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Steve Surfaro, Group Manager and Strategic Technical Liaison, Panasonic System Solutions CompanyPanasonic System Solutions Company, a leader in professional video surveillance solutions, continues their thought leadership and consultative business with end users by offering substantial informational and educational resources via Steve Surfaro, Group Manager and Strategic Technical Liaison.  In high demand as a speaker and educator, Steve brings his tremendous experience and expertise to bear on a wide range of topics relating to all aspects of video surveillance.

Steve's schedule of webcasts covers numerous topics of interest to the security industry in general and also specific vertical markets. 

The topics for the first several webcasts - all provided at no charge by Panasonic, are as follows:

February 13

Network design for the security professional

February 20

New product overview 2008

March 5

Business strategies and best practices for video

March 12

Selection and programming of DVRs and NVRs

April 16

Learn about biometrics - a look into the iris reader

May 14

Emerging trends 2008 

June 18

Analogue security systems 

July 16

Network switches and protocols 

September 10

Network design for the security professional 

October 8

Business strategies and best practices for video

 

In addition to his webcasts, Steve is a highly regarded veteran speaker at industry events.  At ISC West 2008, Steve has a full roster of sessions, including the following:

Tuesday,
April 1

1.00-
4.00 PM

From analogue capture to
IP video recording systems -
best practices in digital video
management and deployment 

Steve Surfaro

Wednesday,
April 2

10.00-
11.30 AM

Best practices for CCTV,
video and data transport

Steve Surfaro and
Jerry Bowman, BICSI

 

2.00-
3.00 PM

New opportunities in video
surveillance for the home
and small business markets

Steve Surfaro

 

3.00-
4.00 PM

Retail and banking
practitioner focus panel

Steve Surfaro, Moderator

Ed Bacco, Amazon

Michael O'Hagan,
Bank of America

Thursday,
April 3

1.00-
2.30 PM

Network infrastructure workshop

Steve Surfaro and
Jerry Bowman, BICSI

 

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