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Charles Laird
Charles Laird is a public safety professional and an asymmetrical technologist who has 19 years of experience and knowledge in the public safety industry as well as with various types of technologies. Charles’s experiences with coordinating and deploying hundreds of search and rescue personnel during Hurricanes Matthew, Harvey, Michael, Irma, and Florence which has given him a unique perspective on how agencies and governmental agencies respond to large scale disasters. He has deployed a statewide TAK Server for use by North Carolina's first responder community and very active throughout the TAK community. Charles is also a volunteer Captain at the Youngsville Fire Department. He is the Technology Specialist of NC’s First Responder Emerging Technologies Program and is charged with exploring how technology is researched, developed, and implemented in the Public Safety space.
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18-Jun-2025Theatre C - Working Together with all industry players – Network Providers, Industry, End-users & Vertical Sectors for a safer, more connected worldCase Study - Putting IoT & UAS Data into Responders Hands with ATAK