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Who: Emergency Management Professionals
What: IAEM 57th Annual Conference & EMEX 2009
When: Oct. 31-Nov. 5, 2009
Where: Orlando, Florida, USA
Why? That's what this toolkit is all about!
Share YOUR Ideas | Submit YOUR Speaker Proposal | YOUR Official Invitation to Attend
IAEM's Budget-Conscious Plans | Benefits & Breakout Sessions
The International Association of Emergency Managers is known for holding relevant, interesting and exciting IAEM Annual Conferences. The speakers get better and more high-profile every year. EMEX, IAEM’s Emergency Management & Homeland Security Expo, convened in tandem with the Annual Conference, is drawing exhibitors who are the top homeland security and disaster preparedness suppliers.
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How will you convince your boss that you need to attend IAEM 2009?
Share your ideas with your fellow IAEM members!
What have you learned at past IAEM Annual Conferences?
What new idea have you brought home and implemented for your jurisdiction?
What did you share with others in your department when you got back home?
What connections have you made at past conferences that helped you to save money or improve services?
Call for Ideas: IAEM 2009 Annual Conference Justification Toolkit
Send your ideas to Karen Thompson for inclusion in the Bulletin and on the Web site.
Call for Speakers: Proposals Due 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, Friday, 24 April 2009
IAEM News Release | Speaker Proposal Form | Speaker Guidance
Don't forget - one good way to justify your attendance at the IAEM 2009 Annual Conference is to be one of the speakers! Send in your proposal before the Apr. 24, 2009 deadline.
Letter to your supervisor requesting your presence at the IAEM 57th Annual Conference & EMEX 2009 in Orlando. Download letter of invitation in Word format and personalize as indicated before distributing.
Letter to you requesting your presence at the IAEM 57th Annual Conference & EMEX 2009 in Orlando. Download letter of invitation in Word format, and personalize as indicated before distributing.
. IAEM is offering an early-bird discounted registration fee for all conference attendees who register by Sept. 1, 2009.
Early Bird Registration Fees Until Sept. 1, 2009:
IAEM Members: $400
Non-Members: $500
General Registration Fees After Sept. 1, 2009:
IAEM Members: $450
Non-Members: $550
. Each year IAEM arranges for
discounted room rates at our
conference hotel, and a range of
other economic hotel options will
be identified.
Learn about discount on Rosen Centre room rates here!
. IAEM is negotiating discounts
on rental cars, so that you
can get around in Orlando at the
best possible prices. Discounts will be announced soon!
. Want to add some golfing fun to your trip? Maybe this wouldn't be good for "justifying" your attendance, but we think it might inspire you to send us YOUR IDEAS on how to persuade the powers-that-be to send you to Orlando! Also, we just heard that there will be an IAEM Golf Tournament ... details coming soon.
. Also, the IAEM Editorial
Work Group has lined up two
IAEM members who are preparing
feature articles on how to keep
your travel costs down – one from
the Individual Member perspective
and one from the Student Member
perspective.
. The IAEM Annual Conference provides a forum for current trends and topics, information about the latest tools and technology in emergency management and homeland security, and advances IAEM committee work. Sessions encourage stakeholders at all levels of government, the private sector, public health and related professions to exchange ideas on collaborating to protect lives and property from disaster. If you are an emergency manager, homeland security official, first response coordinator, private industry risk manager or contingency planner, you will not want to miss the IAEM 57th Annual Conference & EMEX 2009.
- Education and Training: A forum for current trends and topics, latest tools and technology.
- Collaboration: A place for all levels of government, private sector, public health and related professions to exchange ideas.
- Networking: More than 1,500 participants.
- Products and Services: EMEX 2009 showcases technologies, products and services.
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- Infrastructure. This track will include presentations on the basic physical structures needed to sustain modern life. Traditional forms of infrastructure would include roads, water supply, and sewer systems, power grids, information technology and communications.
- Organizations and Management. Presentations in this track will examine management theories and practices and may explore components of management including planning, organizing, and staffing. Presentations may also discuss evolving trends in Emergency Management, hazards (climate change, etc).
- Disaster-Related Social Behavior. This track will delve into behavior at the individual, organizational, community and mass media levels.
- Technology. This track will explore the use of technology to facilitate any of the phases of emergency management.
- Leadership and the Future of Emergency Management. Presentations in this track will peer into futurist and visionary perspectives of disasters, catastrophes and Emergency Management.
- Contemporary. This track will include information and perspective on recent events, tools, techniques, issues or concerns impacting emergency management.
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