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From now through October 28, NENA is accepting session proposals for the NENA 2017 Conference & Expo taking place June 3-8 in San Antonio!

Leading a session at a national NENA conference is a highly sought after role. It’s your chance to share your knowledge and experience with an informed and enthusiastic audience filled with 9-1-1 professionals eager to gain and share information.

For NENA attendees, session speakers are often the most memorable element of the conference. To meet our audience’s high expectations, your session must be engaging, informative, and applicable to a diverse audience with a wide range of professional and personal backgrounds. To ensure your submission receives due consideration, please ensure that:
  • Your proposal is issue-focused, not product-focused;
  • Your 65-word presentation description contains a precise objective;
  • You are able to identify three clear audience takeaways;
  • You fully complete all areas of the submission form and provide accurate contact information, including phone number(s), e-mail address(es), and mailing address(es);
  • You use proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Click here to learn more and submit your great idea today!

From the NPSTC announcement: Roger has devoted more than three decades to advancing 9-1-1 services, both in the private sector and with NENA. Since the inception of Next Generation 9-1-1 in 2003, Roger has championed the development of the standards essential to the system’s success. Thanks largely to Roger’s stewardship, NENA's NG9-1-1 standards work is recognized and utilized not just in the United States, but around the world. His tireless efforts, expertise, and leadership have proved invaluable in more efforts than can be counted, and 9-1-1 is better off for having him as an ally and an advocate.

Congratulations, Roger! 


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Training Update

10.24.16 | Disaster Planning for PSAP's | Marriottsville, MD | Register 
11.6.16 | 9-1-1 Center Consolidation | Springfield, IL (IPSTA Conference) | Register
11.6.16 | Tactical Dispatch for Telecommunicators | Springfield, IL (IPSTA Conference) | Register
11.8.16 | Leadership in the 9-1-1 Center | Casper, WY | Register
11.14-18.16 | Center Manager Certification Program (CMCP) | Alexandria, VA | Register
11.29.16 | Quality Assurance: Achieving QA/QI in the PSAP | Davenport, IA | Register
11.30.16 | 9-1-1 Center Supervisor - Arlington Heights, IL | Register

View the NENA Education Calendar to see additional upcoming classes!

Document Announcements

NENA Non-Mobile Wireless Service Interaction Information Document, NENA‑INF‑ 018.1-201X (DRAFT) is available for Public Review and Comment. The evolving and ongoing transition of wireless connectivity continues to increase the current number of non‑mobile wireless type 9‑1‑1 calling scenarios that may be more commonly presented as 9‑1‑1 emergency calls to PSAPs. This document seeks to provide basic background information on these increasingly more common non‑mobile 9‑1‑1 calling-type scenarios and point out near‑term considerations that may appropriately fit for these scenarios. See the full document and its Executive Summary for further details.

Click here for instructions on how to submit your comments.

All comments are due by midnight Eastern on November 14, 2016. Contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns. 

NENA Standards for the Provisioning and Maintenance of GIS Data to ECRF and LVFs, NENA-STA-005.1-201X, (DRAFT) has been posted to the NENA collaboration website and is available for a fourth Public Review and Comment. As this is a fourth review due to substantive changes being made, only the yellow highlighted text is open for comment. See the full document and its Executive Summary for further details.

Click here for instructions on how to submit your comments. 

All comments are due by midnight Eastern on October 19, 2016, at midnight Eastern. Contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.
Having adjudicated all comments, the subject document is now considered "stable." Per NENA IPR, Section 4.5 a "Stable Form Notice" is being issued and can be viewed by clicking below.
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