2020 Emergency Management Conferences
- Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies
- 2020 National Hurricane Conference: “Improving Hurricane Preparedness”
- IAEM-USA Region 4 2020 Conference: “To Resilience and Beyond!”
- New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Conference
- 22nd Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium
In a rapidly changing global society, with the development of new potentially dangerous technological advances and ever-present environmental hazards, it is imperative that emergency management personnel remain up-to-date and informed of newly developed emergency management protocols. When new technology can enable emergency response teams to save lives and mitigate major catastrophes, word of those new technological breakthroughs, as well as innovative response plans, needs to be spread to every corner of the globe. Thankfully, conferences on emergency management in 2020 can inform those in the industry who want to make the most difference by staying in the loop.
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1. Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies
Scheduled March 10-12, 2020, the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies will be held at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre in Östersund, Sweden. The theme of the conference is ‘Imagining Futures: Interstices and Immateriality of Disasters’. Registration for the event ends February 10, 2020. This is the fifth edition of Mid Sweden University’s annual conference on emergency preparedness and planning.
2. 2020 National Hurricane Conference: “Improving Hurricane Preparedness”
For those not able to attend an international emergency management conference, the 2020 National Hurricane Conference in Orlando Florida offers a wonderfully thorough conference April 7th and 8th in the hopes of improving hurricane response, preparedness, mitigation, and recovery – and saving lives in the process. In addition to a slew of new information for emergency preparedness personnel, this conference serves the dual purpose of allowing federal, state, and local lawmakers to suggest new policies and exchange ideas to improve emergency response to other disasters.
3. IAEM-USA Region 4 2020 Conference: “To Resilience and Beyond!”
Located in Huntsville, Alabama on April 26-29, 2020, he IAEM-USA Region 4 2020 Conference will cover topics ranging from developing a social media presence for disaster response organizations and long-term recovering planning to response and recovery coordination and integrating utilities into an emergency readiness plan. The conference will also review lessons learned in past years, and what emergency management personnel might expect in the industry in the future.
4. New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Conference
In May, 2020, the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City, NJ will be hosting the New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Conference, a four-day conference beginning May 4, 2020. Training will be provided to anyone involved in emergency management, emergency preparedness, and related fields. The goal of this annual conference: to encourage coordination between public and private emergency response organizations, and to provide lifelong learning to emergency management personnel throughout the US.
5. 22nd Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium
The National Emergency Training Center (NETC) will be hosting its 22nd annual symposium in Emmitsburg, Maryland June 1-4, 2020. The goal of the symposium: to provide training and continuing education to emergency management personnel and instructors.
Humans around the world have, through the use of technology and social engineering, effectively created a peaceful society – where negative thoughts and worries of impending doom are rare for most. Unfortunately, the reality is that if no one thinks about the bad that can happen, the worst possible scenario is usually the result. Thanks to emergency management personnel, and conferences like those listed above, there are systems in place to mitigate the inevitable disasters that the rest of the world tries desperately to ignore.