Jack Pagotto. Head of Emergency Management Systems and Interoperability, Public Security Technology program, Centre for Security Science, Ottawa Canada.

Jack is currently leading an ambitious national interoperability program for the emergency management community in Canada: Development and Operationalization of a Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System. A Senior Scientist with Defence R&D Canada, he has had a varied career covering many of the CBRNE technology domains including 15 years as a bench scientist developing chem-bio protective equipment, and 5 years assessing emerging threats from novel blast explosives. During the past decade he played a lead role in developing the field of 'capability engineering' which is about selecting and implementing system-of-system options to fill complex capability gaps in defence and security. Jack currently leads a section responsible for the Public Security Technical Program elements in Emergency Management, Systems Interoperability, Cyber, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Surveillance Intelligence and Interdiction.

Howard Roy Williams is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation. Mr. Williams was previously Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Bureau for Humanitarian Response (BHR/OFDA), of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He was appointed to this post in January 1998 and served until January 2001. As head of OFDA, Williams oversaw disaster preparedness and relief and rehabilitation programs throughout the world. Before going to OFDA, Williams served with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) for 12 years. During this time, Williams led efforts that resulted in the conceptualization, creation and staffing of IRC's Emergency Preparedness Unit. He helped to establish and staff IRC offices in a variety of places including Northern Iraq, Jordan, the Balkans, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, and Southern Sudan.

David Ebert is the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a University Faculty Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and Director of the Visual Analytics for Command Control and Interoperability Center (VACCINE), the Visualization Science team of the Department of Homeland Security's Command Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence.

Ebert’s research has focused on developing visual analytic tools for the emergency management community, particularly for the US Coast Guard community. His research team worked with the Ninth U.S. Coast Guard District to develop a software tool called cgSARVA that allows the Coast Guard to analyze patterns and resource utilization for the search and rescue mission within the Great Lakes. This work was recently awarded the Commander Atlantic Area’s Excellence Coin

Juergen Beyerer (Banquet Speaker) is full Professor for Interactive Real Time Systems at the KIT Karlsruhe since March 2004 and Head of the Fraunhofer-Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB.

The IOSB, with its ca 380 staff members, has been working for decades in fields relevant to the ISCRAM community, such as: sensor physics and image and signal analysis, information and knowledge processing, system technologies and anthropomatics. Beyerer’s research interests include automated visual inspection, optimal acquisition of image data, image processing, statistical signal theory, metrology, information theory, fusion of data and information from heterogeneous sources, active vision, variable image acquisition and processing, and system theory. Professor Beyerer is also the General Chair for ISCRAM 2013 to be held in Baden-Baden, Germany.

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