This document announces a 2012 conference on resilience that will discuss how to respond to, recover from, and rebuild after catastrophic events. The conference will feature multiple panel discussions on effective response, recovery lessons, and rebuilding for resilience. Panelists will include experts from emergency management, engineering, planning, and government. The goal is to identify needs and gaps to build more disaster resilient communities through multi-sector collaboration. The full-day event at the University of Hawaii includes presentations, panel discussions, and feedback from community leaders.

1. 2012 RESPOND THURSDAY
RESILIENCE Recover JUNE 7, 2012
8 am - 4:30 pm
CONFERENCE AIA/CES LU MEMBERS:
REBUILD component of this program
REBUILD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AUDITORIUM, ROOM 205
qualifies for 1 AIA/CES HSW. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
“You must attend the whole
Are we prepared program for credit.”
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for catastrophic APA Hawaii & AICP MEMBERS
SUBMITTED FOR Registration Required SPACE LIMITED
events? AICP CM credit ndptc.hawaii.edu/resilience_conference
PANEL DISCUSSIONS • KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS • HOSTED LUNCH • COMMUNIT Y FEEDBACK
We face the possibility of natural disasters, terrorism, and technological failures and “cascading” events such as the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear
disaster in Japan. This conference brings together speakers, practitioners, and scholars experienced in responding to, recovering from, and rebuilding
communities that have experienced disaster. Catastrophic events require multi-disciplinary, engaged “whole community” efforts. Co-sponsored by
government, military, scientific, academic, and non-governmental training and research organizations, we invite you to join us for a day of “thinking
the unthinkable” and planning for resilience. Each panel will have keynote presentations and responses from our local community.
Opening and Welcome:
Karl Kim, Executive Director, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center
Col. Philip Mead, U. S. Army, Director (Interim), Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
Dan “Fig” Leaf, Lt . Gen. (Ret) USAF, Director, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies
Doug Mayne, CEM, Vice Director of State Civil Defense, State of Hawaii Department of Defense
response to terroristic events: Public/private partnerships:
Oklahoma, 9-11 and London subway a roadmap to small business recovery
bombings Wendy Freitag
Dr. Van Romero External Affairs Manager for the Washington State
Vice President, Research and Economic Military Department’s Emergency Management Div.
Development at New Mexico Tech.
Lessons on Recovery from the green book
intErstate 35W Mississippi River Bridge and the next generation green book
collapse 2007 Jim Schwab
Rocco Forté Senior Research Associate and Manager
Retired Fire Chief/Director of Emergency APA Hazards Planning Research Center
Preparedness, City of Minneapolis
Detection and Warning of Hazards in perspectives on rebuilding after
the Asia-Pacific Region catastrophic losses
Chris Chiesa Ibrahim Almufti, SE, LEED, AP
Deputy Executive Director and Chief Information Structural earthquake and structural engineer for Arup
Officer at the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and leads the Seismic Skills Network for Arup America
CO SPONSORS: Pacific Risk Management ‘Ohana (PRiMO) • Hawaii State Civil Defense • Center for Excellence In Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies • PICHTR • University of Hawaii Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Program Summer Institute
National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii • UH - PACOM Partnership

2. Registration Required SPACE LIMITED
ndptc.hawaii.edu/resilience_conference
RESPONSE PANEL: EFFECTIVE RESPONSE HASTENS RELIEF AND RECOVERY
PANEL DISCUSSIONS & PANELISTS
Panelists:
David Fukutomi, Emergency Management Homeland Security Consultant, Homeland Security Institute
Tom Peterman - Associate Professor, Peacekeeping, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS)
Brian Wauke - Assistant Chief (Ret), Honolulu Police Department
Dr. Laura Kong, Director , International Tsunami Information Center
Brad Morell, Senior Associate, BOOZ/ALLEN/HAMILTON
In this session, we cover early detection and warning systems with a focus on the threats and hazards in the Asia-Pacific region and
highlight some of the lessons learned from recent acts of terrorism and infrastructure failure. International, national and local perspectives
on response will demonstrate how coordination, communications, operability across different disciplines and units of government can
make all the difference in saving lives, reducing injuries, and minimizing losses and disruption.
RECOVERY PANEL: BOUNCING FORWARD INSTEAD OF BACK
MODERATOR: Andrew Rumbach, PhD, Assist. Professor, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Panelists:
George Atta, Principal, Group 70 International, Inc.
James Spencer, PhD, Associate Professor, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Doug Mayne, CEM, Vice Director of State Civil Defense, State of Hawaii Department of Defense
Makena Coffman, PhD, Assist. Professor, UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning
What are the lessons on recovery from many communities across the country which have experienced floods, hurricanes, tornados, and
other disasters? What are measures of success? How do economists and those involved in planning for recovery address these concerns?
REBUILD PANEL: REBUILDING FOR A MORE RESILIENT FUTURE
MODERATOR: Dean Sakamoto, FAIA, LEED AP, Deputy Director, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center
Panelists:
Gary Chock, President, Martin & Chock
Dennis Hwang, Faculty, UH Sea Grant
John P. Whalen, Founding Principal, Plan Pacific, Inc.
How do architects, engineers, planners and others involved in the rebuilding of communities best approach the planning, design,
development, permitting, construction, financing, and moving forward in the wake of disaster? How do cities which face known hazards
prepare for the inevitable? What is the role of insurance, government regulation, resilient design, and planning for rebuilding?
CLOSING PANEL
Panelists:
Senator Ronald D. Kouchi, Majority Caucus Leader and Vice Chair of the Committee on Tourism
H. Mitchell ‘Mitch” D’Olier, President and CEO Harold K. L. Castle Foundation
Maria Lutz, Director of Emergency Services, American Red Cross Hawaii State Chapter
Reactions from community leaders in terms of what was said (and what should have been mentioned) and where to go from here. We’ll
provide lunch, coffee and snacks. This event is about identifying strategic needs and gaps related to disaster resilience and initiating
further commitments to work together on building resilience.
CO SPONSORS: Pacific Risk Management ‘Ohana (PRiMO) • Hawaii State Civil Defense • Center for Excellence In Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies • PICHTR • University of Hawaii Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Program Summer Institute
National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii • UH - PACOM Partnership