The 2016 Preparedness Summit will be held April 19-22, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. The Preparedness Summit aims to provide participants exposure to current information, research findings, and practical tools to enhance the participants’ capabilities to plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other public health emergencies. The event highlights current priority
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:
The 7th Global Forum on Urban Resilience & Adaptation, Resilient Cities 2016, will be held July 6-8, 2016 in Bonn, Germany. Each year, Resilient Cities brings together over 400 experts and practitioners from around the world to discuss urban resilience and adaptation. The program of 2016 focuses on a variety of key topics including inclusive
The International Association of Chiefs of Police IACP 2016 conference and expo will be held October 15-18, 2016 in San Diego, California. The IACP 2016 gathers offers thousands of dedicated professionals from federal, state, county, local and tribal agencies for an extensive educational program, renowned keynote speakers, community-building special events and the largest collection of
The 9th Annual Hazus User Conference is scheduled to take place November 7-9, 2016 in Charleston, SC. This theme for this years event is "Achieving Disaster Resilience through Hazus Innovation." The annual event aims to bring Hazus users together to provide an information sharing platform for success stories, best practices, lessons learned, recent research, and
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is hosting the 2017 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise to assess the effectiveness of jamming mitigation technologies and techniques, tactics and procedures. The 2017 exercise will take place from July 17 - 22, 2017, at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. DHS
Sandia National Laboratories and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government invite you to attend the annual Frontiers in Resilience Symposium, January 14-15, 2019. The 2019 Frontiers in Resilience Symposium will focus on the role of communication, coordination, and collaboration for critical infrastructure resilience. This theme recognizes the increasing importance of multi-stakeholder partnerships—across
The Transportation Research Board will host a webinar on March 18, 2021 that will provide ways to accurately assess the value of resilience in future infrastructure investments. To achieve this, all stakeholders need to be able to understand and incorporate the cost and benefits of resilience into the decision-making process, including project prioritization, weighing trade-offs,
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) will host a webinar on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 to explore military expertise and resources that can be leveraged to enhance the resilience of civilian airports. Presenters will share best practices, strategic collaborations, and innovative approaches drawn from military operations to fortify airport infrastructure and operations against disruptions. At the
