The World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) is the pre-eminent conference of its kind - providing you with the opportunity to gain valuable education, training and best practices to assist you, your organization and your community mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies and disaster. The 20th WCDM will offer a unique and distinguished experience in a climate that fosters change. World Renowned Experts Learn from i...

The Governor's Hurricane Conference (GHC) is the largest hurricane conference in the nation. The primary purpose of the GHC is to improve hurricane preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation in the State of Florida and beyond in order to save lives and reduce property damage. The scope of interest includes all aspects of the hurricane threat. To accomplish this, the GHC ensures the annual program emphasizes the following: Lessons learned...

The face of emergency management today has never been more complex! The All-Hazards, All-Stakeholders Summit will address the natural and man-made hazards facing the San Francisco area — fires, floods, earthquakes, terror events — and address best practices in preparing for and mitigating these crises. Prepared organizations must not only plan internally, but must reach out to their “silos” to integrate planning with di...

General Information The Inclusive Hurricane Preparedness Conference will bring together emergency management and disability stakeholders from states throughout the Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard to discuss the latest issues in preparing and responding to vulnerable populations during hurricanes. This two-day conference is hosted by enableUS and the Community Emergency Preparedness Information Network (CEPIN) and will examine some of the g...

2010 Government Web Managers 2–Day Conference: Open Government and Citizen Engagement Date: Tuesday – Wednesday, April 27 – 28, 2010 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (both days) Place: Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC Fee: Fee: $250 for federal, state, or local U.S. government employees. Due to space limitations, this event is open to government employees only. Conference Description Join your peers for our biggest networking e...

A 3-day training forum will cover a combination of high-level DoD and VA initiatives as well as delve into case studies around innovative projects and developments underway throughout the military to ensure that you have the tools to do your job more effectively. This conference will explore 3 main themes: Improving the integration and interoperability of electronic medical records to provide seamless health coverage from the expeditionary for...

Quest is the leading conference to learn best performance management practices from Baldrige Award recipients and how to: improve your organization's performance results enhance leadership effectiveness build customer and employee engagement increase organizational innovation to gain and sustain competitive advantages improve process management create an environment that fosters social responsibility and ethical behavior increase organization...

The Quest for Excellence XXII is the Official Conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige Award is given by the President of the United States to businesses—manufacturing and service, small and large—and to education, health care and nonprofit organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge mana...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act promised $19 billion for Health IT. Since then, electronic health records and health IT management have emerged as a major component of the healthcare debate. As industry struggles over the costs and benefits of health IT, many government agencies have surged forward---leading the way, from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Health and Human Services. AFCEA Bethesda’s Healt...