2018 AEMA Stakeholder Summit
The AEMA Summit will bring together Emergency Management Partners by providing them with a platform for strengthening existing relationships, building new relationships, and offering professional development and information sharing opportunities to build a more resilient Alberta.
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Keynote 1 The Contagion of Climate Change: Is Canada Adapting Fast Enough, and if not, What Should be Done?
Dr. Blair Feltmate - Head, Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, University of Waterloo
Breakout Session 1
A1 Incident Command System in Alberta: Moving from Training to Implementation
Brad Ison - Director Training, Accreditation and Standards, AEMA Joanne Auclair - Training Coordinator, CEMA, City of Calgary
A2 Making sure that lessons “learned” are not “lessons lost”: Mentorship, succession planning, and preparing for the next generation of EM professionals
Jodi Manz-Henezi - Program Chair, Emergency Management Program, NAIT
A3 Opioids: The Opioid Crisis and the Emergency Response
Dr. Nicholas Mitchell - Senior Medical Director, Alberta Health Services
A4 “Poking the Sleeping Dragon” – response to a business continuity building fire event”
Jayne Galanka - Business Continuity Officer, Alberta Environment and Parks Brad Andres - Director, Emergency Management, Agriculture and Forestry
A5 The Alberta Shelter Module – Supporting Registration and Reception Centres During Emergencies
Reg Fountain - Manager, Provincial Emergency Social Services, Community and Social Services
Breakout Session 2
B1 Office of the Fire Commissioner - Updates
Kevan D. Jess - Fire Commissioner, OFC, Municipal Affairs
B2 Prepare Now, Benefit Later – Raymond’s South Drainage Diversion Project
Kurtis Pratt - Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Raymond
B3 Large-Scale Grassfires in Rural Remote Areas: Lessons learned after 2017 CFB Suffield/Bindloss Grassfire
Owen Francis - Director - Municipal Services & Emergency Management, Special Areas Board
B4 AFRRCS operations and support to Agencies
Mike Quann - Director, AFFRCS
B5 Recovery Program Creation
Rachael Oliver - Team Lead, Recovery Coordination, Community Recovery Services, AEMA Evan Surridge - Team Lead, Recovery Coordination, AEMA Sean Pettie - Team Lead, Municipal Recovery, AEMA
Plenary 1 Abundant Community Edmonton: Why Neighbouring Matters
Debra Jakubec - Team Lead, Abundant Community Edmonton, City of Edmonton Howard Lawrence - Abundant Community Edmonton Coordinator, City of Edmonton
Breakout Session 3
C1
World Café
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Keynote 2 Keynote 2:
Tri-Council panel: First Nation and Municipalities working better together
Chief Roland Twinn - Sawridge First Nation Mayor Tyler Warman - Town of Slave Lake Reeve Murray Kerik - M.D. Lesser Slave River
Breakout Session 4
D1 A Look into Collaborative Dangerous Goods Emergency Response
Spencer Buckland - President, Emergency Response Assistance Canada (ERAC)
D2 Law Enforcement During Emergencies
Amanda Barros - Manager, Emergency Management Services, Justice & Solicitor General Ken Ghumman - Sergeant, Alberta Sheriffs, Traffic Branch Andrew Hobson - Sergeant, RCMP John Warin - Calgary Police Service
D3 Cyber Security in the Government of Alberta and how we can help you
Stuart Lee - Director, IT Security and Emergency Management Operations, Service Alberta
D4 ESS Integration in Municipal Emergency Planning with NPO’s (part 1)
Bonnie Lewin - Business Continuity & Recovery Planner, CEMA Brett Whittingham - Business Continuity & Emergency Planner, City of Calgary, Calgary Neighbourhoods David Kirby - Clinical Services Manager, Distress Centre Kim Savard - Program Manager, Carya Ernie Polsom - Director Emergency Management, City of Lloydminster
D5 Train to Learn: Designing Better Exercise Scenarios
Josh Bowen - Instructor, Emergency Management, NAIT
Breakout Session 5
E1 Scribes can make or break your disaster response and recovery application process
Chyenne Shaw - Manager of Emergency and Protective Services, Thorhild County
E2 Disaster debris management: how can we improve in Alberta?
Joe Angevine - Integrated Consulting
E3 Connecting Business Continuity with Pandemic Influenza
Kimberley Nelson - Manager, Emergency Management Unit, Alberta Health Mariyam Syed - Emergency Mgmt Analyst, Alberta Health
E4 ESS Integration in Municipal Emergency Planning with NPO’s (part 2)
Speakers include presenters from City of Lloydminster, City of Calgary, Distress Centre Calgary, CEMA and Carya
E5 Wildland Urban Interface Issues
Steve Otway - WUI Structural Protection Advisor, OFC, Municipal Affairs
Plenary 2 Long range wildfire forecast for Canada- Hot and Smoky? Is this the new Reality?
Mike Flannigan - Professor at University of Alberta and Director of the Canadian, Partnership for Wildland Fire Science
Plenary 3 To the Edge and Back - Lessons Learned from my PTSD Journey
Daniel Sundahl - DanSun PhotoArt