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Indy Racing League director of security Charles Burns will join United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and other speakers for the inaugural National Sports Safety and Security Conference and Exhibition next week in New Orleans.

The conference is being hosted by the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, of which Burns is an advisory board member, at the University of Southern Mississippi. He’ll moderator a panel discussion.

Established in 2006, The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security was created to provide an interdisciplinary academic environment to further increase sport security awareness, improve sport security policies and procedures and enhance emergency response through evacuation, recovery operations and crowd management training.
 
“The sold-out conference is a reflection of the growing interest in sport safety and security from the sport venue security personnel, first responders, manufacturers and league security officials,” said Dr. Lou Marciani, National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security director.