Adam Crowe is a certified emergency manager (CEM), associate business continuity professional (ABCP), and master exercise practitioner (MEP). He is a nationally recognized leader in social media and emergency management and routinely engages in cutting-edge planning, training, and exercise opportunities that improve the readiness of communities, organizations, and businesses to respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters. He has spoken at over 50 regional, statewide, or national conferences on how social media impacts emergency management and has been published more than a dozen times in professional journals. In addition to A Futurist’s Guide to Emergency Management, he is also the author of Disasters 2.0: The Application of Social Media in Modern Emergency Management (2012) and Leadership in the Open: A New Paradigm in Emergency Management (2013). He currently serves as the director of emergency preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University and lives with his wife and children in Richmond, Virginia.
As a practitioner in emergency management, I knew Adam Crowe to be inquisitive, innovative and on the lookout for the technologies that could improve emergency management and public communication. It's no surprise that Dr. Crowe has turned this deep interest into a comprehensive and insightful guide into emerging technologies and how they apply to the critical task of protecting the public, property and the environment. This book will help professionals sift through the wild frontier of new technologies, enabling them to better plan and prepare for the significant challenges ahead. -Gerald Baron, CEO, Agincourt Strategies The forward thinking approach addresses not only the benefits but also the limitations and challenges of emerging issues often outside the scope of today's emergency management professional. - Brittany Taylor Schaal, Director of Emergency Management, University of Richmond