DRW Agenda

Tentative Agenda
Disaster Resilience Workshop
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
April 7, 2014

7:15-8:00
Arrival, Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:45
Opening Session
Welcome, NIST Disaster Resilience Program

8:45 – 9:30
General Session
Featured Speaker: Warren Edwards, Executive Director, Community and Regional Resilience Institute(CARRI), Oak Ridge, TN
"What Is Community Resilience and Why Is It Difficult to Measure?"

9:30 – 10:00
Break and Networking

10:00 – 11:30
Morning breakout sessions

11:30-12:00
Summary of morning breakout sessions

12:00 – 1:00
Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:45
General Session
Featured Speaker: Chris Poland, Senior Principal, Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco, CA; SPUR Disaster Planning Program's Resilient City Initiative
"Creating Disaster-Resilient Communities"

1:45 – 3:15
Afternoon breakout sessions

3:15 – 3:45
Break and Networking

3:45-4:15
Summary of afternoon breakout sessions

4:15 – 5:00
General Session – Wrap Up
Review of the Day – Path forward
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