Forum Highlights
Why Join This Forum
Fire, Cyclone & Flood Disaster Management and Recovery Forum
6 Powerful Reasons to Attend the Fire, Cyclone & Flood Disaster Management and Recovery Forum:
- Build up and develop key disaster management competencies: Preparedness, Prevention, Response, and Recovery
- Understand the concept and practice of disaster risk reduction through systematic efforts to analyze and manage causal factors of disaster
- Enhance disaster preparedness for effective response and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction
- Foster and strengthen the exchange of information and experience acquired in the execution of natural disaster initiatives, and implementing successful projects globally
- Invest in natural hazard risk reduction initiatives for resilience and strengthened risk governance
- Coordinate the traditional media with new media platforms to develop an effective disaster management communication strategy
Hot Topics to be Discussed
Fire, Cyclone & Flood Disaster Management and Recovery Forum
DAY 1: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
- Keynote: A Pre-Disaster Framework for Improved Post-Disaster Resilience
- Case Study: Building the Resilience of a Sustainable City Post-Disaster
- Logistic & Supply Chain in Disaster Resilience and Recovery
- The Essentials of Emergency Response Leadership – The Sharp End
- 8 Years of Disaster Response: A Paramedic’s Perspective
- Case Study: The Resilience of an Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Bushfires, Cyclones, and Floods
DAY 2: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Support Disaster Risk Reduction & Community Resilience
- Case Study: A Real-Time Extreme Fire Behaviour Risk Assessment System to Improve Wildland Situational Awareness
- Case Study: Big Data Integration to Detect and Predict the Change in Outcomes, Vulnerability, and Risk of Bushfires & Other Events
- How Drones are Changing Humanitarian Disaster Response and Relief Operations
- Case Study: The Rise of Social Media on Radio during Natural Disasters
- Building Back the Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
DAY 3: Friday, 1 December 2017 – Post-Forum Workshops
- Workshop A: Critical Infrastructure Resilience
- Workshop B: Building the Resilience of Local and Regional Communities to Disasters
Companies Expected at the Forum
- Children’s Hospital at Westmead
- King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women
- Ramsay Health Care
- Eastern Health Victoria
- Austin Health
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- Queensland Civil Defence
- Australia Defence Force
- Australia Army – Civil Defence
- University of Macquarie
- RMIT
- University of Sydney
- Charles Darwin University
- University of South Australia
- James Cook University
- Georgetown University
- Brisbane City Council
- Murray River Council
- Muswellbrook Shire Council
- Canterbury-Bankstown Council
- Hay Shire Council
- Central Desert Regional Council
- Australia Government Initiative
- Ministry of Civil Defence
- Leighton Construction
- Downer EDI Works
- John Holland Pty Ltd
- Watpac Australia Pty Ltd
- Lend Lease Group
- HT&E
- PRiME Media Group
- News Corp Australia
- ABC Australia