ASIS International Greater Kansas City Chapter is on FIRE!

Wes Griffith, CPP, who is one of our outstanding members, was honored by the U.S. Department of Justice for his work in crime prevention!

Thanks to Chief Doreen Jokerst, EdD,John Lacy, and the City of Overland Park for sharing this story.

This chapter is changing the future in security! We have so many amazing things coming up,!

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Yesterday, 30 of our chapter members gathered for our November meeting to hear from the Adjutant General of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the United States, Dan West. We ended the session with a picture of Dan and the veterans in attendance.

Thank you to T-Mobile for hosting us and to Honeywell FM&T for sponsoring the event.

We had a full house for our October chapter meeting at Garmin International where we heard about how security designed a warehouse distribution center on their campus into a three-story office building, where they applied internal security policies in the design along with lessons learned from a previous build.

Thank you to Andre Ivan and Matt Hughes for a great presentation and tour of Garmin's campus! Special thanks to SEi for sponsoring the event!

Members of the Greater Kansas City chapter came out strong at GSX 2023 and many more attending virtually!

Terry Owens, CPP | Michael Betten | Ryan Smith | Robert "RJ" Hope, CPP, ABCP | Victor Elazegui Jr., CPP, PSP | Lisa Price, PSP, CPP | Shane Eckley | Spencer Krupp, CPP | Wes Griffith, CPP | James Schwartz | Jared Oakden, CPP, PSP, CC

We had a great chapter meeting today at the Kansas City Art Institute with a presentation by the Director of Safety and Security Michael Raunig. Thank you for hosting us! We also got to swear in our new Chapter Secretary, Brock Josephson, PSP, with TEECOM.

We have a solid agenda planned out for the rest of the year and hope to see our local Kansas City security professionals at the next event in October. See you in September at GSX in Dallas!

Our 2023 Physical Security Technology Showcase and Awards Ceremony was held on Thursday, June 8th at DoubleTree Overland Park. We had 90 registered attendees for the event and 25 vendor sponsors. The total number of registered individuals, including attendees and vendors, was 153. Thank you for your support and thank you to the showcase planning committee members who volunteered many hours of their time to make it all happen, namely:

Thank you again to all our Vendors Sponsors:

Gold Sponsor: Assa Abloy, Hanhwa, Identiv, Titan Protection, iPro

Silver Sponsor: Cam-Dex, Automatic Systems, Haystax, Salto, Lenel-S2, Wesco

Bronze Sponsor: GardaWorld, C&C Group, Ecamsecure, Threshold, AXIS, HID, Salient, Boon Edam, Tyco, Ontic, March Networks, LifeSafety Power, Avigilon, Alvarado

Congratulations to our 2023 Chapter Award winners:

Security Professional of the Year: Robert Gibson, University of Kansas Medical Center

Security Officer of the Year: Doug Zeckser, Clarence M. Kelley and Associates, at WaterOne

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We had a great turnout for our May chapter meeting where Ryan Smith, CEO of Titan Protection, gave an informative presentation about remote video monitoring technology capabilities and services. Attendees were able to tour their monitoring center and training facility and were able to try out Titan's virtual Firearms Training System (FATS). Thank you to Ryan and Titan Protection for sponsoring this event!

Thank you to the Overland Park Police Department for hosting our April Chapter Meeting and to Christopher Staley for presenting on Premises Liability: What Security Professionals should know! We had a great turnout and great discussion.

If you missed the April Chapter meeting, you still have time to join us for the May meeting, where Titan Protection will host and provide guest speakers to talk about Remote Video Monitoring Technology and Services. Go to the Greater Kansas City Chapter website at https://lnkd.in/gFhyXnDW.

We had a great turnout for our March Chapter meeting at Wesco. Jennifer Willett, Wireless Business Manager for Wesco, presented on building management technologies and public safety.

Last week, our chapter was offered a unique opportunity for a sneak-peak of the brand-new Kansas City airport terminal before its opening at the end of the month. Our tour covered the entire airport from the parking garage to luggage handling with a focus on security operations and technologies. The only downside was that our group was limited to 20 attendees, which we could have at least doubled from all the interest this event received.

Many thanks to our chapter member Michael Satter for connecting us with our host David V. at DHS.