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IAEM Plugged In: Join the Emergency Management Community - May 9th
You are invited to attend IAEM Plugged In. This one-day virtual learning experience is designed to provide expert-led sessions on current issues and topics in emergency management.
Breakout Session Highlights
- Human-AI Collaboration: Shaping the Future of Emergency Management
- Tag Me in That: Best Practices in Social Media Crisis Communications
- The Disasters That Define Us: Lessons from Past Disasters
- Food Banks Rising: Pandemic Response and the Road Ahead
- From AID to EM: Emergency Managers Can Learn from Humanitarian Response
Meet the Expert
Risk Reporting and Communications - One Part Science, the Other Art
Many risk professionals now realize that ERM is more than a science…or a set standard or process that must be followed at all costs.
There certainly is a time and place for these formal processes. But like cooking, there’s also an art to ERM, especially when it comes to reporting and communications.
Formal reports that present data should be considered the ‘science’ part, while communications with business leaders and stakeholders is the ‘art.’ It’s impossible to have one without the other.
Risk expert Carol Williams explains that the uncertainty of today’s business environment requires ERM to be more agile than a formal process alone.
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Continuity, Coffee & Chat Thursday, Apr 3, 2025, 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM ET
Helping global professionals connect & collaborate! THIS is at the core of the evolved Risk and Resilience HUB. Whereas the Disaster Resource GUIDE was about pushing out information (content) via the annual GUIDE and the Continuity eGUIDE, the HUB is about bringing people together online to do this very thing – connect and collaborate. We acknowledge - this is hard to do! Recently we met a BC professional who is doing this already. Hooray, we celebrate her success! Last month our team was super impressed as we joined in on CBCP Doniella Mckoy’s monthly chat (1st Thursday of the month) open to all resilience professionals and students interested in BC, Crisis Mgt, IT/DR Emergency Mgt, ERM and beyond. By chance, we were happy to meet Doniella in March at the DRJ Spring conference in Orlando. We think she represents the future of our industry! Don't miss this chance to engage with a diverse, international group dedicated to resilience. Our team plans to attend. Hope to see you there! Join Doniella and more than 150 professionals on April 3 >>
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What lead to the busiest European airport being shut down and the lessons that can be taken away.
Read MoreDisaster Recovery: IAEA increasing support for non-destructive testing
How NDT is being leveraged to assess structural integrity and protect cultural heritage sites.
Read MoreCrisis Communications: Lessons from the use of Signal app by national security officials
Industry experts reflect on use of Signal app by Trump officials to discuss sensitive information.
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Industry Pulse
DRI Foundation Women in BCM Celebrates Its 1,000th Member
The DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management (WBCM) Community is proud to celebrate achieving the 1000 member mark! The WBCM Community provides female business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery professionals with learning and networking opportunities.
It also has an equal and much deeper purpose – a forum for women supporting women! Among the perks to joining the WBCM Community, are a private LinkedIn group and quarterly Power Hour webinars/networking sessions, as well as access to mentor/mentee and scholarship programs. To learn more about WBCM, or to join the WBCM Community,
Click here >>Resilience Forward Poses a Compelling Question:
“Five years on from widespread COVID-19 lockdowns why are future pandemic threats consistently under-estimated?”
Over the past year, survey after survey has looked at the threat landscape, with a consistent theme evident: the pandemic threat is missing. RF editor David Honour looks at why this might be.
Apart from one report which classified future pandemic as a catastrophic risk with the highest likelihood of happening, other reports have focused on various threats often with no mention of future pandemics. David says we should pay more attention.
Read his insight and analysis >>Ten-Book Bundles on Leadership, Audit, and Cybersecurity
CRC Press has organized three new ten-book bundles on the topics of Cybersecurity, Audit, and Leadership. Discover what’s in each of the bundles.
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