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International Day for Disaster Reduction - Canada - October 13, 2017

International Day for Disaster Reduction - Canada - October 13, 2017

The International Day for Disaster Reduction began in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly for a day to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. Held every 13 October, the day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reining in the risks that they face.

The 2017 edition marks the launch of the new "Sendai Seven" campaign, centred on the seven targets of the Sendai Framework, the first of which is reducing disaster mortality and the number of people affected by disaster.

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Here is our exciting lineup of speakers. Note that you must register for individual sessions. There is no "register for all" capability.

10:00 EDT Catastrophic Loss Trends in Canada
Glenn McGillivray, Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Registration link for this session: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1377014454788534273

11:00 EDT The Private Sector’s relationship with Disaster and Emergency Management
Mark W. Baker, MA, FCIP, CRM, MBCI, CBCP
Registration link for this session: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8927430071928600067

1:00 PM EDT Managing Risk - Continuing Operations When the Unexpected (or Expected) Occurs
John Yamniuk, President, Disaster Recovery Institute - Canada
Registration link for this session:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7807929322758062338

2:00 Does Business Continuity Planning reduce disasters? It most certainly can - if you do it right!
Joe Ozorio CBCP, CBCA, MBCI;
Registration link for this session:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/568836025020654081

3:00 PM EDT From Displacement to Hope
Dr. Laurie Pearce, faculty member at Royal Roads University, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC).

Dr. Brenda L. Murphy, tenured professor in the Society, Culture and Environment program at Wilfrid Laurier University

Registration link for this session: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6646009414988748289

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Join us for a webinar on Oct 13, 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT.
Catastrophic Loss Trends in Canada
Register now! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1377014454788534273

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In this session, Glenn McGillivray, Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, will speak about the increasing challenges faced by various stakeholders – most particularly governments and insurers – in managing risks associated with severe weather and seismic events.

He will discuss how severe weather losses are rising across Canada and around the world and what can be expected through the next decade in terms of disaster loss claims and prevention. He will end with a discussion on ICLR’s work and its efforts to help insurers and others mitigate the impact of severe weather and earthquake events.

Presenter:
Glenn McGillivray is Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Prior to joining ICLR, he served as Assistant Vice President of Corporate Communications for Swiss Reinsurance Company Canada and was Corporate Secretary for three Swiss Re operations in the country.

He began his insurance career at The Personal Insurance Company of Canada in Toronto and went on to work for a major Canadian corporate law firm before joining Swiss Re in 1994 and the ICLR in November, 2005.

As an insurance writer and commentator, his work has been widely disseminated across Canada. Glenn has written more than 215 magazine and journal articles, publications and blogposts on a range of issues for Canadian Underwriter, Canadian Insurance, Municipal World, Disaster Management Canada, Canadian Consulting Engineer, The Lawyers Weekly and The Globe and Mail, as well as for the International Journal of Insurance Law. Additionally, he speaks and lectures regularly on subjects related to the area of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and natural hazards.

Glenn is author of the Swiss Re publications “Cross-border litigation in the age of free trade”; “Twister: The professional reinsurer’s perspective”; and “Inside an Icestorm”.

He holds a B.A. in political science from Wilfrid Laurier University, a M.A. in political science from McMaster University, and a graduate diploma in corporate communication from Seneca College. He recently earned his Certificate in Risk Management from University of Toronto's School of Continuing Education.

Please join us for a webinar on Oct 13, 2017 at 11:00 AM EDT.
The Private Sector’s relationship with Disaster and Emergency Management
Register now! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8927430071928600067

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

We are all familiar with Government’s Response to disasters. From first responders such as fire, police and military to the planning of Disaster and Emergency Managers, to the funds provided from government coffers, the public sector tends to dominate both the news and literature.

However, the way the private sector deals with disasters is at least as important as what happens through government as much of the critical infrastructure of Canada sits in private hands. Insurance assists private citizens and organizations, Enterprise Risk Management examines the hazards that can affect an organization, Business Continuity plans for the recovery and some organizations even have their own first responders.

This webinar examines the methods and philosophies the private sector uses to deal with disasters and the way they dovetail into the 4 (or 5 depending on where you are) pillars of Emergency Management.

Presenter:
Mark W. Baker, MA, FCIP, CRM, MBCI, CBCP Mark has over twenty years’ experience in business continuity planning as well as disaster and emergency management for organizations ranging from large corporations to small business. He has developed and tested many business continuity and disaster recovery plans as well as creating and administering exercises varying from table top to full scale exercises.
Mark has been involved in the response and mitigation of over 20 disasters including the Quebec/Ontario ice storm and the Peterborough flood. He has published several papers on subjects ranging from the effects of climate change on insurance to risk management and biotechnology. He is member and former co-chair of the Private Sector Working Group of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction as well as a former member of the Advisory Committee for the Canadian Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. He has been a director of GTIME (the Greater Toronto Incident Management Exercise) and CRHNet (Canadian Risk and Hazards Network).

He is a graduate of Royal Roads University with an MA in Disaster and Emergency Management and the University of Toronto with a BSc in Physical Geography. Mark is a Fellow Chartered Insurance Professional, holds a CRM, a CBCP and is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute as well as being a former officer in the Canadian Navy.

For further information, please see: http://www.bcpriskmanagement.ca/

Please Join us for a webinar on Oct 13, 2017 at 1:00 PM EDT.
Managing Risk - Continuing Operations When the Unexpected (or Expected) Occurs
Register now! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7807929322758062338

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Disasters have become more complex, frequent, severe, and widespread and can occur anytime, anywhere. All organisations are vulnerable to any natural, human caused (intentional/non-intentional), and or technological events and all face a certain amount of uncertainty and risk impacting the ability to deliver efficient, effective, and sustainable products and services. The approach to deal with new and emerging threats or disasters is now more essential than ever, particularly with global inter-connectivity as well as reliance on technology to conduct day to day operations. Join DRI CANADA to explore the expected and unexpected risks that organisations face and tips on mitigation, prevention and preparedness to continue operations.

Presenter:
John Yamniuk is a certified Master Business Continuity Professional with 37 years diverse experience in the telecommunications industry and has been a practitioner in the business continuity industry for more than twenty-two years. He continues his work in the business continuity industry as a consultant and has been part of the DRI CANADA/DRI International instructor corps since 2007. His experience and expertise in the business continuity industry includes extensive work in business continuity planning and operations, both at a regional and a national telecommunications level. Currently, John is President of DRI CANADA as well as Director, Western Region. He is also Chair of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Technical Committee for the Z1600 Standard for Emergency and Continuity Management Programs, and Past-President of DRIE West. John is based in Calgary, Alberta.

Please join us for a webinar on Oct 13, 2017 at 2:00 PM EDT.
Does Business Continuity Planning reduce disasters? It most certainly can - if you do it right!
Register now! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/568836025020654081

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Business continuity planning, and all that it interfaces with (emergency response, crisis management & communications, IT disaster recovery...etc), is often thought to be a "recovery" tool, for after the disaster occurs and not really a prevention tool. However, if the full planning process is followed correctly from the start, it can indeed lead to reduction of disaster probability through heightened risk awareness. It's the planning for both before, during and after the disaster event that pulls together the full gamut of resiliency for any organisations. We'll examine phases of business continuity planning and which area of disasters it can and should support - before, during or after.

Presenter:
Joe Ozorio CBCP, CBCA, MBCI;

Joe is a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM Canada’s Resiliency Services and has more than 18 years as a Business Continuity Management (BCM) practitioner, focusing on Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Emergency Management and Pandemic Planning. He has had a career in various IT support and management roles for over 30 years.

Joe holds professional certifications from both the Disaster Recovery Institute and the Business Continuity Institute.

Joe is currently President of the Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE) Toronto Chapter – a volunteer based, not for profit, member funded association of professionals in the Business Continuity Management practice/industry. DRIE is dedicated to providing education, professional development, networking opportunities and mentorship to its members.

Please Join us for a webinar on Oct 13, 2017 at 3:00 PM EDT
From Displacement to Hope
Register now! https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6646009414988748289

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Every year in Canada, usually as a result of floods or fires, Indigenous communities are evacuated and displaced. While there have been meaningful improvements in First Nations’ disaster risk reduction initiatives, nevertheless, the impacts of evacuation and displacement, have been significant. The process has often left Indigenous people without a sense of community, a loss of local support networks and a loss of access to their resources for hunting, fishing, and trapping.

Based on cross-Canada research, and supported by videos of impacted residents from Kingcome, BC (flooding); Lytton First Nation, BC (forest fires); Long Plain, MB (tornado) and the Eskasoni First Nation, NS (flooding), this presentation will be focused on two areas. First, the presentation will introduce some of the key issues that have faced Indigenous communities who have been evacuated as a result of disasters. Second, we will present a number of solutions to increase the resilience and coping capacity for Indigenous people who have been displaced. These solutions form the basis of A Guide for Evacuated Indigenous Communities: A Strength-Based Approach to Minimizing the Impacts of Evacuation which includes strategies to welcome, house, feed, and provide for the psychosocial needs of evacuated residents.

We are grateful to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada for funding this research which will be of value to both evacuating and receiving communities; both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

Presenters:
Dr. Laurie Pearce is a part-time associate faculty member at Royal Roads University, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC). She was elected to Canada’s Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Committee and serves as Chair of the Canadian Resilient Communities Working Group. Laurie co-led the First Nations Displacement Project which is funded by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). She co-led the creation of the Aboriginal Disaster Resiliency Program (ADRP) website, and led the team that developed the ADRP’s Train-the-Trainer and supported the completion of the Aboriginal Disaster Resilience Knowledge Sharing Toolkit. In addition Laurie has worked on numerous research projects ranging from the SIMTEC project which was based on the psychosocial considerations of Emergency Operations Centre personnel in high stress situations, to work on disaster resiliency, gender and violence post-disaster and youth engagement in disaster and emergency management projects for high-school credit in community service projects.

Dr. Brenda L. Murphy is a tenured professor in the Society, Culture and Environment program at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus, Ontario. Brenda co-led the First Nations Displacement Project which is funded by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). She is also the co-chair of the Indigenous Resilience Working Group (IRWG - within Canada’s Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction) and the secretary and board member of CRHNet. Using community-based research approaches, her work focuses on disaster risk and resilience, emergency preparedness, community wellbeing, and exploring opportunities for adaptation in the context of climate change in rural and Aboriginal communities. Working with a team of Aboriginal consultants, she was one of the co-leads that developed the Aboriginal Disaster Resilience Planning (ADRP) website. Recently, she led a team that completed the Aboriginal Disaster Resilience Knowledge Sharing Toolkit and supported the development of the ADRP website’s Train-the-Trainer resources.