CONTACT:Carol Horstman at 952.995.1330
ORGANIZER:Todd Seitz
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