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Empowering. Local.
Communities. Citizens.Empowering Citizens and Communities through
Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management
ConferenceTheme
• Citizens as first responders
• Citizens helping citizens
and responders
• Crowdsourceddata and
analysis
• Community and Crisis
Informatics
Dr. LeysiaPalenAssociate Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder.
KeynoteSpeaker
• Faculty fellow with the Institute
for the Alliance of
Technology, Learning and
Society (ATLAS)
• Director of the ConnectivITyLab
• Principal investigator on the
NSF Funded Project EPIC:
Empowering the Public with
Information in Crisis.
KeynoteSpeaker
Edward G. HappGlobal CIO of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Based in Geneva, Switzerland
• Chairman of NetHope
• Former Chief Information
Officer at Save the Children
• Co-founded and co-director of the
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s
(HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping &
Early Warning.
• He served as Director of Crisis
Mapping at Ushahidi
• Co-founded CrisisMappers, Digital
Humanitarians and the award-
winning Standby Task Force.
KeynoteSpeaker
Dr. Patrick MeierServes as Director of Innovation at
the Qatar Computing Research
Institute (QCRI).
2014
Conference
Dates
Sunday May 18 Pre-Conference
Monday May 19 Opening Day
Tuesday May 20 Middle Day / Banquet
Wednesday May 21 Final Day
Thursday May 22 Departure
Centrally Located!
New York City
State College
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington DC
Pittsburgh
Toronto, Canada
State College
is centrally
located!
only…
3-4 hrs from Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
4-5 hrs from New York City6 hrs from Toronto, Canada
New York
Washington, D.C.
Baltimore
. PittsburghPhiladelphia .
Transportation
BY AIR: State College has its own small airport.
Close to town. Served by American. Delta. USAir.
BY BUS:Megabus offers daily service from New
York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
BY CAR: The easiest way to get to State College.
HOST
College of Earth and Mineral
SciencesGeoVISTA CenterGeographic Visualization Science,
Technology, and Applications Center.
Facility
Tours
• Center Human Computer Interface
• Center for Cyber Security, Information Privacy
and Trust
• Command & Control Lab
• Extreme Events Lab
• Spatial Information Lab
• Smart Sensing Lab
• Cyber Infrastructure Lab
• Intelligent Information Systems Lab
• Computer Supported Collaboration Lab
• Applied Cognitive Science Lab
• Lab for Intelligent Agents
• Red Cell Analytics Lab
• Five Star Hotel—96 euros!
• Gourmet dinner for two with wine—69 euros!
• Good bottle of wine—8 euros!
• Martini—4 euros!
• Good microbrewed pint of beer- 2.5 euros!
• Best ice-cream in the world—2 euros!
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