Speaker Profiles Joe Duncan, ICT Team Acting Leader/Director, Office of Infrastructure and Engineering, USAID Session: s Disaster Preparedness Summit
Roy A. Johnson, Director, Integrated ICT Support, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration Roy A. Johnson is the Director for Integrated Information and Communications Technology Support (IIS) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Networks and Information Integration (NII). He is responsible for oversight of information and communication technology policy to enable effective information and situational awareness sharing during stability operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission, and contingency operations. Session: s Disaster Preparedness Summit Jeff Jacobson, Co-Founder and Director of Technology, OODAlink Inc. Jeff drives the technical direction and product design for OODAlink Inc., a turnkey integrator of satellitebased solutions for ensuring communication when traditional networks are unavailable. With nearly 30 years in the satellite industry, Jeff holds a number of technology patents for enhancing, securing, and managing satellite and wireless communications networks. Session: s Optimizing Technology: Transport and ICTs Erin Thornton, Global Policy Director, ONE Erin Thornton is the Global Policy Director for ONE, an advocacy and campaigning organization with more than two million supporters dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease. In her role, Erin directs ONE’s policy agenda and oversees a growing team of policy analysts in the US, Europe and Africa. As a member of the organization’s executive management team, she also plays a key role in shaping ONE’s overarching goals and strategy. Erin developed The DATA Report, ONE’s flagship annual report card on the extent to which the G8 are keeping their commitments to Africa, and she oversees the annual ONE Award, which recognizes effective grassroots activism on the continent of Africa. A veteran of ONE and its predecessor organization, DATA, Erin was in on the ground floor of building both organizations. She merged the policy operations of the two organizations and also built the trips function that serves ONE so well today. Session: s MDG 1: How to Address Extreme Poverty & Hunger Brenda Oppermann, International Development Advisor, Oppermann & Associates Serving as a senior program manager and advisor for assorted organizations including: USAID, UN, US Institute of Peace, US Army, and OSCE. Programs have dealt with democracy building, civil society, rule of law, human rights, gender, capacity development, infrastructure, counterinsurgency, and stabilization. Effective communicator and leader with an extensive background managing projects in fragile states and zones of conflict and post-conflict. Expertise in integrating cross-cutting issues into policy and programming. Significant experience with and understanding of the interagency process, civil-military relations, and bi-lateral and international collaboration. Aptitude for developing, analyzing, operationalizing, and communicating policy. Session: s Disaster Preparedness Summit Tracy Badcock, Overseas Lease Group Tracy Badcock is a founding member of The Shelter Alliance, a developing new non-profit organization dedicated to finding innovative answers to the worlds growing need for revolutionary habitation solutions. As VP of Marketing and Communications for the Overseas Lease Group, Inc., Ms. Badcock has expanded services provided to NGOs by increasing alliance partnerships and leasable assets for disaster relief operations as well as customary assets required to carry out projects in developing countries. Session: s Transport Louis Alexander, Senior Program Director, Pan American Development Foundation Session: s Disaster Preparedness Summit
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