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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release Media Contact:
Betsy Arnett, Public Information Officer
barnett@leesburgva.gov 703-771-2734
Leesburg-Based Omnilert Receives Innovative Solutions
Consortium Award for Most Disruptive Technology
Leesburg, VA (via PRNewswire,
November 20, 2015) – Omnilert, the
pioneer in mass emergency
notification systems, announced
today that its Scenarios Manager
solution received the Innovative
Solutions Consortium (ISC) Award for
Most Disruptive Technology.
The ISC, in partnership with the
Loudoun County Chamber of
Commerce, the Loudoun County
Department of Economic
Development, and Loudoun County
Public Schools (LCPS), held the LCPS
Challenge Event on October 22, 2015.
The event was designed to identify
the innovative technologies that best address the school system's "hard-to-solve" problems,
including school safety and security.
Omnilert's Scenario Manager was selected to receive the Most Disruptive Technology Award by
ISC's panel of expert judges. This award is given to the innovation that the judges considered to
be a compelling next generation advancement that will replace, rather than improve upon,
current solutions.
As part of Omnilert's e2Campus offering, Scenario Manager gives schools and businesses a
powerful new way to protect their people during campus emergencies and critical situations.
Scenario Manager allows schools and businesses to use a single button to activate their full
range of crisis response actions, as soon as a crisis occurs. This includes immediately alerting
those in danger (using text, email, phone calls, social media, web sites, desktop alerts,
classroom screens, among other methods), as well as notifying and connecting the emergency
Omnilert CEO Ara Bagdasarian with Eric Hornberger,
Chairman of the Loudoun County Public School Board
(PRNewsFoto/Omnilert).
response teams needed to manage the situation. Organizations can pre -program the exact
actions, messages, and methods that they need (for any number of situations), and Scenarios
can be launched from anywhere, using Omnilert's smartphone app or web console.
"We are truly honored to receive this industry recognition," explained Ara Bagdasarian, CEO
and co-founder, Omnilert. "Every second counts during an emergency, so being able to
immediately activate a well-orchestrated response during that first, most important minute
makes a tremendous difference. Similar to our introduction of multimodal mass notifications
to schools over a decade ago, Scenario Manager is born of our mission to do everything
possible to help organizations protect their people."
“Omnilert’s team continues to implement important work that keeps communities safe and
informed, while being an active company with the Mason Ent erprise Center in Leesburg. The
collaboration among the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce, MEC-Leesburg, Loudoun County
Public Schools and Economic Development through Innovative Solutions Consortium is making
a powerful difference in the Loudoun and Leesburg,” said Susan Henson, Regional Director of
MEC- Leesburg.
About Omnilert: Omnilert, LLC invented the world's first campus emergency notification
system, e2Campus, and now supports all industries to keep communities safe and connected.
Their award-winning service enables a single person to communicate critical information to
thousands of people anywhere, anytime, on any device or service. This affords better crisis
communications, emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery, and crime
solving. The company's 20,000 clients include the U.S. Army, DuPont, Bayer, Mazda, University
of Virginia, Cal Poly, YMCA, American Red Cross, and UNICEF. The privately held company is
headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia, and can be found at www.omnilert.com.
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