2027 Speakers
John Contestabile, Commissioner, Hanover Borough, PA
John Contestabile enjoyed a 30-year career in Maryland state government holding a variety of positions including Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, Statewide Public Safety Interoperable Communications Director, and retired as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT). After leaving Maryland State government, he joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab as Program Manager of their Emergency Communications Program. After 10 years at JHU/APL, he left to join Skyline Technology Solutions, where he is presently Director of Public Safety Solutions. An engineer by training, he has executed projects related to Geographic Information Systems, Land Mobile Radio, Computer Aided Dispatch, Television Datacasting, Video interoperability and 5G LTE. He has worked with numerous Departments of Transportation as well as public safety entities ranging from police departments [Houston, NYC, Boston, Chicago, Adams Co. IN., Grant Co. WA.], emergency management agencies, fusion centers, and Public Safety Answering Points [PSAPs]. He is the author of numerous public safety communications articles, one of the most important of which was in support of JHU/APL authoring the DHS CISA Information Sharing Framework report published in the fall of 2021.