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 .

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Keynote 1 The Contagion of Climate Change: Is 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

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,

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 : 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

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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

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,

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