Mid-Atlantic All Hazards Forum Marks Fourth Year

Bethesda, MD -- Organizers of the Mid-Atlantic All Hazards Forum are kicking off the fourth annual homeland security and emergency preparedness event to be held November 7 and 8, 2007 at the Baltimore Convention Center. This annual meeting of state and local officials is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for representatives from Mid-Atlantic states (New Jersey to North Carolina) and private industry to dialogue on critical security and response issues.

"We are building a national model here. There is no other region in the U.S. that is currently conducting this kind of inter-jurisdictional dialogue and cross border cooperation," said Michael Rosenberg, Vice President at E.J. Krause, the firm responsible for planning AHF.

The conference was originally developed to assist state and local representatives join together to discuss all varieties of hazards -- from hurricaines, fires and floods, to terrorism and mass casualties.

This year, conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend several sessions involving the most up-to-date information on intelligence technology, communication devices and systems, interoperability, threats to community security and infrastructure protection. There are also sessions discussing procurement, grant applications, and federal initiatives.

An annual highlight of the conference is a state homeland security directors roundtable, where the leaders in homeland security from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina discuss the current priorities and challenges they face.

The meeting is capped off with the Regional Achievement Awards, recognizing a group for outstanding performance in each of the three pillars of disaster management: response, readiness and recovery.

For more information, or to register for the conference, please visit www.allhazardsforum.com/confreg.html.