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Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference 

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April 2-4, 2013
Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, Tacoma, WA

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Payment must be received by the rate deadlines.

Featured Speakers

Vicky Mieseler, VP of Clinical Services for Mental Health in Joplin, Missouri. She played a key role in the recovery of Joplin after the tornado took out 7,000 homes and 300 businesses. Vicky provides real life examples of how to be better prepared for disaster response. She will talk first-hand about their plan, show the magnitude of the tornado on their city and lessons learned. Vicky zeroes in on what are the pieces of a multi-level response hospitals need to be prepared to enact and what programs were most successful and why. Until you are in a disaster, you have no idea how to prepare but you can learn a lot from others' experiences as well as from the 911 reports.

Kimberly Harris, CEO for Puget Sound Energy discusses the necessity of public-private partnerships and how developing the right partnership can create dynamic and lasting impacts. Kimberly will discuss PSE’s successful Take Winter by Storm campaign and the new partnership on the horizon with the American Red Cross.

Ed Troyer, Pierce County Sherriff’s Detective and Public Information Officer. Detective Troyer will speak on local current events and how they impact our community.  He will focus on using social media to relay and obtain information.

What's New?

We read and reviewed the 2012 evaluations and have implemented changes to the conference based on previous attendees' feedback.   

• The conference format has changed to a half day, full day, half day format to accommodate your travel needs.  The conference will start on Tuesday afternoon, followed by a full day on Wednesday.  The conference will wrap up at 2:00 PM on Thursday.

• The first day of the conference (Tuesday, April 2nd) will feature the following special workshops from 1pm - 5pm: 

The Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference     (a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization) is the largest and most successful regional emergency preparedness conference in the Pacific Northwest. Partners in Emergency Preparedness annually hosts nearly 700 people representing business, schools, government, the nonprofit sector, emergency management professionals, and volunteer organizations.

Our 2012 Conference drew over 600 attendees, including; 70 speakers, and more than 30 vendors over a two-day period. Conference attendees included emergency managers (international, local, state, and federal), state and local officials, business and industry representatives, the military reserve and National Guard, public utilities, and volunteer agencies.