The event showcases a myriad of humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, stabilization and reconstruction technologies and ideas from the private sector (business, not-for-profit, and academic) in providing shelter, power, water, sanitation, lighting, heating & cooling, cooking and information communication technology solutions. All activities will be outside (rain or shine), independent of the power grid, and communications will be live! If you are interested, please register as an Exhibitor at http://tidesdemo13.eventbrite.com/
KEY EVENTS
Tuesday 1 Oct 2013
1000-1045: Facilitated Discussion: ICT, Open Source & Unclassified Info Sharing
1200-1300: Lunchtime Speaker Series: Building Long-term Capacity (Dr. Walter Dorn, Canadian Forces College)- WITH LIGHT REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED BY Babington Technology, Inc. at their Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer.
1500-1545: Facilitated Discussion: Design in Building Capacity (LT Anne Gibbon, Former Deputy Director of the Commander's Initiatives Group at Naval Special Warfare Development Group)
Wednesday 2 Oct 2013
1000-1045: Facilitated Discussion: Compatibilities & Logistics- Scott Sklar
1200-1300: Lunchtime Speaker Series: Resiliency in Community Approaches (National Guard)- With Authentic Ethiopian dishes BY Babington Technology, Inc. at their Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer.
1500-1545: Facilitated Discussion: Soft Power (Sheldon Himelfarb, Director, Center of Innovation: Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding / Director, Center of Innovation: Science, Technology and Peacebuilding at United State Institute of Peace)
Thursday 3 Oct 2013
1000-1045: Facilitated Discussion: Interoperability Gaps
1200-1300: Lunchtime Speaker Series: Cross Cutting Solutions (Chris Albon, Director of Data Projects, Ushahidi)- WITH LIGHT REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED BY Babington Technology, Inc. at their Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer.
1500-1545: Facilitated Discussion: Community Based Solutions
WHO ATTENDS THE TIDES DEMO?
This event is widely attended by Department of Defense officials and government agencies active in domestic and international disaster response and capacity building. Previous visitors have included representatives from DHS, FEMA, State Department, The American Red Cross, and students and faculty from National Defense University; as well as a wide array of private, for-profit and non-profit organizations. We also plan to have a lunchtime speaker series and working groups to increase opportunities to learn and network.
Do you want to know the exhibitors who will be coming? Click here to find out! http://startidesnet.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/tides-demo-exhibitors-as-of-20-august-2012/
Click the video to view our 2012 TIDES demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Kccoc9fmw
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
Registration to exhibit or attend as a visitor for the event can be completed online at: http://tidesdemo13.eventbrite.com/ If you would like to invite visitors or exhibitors to the Field Demonstration, don't hesitate to pass along to interested parties. For questions or inquiries, contact Amy Gorman at [email protected], 202-685-3916.
ABOUT TIDES
TIDES-a DoD research project at the National Defense University, seeks to incorporate a wide range of public-private solutions to support populations under stress; post-conflict, post-disaster and impoverished. TIDES provides a collaborative space for relationship building and engagement among various DoD components, US civilian government agencies, and a wide array of NGOs, private and for-profit entities, as well as empowered individuals seeking to develop technical and policy solutions in humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and emergency response situations. TIDES promotes and supports such work through its base at NDU and cooperation with DoD and non-military partners in the United States and around the world. To learn more about TIDES, please see our Prezi presentation, http://prezi.com/fetwuzr24m1n/tides-ignite-prezi/.
One of TIDES' most valuable assets is its ability to engage talent worldwide through the global STAR-TIDES network. In addition to building bridges to improve situational awareness from diverse information, TIDES also develops links to transactions that make a difference to people "on the ground." TIDES' agile, sustainable approaches are intended to mesh with the unpredictable and complex future we face. Linking the best thinking of government, business, and civil society will be vital in the years ahead and TIDES' public-private, whole of government, and trans-national engagement suggests ways to proceed. The TIDES Technology Field Demonstration continues to be a place where so much of this collaboration occurs.
I hope that you are able to make it to this year's demonstration!
