Date: Friday February 10, 2012 - 7:15 AM to 9:15 AM
Venue: E-Comm 9-1-1, 3301 E Pender Street
**Please note: E-Comm 9-1-1 has a security gate so guests will need to allow time to buzz security and sign in with your photo ID**
Speaker:
David Guscott
President & CEO of E-Comm 9-1-1
& Past recipient of Vancouver AM’s Wakeup Award
As president & CEO of E‐Comm, one of Canada’s largest consolidated emergency communications centres, David Guscott is intent on building the most resilient emergency communications systems possible. With an interoperable radio system managing more than ten‐million transmissions each month, an annual 9‐1‐1 call volume of more than one million and dispatch provider to 30 police and fire departments, E‐Comm is focused on how to best unite the highly specialized communication systems that have been established in southwest B.C. in order to meet the many new demands of today’s wireless world and the convergence of technologies.
For David, convergence is an extremely important part of E‐Comm’s future because it will have a dynamic impact on the next critical update of its radio network infrastructure and how the centre manages the technology it uses for communicating with the public: Texting and the ability to receive audio and video from 9‐1‐1 callers are good examples of this.
About E-Comm 9-1-1:
E-Comm 9-1-1, the emergency communications centre for southwest B.C., provides 9-1-1 service for Metro Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast Regional District, Whistler, Squamish and the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (south). E-Comm also provides dispatch service for 30 police and fire departments, and owns and operates the wide-area radio network used throughout the Lower Mainland by police, fire and ambulance personnel.
Come hear E-Comm’s President & CEO David Guscott (as a former executive vice‐president with VANOC he knows a lot about visitors to our city!) speak about what visitors to the region should know about emergency communications and calling 9-1-1.
Following his talk, join the tour to take a peek inside the consolidated communications centre to see call-takers and dispatchers in action and learn how your 9-1-1 call flows through the system to police, fire and ambulance agencies.
