2011 Speakers include:

Hans main roles are: Vice-Chairman TETRA Association. Dutch representative LEWP-RCEG (Law Enforcement Working Party Radiocommunication Expertgroup) & chairman of the ‘Forerunner Group’, which is focusing on future communication for Public Safety in the European member states.

Hans is also Chairman PSRG (Public Safety Radiocommunication Group), an informal platform with 17 participating countries.

Søren has worked as chief fire officer in the city of Kolding, Denmark since 2005. Before that he worked as deputy chief fire officer and town planner.

Søren has a degree as engineer (M.Sc.) and has been a fellow in the Danish Fire Chief Association since 2010.

Over the last 3 years he has been chairman of a group of fire chiefs in Southern Denmark responsible for the implementation of more than 1.500 TETRA terminals in 19 danish fire services. His role was to coordinate the selection of suppliers, negotiate agreements and inform decision makers.

Tim Marjason MBCI CBCI Merit MEPS is a serving Chief Inspector with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) London. He has 28 years' experience in the Police Service, the last 7 of which are in the fields of Business Continuity and Emergency Management. Chief Inspector Marjason currently leads on Corporate Business Continuity, and also Performance Management for his CO3 Operational Command Unit’s 3 workstream areas: - encompassing Business Continuity, Emergency Procedures and Partnership with the GLaLRT. He is the current IAEM (Europa) Scholarship Commissioner, a certified Member of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and a member of the UK Emergency Planning Society (EPS). Tim is also BS25999 Lead Auditor trained by the BSi and is also a member of BAPCO. Chief Inspector Marjason has extensive Conference speaking experience in the UK and overseas events in the USA, Canada, UAE, The Netherlands and Poland.

Alistair Montgomery joined London Underground in 1991. He has been involved with the development and implementation of a number of PFI major projects across LUL.  In 1999 he became involved with the design, build and implementation of the Connect System, LUL’s digital communications network.  Since 2008 he has been part of the Operational Upgrades team of London Underground with responsibility for the operational aspects of Communications projects across LUL.

Paul has spent most of his career as a uniformed police officer in the Metropolitan Police and West Mercia. From 2000 to 2002 as a uniformed Inspector Project Manager on the Airwave Radio Project he drew together and chaired the national Operational Guidance Group to create national working practices for the new radio system. After that he went on to be Chief Inspector and Deputy Divisional Commander as part of the command team at Telford Police Station.

From July 2008 he was seconded to the National Policing improvement Agency as a Police Subject Matter Expert on the Interoperability Programme. In that role he spoke extensively on the subject of interoperable communications, both nationally and internationally.

In April 2011 Paul took on the role of Interoperability Implementation Coordinator for the ACPO UK Operational  Interoperability Portfolio delivering communications interoperability for the police service.

Line Laudrup, MSc in Political Science, has worked as a project coordinator and process consultant in the SINE Agency since 2008. The SINE Agency is part of the Danish National Police and is responsible for the roll out and implementation of the Tetra technology for all blue light emergency services in Denmark.

SINE is the name of the (Tetra) network used by all emergency services dealing with public order, safety and health. SINE is to secure a strong co-operation and co-ordination between the police, the fire brigades, the ambulance services and parts of the Danish Defence in Denmark.

Line Laudrup is part of the team in the SINE Agency responsible for assisting all the blue light emergency services in their transition from using the old analogue radios to using the new digital radios and control room services. She is mainly responsible for administrative/political, legal and change management issues.

BSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade with 29 years of experience in telecommunications including installation, testing and maintenance of digital voice and data switching equipment, software design and development of real-time multitasking processor systems, quality assurance and total quality management and large scale project management.

From 2003 working for Serbian Ministry of the Interior, from 2007
responsible for all telecommunication systems of Serbian police and fire brigades. Manager of Serbian Public Safety TETRA project.

Leading expert of Geneva DCAF (Democratic Control of Armed Forces) organisation. Chairman of the West Balkans Telecommunications Committee for improvement of Cross-border cooperation.

Participated with several papers and articles in national and international telecommunications and public safety related conferences. Author of two books.

Sven Franke is a police officer from the German federal state Niedersachsen for 25 years now. After several other duties he now is Head of a Regional Technical Police Department.

His scope of duties is on one hand the regional TETRA implementation and on the other one the TETRA related building of a multi agency Command & Control Centre in Oldenburg. This CCC will be responsible for fire brigades, polices, medical health services and emergency management for about 3 million people and 5000 officers.

He leads a project at the Federal Agency for Digital Radio to create a nationwide IT system for the administration of TETRA organizations, users and subscribers.

I work in Ministry of interior, Croatia as a head of subdepartment for crypto security. I am in charge for digital radiocommunication system TETRA since we implemented it in 2001. First it was Dimetra R3.8, and later we implemeted R5.2 then upgraded to R6.1. My main responsibilities are fleetmapping, maintaining the MSO – switch, programming the terminal devices. I was also involved in teaching young policemen about basic of telecommunication. I graduated at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 1995.  

Sue Lampard is a serving Police Officer and has been involved with BAPCO (British Association for Public Safety Communications Officials) for a number of years. She currently holds the role of Vice President and is part of the team managing a fundamental change programme within the Association.

Sue joined Surrey Police in 1982.  During her 28 year career she has served in most areas of the county and has had extensive experience in various fields of policing. 

A good part of her career has been in the world of Operational Communications at both operator and managerial level. For the past four years, Sue has returned to this world and is currently Head of Contact, incorporating emergency and non-emergency call handling, counter services and crime management.

For four years Sue has led work with local government partners in Surrey which is aimed at achieving the ‘one stop shop’ concept for customer contact. As part Police commanders group within the South East Police, she was influential in driving the agreement to finally deliver the 101 number for police non-emergency calls. 

Sue chairs the Surrey TSG (Telecommunications Sub-Group) which forms part of Civil Contingencies planning for the Local Resilience Forum. Work in preparing the county’s communications telecoms plan has led her to become a visiting lecturer at the Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College in Easingwold. Her aspiration is to join the two work streams together and ‘normalise civil contingencies into day to day business.

As a qualified police trainer, Sue spent two years seconded to the Home Office South East Regional Police Training Centre during which she gained a Certificate in Education.  Sue holds a BSc (Hons) and in 2001 was awarded an MSc in Service Management from Buckingham University.   

Mr. Hannu A. Aronsson is the chairman of the TETRA Applications working group of the TETRA Association Technical Forum. He has 10 years of experience in the design, implementation and deployment of leading-edge TETRA applications and technologies at Portalify Ltd, where he is chairman and chief technology office

Simon joined APD Communications in 2004 following 10 years’ service in the Royal Navy where he focused on ship bourn radio communication systems. At APD Simon has been involved in leading the product development and delivery of Control Room communications systems to over 40 UK Police control rooms and nationally across Sweden and Abu Dhabi, integrating with both Cassidian (EADS) and Motorola TETRA infrastructures.

Dan has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, designing, developing and delivering software solutions over a variety of industries with a focus on communications and system integration. Dan joined APD in 2007 and is the System Architect of the Cortex ICCS product suite. He has been involved in the Swedish RAKEL project to deliver software for the Rikspolisstyrelsen (Swedish Police) CORA control room project and has recently managed a large development project to deliver Cortex into Emirates Airlines. Emirates Airlines have 2 control rooms, one at Emirates Headquarters controlling worldwide operations and one for all ground operations at Dubai International Airport, with over 4500 TETRA radios.