Gala Awards Tuesday, June 26^th

Program highlights to be announced.

Full Conference Pass add $49.00
No Conference Pass add $89.00
Student Pass add $19.00
Co-Presenter add $49.00
One or Two day Day Pass add $89.00
Full Table Price 8 Seats $349.00

The following awards will be announced and presented at this year’s 22^nd World Conference on Disaster Management:

The Disaster Recovery Institute CANADA, Award of Excellence Program.  These awards, presented in 4 distinct categories, - Small, Medium and Large Businesses, as well as Governmental organizations. The award categories recognize organizations that have achieved a high level of excellence in the fields of Business Continuity Management in three professional areas: ▪ Continuity Management ▪ Technology Recovery (DR) ▪ Crisis Management.

Link to Awards Page: http://www.dri.ca/AWARDS/abouttheawards.asp

Ontario Association of Emergency Managers Student Awards Program recognizes students in an Emergency Management Post-secondary Program. The awards are available in three categories: graduate students in emergency management, undergraduate students in emergency management, and either graduate or undergraduate students in a related field having successfully taken at least one emergency management course.

Application form and web site information at www.oaem.ca/public/education.html

The Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE) will present its second annual DRIE Scholarships at this year's Gala Awards Night to two active students following an academic program in a Canadian institution to become a professional in the Emergency Management, Business Continuity or Public Safety field.  The scholarship program has been announced within academic institutions and through other partners over the coming months leading up to the May 20 application deadline, as well as at DRIE's March 6th symposium and during Business Continuity Awareness Week (March 19-23).  The application form and selection criteria are available on the DRIE website,
http://www.drie.org/

Student Reception

In 2011 we introduced the student reception with great success, in 2012 the student reception will be a large part of the Gala Awards Evening. The reception will provide an opportunity for students and recent graduates of university and college programs related to emergency management and business continuity to meet speakers, colleagues and peers to discuss future career opportunities and challenges following graduation.

Overview:

Until quite recently, most emergency management professionals in Canada (and in the US) had been selected for their experience in the military or one of the emergency response services. However, in the 1990’s there was a move to incorporate pre-disaster prevention/mitigation and preparedness as essential components of emergency management programs.  This trend has continued with the introduction of emergency management graduate and post graduate programs in a number of universities and colleges across Canada since the early years of the new millennia.

Graduates of these programs are entering the disaster management profession at an absolutely crucial time. Not only is disaster management becoming increasingly complex, involving many fields within the profession as a whole but the frequency and scale of large scale disasters is increasing at a time when globalization has made communities around the world far less resilient. They are also entering the profession at a time when many experienced emergency managers are close to retirement.