TIME 

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS 

8:00am to 8:30am

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

8:30am to 9:00am

WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

9:00am to 10:15am

REGIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGER’S DIRECTORS DISCUSSION PANEL

Description:  This facilitated panel of State Directors of Emergency Management will provide an executive level discussion on public/private coordination. Topics will include: processes used to prepare & communicate internally as well as externally with other states & organizations for multi-state disaster; identify opportunities for collaboration, information sharing, and education for private sector mutual assistance support; provide recommendations to the private sector for improvements.

Moderator: Jamie Turner, Retired, Former Director, Delaware Emergency Management

Panelists:

• Pennsylvania – Rick Flinn, Director, Department Emergency Management 
• Virginia – Jeff Sterns, Director, Department Emergency Management
  
• New Jersey – Lt. Col. Jeffrey Mottley, Deputy Superintendent of Homeland Security, NJ State Police 
• Maryland – Russ Strickland, Director, Department Emergency Management 
• District of Columbia – Brian Baker, Deputy Director, Department Homeland Security and Emergency Management
  

BREAK

10:30am to 11:45am

OPERATIONAL INFORMATION SHARING DISCUSSION PANEL

Description: This regional panel session will provide a discussion on public/private operational information sharing at the local, regional and/or national levels.  Topics include;  existing processes & systems used to share information; operational information that is shared; the people that the information is shared with; how the information is used and handled; barriers, delays, concerns; improvements that can be made.

Moderator: Tom Moran, Executive Director, All Hazards Consortium

Panelists:

• North Carolina -  Will Polk, Assistant General Counsel, Department Emergency Management 
• District of Columbia - Lee "Tip" Wight, Executive Director, Fusion Center 
• FEMA – Rob Glen, Director, Private Sector Office
• U.S. DOE – Sam Kimzey, Director, National Response & Recovery, Infrastructure Security & Energy Restoration, U.S. Department of  Energy
• Edison Electric Institute - Chris Eisenbrey, Director, Business Continuity & Operations
• First Energy/NJPL - Rae Mallin, Manager of Emergency Preparedness 

11:45am to 12:30pm

LUNCH

Overview: This keynote will provide an overview of the major initiatives, issues and investments be made in the electric sector across the U.S.

Speaker: John Caldwell, Director, Economics , Edison Electric Institute (EEI)

12:30pm to 1:30pm

MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SUPPORT DISCUSSION PANEL

Description:  This regional panel session will provide a discussion on mutual assistance support efforts underway at the local, regional and/or national levels in the public and private sectors. Topics to be discussed will include: existing organizations/initiatives/challenges; updates on expediting through toll stations; efforts to address the legal operating authority issues impacting the private sector; new tools being developed to support mutual assistance.

Moderator: John Shaner, Retired PHI, Chair, Fleet Response Working Group

Panelists:

• Southern Company - Aaron Strickland, Director Emergency Operations
• Southeastern Electric Exchange - Scott Smith, Director 
• PECO Energy/Exelon - Bill Kelbaugh, Director Emergency Services
  
• Duke Energy - Marc Arnold, Director E&CP Ohio/Kentucky 
• Florida Power & Light, Tom Gwaltney, Sr. Director Central Maintenance Power Delivery
• Delaware - Vic Buono, Chief of Toll Operations, DelDOT

FRWG ANNOUNCEMENTS

1:45pm to 2:45pm

INTEGRATING REGIONAL EDUCATION AND  EXERCISES DISCUSSION PANEL

Description: This regional panel session will look at current public and private education and exercise initiatives and discuss ways to leverage/coordinate/integrate these activities in order to improve cross-discipline and cross sector education, relationship development and operational coordination. Topics will include: 2016 FEMA cross sector exercise; local/regional education initiatives; current national exercises that can be leveraged (GridEx, EEI/NRE); local/state exercises, recommendations for 2016.

Moderator:  Chris Eisenbrey, Director, Business Continuity & Operations. Edison Electric Institute

Panelists:

• Edison Electric Institute - Chris Eisenbrey, Director, Business Continuity & Operations 
• AHC/Fleet Response WG - John Shaner, Chairperson
• FEMA - Dan Stoneking, Director, External Affairs, FEMA Region III
• District of Columbia - Jamie Quarrelles, Chief, Training and Exercise Division, Department Homeland Security and Emergency Management

2:45pm to 3:00pm

NEXT STEPS AND CLOSING REMARKS

3:00pm

ADJOURN