Program Overview
Program Overview - HOW DO OUR PROFESSIONS DO MORE WITH LESS
WCDM recognizes the many challenges that our unique industry is faced with including trying to do more with less in these tough economic times. It will take progressive minds and collective thoughts to develop innovative strategies that will sustain future infrastructures and meet the budget's bottom line. WCDM 2012 has injected this forward thinking into our program and is ready to share it with you!
WCDM’s programs continued focus is to help break down silos and encourage professionals in all fields of disaster management, in both public and private sectors, to work together. WCDM offers the greatest opportunity to network with peers and colleagues from over 35 countries who share the same challenges and have the same goals. Our international selection of expert presenters from around the world are carefully selected from over 280 to deliver 74 ground-breaking sessions that will leave you inspired when you return to your office. Not only will they help you to learn, they will challenge you to solve problems with innovative solutions and theories and to look into the future to better understand emerging risks and threats.
Please join us and hear from industry experts in our educational workshops, plenary and concurrent sessions covering the following topics:
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It’s an increasingly complex world of fragile systems, intensely urbanised societies and never ending security threats. There are more questions than answers, more issues than resolutions. More and more, the methods of today are showing to be less adequate for tomorrow.
WCDM 2012 brings innovative thoughts and programs to the emergency management and business continuity professional through a series of sessions including; use of social media before and during a crisis; building a culture of recoverability; “bottom – up” disaster response; and, corporate social responsibility during a crisis.
Listen as leaders in the industry question current accepted beliefs and paint a different picture for tomorrow.
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“Resilience” is steadily becoming part of the everyday vocabulary of the crisis manager. First we responded, then we prepared. Does mitigation equal resiliency? Is resiliency the Seemingly Impossible Dream? Or does recent experience from Australia and the Niagara Frontier prove differently?
Through the experience of leaders in the field, WCDM 2012 explores the difficulties of creating a resilient culture, whether it is for protecting a business, empowering a community or fortifying a system. WCDM 2012 challenges the professional to consider the core issues. Some may question whether effective resiliency can ever be achieved, whiles others are showing that successful programs can, and have been, developed.
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Where do we learn our lessons? Where can we find practical innovations? Case studies allow us to learn from other’s mistakes and successes. Pilot programs allow us to validate new programs.
WCDM recognizes the value of case studies and field experience to crisis professionals.
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Not only do disaster management professionals have to deal with the increasingly complex threats of today, they have to be prepared to face additional challenges in the future.
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It’s hard to keep up. The world is changing: complex systems; new technologies; more issues – less money. From decision making to emerging issues, from implementation to formulation - WCDM 2012 brings you the information you need to know to do your job better in several sessions throughout the conference.
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