World Conference on Disaster Management

The World Conference on Disaster Management will be held June 7-8, 2016 in Toronto, Canada.

The event draws professionals in emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery, risk management, crisis communications emergency response, and community resilience.

Highlighted conference sessions include:

• Designing A Model to Respond to Radiological and Nuclear Disaster
• Crisis Management – Planning and Execution
• Sensemaking: Public Health Crisis Intelligence
• Ebola Field Lab Outbreak Teams: Challenges and Lessons Learned
• Building Business Continuity for the 21st Century
• Advantages Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Disaster Management
• Crisis Management Bootcamp
• Building Local Networks Between Formal & Digital Responders
• Effective Whole Community Digital Communications Planning
• Exponential Technology Changing the Business Case for Preparedness
• Saving the Day: Social Networks and Contingency Plans
• Business Continuity and Resilience – Is It One and the Same?
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Organizational Resilience
• Is a Disaster Response Strategy Empowering or Disabling?
• Partnerships to Improve Preparedness, Performance, and Professional Development
• Are You Prepared for the Entire Lifecycle of a Crisis?
• Operation Windshield and the Simplification of Emergency Management
• Mass Care Planning for the Next Refugee Population Surge
• Social Networks: Key to Effective Disaster Response in Africa

Please visit the World Conference on Disaster Management website for more information and to register.