IAEM Oceania

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Asia-Oceania Resilience is the IAEM’s first conference outside the USA, organized by IAEM Asia and Oceania councils. Our vision is to bring together for the first time in Asia, security, emergency management, crisis management, business continuity management, risk management, disaster recovery and disaster relief professionals from 29 countries.

AOR is a 2-day conference, 200 attendees coming mostly from South East Asia and Australia/New Zealand, international sponsors and supporters and 16 engaging, illuminating and memorable stories. (Tentative conference program online).

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Hi All

I hope you had a good Easter and are looking forward to ANZAC Day (although possibly not the Monday morning afterwards). It's hard to believe the year is passing so quickly.

Australian National Representative

The big news this Offering is that I get to announce our new Australian National Representative - Chris Ainsworth. Congratulations Chris! Chris was unopposed so no election was required. The Executive has approved his appointment and Chris will be serving a one year term as Australian National Representative from 1 May 2010 - 30 April 2011.

Oceania News

Election Time

Next month we will be having an election for an Australian National Representative. If you know of someone who you think would do a great job at this, now is the time to start encouraging them to think about it. Details will be sent out with the next Oceania Offerings.

New Treasurer

James Gustus has stepped into the role of Treasurer. Welcome aboard, James!

Four items to bring to your attention:

1 - Call for Presenters for AOR2010
If you would like to present at AOR 2010 there are details on how to do so here. I would like to encourage Oceania members to be actively involved in helping shape the content of AOR 2010. It's our conference and it needs to represent the topics we are passionate about and want to share with Asia and the wider IAEM and emergency management communities.

2 - Auckland CEM Study Workshop, CEM Exam and CEM 101 Presentation

Deadline: None
The Global Risk Identification Newsletter is accepting 500-800 word articles highlighting the experience and efforts of those involved in risk assessment around the world. Those interested in submitting to the quarterly newsletter can send their articles to info@gripweb.org.

Work is progressing on the Asia-Oceania Conference. To stay up to date visit AOR 2010. This page also has information on how to submit an application to present at the conference. The conference will be the first IAEM conference outside of the USA. To make it a success we need members support in:

Sourcing speakers
Sourcing sponsors
Sourcing exhibitors
Spreading the word about the conference
Attending the conference

Congratulations to Jon Mitchell, the new New Zealand national representative.

Find information on this years' conference call for speakers here.