2016 FLASH Annual Conference: The Next Generation of Resilience
The conference will bring together the United States' foremost voices in the disaster safety and resilience movement to share best practices, inspire, collaborate, and create meaningful action.
Topics:
With the theme of “The Next Generation of Resilience” topics will focus on building product innovation, financial solutions, policy leadership, public outreach initiatives, scientific insights, and new technologies to drive better building and create disaster-resilient communities in the face of earthquakes, hail, hurricanes, lightning, power outages, tornadoes, and wildfires. FLASH is crafting the Conference program focused on the following:
The Next Generation of Codes/Standards/Policies
- Adoption/Enforcement Challenges
- Multi-peril Codes/Standards/Policies
- Addressing climate change/sea level rise
- Education opportunities and successes
The Next Generation of Residential Construction
- Science/Engineering
- Design
- Actualization
- Addressing multiple perils during construction
The Next Generation of Resilient Communities
- What does a Resilient Community look like?
- Market-driven solutions
- Framework for measuring resilience
- Incentivizing resilience
- Case studies on resilience success
The Next Generation of Outreach/Education
- Effectively communicating the weather/risk
- Effectively communicating the solutions
- Consumer demand for resilience
- Multiple-peril risk communication
Creating a Disaster Resilient Generation
- Socio-economic relationship to community resilience
- Life cycle costs of community resilience
- Defining affordability when designing for disasters
- Making resilience a trend and a lasting value: making buildings last
Attendees:
Leaders, professionals and practitioners from a cross-section of organizations who share the FLASH mission of strengthening homes and safeguarding families from disasters of all kinds.