FDNY & Super Bowl XLVIII

Date and Time
May 2, 2014
Event Details

The week leading up to Super Bowl XVLIII brought dozens of venues and hundreds of scheduled events/activities to the New York City area, transforming Midtown Manhattan into Super Bowl Blvd for millions of attendees.  The Fire Department City of New York (FDNY) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit worked with PenBay Solutions create a new Event Web/Mobile  Map Management Solution to visualize the events, locate special event resources and provide necessary information to FDNY resources.
These events/activities provided challenges for the FDNY to be aware of related to the events being conducted and where they were being conducted.  In addition, the FDNY had to coordinate with various Local, State, Bi-State (New York/New Jersey) and Federal agencies for planning purposes.  To aid other agencies, the FDNY GIS Unit was able to share the Event Web/Mobile Map Management Solution with these agencies.
About the Speaker:
Captain Steven Pollackov has worked for the Fire Department City of New York – Bureau of Emergency Medical Service (FDNY-EMS) since 1989.  He has been an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Paramedic and Lieutenant in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.  Steven Pollackov responded and worked at both attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001.
After being assigned an administrative Lieutenant position at the FDNY’s Headquarters in 2002, he became the Commanding Officer of the FDNY Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit in 2003.  In 2006, Steven Pollackov was promoted to the rank of Captain and remained as the Commanding Officer of the FDNY GIS Unit.
Captain Pollackov is a also member of the FDNY Incident Management Team (IMT) as a GIS Technical Specialist.  Since being a member of the FDNY IMT, he has been involved with deployments for incidents including; Hurricane Earl (2010), NYC Blizzard (2010), Hurricane Irene (2011), Susquehanna River Floods in Binghamton, NY (2011), Hurricane Sandy (2012) and the East Harlem Explosion/Collapse (2014).
This event is co-sponsored by The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division, and GISMO.