The annual Ontario Disaster & Emergency Management Conference (DEMCON) embraces Ontario’s emergency management community where all can gather to share and learn from their experiences.
DEMCON’s intimate setting means building and nurturing professional peer relationships, reconnecting with friends, plus strengthening your organizations emergency management plans and working towards the greater good of Ontarians before a disaster strikes.
Curated by the Planning Committee, DEMCON features senior emergency managers from across North America telling their disaster management stories. With an emphasis on the practical, DEMCON provides a variety of session types including stellar KEYNOTE presentations, dynamic PANELS, in-depth WORKSHOPS, and interactive ROUND TABLE discussions that focus on lessons learned, new initiatives and best practices on topics such as:
- Addressing Stigma in EM Planning
- Asylum Claimants & Emergency Shelters
- Behavioural Science with Decision Making
- Civilian Response
- Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies
- Emergent Citizen Groups
- EMO Collaboration
- Forced Displacement Journey’s
- Holistic Approach to EM
- Homelessness & Drug Addiction
- Mental Health
- Misinformation and Public Mistrust
- Reduce Vulnerability & Risk
- Trauma Informed Practices
PLUS Case Studies including:
- Explosions
- Extreme Heat
- IMS
- Tornados
- 5 Feet of Snow
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