This unique, one-of-a-kind cross-sector forum is designed by experts, each with 30+ years of experience, to help participants better understand and prioritize their thoughts and actions on important topics:
● Leadership:
■ Equip new or emerging leaders in emergency response with long-term strategies
■ Understand and overcome common fears and myths that they will face in the future
■ How to prioritize actions prior to, during, and after an incident
■ Understand what information is really needed to maintain situational awareness
■ Case studies from actual storms and hurricanes
● Planning:
■ Learn the most important factors to restoration efficiencies
■ How to leverage the experiences of others
■ Understand the art of building teams
■ Overcoming internal myths and objections towards preplanning
■ How to write a comprehensive strategy for restoration
■ How to work with government more effectively
■ Case studies and examples from past major storms
● Logistics:
■ How to streamline your logistics planning to avoid common mistakes and increase efficiencies and safety
■ How to choose vendors more effectively
■ Tricks and tactics in developing a communication strategy
■ Knowing what to plan for and when
■ Key partnerships you should develop
■ Tricks to avoid logistics scrambling and loss of money
■ The best ways to create safety and wellness for your workforce
■ Case studies and examples from past major storms
● Technical:
■ How to use data from the past to predict future impacts and support proactive planning for the future
■ Addressing common myths and misunderstanding about how to use data planning and response to Storms
■ Examples of how data-driven decision making can work
■ How to develop standard operating procedures and perform meaningful after-action reviews
■ How to create a simple and operational governance structure to oversee information and partners
■ Steps to increase trust with your internal & external partners via data to better communicate with the public and Executives
■ Case studies from actual storms and samples data-driven decision-making solutions in use today
● Finances:
■ Learn several unique strategies to better manage storm response and restoration expenses
■ Common miscommunications to avoid
■ Understanding the importance of situational awareness upon finances
■ Post-storm accounting to help recoup potentially millions and cost recovery
■ Understand what factors drive up costs
■ Understand the key factors that provide customer satisfaction and shareholder value
■ Case studies from past storms
● Communications:
■ Learn who needs to be involved in any given storm or disaster scenario
■ Forming communications plans and strategies for effectively building trust
■ What partnerships make disaster response more effective
■ How to develop operational partners
■ Creating effective training and onboarding processes for new employees and contractors
■ Overcoming obstacles to good communications and trust-building
■ How to work effectively with government and cross-sector partners
■ How to resolve conflicts, create a positive environment within a storm response effort
■ Case studies from past storms and Puerto Rico power restoration initiative