About: Bill is a senior technology executive with over 30 years of strategic product management and consulting experience in the software, telecommunications, and aerospace industries and a globally acknowledged public safety technology expert. He currently serves as Director of Technology Strategy for NG public safety systems vendor Synergem Technologies. Prior to his current position, Bill was Manager of NG9-1-1 Product Development for Verizon’s Global Network Management (GNM) organization. Prior to Verizon, he served as Director of Product Management for ServerCentral Turing Group (SCTG), a provider of cloud infrastructure, AWS consulting, cloud-native software development, and global data center services. Prior to SCTG, he was Director of public safety and security solution architecture for Huawei’s America Solution Development Center, a division of Huawei’s Enterprise Business Group (EBG) / OpenLab organization, where he was responsible for creating & defining global Next Generation (NG) 9-1-1 and NG112 integrated command & control solutions. Before his time at Huawei, Bill held a similar role with Motorola’s Smart Public Safety Systems (SPSS) division (now known as the Software Enterprise). He has spent several years working with various SDOs like the IETF and NENA helping to develop technical standards for NG public safety systems. He is the chair of NENA’s ICE, or Industry Collaboration Events, Steering Committee, co-chair of NENA’s ESInet / Public Safety Broadband Network (PBSN) Interconnection WG, a Vice Chair of the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) Technical & Operations Committee, a co-Chair of EENA’s Cybersecurity Working Group and an associate member of the National Emergency Communications Working Group of Australia and New Zealand (NECWG – AUS NZ).