The 11th International Conference on

Information Systems for

Crisis Response and Management

Empowering. Local.

Communities. Citizens.Empowering Citizens and Communities through

Information Systems for Crisis Response and

Management

ConferenceTheme

• Citizens as first responders

• Citizens helping citizens

and responders

• Crowdsourceddata and

analysis

• Community and Crisis

Informatics

Dr. LeysiaPalenAssociate Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder.

KeynoteSpeaker

• Faculty fellow with the Institute

for the Alliance of

Technology, Learning and

Society (ATLAS)

• Director of the ConnectivITyLab

• Principal investigator on the

NSF Funded Project EPIC:

Empowering the Public with

Information in Crisis.

KeynoteSpeaker

Edward G. HappGlobal CIO of the International Red

Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Based in Geneva, Switzerland

• Chairman of NetHope

• Former Chief Information

Officer at Save the Children

• Co-founded and co-director of the

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s

(HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping &

Early Warning.

• He served as Director of Crisis

Mapping at Ushahidi

• Co-founded CrisisMappers, Digital

Humanitarians and the award-

winning Standby Task Force.

KeynoteSpeaker

Dr. Patrick MeierServes as Director of Innovation at

the Qatar Computing Research

Institute (QCRI).

2014

Conference

Dates

Sunday May 18 Pre-Conference

Monday May 19 Opening Day

Tuesday May 20 Middle Day / Banquet

Wednesday May 21 Final Day

Thursday May 22 Departure

Centrally Located!

New York City

State College

Philadelphia

Baltimore

Washington DC

Pittsburgh

Toronto, Canada

State College

is centrally

located!

only…

3-4 hrs from Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

4-5 hrs from New York City6 hrs from Toronto, Canada

New York

Washington, D.C.

Baltimore

. PittsburghPhiladelphia .

Transportation

BY AIR: State College has its own small airport.

Close to town. Served by American. Delta. USAir.

BY BUS:Megabus offers daily service from New

York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.

BY CAR: The easiest way to get to State College.

HOSTCollege of Information Sciences

and Technology

HOST

College of Earth and Mineral

SciencesGeoVISTA CenterGeographic Visualization Science,

Technology, and Applications Center.

2013 2014

Conference

Space

College of Information Sciences

and Technology Building

Cybertorium and classrooms

Facility

Tours

• Center Human Computer Interface

• Center for Cyber Security, Information Privacy

and Trust

• Command & Control Lab

• Extreme Events Lab

• Spatial Information Lab

• Smart Sensing Lab

• Cyber Infrastructure Lab

• Intelligent Information Systems Lab

• Computer Supported Collaboration Lab

• Applied Cognitive Science Lab

• Lab for Intelligent Agents

• Red Cell Analytics Lab

HOTEL

The Nittany Lion Inn (5-star)RATES:

Single $125.00Triple $145.00Double $135.00 Quad $155.00

• Five Star Hotel—96 euros!

• Gourmet dinner for two with wine—69 euros!

• Good bottle of wine—8 euros!

• Martini—4 euros!

• Good microbrewed pint of beer- 2.5 euros!

• Best ice-cream in the world—2 euros!

Activities

Enjoy…

Penn State’s Art Museum

and Arboretum

Enjoy…

Local Wineries. Golfing. Hiking.Activities

Enjoy…

Ballooning. Caving. Challenge Courses.

Activities

Bar Tour

Enjoy…

Downtown restaurants and taverns

Activities

Enjoy…

Touring Penn State’s Sport Museum and Beaver Stadium

Activities

Thank You!Hope to see you in 2014

at the Penn State University