| U.S. Events |
| International Disaster Conference and Expo (January 17-19; New Orleans) The purpose of the conference is to unite public- and private-sector industry leadership to create global discourse regarding lessons learned, best practices, forward thinking, and policies and procedures that shape the landscape of emergency management, homeland security, first response, business continuity, and all aspects of disaster preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation on a global scale.
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| Preparing in Unison (January 18; Salt Lake City) The Utah Emergency Management Association and the Federal Emergency Management Agency provide this presentation and discussion regarding the new National Disaster Recovery Framework and how to apply the framework’s principles and concepts.
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| Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute 2012 Winter Industry Briefing (January 18-20; Washington, DC) This briefing presents an authoritative update on the justice, public safety, and homeland security information-sharing and information technology market, focusing on information sharing and national initiatives that impact our nation’s safety and security. It offers breakout sessions for technical staff and executives, as well as extensive networking opportunities with industry and government attendees.
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| (January 23-25; Arlington, VA) The theme of the 2012 conference is “Enhancing Identity Technology, Collection and Protection.” The conference will cover voice and face identification; biometrics strategy, policy, and conformity; “The Biometrics Challenge 2011”; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance science and technology challenges; interoperability via web services; federal identity management programs; and biometric achievements at the DHS Science and Technology Directorate.
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| Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office Advance Planning Briefing for Industry (January 24; Washington, DC) This program office operates under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. The briefing, organized by the National Defense Industrial Association, forecasts the requirements anticipated for funding in fiscal year 2013 and advertised using a broad agency announcement.
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| Really Ready 3 (January 24-25; Sacramento, CA) This long-term care disaster preparedness conference, sponsored by the California Association of Health Facilities, will explain the who’s, how’s, and why’s of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery and provide the latest information on the risk and impacts of emergency events in California and how to best prepare for them.
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| (January 26; Dallas) This conference addresses issues common to all aspects of disaster and emergency preparedness and management. It includes a variety of insightful and knowledgeable speakers while providing opportunities for training and networking with experts and practitioners in disaster management research; disaster preparedness; business continuity; emergency management; emergency communications; emergency response; risk management, security, information technology, and human resources; environmental, community planning; and the organizations that supply and service these professions. View event website |
| Mass Violence & Emergency National Training Conference (January 31–February 2; Jacksonville, FL) This conference sponsored by the Office for Victims of Crime will bring together multidisciplinary stakeholder teams, including police, fire and rescue, investigators, medical providers, prosecutors, victim service professionals, policy makers, faith communities, and other allied professionals, to share their experiences and knowledge about how to respond to victims, survivors, and communities.
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| (February 6-8; San Diego) This exhibition and conference are dedicated to promoting international innovation and technology to protect U.S. maritime, airport, and land borders in the fight against international terrorism and criminal activity and the threat of chemical and biological attack.
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| (February 7-9; New Orleans) This conference will bring together the fields of transportation and emergency management to discuss evacuation planning to accommodate the needs of all people before, during, and after a major disaster and to foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas surrounding a broad range of evacuation issues, particularly mass evacuations prompted by disasters.
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| Cyberspace 2012 Symposium (February 7-9; Colorado Springs) The theme is “Cyber in a Converged and Consolidated Infrastructure.” This conference hosted by the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association will “host some of America’s most brilliant strategic thinkers and policy makers, as well as world class private industry organizations.”
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| Minnesota Governor’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Conference (February 14-16; St. Paul, MN) This professional community event provides training classes and sessions addressing current and critical topics in emergency management, incident response, and disaster recovery for Minnesota. All state and local emergency managers, emergency response personnel, and partners from business, industry, and Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters are invited and encouraged to register and attend.
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| Center for Homeland Defense and Security Alumni Professional Exchange Continuing Education Conference (February 21-23; Monterey, CA) At this conference sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School and the Homeland Security Department, subject matter experts will explore current trends and their related impacts on homeland security organizations, policies, and practices. The theme of the conference is “Terrorism, Budgets and Disasters.”
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| (February 21-24; Anaheim, CA) The theme is “Regroup, Refocus, Refresh: Sustaining Preparedness in an Economic Crisis.” Despite a call to action for a stronger and more robust approach to ensuring the health and safety of all communities, as federal funds gradually diminish and the economic outlook grows bleak, local, state, tribal, and territorial health departments no longer aim to do more with less, but in some cases face the decision to eliminate critical preparedness activities—the kind that could eventually mean life or death.
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| (February 26-29; Washington, DC) This American Society for Microbiology meeting is intended for scientists, physicians, public health researchers, and policy makers who need to be informed about the latest scientific developments. Professionals will present information, knowledge, techniques, and experiences.
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| National Petrochemical & Refiners Assn. Security Conference & Exhibition (February 27-29; Houston) This conference presents current topics of critical importance to assist attendees in keeping themselves up to date on national critical infrastructure security issues—from terrorism to oil field crimes to DHS regulations and policies.
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| (February 27–March 1; Miami) This conference will discuss biometrics such as fingerprint technology, iris recognition, facial recognition, voice recognition, and smart cards, presenting practical deployment strategies, market trends, and best practices in government and business.
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| Second National Flood Workshop (February 27–March 1; Houston) This workshop organized by the Weather Research Center will bring together agencies, emergency managers, academia, and professionals from across the nation to discuss the meteorological and hydrological conditions observed before, during, and after floods; technological advancements in remote field data acquisition and flood modeling; and regulations and requirements in flood mitigation and floodplain management. The 2012 conference will add a track on coastal and offshore facilities affected by tropical storms and hurricanes.
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| (February 28–March 3; Baltimore) This conference and expo are produced by the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. The event will include plenary sessions, the JEMS Games, and pre-conference workshops. It will be co-located with the International Conference on Disaster & Terrorism Preparedness.
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| International Conference on Disaster & Terrorism Preparedness (February 28–March 3; Baltimore) This conference will focus on planning, resources, and response needs for responders to natural and man-made disasters. It will be co-located with EMS Today.
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| National Severe Weather Workshop (March 1-3; Norman, OK) The workshop will focus on hazardous weather information sharing and discussions of the effective transmission of messages about meteorological risk. Emergency managers, weather enthusiasts, teachers, students, meteorologists, broadcasters, and vendors in threat alerting, sheltering, and communications will gather, present, and discuss inter-related topics about weather hazards. The first day will be devoted to “A Look Back” at some significant weather events of recent years. The second day will concentrate on “A Look Forward,” talking about lessons learned in the hopes of identifying partnerships and progress that will lead to better prepared communities and the ultimate goal of a “Weather Ready Nation.” The third day will have a session on “Severe Weather Awareness Training.”
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| (March 6-7; Phoenix) The expo will cover people, terrorism, and contraband and will discuss what international, federal, state, and local agencies are buying in 2012.
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| Joint CBRN Conference and Exhibition (March 12-14; Baltimore) The Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Conference and Exhibition will provide a forum for the exchange of CBRN defense information among warfighters, CBRN incident responders, technology developers, acquisition professionals, and the supporting industry. This exchange will focus on a better understanding of and increased responsiveness to CBRN defense users’ needs. Selected speakers will discuss current issues and future direction. The exhibition will showcase the broad array of CBRN defense equipment and technologies, as well as the latest in training and logistics capabilities. The 2012 theme is “Beyond BRAC … What’s next in CBRN defense?”
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| (March 25-28) The theme of this Disaster Recovery Journal conference is “Balancing the Demands of Global Business Continuity.” It will include an exhibit hall with product demonstrations and feature a real-time disaster exercise.
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| National Hurricane Conference (March 26-29; Orlando, FL) The conference aims to improve hurricane preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation in the United States and the tropical islands of the Caribbean and Pacific. It also serves as a national forum for federal, state, and local officials to exchange ideas and recommend new policies to improve emergency management. It will emphasize lessons learned from hurricane strikes, state-of-the-art programs, new ideas being tested or considered, new or ongoing assistance programs, and the ABC’s of hurricane preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation—recognizing that there is a continual turnover of emergency management leadership and staff.
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| Nebraska Infrastructure Protection Conference (March 27-28; La Vista, NE) This conference is designed to assist in information sharing, collaboration, and networking with those protecting Nebraska’s critical infrastructure assets. It fosters participation in Nebraska’s homeland security initiatives and programs by partnering industry representatives with government personnel to share knowledge and expertise. It identifies mutual needs in the areas of joint response procedures, key asset surveillance, collaboration, information sharing regarding threats, contact lists and relationships, and participation in response exercises.
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| National Bio-Threat Conference (March 27-29; Denver) This conference, sponsored by the Defense Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the Environmental Protection Agency, will provide a forum for government, industry, academia, and first responders to address critical issues in environmental sampling, bio-detection, clinical diagnostics, and biosurveillance, with presentations, discussions, and exhibits to identify gaps and define next steps for sampling and detection.
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| Virginia Emergency Management Symposium (March 28-30; Short Pump, VA) The theme of this symposium, sponsored by the Virginia Emergency Management Association and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, is “Don’t Fail the Mission.” It will focus on the most diversified types of events to have directly impacted Virginia since the establishment of professional emergency management, notably the response to Virginia’s earthquake across multiple disciplines such as power and schools, as well as the Caroline County bus accident, private-sector support, cyberterrorism, legal concerns for emergency managers, and social media. View event website |
| (April 2-4; Washington, DC) The expo will feature hundreds of security vendors plus interactive workshops and demos showcasing advances in infrastructure protection, cyber-warfare technology, personal protection equipment, and more. The conference will cover topics such as homeland security, domestic and international terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, cyberterrorism and cybercrime, and law enforcement case studies, tactics, and technologies.
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| Contingency Planning & Management Conference and Expo (April 2-4; Washington, DC) The conference will cover continuity planning, continuity of operations, disaster recovery, emergency response, risk assessment, and data protection, availability, and recovery. Pre-conference workshops will be offered on April 2.
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| Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference (April 9-11; Tacoma, WA) This regional conference for the Pacific Northwest will present lessons learned from earthquakes, workplace violence, current hazards research, contingency planning, school preparedness, technology, media interactions, and public health issues, along with information on business continuity planning, school safety, public health preparedness, and homeland security.
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| Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Annual Meeting and National Earthquake Conference (April 10-13; Memphis, TN) The theme is “Learning From the Past to Protect the Future.” This conference for engineers, scientists, emergency managers, social scientists, and policy makers will discuss lessons from recent and historic earthquakes and their applicability to the practice of U.S. professionals, the vulnerability of our aging large infrastructure, the New Madrid Earthquake Scenario Project, and the latest information on seismic safety improvements for schools. View event website |
| Emergency Preparedness Conference (April 11-12; Arlington, VA) The conference will focus on how accreditation standards have provided healthcare organizations with a framework to prepare for and resurrect from disaster. The four phases of emergency management (and the theme of this year’s conference)—mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery—woven together provide a blanket of resilience, giving the individual, the organization, and the community the ability to cope with the stress and adversity of any disaster. The conference agenda will provide to those responsible for emergency management a portfolio of strategies, real-life lessons learned, and tools to implement upon return to their organizations.
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| International Events |
| Intersec (January 15-17; Dubai, United Arab Emirates) This trade fair and conference addresses four areas: (1) commercial and information security, (2) homeland security and policing, (3) safety and health, and (4) fire and rescue. In the expanded 2012 conference, homeland security and policingwill have its own exhibit hall.
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| (January 15-19; Tel Aviv, Israel) The Israeli Ministry of Health and the Home Front Command will host this conference, at which professionals from around the world will share the latest findings and new experiences regarding health system readiness for disasters and emergencies of all types.
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| Crisis & Emergency Management Conference (January 16-17; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) This conference aims to raise awareness and educate national crisis management communities and their partners in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf Cooperation Council. It seeks to build special partnerships to establish a high level of awareness for responses to incidents, emergencies, crises, and disasters. Senior leaders and experts in emergency management from around the world will present their experiences and the best practical means to deal with various scenarios of major emergencies and related challenges.
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| Overcoming Challenges in Emergency Preparedness & Response (January 17-19; Ottawa, Ontario) The theme of this conference is “Mastering Techniques and Strengthening Your Emergency Response Team.” It will address development of cost-effective emergency response plans and managing business continuity planning; ensuring that the emergency response team is ready to go when a disruption occurs; a step-by-step approach to developing emergency response plans; how Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada work with the provinces to further their emergency management system; techniques for reducing risk and strategies for creating community resiliency; mastering the use of social media; how all levels of government are cooperating to build a stronger emergency response system; and the invisible challenges and how to prepare for the unexpected.
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| Public workshop on chemical, biological, or radiological incidents (January 25; London) This workshop organized by Project Practice (“preparedness and resilience against CBRN terrorism using integrated concepts and equipment”) will gather information regarding the needs, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities of members of the public in the event of a chemical, biological, and radiological incident in a public place.
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| Ethics & Public Emergencies (January 26; Edmonton, Alberta) This presentation by the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta will address three core sets of ethical dilemmas in responding to epidemics and other public health emergencies—rationing, restrictions, and responsibilities—exploring each with reference to recent public health events—the attacks of September 11, 2001; the global SARS epidemic; and traumatic hurricanes affecting the U.S. Gulf Coast—and considering how communities can be better prepared to handle these challenging ethical issues in the future.
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| Communicating Disaster: Dealing with the Disasters of Others (January 26-28; Bielefeld, Germany) The “Communicating Disaster” Research Group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, will present the results of the past research year, along with open questions, on “Communicating Disaster in Space and Time,” “Media and the Micro Order of Disaster,” “Technologies and Social Media for Dealing with Disasters,” and “Organisation and Management of Disaster Communication. ”
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| International Forum on Maritime and Port Risk Prevention (January 26-28; Nantes, France) This event will provide a venue for discussion and a showcase for industrial products, methods, and systems. This year’s theme is “Security and Safety: A Marriage of Convenience?” Discussions will focus on three areas: the fight against maritime crime, the definition and management of risk, and the ship of the future. View event website |
| International Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (January 27-28; Kumaracoil, India) This platform is designed for the students and teachers of Noorul Islam University to get proper and sufficient exposure to new ideas and practicalities pertaining to disaster management. The theme is “Strategic Management Solutions for Strengthening Resilience.”
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| Disaster Risk Reduction and ‘Built-In’ Resilience: Towards Overarching Principles for Construction Practice (January 30; Durham, UK) This seminar at Durham University highlights the role and position of the construction sector in creating resilience. It is intended to help inform efforts to overcome some of the barriers to creating a more resilient built environment and offer a point of departure for embedding resilience considerations at both project and institutional levels, even though “real change would demand challenging some of the conventions that currently underpin construction development.”
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| Managing Risk in Insecure Contexts (January 31; Geneva) This workshop, hosted and supported by Action Contre La Faim, the World Bank, and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, will examine how to harmonize humanitarian, risk management, and conflict and fragile states programming to create the enabling environment for resilience and peacebuilding before, during, and after complex political emergencies.
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| This conference will address border security challenges such as transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, contraband, illegal trafficking of humans, and terrorist attacks, presenting the latest regional maritime border protection programs. Other sessions will focus on the latest intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance programmes for enhancing border security, including case studies from Singapore, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. Interactive panel discussions and working groups will focus on “Integration of Technology for Safe and Secure Borders—Human vs. Technology” and “Transborder Legal Issues and Human Rights.” Additional sessions will discuss land borders and assess how technology is being used as an enabler for safe and secure borders. The conference is being organized in an exclusive partnership with Borderpol, the World Border Organization.
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| Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Financial Services (January 31–February 1; London) This one-day conference and post-conference workshops, for business continuity managers in financial institutions and their advisers, will look at terrorism, cyber-security, cloud computing, and the upcoming Olympics. View event website |
| 3rd Maritime Piracy & Security (February 1-2; Dubai, United Arab Emirates) Industry leaders, naval forces, and government figures will discuss and debate the best approaches for ensuring safety at sea and develop a long-term solution to a global problem. The conference offers understanding of the latest global trends of threats to maritime safety; instruction in implementing best management practices to safeguard cargoes, crews, and vessels and integrate armed security units onboard; and firsthand accounts from coastguards, navies, and ship operators of past situations. View event website |
| Sensors Applications Symposium (February 7-9; Brescia, Italy) This forum for sensor users and developers to meet and exchange information about novel and emergent applications in smart sensors, homeland security, biology, system health management, and related areas is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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| Counter Terrorism Conference (February 8-9; Asan, South Korea) The Korean National Police Agency and the International Tactical Officers Training Association present the Evolution Counter Terrorism training conference, focusing on current counter-terrorism topics and threats and seeking to strengthen ties within the global counter-terrorism community. The conference has two tracks: (1) “Command and Leadership and (2) “Counter Terrorism Operations.”
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| (February 8-10) One of the nine topics to be covered is “technologies for homeland security and risk management.”
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| International Seminar on Population, Development & Disaster Management (February 8-11; Tripura, India) The seminar, organizaed by the Department of Geography and Disaster Management at Tripura University, is also the annual conference of the Institute of Indian Geographers. Besides the focal
theme, the conference will hold technical sessions on different branches of geography.
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| International Congress on Emergency Medical Service Systems (February 9-11; New Delhi, India) This conference aims to provide an enabling platform of synergy to the policy makers, healthcare providers, administrators, industry partners, and other stakeholders for knowledge enhancement, skill acquisition, and networking in the multi-dimensional, multi-faceted sphere of emergency medical service systems and disaster management.
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| Business Continuity and Emergency Response Forum (February 13-14; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) The conference will demonstrate the commitment of public and private sectors in the Middle East to security and public safety, addressing emergency response and its delivered value to the organization. It will cover emergency preparedness in the company’s culture, acting fast to correctly address a crisis, medical countermeasures before and after pandemics, emergency response planning for civil unrest and terrorism, mitigating loss by alternative strategies, business continuity through operational excellence, and continual auditing and change management of a continuity plan.
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| Emergency Response to Terrorism (February 16; St. Andrews Univ., Scotland) This conference, sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, will address the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom today; planning and responding in partnership to the 2005 London bombings; al-Qaeda’s ideology, tactics, and targeting; mitigating the future dual-use threat of biological weapons; and the crowd as first responder.
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| Middle East Security Conference & Exhibition (February 19-21; Dubai, United Arab Emirates) This conference hosted by the American Society for Industrial Security International will address a full spectrum of topics in security management, such as supply chain security, loss prevention, hotel security, intellectual property, maritime piracy, terrorism, executive protection, internal theft and fraud, competitive intelligence, brand protection, physical security, cyber-security, investigations, due diligence, and global business issues.
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| LNG Shipping Conference (February 21-22; London) The theme of this conference for those involved in maritime shipment of liquefied natural gas or in emergency response is “Crisis Management: Protect Your Assets: Strategies to Identify, Manage and Maximise the Chance of Protecting Your Assets as a Result of a Maritime Crisis.” Among the topics are “Planning for a Maritime Emergency,” “Hazards Particular to LNG Vessels,” and piracy.
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| CBRN-E Asia Pacific (February 22-23; Singapore) This forum for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives professionals will include a practical exercise involving the Fukushima nuclear powerplant incident and a scenario planning exercise involving a bioterrorism attack on a city in Asia. It also will offer pre- and post-conference workshops.
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| GSMA Disaster Response: Programme Launch & Workshop
(February 27; Barcelona, Spain) The Global System for Mobile Communications Association will launch its Disaster Response Programme with an inaugural working group at the Mobile World Congress. The program seeks to understand how mobile operators can most effectively support each other and improve resilience among networks in disaster scenarios and identify how the mobile industry can best help citizens and humanitarian organizations on the ground following a crisis.
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| Emergency Management Conference (February 28-29; Wellington, New Zealand) The theme of the 2012 conference is “Our community, our response:
Lessons identified from Christchurch” (the 2011 earthquake). It will cover local and national perspectives on the response; buildings and earthquakes; managing welfare and social services locally; interagency coordination; city council planning; a utility perspective; and communicating with and managing the media. It also will offer classes on social media in emergency management response; media training for clear, concise messages during crisis; and situational awareness—making good decisions in times of emergency.
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| This event appraises border security concerns in Eastern Europe and around the world. As a relatively new member of the European Union, Bulgaria faces geopolitical challenges unlike many of its co-members. Along with Romania, it is doing everything it can to be accepted into the Schengen Area. This necessitates effective border policing, and this position as a border security hot spot makes it an ideal and intriguing venue. View event website |
| Socio-Legal Norms in Preventing and Managing Disasters in Japan: Asia-Pacific and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (March 1-2; Sydney, Australia) This conference at the University of Sydney will examine regulatory issues from a variety of social science perspectives, focusing on Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, China, and the USA.
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| Logistics of Natural Disaster Recovery (March 5-7; Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand) This conference being held by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in New Zealand aims to acquaint delegates with many of the lessons that have been learned from two natural disasters—the earthquake in Christchurch and flooding in Queensland, Australia—what worked well and what did not work so well. View event website |
| (March 7-8; Athens, Greece) This conference will bring together government officials from the United States, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Horn of Africa regional states; senior decision makers from the shipping industry; and suppliers of the latest products and technologies. Handpicked speakers and distinguished delegates will help all stakeholders in adopting a practical, comprehensive, sustainable strategy to address maritime security and best practices to counter piracy.
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| Identifying the Hidden Disaster: Natural Disasters and Family Violence (March 9; Melbourne, Australia) This conference is an initiative of Women’s Health in the North, Women’s Health Goulburn North East, and the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse. It will offer workshops, international keynote speakers, and a panel of representatives from the key emergency response and family violence sectors. View event website |
| CBRNe South America (March 13-14; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) A host of expert speakers from outside the region will be joined by experts from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina to discuss the all-hazards threat—chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, narcotics, improvised explosive devices, and hazmat—now coming to Brazil as it hosts the International Federation of Association Football World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.
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| Symposium on Disaster Communications (March 16; Sendai, Japan) This symposium, organized by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the International Telecommunications Union, will focus on the application of telecommunications and information and communications technologies for disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. Lessons will be mainly drawn from recovery efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011. The symposium will be followed by an excursion around Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the affected areas.
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| (March 19-21; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) This year’s theme is “Together Towards a Safer World.” The conference will focus on border and transport security, intelligence and threat assessment, critical infrastructure protection, emergency preparedness and response, counter-terrorism, and resilience (crisis management).
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| Visions of Sharing Responsibility for Disaster Resilience (March 29; Melbourne, Australia) This workshop will address two questions: What does the idea of shared responsibility mean and where does it come from? What needs to be done to implement this idea and what could undermine it? Invited speakers representing a broad range of perspectives will reflect on these questions. Then researchers working in the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre’s “Understanding Risk” research program will present emerging research in this area. Two panels representing a wide cross-section of stakeholders will consider top-down (government-led) and bottom-up (community-led) contributions to sharing risk and responsibility. A final panel will reflect on opportunities and challenges for integrating these contributions. The workshop is free, but registration is required by January 31.
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| New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference (April 13-15; Christchurch, New Zealand) This year’s theme is “Implementing Lessons Learnt.” The conference will include a public session overviewing the effects of and response to the September 2010 Darfield and February 2011 Christchurch earthquakes; presentations by Roger Sutton of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority and Prof. David Alexander of the University of Florence; a tour to observe the impacts of the earthquakes and the recovery progress; and the annual general meeting of the society.
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