
Minnesota Public Safety Interoperable Communications Conference
2011 Conference
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The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency
Communication Networks (DECN) hired The Odyssey Group to manage the
Minnesota Public Safety Interoperable Communications Conference. The
conference was a three day event held in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The
conference brought together a broad range of people from municipal, county,
regional, tribal, and state level emergency managers, regional radio board
members and committees, elected and appointed officials involved in
emergency services and communications, sheriffs, local and regional police,
fire, and emergency medical services, representatives of federal agencies
(e.g., the FBI, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, US Forest Service), the
Minnesota National Guard, and representatives of non-governmental
organizations such as hospitals, education, volunteer organizations and
private aid organizations (e.g., American Red Cross and Salvation Army).
We had less than one month to develop the conference website, secure the
information from presenters for the conference program, register presenters,
participants and exhibitors to attend the conference. We worked with a
decorator for the exhibit hall and the facility and catering staff for the
logistics for the conference. The conference was a success registering more
than 300 participants and 20 vendors. We submitted a detail final
report along with the summary of the evaluation and made recommendations for
the next year.