Our October meeting will be on Tuesday, October 15th at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna.

Agenda

• Election Nominations
• By-Law Updates, looking to ratify the updated by-laws in November
• Newsletter Editor and Content Creator
• Establishing a chapter picnic committee (or just someone who wants to be in charge of organizing the event)
• Other new or old business.
• Program

Program

Ed Czarnecki, Vice President, Government and Global Affairs, Digital Alert Systems will present our program this month, he will be joining us via zoom.

Topic:  NextGen Broadcast Tech for NextGen Warnings:  A quick dive into several trends and innovations in the broadcast radio and TV environment, covering topics such as:  how EAS can support station virtualization, enhancing alerts in HD radio with graphical displays, ATSC 3.0 an Advanced Emergency Information for nextgenTV, and enhancing visual EAS with symbology.  We’ll review recent collaborative ATSC 3.0 initiatives between ATSC, NVISA and FEMA IPAWS, and select developments in HD Radio alerting.

Speaker profile:  Ed Czarnecki (Vice President, Government and Global Affairs, Digital Alert Systems).  Ed works with public sector and advanced technology initiatives at Digital Alert Systems, and is current Executive Director of the NextGen Video Information Systems Alliance (NVISA).  He is also co-chair of the ATSC Advanced Emergency Information Implementation Team and chair of the ATSC Emergency Alerts working group.  He was recently appointed to be a member of the new FEMA IPAWS Working Group.