Laura Terrell is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Conflicts Management for FTI Consulting, overseeing the matter intake process and client relationships. Laura has global experience advising on litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, regulatory matters, corporate governance and reporting, government affairs, sanctions and export controls, employment and whistleblower issues.
Laura Terrell is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Conflicts Management for FTI Consulting, overseeing the matter intake process and client relationships. Laura has global experience advising on litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, regulatory matters, corporate governance and reporting, government affairs, sanctions and export controls, employment and whistleblower issues.
Laura Terrell is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Conflicts Management for FTI Consulting, overseeing the matter intake process and client relationships. Laura has global experience advising on litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, regulatory matters, corporate governance and reporting, government affairs, sanctions and export controls, employment and whistleblower issues.
Laura Terrell is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Conflicts Management for FTI Consulting, overseeing the matter intake process and client relationships. Laura has global experience advising on litigation, government investigations, corporate internal investigations and compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters, regulatory matters, corporate governance and reporting, government affairs, sanctions and export controls, employment and whistleblower issues.
The GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA) invites you to join us on Wednesday, May 12 at Noon ET, for an interactive conversation on “GPS, Drones, and Firefighting.” Last year alone, there were nearly 60,000 wildfires, leading to more than 10 million acres burned across the United States. These fires inflict enormous damage on communities, including loss of life, structure damage and environmental devastation.
GPS and drones – also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – are proving to be critical tools in combating these wildfires, providing firefighters with real-time video footage, improved situational awareness, and the ability to map out hotspots. Our expert panelists will discuss the essentiality of GPS to drones, the specific technologies being used to support firefighters, and the future of firefighting.
Dr. Carrick Detweiler received his B.A. in 2004 from Middlebury College and Ph.D. in 2010 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a focus on robotics. He is co-founder and CEO of Drone Amplified and a faculty member of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. Drone Amplified’s mission is to develop, market, and sell integrated drone systems, services and data analytics for aerial ignition and forest fire mapping. It’s signature product, IGNIS, is a drone-base system that allows firefighters to remotely ignite backburns and prescribed burns while staying out of harm’s way. Drone Amplified's technology is redefining fire management practices, enabling the semi-autonomous dropping of ignition spheres and the monitoring of fires while keeping personnel far from the fire with lower cost and higher availability. The technology is orders of magnitude less costly to purchase and operate and more readily available than helicopters, safer than sending personnel on foot or on ATVs into dangerous fires, and more efficient for managing large and complex areas.
Mr. Burgett is the Director of Global Navigation Satellite Systems for Garmin International. He has been a principal architect in the integration of GPS technology into Garmin's consumer and aviation products. Burgett conducted early research into wearable GPS technology. He was instrumental in the creation of turn-by-turn automotive navigation systems combining GPS and dead reckoning technology. He also contributed to the development of TSO-C129a and N8110 certified aviation equipment. Burgett's involvement in GPS dates to 1991, when he worked at Sandia National Laboratories on the integration of GPS with inertial navigation systems, precision guidance, and motion measurement for imaging radars. Burgett holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He is a named inventor on 17 patents related to the integration of GPS technology with sensors and the use of GPS in portable navigation devices.
Chief, Wildfire Operations & Planning, Bureau of Forestry, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
Matt currently serves as the Wildfire Operations and Planning Section Chief in the PA Bureau of Forestry’s Division of Forest Fire Protection, a position he’s held for the past five years. In this role, he directs and oversees several agency programs, including wildfire suppression and aircraft, prescribed fire, wildland fire training and qualifications, and the bureau’s incident management teams. Many of Matt’s strengths lie in information technology, specifically Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a field that heavily relies on data collected via GPS. As a GIS Specialist qualified by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, he’s spent countless hours building and maintaining Pennsylvania’s “FireMapper” - a wildfire tracking/management application accessed through ESRI’s Collector mobile application. FireMapper is based on the National Incident Feature Service, which is used to help manage wildfires all across the US.
Ben began his public service career at Mesa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). Among many accomplishments in his 15 years with MCSO, Ben founded and served as program director of the first operational unmanned aerial system (UAS) program for a non-federal public safety agency in the United States. Throughout the industry, Ben is regarded as a thought leader on the applications of small unmanned aircraft in public safety. His perspective has been shared in presentations across the United States and Canada, including testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as to other members of Congress at both the state and national levels. Ben is now the Director of the Colorado Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting. Ben’s team is the lead UAS organization for the Colorado Department of Public Safety. Focusing on the fire service, Ben’s team is also solving problems for public safety UAS users by creating solutions for real time geospatial intelligence sharing, counter-UAS, management of airspace above wildland fires, and numerous other public safety related challenges.
