IAEM-Canada 2018 Agenda

Date Time Event Speaker LocationPre-Conference Training

June 5, 2018 09:00-17:00 BCM Foundation Day 2 Denis Goulet Room 55-07108:00-16:00 EMAP Training Day 1 Nicole Ishmael OFB 02:001/002

Pre-Conference Training09:00-17:00 BCM Foundation Day 3 Denis Goulet Room 55-071

08:00-16:00 EMAP Training Day 2 Nicole Ishmael OFB 02:001/002

08:00-13:00 Certification Preparatory Course Sherry Hiriart OFB 01:001

14:00-16:00 Certification Exam Sherry Hiriart OFB 01:001

Conference Kick Off18:00-21:00 President's Reception IBM/ IAEM Canada Mountain View Bow 5414:00-16:00 Exhibitor booth/tables setup Vendors Mountain View Bow 54

Day 1 Keynote Presentations07:30-08:00 Coffee/Snacks Mountain View Bow 5408:00-08:15 Welcome to Calgary BOW 54 Auditorium08:20-08:30 Introductions IAEM/IBM/Cenovus BOW 54 Auditorium08:30-09:30 Texas Oil, Texas Hurricanes, Calgary Response Mark O'Byrne BOW 54 Auditorium09:30-10:30 2017 Hurricane & Earthquake Innovation Desiree Matel-Anderson BOW 54 Auditorium10:30-11:00 Break (Networking/Coffee/Snacks) Mountain View Bow 5411:00-12:00 Mass Casualty Response - One October Ryan Turner CEM BOW 54 Auditorium12:15-13:00 Lunch (Provided) BOW 54 Atrium13:00-13:15 Conference Welcome AB Municipal Affairs Shaye Anderson BOW 54 Auditorium13:15-14:00 Mass Gathering Planning and Response Bill Neadles CEM BOW 54 Auditorium14:00-14:30 Break (Networking/Coffee/Snacks) Mountain View Bow 5414:30-15:30 The Critical Element in a Successful EOC David Parsons BOW 54 Auditorium

18:00 The RanchmansDay 2 Keynote Presentations and Workshops

June 8, 2018 07:30-08:00 Networking/Coffee/Snacks Mountain View Bow 5408:00-08:15 Morning Welcome IAEM Canada BOW 54 Auditorium08:15-09:15 Leadership in Emergency Management Eric McNulty BOW 54 Auditorium09:15-09:30 Break (Networking/Coffee/Snacks) Mountain View Bow 5409:30-10:30 Seven Deadly Sins of Emergency Management Craig Fugate CEM BOW 54 Auditorium

Opioid Workshop Tom Watts Room 55-071 -The Social Environment and Safe Injection Facilities Douglas Wiebe Room 55-071

SOLD OUT Mass Gathering/Evacuating/Casualty Workshop Neadles/Solecki CEM Room 54-061SOLD OUT - Mass Casualties and the Las Vegas response Ryan Turner CEM Room 54-061

Disaster Challenges: Optimizing NGOs Workshop Perron Goodyear Room 55-075 - Vulnerable Populations During Disasters Caroline McDonald-Harker Room 55-075 - Emergency Management Volunteers Michel C. Doré CEM Room 55-075 - NGO Collaboration in Emergency Management Brent Davis Room 55-075

The Future of EM: Predictive Analysis & Innovation Ernie Corbett BOW 54 Auditorium - IBM's Intelligent Operations Centre Workshop Tim Workman BOW 54 Auditorium - Canadas Emergency Alert Network Tim Trytten BOW 54 Auditorium

11:30-12:30 Student Mentoring Session Jodi Manz-Henezi Mountain View Bow 5412:00-13:00 Lunch (Provided) BOW 54 Atrium13:00-13:15 Public Safety Canada | Sécurité publique Canada Stéphanie Durand BOW 54 Auditorium13:15-14:00 Leadership in Emergency Management:Recent Insights Satyamoorthy Kabilan BOW 54 Auditorium14:00-14:30 Closing / Farewell IAEM Global BOW 54 Auditorium14:30-15:30 IAEM-Canada Annual General Meeting IAEM Canada BOW 54 Auditorium

16:00 Informal Evening Reception- Palomino Calgary

10:30-12:00

June 6, 2018

June 7, 2018

Optional Dinner Location

10:30-12:00

10:30-12:00

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Day 1

09:30-10:30

2017 Hurricane & Earthquake Innovation

Desiree Matel-Anderson Chief Wrangler, Field Innovation Team (FIT) Technology & Design in Disaster Response

BOW 54 Auditorium

Insight into the social impacts due to loss of critical infrastructure including the oil and gas industry as Desi responded to Texas during Hurricane Harvey and also to the Mexico City Earthquake.

11:00-12:00

Mass Casualty Response - One October

Ryan Turner BOW 54 Auditorium

On the night of 1 October, 2017 a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. There were 58 fatalities and another 546 injured. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States. There were two sides to this incident, professional and personal. The professional side was very functional with emergency management lessons learned. The personal side is being human.

08:30-09:30

Texas Oil, Texas Hurricanes, Calgary Response

Mark O'Byrne President, Schlumberger Canada Ltd.

BOW 54 Auditorium

Mark will delve into the assistance provided by Schlumberger’s Canadian head office during the massive deluge from Hurricane Harvey. This will cover leadership preparedness and response initiatives that were put into place to ensure the safety of employees and continuity of operations.

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13:15-14:00

Mass Gathering Planning and Response

Bill Neadles Toronto Police Service Emergency Management and Public Order

BOW 54 Auditorium

Superintendent "Bill" Neadles will provide insights on mass gathering planning and response from his most notable incidents including the 2008 Sunrise Propane Explosion, 2009 Tamil demonstrations, 2012 Elliot Lake Mall Collapse, the 2013 Ice Storm, the 2010 G8/G20 Summit and the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Para Pan Am Games.

14:30-15:30

The Critical Element in a Successful EOC

David Parsons Inspector Emergency Management & Operational Support Team Major Investigations and Emergency Response Unit - Resources Regulator Lithgow, NSW

BOW 54 Auditorium

Extensive contemporary neuroscience research is revealing how our EOC members make sense of a disaster and reach their decisions. This session explores what is being discovered and what Incident Controllers can do to optimize the performance of their teams. Incident Controllers will have a toolkit of ideas to use.

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Day 2

08:15-09:15

Emergency Managers as ARTful Leaders

Eric McNulty BOW 54 Auditorium

From truly wild wildfires to hurricanes, terror attacks, and more, today's emergency managers are called upon to lead diverse constituencies through complex events. Leading effectively amidst this turbulence is a matter of building Adaptive capacity, Resilience, and Trust (ART). Drawing upon real-world examples, McNulty will share insights on how individual leaders and their organizations are increasing their impact and improving outcomes by embracing ARTful leadership across the preparedness and response enterprise.

09:30-10:30

Seven Deadly Sins of Emergency Management

Craig Fugate BOW 54 Auditorium

Why do we see very similar issues raised in most disaster after-action reviews? The Seven Deadly Sin presentation looks at seven areas that can lead to failed outcomes during disasters. Based on over 30 years managing disaster responses at the Local, State, and Federal Levels, the presentation looks at common themes, observations, and lessons learned by the presenter. The goal of the presentation is for the audience is to challenge their assumptions on how to prepare their communities for disaster.

10:30-12:00

Opioid Workshop Tom Watts Room 55-071

The Social Environment and Safe Injection Facilities

Dr. Douglas Wiebe Room 55-071

to gain insight into government supported initiatives including conducting spatial analysis on data from the built and social environment to provide an object approach to identifying optimal locations to site a safe injection facility (SIF).

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10:30-12:00

Mass Gathering Workshop

Neadles/Solecki/Turner Room 55-061

Bill Neadles, Ryan Turner and Greg Solecki will speak about their mass gathering , mass casualty and mass evacuation experiences

10:30-12:00

National NGO Council Workshop

Perron Goodyear - Facilitator Room 55-075

Vulnerable Populations During Disasters: Considerations for Assisting Families, Children and Communities in Disaster Response, Recovery and Preparedness

Caroline McDonald-Harker PhD, Department of

Sociology & Anthropology, Centre for Community Disaster Research, Mount Royal University

Room 55-075

In the last five years, Alberta has experienced two major disasters, both of which are the largest in Canadian history. Based on research conducted following the 2013 southern Alberta flood and the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, this presentation will highlight the unique experiences, challenges, and needs of families and children during critical stages of disaster response, recovery and preparedness. This presentation will discuss evidence-based recommendations that can help bridge the gap between the needs of vulnerable populations and the processes and practices of emergency managers, NGO’s, and volunteers, thus contributing to increased community resiliency post-disaster.

10:30-12:00

Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration: Working Together in Response

Perron Goodyear, The Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services

Room 55-075

Working with other NGO’s, church groups, and volunteer sector organizations can be challenging but rewarding. Best practices, lessons learned as well as practical examples will be shared.

10:30-12:00

Emergency management volunteers rendez-rous : an illustration of capacity

Michel C. Doré PhD, CEM Saint-John Ambulance, Université du Québec à Montréal

Room 55-075

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Since 2016, l’Association de sécurité civile du Québec (Quebec EM association) is actively mobilising the EM volunteers community. Through various activities, the association is bringing together hundreds of volunteers from various organisations to demonstrate and share their expertise. The feature annual event consists of a large scale exercise organised by and for EM volunteers. In the weeks leading to the exercise, the association host an EM volunteer school, where volunteer instructors train other volunteer responders to promote excellence and interoperability. This presentation will explain the process and benefits of such capacity building initiative.

10:30-12:00

NGO Collaboration in Emergency Management

Brent Davis, Samaritan’s Purse Canada, Chair Alberta NGO Council

Room 55-075

With the increased frequency and severity of major disasters in the Canadian context, non-governmental organizations proficient in emergency management have become critical contributors to communities across the disaster spectrum. Over the past 15 years Canadian NGOs have been coordinating themselves both locally and provincially to ensure coordination of services and reduce gaps in services. This presentation will highlight the structure, success and challenges of the Alberta NGO Council and make recommendations on future next steps to strengthen Canadian disaster resilience through NGO coordination.

10:30-12:00

Emergency Public Alerting in Canada

Tim Trytten BOW 54 Auditorium

Emergency public alerting is a rapidly evolving area of emergency management and one that can touch almost all Canadians. Changing public expectations, events such as the Hawaii missile alert and technology advancements have raised the prominence of emergency alerting in Canada. The workshop will review Alberta’s alerting system, highlight the lessons learned from major events such as the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo wildfire, the impacts of the recent introduction of national wireless public alerting and anticipated next steps in the area of emergency management response.

10:30-12:00

Embedding Analytics and Insights in your EOC

Tim Workman BOW 54 Auditorium

The pervasive growth of digital media, wearable technologies, positional information, drones, and the Internet of Things, combined with ever-expanding zones of connectivity and wireless communication, has created massive new volumes of data for consideration during emergency operations. This workshop will explore how enabling Emergency Operations Centres to leverage and exploit this data through advanced analytics and integrated data management can provide critical operational insights that can augment, accelerate, and enhance emergency response operations.

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11:30-12:30

Student Mentoring Session

Jodi Manz-Henezi Program Chair of the Emergency Management program at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)

Mountain View Room Bow 54

Students! We will be hosting a mentoring and networking session so that you not only get to meet some of the amazing speakers at the Conference, but you’ll also get to ask them for tips and advice on how to be successful in the field of Emergency Management! Unlike your regular networking session, each table will have one speaker and seats for up to 5 students. You’ll then have 15 minutes to ask the questions you’ve been dying to ask! It is recommended that you come prepared with your questions and don’t forget the stack of business cards!

13:00-14:00

Leadership in Emergency Management: Recent Insights

Satyamoorthy Kabilan BOW 54 Auditorium

The rapid evolution of the emergency management environment has created a host of challenges for organizations. Leadership is one of these key challenges. What does the ideal emergency management leader look like? What skills, competencies and qualities do they need to succeed in an increasingly uncertain environment? Over the course of the last 5 years, the Conference Board of Canada’s Council on Emergency Management (CEMT) has examined the challenges of leadership in emergency management through a number of different lenses. In this presentation, Dr Kabilan will walk through some of the key requirements which have been identified for emergency management leaders.

14:30-15:30

IAEM-Canada Annual General Meeting

IAEM Canada BOW 54 Auditorium

IAEM-Canada Annual General Meeting (AGM) for IAEM-Canada Members. All Members are encouraged to attend the AGM for an overview of the past year’s activities and accomplishments and objectives for the year ahead.