Spring VAC Consortium Meeting
May 14-15, 2007
Bellevue, WA

Meydenbauer Center photograph
The Spring 2007 meeting was held at the magnificent Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA.

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Special thanks to consortium member Microsoft for co-hosting this meeting.

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The Spring 2007 meeting of the VAC Consortium—a partnership with Industry, University, and Government members collaborating to solve national security problems for DHS—was held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA. The meeting began Monday, May 14, and concluded Tuesday, May 15. An RVAC PI Meeting was held May 16.

This meeting’s topic was Visual Analytics for Regional Preparedness, Security, Response, and Health. We looked at how visual analytic tools and techniques can be used to help deal with the complex problems associated with the huge quantities of multisource, multimedia data housed at regional centers. We also took the opportunity to hear about the plans and progress being made both regionally and nationally toward this issue.

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Presentations

Presentations from the meeting speakers will be available from the Meeting Agenda page as we obtain written permission from the speakers to post them.

[icon]Quotes from Past Attendees

"We are a small business but we are involved with big projects. My time at this particular event, I feel has been very well used. I’m actually pleasantly surprised at the level of organization, the attention to detail, the whole presentation; the speakers, the collaboration, and the dialog that I’ve been able to achieve in a day and a half. It’s very rare to have so many people of high quality coming together to try to solve common problems and to do it in a very open, very excited way. To me, thats good for GCS, I also feel it’s good for the consortium but most importantly it’s good as we try to tackle some of the problems associated with Homeland Security."
James Philp, GCS Research

"The consortium has provided a forum for us to get together with our government clients, our government prospects, the universities, and the industry partners; really focused on the simple goal of the consortium of making this a safer place for us to live and work."
David Lane, Objectivity

"One of the things that I think is really exciting about the way [NVAC is] doing this is that [they're] coupling both—the kind of obvious thing is to couple academics and people from industry—what's not quite so obvious but I think very effective, is getting people from the government agencies to be active partners in this effort and having the three groups work together in a consortium like this. It is, I think, the only way we can solve this really big problem we’re trying to solve."
George Robertson, Microsoft Research


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