Plenary Sessions
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Monday, June 25, 2012 |
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 Emergency Preparedness - Why Disaster Losses Continue to Increase and What Can Be Done About ItTime: 8:40AM - 9:40 AM Dennis Mileti Director Emeritus of the Natural Hazards Center, University at Boulder in Colorado Many different professions have for decades sought to mitigate losses from hazards and disasters. Many nations have conducted national hazards and policy assessments and even more have participated in cooperative international hazard reduction programs and activities. This presentation will pose and then seek to answer the question: "Why, despite everything so... [Read More] |
Cyber Security: What You Need to Know Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM Robert Beggs Presentation information TBA |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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 Food & Emergencies: The Impact of Hunger. Time: 8:40AM - 9:40AM Nathaniel Forbes Director, Forbes Calamity Prevention Pte Fleeting drought and armed conflict, a Somali woman is forced to choose which of her two children to leave behind to die because she cannot feed both of them. In Ukraine, in the Black Sea breadbasket, a wheat farmer gazes out at the world's most fertile soil, satisfied that he fed thousands of people from a record harvest this year. He never forgets the stories his grandfather told of 7 million Ukrainians starving in the famine of 1932. In London, an Indian commodities broker works late into the night, sleeps on the floor and eats in front of his computer screen, trading train cars and ship loads of corn, wheat, soybeans and rice, to fulfil his parents' dream that he escape the poverty and hunger they knew. In Canada, a family sits down at a dinner table groaning under a holiday feast, more food than they can possibly...[Read More]
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A Dangerous Idea: that in spite of all the work being done to make our communities safer, vulnerability is growing faster than we are able to mitigate it. In other words - disaster & emergency management is failing... |
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What keeps CEOs awake at night? What is it in their mind that makes a difference to the resilience of their organisation? In 2011, we interviewed 50 CEOs from a wide range of industry sectors in Australia. We found that when it comes to the resilience of their organisations, the single most important factor is trust...[Read More]
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The conference will conclude with a summary of the outcome of Tuesday's keynote panel and workshops.
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