World conference on disaster management
WCDM has outlined four professional tracks to choose from:
- Business continuity
- Emergency management
- Crisis communications
- Risk and resilience
Conference topics include:
- Effective use of social media in times of crisis
- Leadership at times of crisis
- All hazards risk assessment approach for the government of Canada (what do people want to hear)
- Whole community planning - Building resiliency at the local level
- Recovery and resilience - Post disaster recovery and critical steps to find the silver lining
- Improving damage assessment techniques for more cost-effective flood disaster management
- Community preparedness - Emergency managers as community organizers ethics and emergency management.