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… profession or not?

June 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Things have been fairly hectic since my return from Toronto. A new client engagement to get started, not to mention a number of late nights watching the FIFA World Cup, have distracted me from posting here. While catching up on my reading I came across this article in Risk Magazine. The quoted comments are in [...]

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… WCDM is over

June 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Actually it has been over for a couple of days, but I have just gotten around to writing about it. This was by first visit to the World Conference on Disaster Management. It is probably the best event in this field that I have been to – I would certainly want to go again next [...]

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… WCDM Day 2

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Another smorgasbord of sessions today – 8 concurrent sessions in each of 4 time slots, plus 2 Plenary Sessions. Unfortunately there is always more than 1 session in each time slot I would have liked to attend. The sessions, both yesterday and today, are organised into streams; Real Events / Lessons Learned Technical Issues / [...]

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… WCDM Day 1

June 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

So much to choose from, 9 current presentations in each time slot – plus the various plenary sessions. Highlights of the day for me were the presentation by Robert Kay, conversation around the table at lunch and of course my own presentation. Robert Kay is an Australian and is not part of the BC/EM community. [...]

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… World Conference on Disaster Management

June 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The past week I have been on holiday, making my way to Toronto for the Conference. The sessions here kicked off Sunday afternoon with a workshop – was looking forward to this as an opportunity to meet John Bircham from New Zealand. I have read a lot of his writing on the net, and he [...]

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