Environmental Information Symposium 2008
“Transforming Information Into Solutions”
December 10-12, 2008
- Wednesday, December 10 — Training Sessions
- Wednesday, December 10 — Plenary Session
- Wednesday, December 10 — Track Sessions
- Thursday, December 11 — Track Sessions
- Thursday, December 11 — Plenary Sessions
- Thursday, December 11 — Exhibit Hall and Demonstration Theaters
- Friday, December 12 — Plenary Session
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Training Sessions
Selling the System: Lessons Learned from Conducting Business Cases and Return-on-Investment (ROI) Analyses for EPA Information Technology Investments |
Who’s Working Out There…and, What Are They Doing? |
ECMS Training Session |
Training Sessions
Privacy: The Other Side of Transforming Information Judy Hutt (PDF) (27 pp, 341KB), USEPA, OEI, Office of Information Collection |
Moving From Program Business Needs to Agency Investment Planning Odelia Funke, USEPA, OEI, Office of Technology Operations and Planning |
Communicating and Collaborating in a Web 2.0 World Terry
Grady (PDF) (42 pp, 544KB), USEPA,
OEI, Office of Technology Operations and Planning |
Training Sessions
Quality Policy 101: Demonstrated Solutions with Quality Results |
Integrated Baseline Review: What is it? When do you do it? What do you get out of it? Lessons learned from the Financial System Modernization Project experience |
Section 508 Toolkit |
Training Sessions
Quality Policy 101, |
EPA’s Web CMS- The Future is Now |
Federal Procurement Update |
Opening Plenary Session
Molly A. O’Neill, EPA Chief Information Officer and Assistant Administrator for OEI
Steve Owens, Director, Arizona Department of Environmental Protection
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Focus on Climate: The Exchange Network Supports Climate Change Information Sharing |
Putting a Picture to the Environmental Story |
Water Indicators: Paddling Upstream |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Information Relevance: Making Information Meaningful |
Protecting Children’s Health with Better Decision Making |
Emergency Response without Boundaries (HERE) |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Information Relevance, |
So You Think You Can Blog? |
MassCleanDiesel: A First-of-its-Kind Online Marketplace for Installing Emissions Reduction Devices on Massachusetts Diesel School Buses |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Enterprise Services Focused to Specific Customers: A Financial Services Community Example |
Tools for Rules and the Future of Public Participation |
NJ – GeoWeb: New Jersey’s Federated Internet Spatial Intelligence Data Application
Lawrence L. Thornton (PDF) (25
pp, |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Publishing and Syndication of Data |
European Union Lessons Learned: The Role of Data |
Decision-Support Tools for Watershed Management |
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Automating Electronic Reporting: Supporting Timely Access to Quality Data |
Digital Disruptions: Technology Innovations Powering 21st Century Business |
OCFO and OEI Initiative to Explore Quality Standards for Performance Data |
Track Sessions
Room:Sonoran F |
Room: Sonoran G |
Room: Sonoran E |
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Automating Electronic Reporting: Supporting Timely Access to Quality Data, |
Leveraging the Open Source Movement to Improve Environmental Solutions: How government, industry and citizens can harness collaborative communities to help protect human health and the environment. |
EPA’s National Dialogue – The Importance of Intermediaries as Information Ambassadors |
Plenary Session 2: Virtual Alabama
Jim Walker, Alabama Homeland Security Director
Plenary Session 3: The Information Sharing Environment and Fusion Centers: Lessons Learned for Environmental Management
Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara
(PDF) (11 pp, 478KB), Program Manager
for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE)
Exhibit Hall and Demonstration Theaters - Learn About Cool Tools and Applications
|
THEATER A |
THEATER B |
Noon |
Making EPA Stat Work for You |
Web 3.D – Virtual Globes and Other GIS Solutions for Everyday Program Use |
12:25 pm |
NetDMR |
Interoperable Earth Observation Services and Their Use in a Variety of Decision Support Contexts |
12:50 pm |
Turn Data into Information |
Using Web 2.0 at EPA |
1:15 pm |
GIS-Based Tools for Water and Waste Water Modeling |
Ontologies for Environmental Systems |
1:40 pm |
IT Mashup: Business Intelligence Together With GIS Mapping for Better, Easier, Faster Environmental Analytics |
Storage As A Service |
2:05 pm |
Demonstrating the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) |
Spatially Enabling Business Intelligence |
2:30 pm |
Unlocking the Power of Digital Images With New Visual Median - Microsoft Photosynth |
Virtual World Collaboration |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Enterprise Architecture, Meta-Government and Mission-Driven Transformational Solutions |
Using Web 2.0 To Improve Getting Work Done At EPA |
Climate Change and Tracking: The Role of Surveillance in Public Health Response |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Surveillance, Events and the Semantic Web |
Spatially Enabling Chesapeake Bay Indicators |
Using Web 2.0 Technologies in Scientific and Research Communities |
Track Sessions
Track 1: Tools |
Track 2: Collaboration |
Track 3: Solutions |
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Accessing the Emerging National Data Bus |
Cross Federal Information Sharing: Creating Business Solutions |
Encyclopedia of Life |
Track Sessions
Room:Sonoran F |
Room: Sonoran G |
Room: Sonoran E |
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Accessing the Emerging National Data Bus, |
Cross Federal Information Sharing: Creating Business Solutions, |
Leveraging ECMS to Capture and Manage Your Records |
Friday, December 12, 2008 – Plenary Session
Plenary Session 4: Finding Solutions in the Clouds
Rajen Sheth (PDF) (24
pp, 1.7MB), Sr. Product Manager, Google Inc.
Plenary Session 5: Integrated Information Systems for Sharing of Public Health Information
Dr. Leslie Lenert, Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC
Plenary Session 6: Microsoft Research: Innovation in Energy, Ecology and
Dan Fay, Microsoft Research
Contest Highlights
Closing Plenary Session
Linda Travers, Deputy Assistant Administrator for OEI