White House Innovation Brainstorm for Disaster Response and Recoverynovating for Disaster R&R

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White HouseInnovationBrainstorm for

Disaster Responseand Recoverya FEMA Think Tank event

August 27, 2013


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The Vision

The Innovation Brainstorm for Disaster Response and Recovery was convened in partnership

between the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA) to connect and mobilize resources from diverse backgrounds.

Participants pushed the traditional bounds of emergency management and included Broadway

producers, micro-financers, grass roots community organizers, engineers, scientists, government

employees from all levels and first responders, amongst others. This diversity set the stage for

seeking innovations through multiple lenses and experiences with the purpose of fostering

actionable dialogue in a collaborative environment.

The goals of the event were to lay the foundation and establish commitments from participants to

integrate before, during and after a disaster.


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Coordination & Connections

with the Health and Energy

Sectors

Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator of FEMA

and Todd Park, Assistant to the President and

U.S. Chief Technology Officer, welcomed the

participants and shared that the day was

intended to generate ideas from those closest

to the disaster. The focus throughout the event

would be to look at innovation and need from

the eyes of the survivor.

Dr. Nicole Lurie , Assistant Secretary, HHS and

Patricia Hoffman, Assistant Secretary , DOE

shared the perspectives from the Health and

Energy Sectors. Their remarks both spoke to

the need for help from the broader

community to connect people with needs withthose in the community who can help.

Survivors with need for electricity to support

medical devices were identified as a urgent

need and challenged the participants to find

creative solutions to provide lifelines and

technologies that can bridge the gap in current

capabilities.


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FEMA Innovation Team Accomplishments

Serino and FEMA Chief Innovation Officer, Desi Matel-Anderson shared the journey of the FEMA InnovationTeam over the past year and the great advances that had been made building partnerships with federalcolleagues, communities, industry and innovators from all sectors during the Hurricane Sandy and Oklahoma

Tornado events and as a result of Think Tank conversations and field trial experimentation.


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FEMA Innovation Team Accomplishments, continued.


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Serino then shared that all great ideas start on the back of a napkin, and asked everyone to take a few moments,write their idea on a napkin and then share it with the group at their tableand to then develop two or three BigIdeas for each table that represent where the group wants to focus to make an impact. These ideas were presentedto the larger group and then everyone voted on the ideas to indicate which concepts they applaud and would like to

see further developed.

Brainstorming Ideas standing in the shoes of the Survivor


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Brainstorming Innovations for Disaster Response & Recovery

Graphic recorder Stephanie Brown from the Federal Performance Improvement Council, captured all the ideas

shared by the group in a mural that will serve as a collective memory of the ideas generated by the group in the

spirit of designing for innovation.


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Top 10 Ideas

After voting on all the ideas ten were selected for prototyping. Participants joined together around the topics

they had the most interest and could potentially commit to continue working on following the Think Tank

Innovation Jam event.


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Rapid Prototyping

The groups further developed the ideas

where some broke out in song, others

wrote code, and others used scraps of

paper, glue and other materials to buildvisual prototypes of the ideas. The groups

then pitched the ideas to everyone, which

included a physical demonstration of the

human powered Power-Go-Round and a

prototype of a real-time communication

platform.


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Rapid Prototyping

Graphic recording of the ten prototypes pitched by the group. By show of hands the participants indicated

their enthusiasm for each of the ideas and a champion stepped forward to sign the mural to show their

commitment to lead the project forward.


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Success!

The event served to foster a Whole Community approach that will enable faster, more efficient engagement

of transformative response and recovery solutions. Overall this approach to emergency management enhances

FEMAs ability to learn, innovate and improve AND it was a lot of FUN for everyone!

White House Innovation Brainstorm for Disaster Response and Recoverynovating for Disaster R&R

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