About: Brooks Shannon, Vice President of GIS at RapidDeploy, has been involved in the 9-1-1 and Public Safety industry for 18 years. He regularly presents at state, national, and international conferences and forums on industry trends, best practices, and lessons learned within NG9-1-1 and GIS, and has worked with NENA, EENA, and ETSI to conduct and lead system interoperability testing events such as the first-ever test of intercontinental NG9-1-1/NG9-1-1 interoperability at NENA’s ICE 9 and ETSI’s PlugTests #4. Brooks also remains an active participant within multiple NENA working groups and helps further the development of NG9-1-1 as a co-chair of the NENA Data Structures Committee.