The Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference will provide a forum to examine the issues surrounding natural and man-made hazards.
In recent times we have endured horrific fires in Victoria, devastating earthquakes in New Zealand, heartbreaking flooding in Queensland, NSW and Victoria, damaging cyclones in North Queensland and tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and flooding in many parts of the world.
A joint initiative of three 'not-for-profit' organisations - the Australian Institute of Emergency Services, the Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Organisation Inc, and the Association for Sustainability in Business Inc, the conference program will focus on 'PPRR'. Prevention, Preparedness, Response & Recovery and incorporate keynote addresses, concurrent sessions and workshops covering human and social issues, economic and environmental challenges, infrastructure, community and communication topics.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) released a National Strategy for Disaster Resilience in February 2011. It agreed to adopt "a whole-of-nation resilience-based approach to disaster management, which recognises that a national, coordinated and cooperative effort is needed to enhance Australia’s capacity to withstand and recover from emergencies and disasters."
The 2012 conference will be held in Brisbane from 16 - 18 April at the Brisbane Convention Centre and will include a Special Interest Group meeting that will bring together representatives from volunteer groups to explore the ongoing challenges of their shared responsibilities including community engagement, corporate involvement and sustainable support.
The Australian Institute of Emergency Services board meeting will also take place during the conference on Monday, April 16.
Over 50 confirmed speakers including:-
- Robert McClelland MP, Minister for Emergency Management (video link)
- Major General Richard (Dick) Wilson AO, Chair, Queensland Reconstruction Authority
- Assistant Commissioner Peter Martin, QPS
- Mr Mike McKay, Police Inspector, Senior Police and Community Liaison Officer, disaster recovery Lockyer Valley Region and Grantham (2011), Operation Recovery Taskforce Liaison (General Peter Cosgrove) Cyclone Larry (2006), disaster recovery Brisbane floods (1974)
- Mayor Paul Pisasale, City of Ipswich
- Ms Megan Lupton, Ms Lee McDougall, NRMA Insurance
- Dr Ed Blakely, led the New Orleans recovery team from 2007 to 2009 where he developed and directed the implementation plans for the recovery of the City after Hurricane Katrina
- Mr Vince Kelly, President, Police Federation of Australia
- Mr John Ash, Chief, Integrated Public Safety, City of Ottawa; Canada, President, Risk Perspective Inc - "Introducing EMAP to Australia and New Zealand"
- Professor Paul Arbon, Director, Flinders University Research Centre for Disaster Resilience and Health; President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine and Editorial Board Member of the refereed journal 'Pre Hospital and Disaster Medicine.' He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia and the former national Chief Commissioner of St. John Ambulance, Australia
- Mr Alan Marshall, C.StJ, FAIES, President, Australian Institute of Emergency Services
- Mr Chris Ainsworth MBA CEM, Program Manager, Public Safety Leadership Development, Australian College of Community Safety
- Mr Harold Wolpert, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Avalias, an international provider of technologies for organisational preparedness
| Conference streams will include: Human and Social Issues Relief and Recovery Economy and Environment Risk Management Business Continuity |
|
Special Registration Rates
Special registration rates will be available to individual Members of the hosting organisations and members of Association of Sustainability in Business, Australian Institute of Emergency Services, Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association, Planning Institute of Australia,
Victorian Emergency Services Association, International Association of Emergency Managers, St John Ambulance Qld, Australian Red Cross, Volunteering Queensland, Lifeline,
SES, NSW Volunteer Rescue Organisation, CENA
|
Delegates will include |
|
 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
||||
Partners
Dr Ed Blakely
Article Tags: Disaster Management, Emergency Management, Hazards Management, Emergency Services, Emergency Response, Disaster Management Planning, Government Policy, Crisis Management, Volunteers, Risk Assessment, Fire, Flood, Cyclone, Earthquake
