Speakers 2026
Don Root, Project 25 Manager, APCO International
Don Root is the Project 25 Manager, APCO International, and the Chairman of the Project 25 Steering Committee. He has more than 50+ years of experience in Emergency Management and Public Safety wireless communications. He is experienced in Disaster and planned incident response and support, including expedient field communications network design and installation; communications and warning system planning at the Federal, State and Local levels. His experience also includes: State-level Interoperability coordination; Regional Frequency Coordination and management; large-scale radio network upgrade management and Multi-agency collaboration for national level public safety communications policy development. Don led the effort to develop and maintain ANSI Standards for Public Safety Common Channel Naming and 700 MHz Deployable Trunked Radio Systems.