Speaker Bio

The co-founder and chief executive officer of Digital Sandbox, Inc., Ware is charged with ensuring that his company remains a leading provider of information products and software tools for large organizations contending with significant exposure to terrorism and catastrophic risk. He is currently a strategic advisor on homeland security and intelligence matters, providing invaluable consultation to executives in the Department of Homeland Security, and FEMA, as well as throughout the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies, and private industry. A renowned industry innovator, Ware holds three U.S. risk management patents. The technology and methods he has pioneered have been used consistently by the homeland security and intelligence communities for the measurement of risks to the United States, and have been allocated more than $15 billion in security investment. Ware has more than 15 years experience developing advanced analytical products for the national security community. His solutions include: • Targeting algorithms for the first generation of unmanned aerial vehicles, • An early GIS-based natural disaster response system for the Director of Military Support in the Pentagon; • The first Web-based medical response system for WMD events used by the U.S. Army Surgeon General, • The premiere terrorism-response training curriculum for first responders as mandated by the U.S. Domestic Preparedness Program. Ware is also credited with designing Site Profiler, the breakthrough risk management system Digital Sandbox has implemented for homeland security organizations across the U.S. and abroad. He has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Optics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.