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  • Incorporating Traffic Management into Your Disaster Planning
    2026/09/16
    Traffic is something we deal with every day in our work commutes and vacations. When disaster strikes, managing traffic becomes a critical task for local and state jurisdictions. Planning ahead can make all the difference.

    Today's guest is Tom Kratt, Senior Vice President Operations - AWP Safety. With 40 years of experience in the electric utility industry, Tom brings extensive expertise and leadership to AWP Safety's national team of traffic management professionals. In his role, he focuses on enhancing traffic control planning at an enterprise level, providin utility customers with comprehensive, strategic insights to optimize their operations.

    Kratt came to AWP Safety after an impressive tenure at AEP Ohio, where he held the position of Vice President of Operations for five years, overseeing the complete electrical distribution portfolio for nearly 1.5 million Ohio customers. His background also includes key roles at Indiana Michigan Power, where he managed operations, maintenance, safety, and financial performance for the electrical grid serving over 580,000 customers, involving a network of more than 250,000 miles of transmission distribution power lines.

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    54 分
  • Moving Beyond Voice for Situational Awareness_mixdown
    2026/08/28
    We are living in a technological century. Everything we do will have some form of
    technology supporting our collective functions. While voice communications have
    dominated public safety operations for a hundred years, there is an opportunity today
    to incorporate the visual element into how we operate.

    The podcast guest is Alex Joyce the company's Head of Tech Safety for LiveU. He
    leads a team focused on supporting public safety agencies & broadcasters with
    realtime video solutions leveraging cellular & satellite technologies across software and
    hardware environments.

    With over 30 years of experience in telecommunications, as well as FAA 107 and FCC
    Advanced Radio licenses and a passion for supporting 1st responders, Alex is excited
    to use this background to support federal, state, and local agencies to help demystify the
    technologies related to TAK, search and rescue drone programs, and community
    outreach via realtime video streaming and interagency collaboration tools that can
    save lives.

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    1 時間 7 分
  • Rebuilding Safer: A Guide to State and Local Adaptation
    2026/08/11
    In this podcast we review the highlights from a New Natural Resources Defense Council report, Rebuilding Safer: A Guide to State and Local Adaptation

    The podcast guest is Dakota Fisher a Senior Advocate, Adaptation, Environmental Health with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and he works at the intersection of climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, urban and regional planning, data analytics, and community empowerment. At NRDC, he works with state and local partners to development innovative, people-centered solutions that reduce the growing impacts of more frequent and severe disasters.

    Before joining NRDC in 2025, Fisher spent 12 years as a public servant, working across local, state, and federal governments. He is proud to bring many practical lessons learned from partnering with communities, agencies, and elected leaders to his NRDC role.

    Fisher holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of New Orleans. He is accredited by the American Planning Association's American Institute of Certified Planners and the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional. He is also a member of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. Fisher is based in NRDC’s Washington, D.C., office.

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  • World Cup Security Challenges
    2026/07/20
    The World Cup has presented some unique challenges for a multitude of agencies and jurisdictions spread over three nations. Security is a paramount consideration for hosting these games. In this podcast we discuss the complexity of the situation and the need for better coordination and information between all the partners engaged in hosting these soccer matches. There is an opportunity to build on what has been accomplished in preparing for the games. That opportunity should not be squandered.

    The podcast guest is Andre McGregor who is the CEO and founder of ForceMetrics, leveraging his background in law enforcement and cybersecurity to improve decision-making in policing. As a retired FBI Special Agent, Andre tackled high-profile cases in cybercrime and counterterrorism, handling hacks and international cyber threats. His early experiences growing up in a marginalized community shaped his commitment to creating safer, more informed interactions between police and the public. With ForceMetrics, he focuses on providing officers with real-time data to enhance situational awareness, de-escalate conflicts and support community-driven law enforcement.

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    46 分
  • Know Your Route for Disasters
    2026/07/09
    Chris Stewart is the President and Co-founder of IntelliMass Technologies Inc., a road-
    intelligence company based in British Columbia. A strategic and ethically-centered
    business leader, Chris has spent his career guiding cross-functional teams, developing
    commercialization pathways, and transforming innovative technical concepts into
    market-ready products.

    Driven by the reality that unpaved terrain presents unique, dynamic liabilities during
    emergencies, Chris leads the commercialization of an emerging platform designed to
    map and monitor remote infrastructure for the mining, forestry, and rural sectors. His
    expertise includes navigating unpaved performance technologies, driving
    organizational growth, and establishing operational systems that allow public and
    private stakeholders to accurately analyze terrain risks.

    Previously, Chris served as President and General Manager of KXI Wildertec—a
    subsidiary of a public transportation tech company—where he directed the
    commercialization of mechatronic technologies engineered specifically for unpaved
    terrain performance. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing
    Management with Distinction from the University of British Columbia, where his award-
    winning thesis work harnessed early-generation AI for business optimization. Chris
    and his wife own and operate a small production farm in the Okanagan Valley of BC.

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    56 分
  • Trust Factor During Disasters
    2026/06/25
    Trust is a basic ingredient in every relationship. This applies to individuals, marriages,
    business partners, nations and the relationship of governments to individuals. Trust is
    the topic we are going to explore today and how it applies to emergency management
    and disasters.

    Kehinde Bolu Adesina, also known as Kenny, is a PhD researcher in Mass
    Communication at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College. His work focuses on
    the intersection of crisis communication, disaster communication, public trust, and
    misinformation. He studies how institutions, government agencies, nonprofits, and
    faith-based organizations communicate during high-risk events, and why those
    communication systems often fail even when the people inside them are working hard
    and acting in good faith.

    He is a contributor to a major NSF-funded disaster resilience project at OU, where he
    conducts research on how organizations share critical knowledge during emergencies,
    analyze misinformation patterns on social media, and support cross-sector
    preparedness workshops involving emergency managers, nonprofits, faith-based
    organizations, and public health communicators. His research builds toward a
    framework called the “Crisis Meaning-Making Model,” which examines how
    communities interpret events through emotion, identity, and social context, not just
    official information.

    Originally from Nigeria, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Communication at
    Beijing Normal University in China and his master’s degree in Communication at the
    University of Illinois Springfield. Before beginning his doctoral work, he served as an
    Illini Science Policy Fellow and Media Production Coordinator at the Illinois Department
    of Agriculture, supporting communication on conservation and climate resilience.
    Kenny is multilingual, speaking English, Yoruba, French, and Mandarin, and brings a
    distinctly cross-cultural lens to questions of trust, public risk, and institutional credibility.
    He has a newsletter, Making Sense of Uncertainty, translating crisis communication
    research into practical guidance for leaders working in emergency management, public
    health, and organizational communication.

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  • The Gap Between Federal Flood Maps and Real Risk
    2026/06/10
    Flooding continues to be the number on hazard when it comes to disasters. Knowing what area is subject to flooding before a flood, the extent of what that flood impact might be, and then knowing the status of an ongoing flood is critically important. This is the subject of this podcast.

    David Tobias the podcast guest serves as the Chief Product Officer at Nearmap Previously, he co-founded Betterview, the leading Property Intelligence Platform for property and casualty insurers, which was acquired by Nearmap in December 2023. David plays a pivotal role in driving the market strategy for Nearmap, enabling users to effectively identify and mitigate risk, enhance operational efficiency, and build a more transparent customer experience.

    Before founding Betterview, David was instrumental in scaling Research Specialist Incorporated, an insurance loss control company. Under his leadership, the company expanded to conduct over 30,000 inspections annually with a network of more than 500 inspectors across the United States. Research Specialist Incorporated was later acquired by Alpine Intel. A veteran of the insurance and property intelligence industry, Tobias is focused on finding actionable, usable solutions to complex geospatial challenges.

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    52 分
  • Legal Issues in Disaster Response and Recovery
    2026/05/28
    With every disaster there are legal considerations that come to the fore. In this podcast we explore the experience of one litigator advising FEMA Incident Management Teams (IMAT) and also dealing with damages and reimbursement processes for individuals who own property.

    For two decades, LLRA, LLC owner Linda Litke served the United States, first in the U.S. Navy and then as a senior attorney within the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency. Her work placed her at the center of some of the nation’s most complex emergencies, disasters, and national security incidents—first as Deputy Associate Chief Counsel for Louisiana and Mississippi, where she led multiple legal offices across the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, and later as a Trial Attorney handling litigation tied to Public Assistance projects and the National Flood Insurance Program.

    Her final federal role for the last six years—Legal Counsel to the National Incident Management Assistance Team (NIMAT–Red)—was among the most demanding in the emergency‑response world. As part of a small rapidly deployable federal team, she provided real‑time legal guidance to senior officials during national security and catastrophic incidents, often deploying within hours to support unified command operations on the ground.

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