Small and Medium Business Owners: “Prepare Your Business for Disaster”, Thursday, September 9
According to a Hartford Financial Services study, 40% of businesses, if they don’t have a disaster plan, go out of business after disaster strikes. If you’re a small business owner or manager, your employees, family and livelihood may depend on you finding the time—somewhere—to prepare sufficiently for disaster. Join Depiction president & founder Mike Geertsen, to see how you can, in minutes, combine your own spreadsheets with disaster data from the web to reveal relationships and risks that will affect your company in a disaster. Then, explore and create alternatives that fit your business—which employees should go to which alternate locations? How can I still make deliveries when the main roads are blocked?

Emergency Managers: “Technology Empowering Emergency Managers”, Tuesday, September 14
As an emergency manager, you need to be confident that any new tools you adopt will actually make your life easier and make you more effective in preparing your community. Join three emergency managers from across the country for a panel discussion about how they have used Depiction and other technology tools to make their lives easier and to make them more effective in their jobs. The panel consists of Peter Lamb, Fire Chief & Emergency Management Director for the town of North Attleboro, MA; Gordon McCraw, Director of Emergency Management for Tillamook County, OR; and Alan Woodward, an analyst for the Emergency Operations Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Volunteers: “Preparing Your Community with Personal Technology,” Thursday, September 16
Countless individuals across America have volunteered their time to prepare their communities. Many have gone through the typical steps—training, certification, etc.—and are asking “now what?”, looking for new ways to help their communities. This webinar will describe several discrete, concrete projects individual volunteers can do using Depiction, from smartphone preparedness mapping, to creating “personal public service announcements” YouTube videos and more.

Public Health: “Depiction for Epidemiological Surveillance and Public Health Preparedness”, Tuesday, September 23
Location is a vital factor in disease surveillance, epidemiology and public health preparedness, but many public health experts do not have traditional GIS and mapping capability. In this webinar, Chasey Reed-Boston, MA, an analyst with the Brazoria, Texas, County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Division, will show how Depiction can be used to assess geographic trends, demographic trends and disease propagation trends by bringing together multiple datasets, both publicly available and proprietary, in a dynamic, interactive environment.

Amateur Radio: “Depiction, EmComm and Preparedness”, Wednesday, September 29
Amateur Radio Users across the country use Depiction to help them prepare for and carry out their unique roles in emergency preparedness, putting Depiction to use for evacuation planning, resource mapping, search and rescue and more. Join hams from across the country as they discuss the ways they have put Depiction to work in this important task.

Tabletop Exercises: "Enable Tabletop Disaster Exercises with GIS Using Depiction", September 30
GIS is an important technology that can enable Emergency Managers to be sure the right information gets to the right people at the right time and in the right format. This is critical for Situational Awareness and creating a Common Operational Picture. GIS is becoming a more common component in disaster exercises that focus on scenarios designed to educate and train those responsible for planning, preparedness, response and recovery. Join two experts in disaster exercises and GIS as they demonstrate how Depiction mapping, simulation and collaboration can be used to integrate GIS in tabletop exercises.