Homeland Security GIS Summit Conference Report 1st Annual ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit - Articles: "GIS for intelligent collaboration across boundaries, at all levels and integrated, to help create a common picture for everyone involved in planning for or mitigating the effects of a catastrophic event. This boils down to a data issue putting the right data, processed in the right way, and delivered in the right format, into the hands of the right people (all of the right people), at the right time."