Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Emergency Experts
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
All you have to do is read the daily newspapers to find out about the hottest career niche of the decade. Scary words such as "disaster" and "terrorism" tell you exactly what it is. Virtually any expert who can prevent, monitor and track disasters--man-made or natural--and stop terrorists in their tracks has a career for life.
Unfortunately, the war on terror will be fought for a long time. It's likely to never end. A niche industry surrounding preventing disaster of every imaginable kind is only in its infancy.
The United States is screaming for experts to manage every conceivable disaster/emergency scenario: planning, developing software, network monitoring and IT deployment. Project managers with strong IT and engineering backgrounds can practically name their price.
It won't be long before companies and the federal government will be employing convicted hacker felons to spearhead covert campaigns that decipher terrorists' computer codes and crack enemy websites in order to find out what they're up to.
On the natural disaster front, we're far from getting a jump on tracking hurricanes and creating efficient strategies for mass evacuations. The hurricane season is already upon us, and we're not prepared. That's the conclusion of a recent 600-page report by UC Berkeley's civil engineering school. Even after $3.1 billion in repairs have been completed, many …
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