September 24-25 2014, Birmingham

RESILIENCE—NOT JUST A BUZZ WORD Resilience and emergency planning professionals are invited to this years’ Emergency Planning

Society conference—Resilience: Not Just a Buzz Word. The event, taking place at the Birmingham

NEC on Sept 25, in partnership with the Emergency Services Show, is a chance to: network, listen

to case studies from top speakers and discuss learning from incidents. The event is predominantly

focused on long term recovery and includes speakers from Japan, Chernobyl, Public Health

England and the Environment Agency along with others from across the UK. It will address the

long term community challenges following two of the biggest disasters the world has seen, how

learning has been transferred to the UK, learning from UK incidents along with considering some of

the new risks faced by Emergency Planners.

Delegates will receive a Delegate Bag containing a copy of Business Continuity for Dummies plus

lots more…

To book your space on the Conference and the Awards Dinner held the night before at the

Hilton Metropole please go to www.the-eps.org/events.

Voluntary Sector

Award

Lifetime Achievement

Award

EPS MEMBERS ONLY

Members of the EPS are urged to attend this crucial

Annual General Meeting in Suites 32-34 of the NEC

Birmingham on Sept 24 and join the Board in dis-

cussing the Society’s current position, and the ways

in which to take the Society forward. Meet the new

Board members for 2015, following the nomination

and appointment process. As usual an open and

frank discussion on the Society will take place.

For those who cannot attend the AGM in person, the

EPS is pleased to offer you the option to join us via

interactive webinar. We cannot stress how important

this meeting is so please make sure you can attend

either in person or via webinar.

You can book your place by visiting the EPS website.

Resilience professionals

all under one roof

Emergency re-

sponse zone

Learn, network and

career development

CONFERENCE COSTS: £99 EPS members (£150 non-members) AWARDS DINNER COSTS: £50 EPS members (£65 non-members)

AGM Costs: FREE (EPS members only) BOOK: www.the-eps.org/events

The Awards this year are sponsored by

Babcock International, Getac and Serco (EPC)

Winners will be announced at the

Resilience Awards Dinner on September 24 at the

Hilton Metropole, Birmingham

09:00-09:20 Arrival and registration

09:20-09:30 Welcome and opening remarks Mrs Helen Hinds

EPS Chair

09:30-10:00 Key Note Speaker

Tidal surge and the floods of 2013-14

Dr Paul Leinster CBE

Chief Executive

Environment Agency

10:00-10:40 The Local and National Effects Of

2013/14 Severe Weather Incidents

Mr Nik Whyte and Mr Tim Goodson

DCLG

10:40-11:10 Fukushima

The preparation of communities and how

they coped afterwards

Mr Jiro Ito

Director of Public Relations

Japanese Consumers’ Cooperative Union (JCCU)

11:10-11:25 Break

11:25-12:00 Chernobyl

The Legacy

Sergiy Vygivskyy and Vira Gys

Director of the Social, Psychological Rehabilitation Centre,

Kosovo, Ukraine

12:00-12:35 The Transfer of Learning—

Case Study of the British Nuclear Industry

Bill McGlennon

Head of Strategy and Policy, Security & Resilience

Sellafield Ltd

12:35-13:00 CBRN Chris Abbott

Chair, EPS CBRN Professional Working Group

13:00-13:40 Lunch

13:40-14:30 Ebola Outbreak

Deadly foreign diseases are

‘potential major threat’

Professor Dilys Morgan MBE

Head of the Department of Gastrointestinal,

Emerging and Zoonotic Infections

Public Health England

14:30-14:50 Break

14:50-15:50 Developing Resilience – an insight to workshops in the forthcoming year

Near Earth Objects (NEOs)

Facing up to the risk of impacts of NEOs

Debbie Lewis

London Branch member

Humanitarian Assistance

“Responsibility and Accountabiity”

Mick Free

Chair, EPS Humanitarian Assistance Group

15:50-16:00 Closing remarks Helen Hinds

EPS Chair

16:00 Conference close

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

2014

RESILIENCE:

Not Just A

Buzz Word

* programme may be subject to change