Featured speakers include:

  • Kenneth Moritz
    Government Director of Business Development for V-22 Joint Program Office NAVAIR PEO(A), Air ASW
    Assault and Special Missions Programs PMA-275
  • Gene Lockhart
    Project Manager
    Rescue 21 USCG
  • Dr. Patrick Maupin
    Defence R&D Canada
  • Leah Braithwaite
    Canadian Ice Service
    Environment Canada

Advancing Communication, Technology and Response to Meet Search and Rescue Needs

Canadians face some of the world’s greatest SAR challenges. IDGA’s Search and Rescue Canada will uncover these challenges, provide solutions on how to overcome them, provide improved search and rescue response, prevention, education and technology and review current mandates for the future of SAR in Canada and beyond.

4 Reasons you Can’t Afford to Miss Search and Rescue Canada:

1) Learn about current capabilities and future direction of Search and Rescue Canada

2) Improve interoperability between Canadian Search and Rescue services and agencies

3) Employ valuable lessons learned from recent Search and Rescue missions throughout Canada

4) Understand the Search and Rescue challenges raised by the changing Arctic environment unique to Canada

Core areas of concentration will be:

  • Training updates for SAR missions
  • Lessons learned from recent operations
  • Challenges of interoperability
  • Advancing technology and communication to meet future needs

How you will Benefit

  • Understand the latest requirements in Fixed Wing Search and Rescue and equipment upgrades
  • Overcome interoperability in the Canadian government and learn about new platforms and procedures designed to create better communication and coordination between Provinces
  • Learn about new solutions for challenges that are uniquely Canadian – expediting response time to remote areas, covering large geographic regions, and new ways environmental changes and adventure tourism influence SAR Canada

Who You will Meet

IDGA’s Search and Rescue Canada is a forum for military and government personnel, vendors, and academia to discuss topics that matter most in Canadian Search and Rescue. You will have the unique opportunity to interact and network with senior level professionals with a variety of responsibilities including:

  • Program Management
  • Training
  • Acquisition
  • Medical Support
  • Communications
  • SAR Coordination
  • Engineering
  • Personnel Recovery
  • Flight Operations
  • Interoperability
  • Business Development
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