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Mar 6 & 7 | 2024

Miami, FL

Derek Rowan: Speaking at the The Flood Expo Miami

Derek Rowan

Ascenttra Training and Exercise Specialists

Easily create your own news broadcasts for your preparedness exercises!

Having custom news broadcasts and social media (synthetic media) for your drills provides your participants an enhanced environment for their decision-making. It helps not just public messaging procedures but also senior and operational policy decisions. Creating realistic news videos has traditionally been costly and require specific expertise and equipment. Let us show you how to do this yourself in minutes.

About Derek Rowan

Derek Rowan, the president of Ascenttra has been providing training and exercises to all levels of government, the private sector, and international countries for over 30 years. Derek has designed, developed, conducted, and evaluated hundreds of exercises that included a synthetic media broadcast – many of them streamed in real time to the players just like a continuous broadcast station. Derek has been a professional instructor, teacher, facilitator, and presenter for over 35 years. His dynamic, engaging, and entertaining speaking style has earned him accolades from both domestic and international audiences. He also has a passion for filmmaking and video production techniques and has combined these two endeavors to teach people how to use already owned items to produce high quality video presentations simulating the news media in a secure environment for exercise conduct.