Community
10:00-10:15 AM
Opening and Welcome Carrie Speranza, CEM, IAEM-USA President
10:15-11:15 AM
Breakout Sessions
Upper Atmospherics and Amplified Climate Hazards Impacts to Emergency Management (Sunny Westcott) Learn More
Tag Me in That: Best Practices to Address Challenges in Social Media Crisis Communications (Heather Marshall and Jamie Biglow) Learn More
Fostering a Culture of Preparedness: 'Preparedness Week (Katie Linn and Ashley Simon) Learn More
11:15-11:30 AM
Break
The Disasters That Define Us: The Disasters That Influenced Me and Their Lessons for All of Us (Daniel Kaniewski) Learn More
Human-AI Collaboration: Shaping the Future of Emergency Management (Steve Peterson, CEM and Kathleen Henning, CEM) Learn More
Quantifying Readiness: A Unique Way to Measure an Emergency Preparedness Program (Cullen Case Jr., CEM) Learn More
12:30-1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00-1:30 PM
IAEM-USA Community and Member Engagement Committee Update
1:30-2:30 PM
Food Banks Rising: Pandemic Response and the Road Ahead (Holly Cuthbertson, CEM) Learn More
Perceptions of Warning Information Sources From a Global Dataset (George Karagiannis, CEM and Emma Pearlstone) Learn More
"What if it is Not a Crisis?" (Janet Kacskos) Learn More
2:30-2:45 PM
2:45-3:45 PM
Harnessing the Untapped: The Power of the Gut-Brain Axis (Tamiza Teja) Learn More
From AID to EM: What Domestic Emergency Management Can Learn from International Humanitarian Response (Rachel Sayre) Learn More
Public Assistance: Self Inflicted Wounds (Mike Martinet, CEM) Learn More
3:45-4:00 PM
Sustainable Post-storm Mitigation Efforts in Underserved Western Alaska Communities (Daryl Schaffer) Learn More
Today's Students in Emergency Management (Caitlyn Burghard) Learn More
Government Affairs Update
5:00 PM
Conclusion