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  • Wednesday, May 28, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Continuity of Operations Program Management
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Crisis Leadership
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    Mass Fatalities Incident Response Course
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    NIMS ICS All-Hazards Liaison Officer Course
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    7 Habits of Highly un-Hackable people
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    Analysis of Flood Reduction Capabilities of Applied Blue-Green Infrastructure
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    BeforeDuringAfter – Enabling Texas Businesses to Thrive During Disasters
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Bridging the Gap: Transitioning Emergency Dispatchers to Emergency Management Roles
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Cyber Attacks on Industrial Control Systems: Navigating Risks and Impacts
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Debris Recovery: Expectations vs. Reality
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Empowering Communities: An Overview of the Texas Community Recovery Management System (TCR)
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Mapping a Safer Future: How Midlothian’s Emergency Management, GIS Division, and Regional Partners Enhance Hazardous Material Preparedness Through Innovative Geospatial Solutions
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Meeting the Challenge of Current and Future Water Resources for the Lower Rio Grande Valley
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Minimizing Liability & Demonstrating Success in LEPC & Emergency Preparedness Programs
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Office Hours: TDEM Grants Management System (GMS Lab)
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Requesting FEMA Public Assistance and Assessing Applicant Eligibility
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    RRC Pipeline Safety Inspections and Incident Investigations
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Staring Down the Beryl: An NWS Tabletop for Loaded Decisions
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Voodoo of Natural Gas
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST
    Windstorm! The Aftermath of the May 28, 2024, North Texas Severe Weather Event – The City of Carrollton’s Experience
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CST
    Hurridemic! Cybercane! Preparing for multi-hazard disasters
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CST
    Individual Assistance (IA) and Public Assistance (PA) Preliminary Damage Assessments (PDA)
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CST
    CERT in the EOC
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CST
    Disaster Recovery – Grant Administration: From Audit to Closeout
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    A Recap of the 2024 FEMA Appeal and Arbitration Decisions
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    “LEVERAGING INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT”
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Beginning with the End in Mind: Program Design Documents and Best Practices
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Community Disaster Preparedness Workshops - Benefits, Techniques & Tools to Start Them
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Developing YOUR EM Program
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Enhancing Situational Awareness: Leveraging Drones for Public Safety at Special Events
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Ensemble Forecasting - Providing the Best River Flood Information for Decision Makers Targeting State Level Operations
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    First Responder Impact Model - A Discussion on the FirstNet Authority's Analytical Tool for Network Coverage Enhancements
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    First Responder Toolkit 2025 Edition
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Hurricane Beryl and the Houston Metro Derecho: Messaging, Partnerships, Power Outages and Heat Related Illness and Deaths
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework - Considerations for Critical Infrastructure Planning and Investment Decisions
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Maintaining Survivor Trust Following a Disaster
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    The State Operations Center's Watch Overview - The 24/7 Manned Operations for TDEM
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Using AI in Emergency Management Plans for Special Events
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    30 Minutes to FEMA Contract Clause Compliance
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Diagnosing and predicting the flooding severity of thunderstorms in Southeast Texas based on lightning activity
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST
    Lithium-Ion Battery Transportation Related Incidents
  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    Higher Education: An Untapped Resource in Emergency Management
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    An Analysis of the Hurricane Beryl Inland Tornado Outbreak and the Multifaceted and Collaborative Post-storm Survey Efforts
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    EMAC in Action: Texas Answering the Call for Mutual Aid and Disaster Response
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    EOC "Trouble!" Game - EOC Interface and Incident Command System Game Simulation
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Four-legged disaster sheltering: Purposeful planning for pets and their people
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Get Your Data: 80,000 Repeatedly Flooded Texas Homes
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Heat-Related Syndromic Surveillance in South Texas: Assessing Regional Vulnerability to Extreme Heat
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Integrating Non-Traditional Responders into Emergency Response
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    ISTF overview / recruitment
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Managing the Unmanageable: Leveraging Technology to Improve Mass Casualty Response
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Mass Notification Best Practices for Rural Jurisdictions
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Media & Communications ESF15
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Requests for Information (across all stages of grant lifecycle)
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Texas Statewide Interoperability Coordinator Update
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    The Role of Law Enforcement in Emergency Management
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
    Understanding Subrecipient Management Cost
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    Community Preparedness and Emergency Response for Industrial Explosions
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
    Evacuation Transportation Triage Training
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Emergency Operations Center Incident Command System Interface
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Mass Fatalities Incident Response Course
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Rapid Needs Assessment
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM CST
    Lessons in the Field: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Dairy Cows
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM CST
    Need Money for Flood Mitigation Projects? TWDB Can Help.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM CST
    Using fourth year veterinary students to help counties develop tactical emergency animal evacuation and sheltering plans: How the Texas A&M VET rotation can be your force multiplier.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Communicating with At-Risk Populations During Emergencies
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management.” A government perspective on applying GIS for data sharing and collaboration for emergency response and recovery.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Debris Management: TCEQ/THC Permitting
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Layering & Sequencing (GLO, TDEM & TWDB)
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Maximizing the Impact of Your Technology: The Tech is the "Easy Part"
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Oil and Gas Spills, Releases and Incidents
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Overcoming the Myths of Pipeline Emergency Response
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    PIO for Dummies: Disaster Communications for Non-communications Professionals
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    TDEM ESF7 - When Crisis Strikes, TDEM Delivers
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    The Storm After the Storm: Legal Issues that Arise after Disasters and How Legal Aid Providers in Texas Can Help Disaster Survivors
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST
    Lessons Learned from Hurricane Helene -Volunteers, Donations, Mass Care & Finance
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    SFMO Overview of Divisions and Data
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    10 Easy Steps to A Full-Scale Exercise
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    Statistics of Suicide- are you just a number?
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST
    Incorporating Nature Based Solution during FMA Grant Application Development
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CST
    Texas Homeowners Handbook - Expanding Functionality and Reach
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Introduction to the Incident Command Structure (ICS) for Business and Industry Partners
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    Empowering the Next Generation of Emergency Managers: Youth Engagement, CERT, and Innovative Solutions for Resilience
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    How to Cold Start an Emergency Management Program
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Blood Resource Management - Disaster Preparations & Response
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Overview of the 2025 TAMU Interoperability Institute Annual Critical Communications Exercise
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Overview of the Office of Secure Transportation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    PHMSA 101 and ERG use
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Revolutionizing Management for Mobile Medical Countermeasures: Lessons Learned from Texas’ COVID-19 Response
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Tackling Trash: Debris Management Pointers & Pitfalls in Post-Disaster Recovery
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Texas State Medical Operations Center (SMOC) Fact vs. Fiction
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    The Future of Common Operating Picture Data Systems Technology at the Texas Division of Emergency Management
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Two Men and a Little Lady - A Conversation between Old Friends (with Audience Questions Answered)
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Whole Community Approach to Emergency Planning
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    You’re Going to Need More Than Ice, Water, and Fuel: Modern Day Logistical Challenges
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Crisis to Confidence: Building Emergency Preparedness for Childcare Providers
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    Overview of FEMA's Planning Guidance