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Based in New Orleans—a globally recognized hub of resilience, disaster management, and innovation—this three-day conference fosters collaboration and ignites new ideas, ensuring participants leave with a fresh perspective and renewed motivation. ResCon is the place to connect with like-minded professionals, share experiences, and collaborate on groundbreaking projects that will shape the future of resilience and disaster management.
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The Virginia Emergency Management Symposium (VEMS) is being held from March 17 - 20, 2025, at Hotel Roanoke. VEMS is an annual event co-sponsored by the Virginia Emergency Management Association and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, providing a forum to discuss current trends and topics and share information about the latest practices, tools, and technology in emergency management and homeland security. Sessions encourage stakeholders at all levels of government, the private sector, public health, and related professions to exchange ideas and collaborate to protect lives and property from disaster.
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The U.S. DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Engagement is pleased to announce the 2025 Specialized Analytic Seminar Series to provide dynamic, focused peer-to-peer analytic collaboration. The series addresses specialized threat topic areas and the associated patterns, trends, skills, and resources necessary to effectively monitor and evaluate potential threats in the analyst’s area of responsibility. The first two-day seminar will occur in Newtown, Pennsylvania, on March 18-19, 2025, and covers the topic of counterintelligence. Now more than ever, homeland security professionals are concerned with threats from nation-state actors. This seminar will examine and provide tactics for SLTT partners to employ to disrupt and protect against espionage, sabotage, and other intelligence activities conducted for or on behalf of foreign intelligence entities (FIEs). Topics in this seminar will include economic security threats, vetting of foreign nationals, and building counterintelligence programs.
Extreme weather events have a variety of impacts on utility operations. Periods of extreme demand, particularly when combined with low wind/solar and unplanned generator outages, can result in rolling blackouts and extremely high electricity prices, bankrupting utility companies with large exposure to these markets. Extreme events like windstorms, ice storms, severe thunderstorms, and hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage to the transmission and distribution grid, leaving customers without power for weeks or more. Finally, utilities – particularly those over the Western U.S. and Hawaii – must have wildfire mitigation plans to proactively shut off the power before extreme wildfire conditions strike. Learn how utility meteorologists, electricity traders, wildfire mitigation teams, and long-term grid infrastructure planners integrate weather & climate data into their analytics to prepare for and respond to these high-impact events. Registration is $10.
The National Mass Violence Center will host a virtual town hall on Thursday, March 27, at 3:00 p.m. EDT entitled "Overview of the Three Centers Often Created in the Aftermath of Mass Violence Incidents." In the aftermath of many mass violence incidents (MVIs), local, state, national, Tribal and Federal leaders collaborate to create three centers that identify and address the needs of victims, survivors, first responders and the community: Friends & Relatives Center (FRC), Family Assistance Center (FAC) and Resiliency Center (RC). This town hall will provide an overview of each center, resources available to support them and the continuum of services provided across the implementation of each center.
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The New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Association is hosting the 26th New Jersey Preparedness Conference from April 7 to 11. Join NJEPA in Atlantic City for a week of nationally recognized training and breakout sessions, programs for up-and-coming emergency managers, awards, and a premiere general session. Training sessions are held Monday through Thursday, and breakout sessions are held on Wednesday and Thursday.
The National Hurricane Conference is the nation’s forum for education and professional hurricane and disaster preparedness training. With an average of 2,500 attendees from around the country, the conference covers all major aspects of hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery. It will provide your company with a unique opportunity to show your wares to a large audience of interested decision-makers. The primary goal of the National Hurricane Conference is to improve hurricane preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation to save lives and property in the United States and the tropical islands of the Caribbean and Pacific. In addition, the conference serves as a national forum for federal, state, and local officials to exchange ideas and recommend new policies to improve emergency management.
This year, the Partners In Emergency Preparedness (PIEP) conference is going virtual in response to the challenging economic environment and feedback from the community. This shift will allow PIEP to maintain accessibility, reach a broader audience, and provide high-quality emergency preparedness programming that is flexible and cost-effective. Programming will run from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. each day with plenary and breakout sessions. Don't miss the opportunity to connect with emergency management professionals, share knowledge and gain insights to strengthen our communities' resilience.
The Preparedness Summit allows you to reenergize while gaining the knowledge, resources, and relationships necessary to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies. Join more than 2,500 attendees—who work in all levels of the government (federal, state, and local), emergency management, volunteer organizations, healthcare coalitions, and academia—to share best practices, build partnerships, advance your skillset, and take away innovative solutions and practical strategies to address the vulnerabilities in our country's health security system. The theme of the 2025 Preparedness Summit, “Pathways to Recovery in the Aftermath of Disasters,” will provide an opportunity to explore these and many other questions as we share experiences, learn, and collaborate across the public health, emergency management, and healthcare sectors.
The Texas Emergency Management Conference returns to the Fort Worth Convention Center from May 27-30, 2025! The conference attracts over 3,500 elected officials, first responders, emergency managers, and decision-makers across Texas. Attendees can expect an unparalleled opportunity to access the latest technology, exchange ideas, and research in emergency management.
The U.S. DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Engagement is hosting the second two-day seminar of 2025 on privacy, civil rights and civil liberties. This seminar will occur in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 23-24. This seminar series addresses specialized threat topic areas and the associated patterns, trends, skills, and resources necessary to effectively monitor and evaluate potential threats in the analyst’s area of responsibility. Over these two days, attendees will examine the issues and challenges of protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties while collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information and products. This seminar will include best practices and responses to protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties during intelligence and information-sharing efforts.
The U.S. DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Engagement will host its final two-day seminar of 2025 in Pembroke, New Hampshire, on September 10-11. This seminar series addresses specialized threat topic areas and the associated patterns, trends, skills, and resources necessary to effectively monitor and evaluate potential threats in the analyst’s area of responsibility. Participants will be provided with an overview of critical infrastructure, fusion center relationships with public partners, resiliency, and incident detection and prevention. This seminar will also include presentations from federal, state, and local partners.