David VandenHeuvel, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Services at Weather Decision Technologies
Los Angeles, CA (February 12, 2014)—Take1 Insurance has announced it will host a webinar focused on how to best utilize the latest advances in weather forecasting and monitoring technology, titled “Weather First: A 60-Minute Primer on Incorporating Weather Technology in Outdoor Event Safety Plans.”
Take 1 will once again team up with the Event Safety Alliance for the webinar. It is scheduled for March 19, 2014 at 2 p.m. eastern standard time and is open to anyone involved in the business of producing and staging live outdoor events.
“Incorporating the latest advances in weather forecasting and monitoring into a comprehensive safety plan is probably the single most important thing a producer can do to ensure a safer outdoor live event,” said Scott Carroll, Executive Vice President & Program Director of Take1 Insurance. “Weather affects every aspect of an outdoor live event. From an insurance perspective, when it comes to weather planning, we are going to want to know, in some specific detail, how the weather will be managed and monitored at the show site.”
ESA Executive Director Jim Digby noted that the webinar will focus specifically on issues like weather planning and “predictive weather forecasting” vs. “nowcasting,” and show stop/hold planning. “I am very proud to announce that this webinar will involve the participation of David VandenHeuvel, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Services at Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) in Norman, Oklahoma and a founding member of the ESA. David has over 32 years of weather and safety experience, 23 years of which were in the United States Air Force (now retired). WDT has developed custom weather decision aids and services specific to the live event industry, including interactive maps, alerting and mobile applications.”
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