Day 1
- Wednesday 15th May, 2013
8:30
Registration, coffee & networking
Empowering community resilience & collaboration
9:10
National collaboration for disaster resilience
9:50
Measures to empower disaster resilience & shared responsibility
- Looking at the types of measures being used internationally and locally
- How do we know if these measures will deliver the desired effect?
- Enabling innovation while keeping all the structures the same
10:30
Morning tea & networking
11:00
Working with the community to help them identify & manage their risk
11:40
Building an all hazards, all agency approach for disaster resilience
12:20
Networking lunch
1:20
Challenges in engaging with individuals & communities under threat – the social psychology of disasters
- Principles of dealing with individuals and communities in adrenalin mode when specialised for survival
- Developing strategies to establish effective working relationships with communities from an understanding of the temporary heightened arousal
- Importance of immediate physical presence by government agencies in the affected community and priorities for immediate action to establish recovery
- Examples of disenchanted communities resulting from confused early priorities
2:00
Building resilience & engagement with those most at risk
- Identifying the most vulnerable in the Victorian community
- Importance of building community resilience to better protect vulnerable individuals in an emergency
- Practical experiences and approaches to developing and implementing new ways of helping to protect our most vulnerable individuals
2:40
Afternoon tea & networking
3:10
Building resilience through community risk assessment processes
3:50
Developing community plans for high risk communities
- Need for individuals and communities to respond to the impact of rapid changes in technology, climate change, population growth and natural disasters
- Importance of having the capacity to draw on local resources, community expertise and leadership to respond to and recover from emergencies
- Working with local communities to build the capacity and encourage participation of local communities in local area community planning
- Conducting Community Emergency Management Plan trials in two of the
- Council’s townships, and the outcomes achieved
4:30
Closing remarks from the Chair & close of day one
Day 2
- Thursday 16th May, 2013
8:30
Welcome, coffee & networking
9:00
Welcome remarks from the Chair
Developing an all hazards, all agency approach
9:10
Community lead action & resilience – Christchurch Earthquakes
- Examining the actions of the community and response during the Christchurch Earthquake
- Experience and implications for governance and policy
- Towards ‘new emergency management’
9:50
Cross-government mitigation strategies to identify risk
- Future of collaboration and information sharing in emergency management
- Integrating the all hazards approach to build community resilience
- Reflections upon recent emergency incidents in NSW
10:30
Technologies for linking Australian emergency services
- Real time intelligence: Impact Assessments
- Multi-agency, self-service registers: The Vulnerable Persons Register
- Inter-agency and cross-council coordination and data sharing
- Models for interoperability and integration
10:50
Morning tea & networking
11:20
Interoperability & collaboration for disaster management
- Information interoperability in disaster management through the All Hazards Information Management Program
- Better serving the information of exchange in support of a disaster including E-IXN
- Reflecting upon a fresh approach to information interoperability during a disaster situation
12:00
Towards a national police incident management capability
- Drivers for the implementation of the Disaster, Incident and Event Management System (DIEMS)
- Benefits and functionality of the DIEMS, particularly from a national policing, disaster management and community resilience perspective
- Issues surrounding the implementation of DIEMS
- Capability of the QPS to be interoperable with other police including potential development of a national and international police incident management capability
12:40
Networking lunch
1:40
Local Incident Management Planning (LIMP) to build community resilience
- Concentrating on our structure and resource commitment to be a more resilient and capable organisation
- Working proactively to support our communities to plan more effectively for a range of potential emergency situations
- Benefits of developing Local Incident Management Plans (LIMP) as a collaborative effort between Council and other key agencies with the community
2:20
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
- Delegates will break into groups to discuss current challenges and opportunities
3:00
Afternoon tea & networking
3:30
Building interstate & integrated emergency management capabilities
- Future of resource sharing across jurisdictions against major incidents?
- Doing more with less – how can we realistically achieve this?
- Examples of interstate and intrastate information sharing capabilities?
4:10
Building stronger partnerships with the not-for-profit sector & community
- Strength of the not-for-profit sector to support emergency services
- Connection into the community at a grass roots level
- Capacity to draw from and access global knowledge
4:50
Closing remarks from the Chair & close of conference
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