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.