CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

You are invited to submit an abstract for the EPBC 2022 Conference.  Please find background information and submission details below.  

Conference Theme: "Facing Climate Change: A Hard Look at Disaster Risk Reduction"

Call for Abstracts opens on Monday, May 2
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 23:59 (PST). 
Notifications: Presenters will be notified by the end of June.  
Language: Abstracts must be submitted and presented in English only. 

Consideration for Prospective Presenters

Consider and articulate how your presentation would relate to one or more of the following topics:

  • Hazards 
  • Understanding Risk 
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Avoiding New Risk 
  • Exposures
  • Mitigating Existing Risk
  • Capacities (coping/adaptation)
  • Managing Residual Risk

Conference Objectives

1) Participants are better equipped to address a changing hazard scape because they have a better understanding of: 

  • How are hazard profiles changing?
  • What makes an individual, group or organization vulnerable?
  • What are the types, impacts, and exposures to hazards?
  • How can an individual/community/organization adapt to, or cope with disasters (build capacities)? 

2) Participants can build and maintain relationships with likeminded people.

Possible Type of Sessions

We encourage creativity in the type of session that you submit.  Below are some ideas for your consideration.  Time slots will vary between 15 and 90 minutes, depending on content and session type. 

Presentations

  • Keynote: Establishes or reinforces a main underlying theme.
  • Panel Discussion: Live, in-person, or virtual, facilitated discussion about a defined topic. 
  • Experience or Case Study: Describes a lived experience of an individual, community, or organization.
  • Demographic Perspective: Like an “experience / case study”, but presented from the perspective of a particular demographic group (youth, elder, evacuee, immigrant, etc.)

Interactive

  • Workshop (Activity Based): Encourages participants to solve or discuss a problem or idea or teaches a specific skill or topic.
  • World Café Style: Explore an issue by discussing it in small table groups
  • Poster Boards: Often Academically focused, but not necessarily.  Summarizes a body of work, presents it in a visually appealing way, briefly explains outcomes and products. 

Short Sessions

  • “Ted Talk” Style: 18-minute presentation. Topics may be new or niche, tackle an old problem in a radical new way, be ground-breaking research and are solution oriented.
  • Lightening/ignite talks: Presenters have 5 minutes to talk on their desired subject.  With or without accompanying slides.
  • Pecha Kucha: 20x20 presentation format shows your 20 chosen images, each for 20 seconds. In other words, you've got 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way. 

Conference Audience

The conference attracts a wide array of professionals and disciplines. This can include:

  • Local Governments 
  • First nations
  • Provincial and Federal Government
  • Health Sector
  • First Responders
  • Academia

  • Risk Managers
  • Business Continuity Professionals
  • Critical Infrastructure Operators
  • Private Sector
  • Emergency Management Professionals
  • Disaster Risk Management Professionals

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

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