Time

Title

Activity

Moderator

Speakers

7:30 am

Registration

Registration

7:30

Breakfast

Breakfast

8:15am

Plenary1

Opening Ceremony:
Formal welcome and opening by Los Angeles City Officials & EMI leadership, followed by an EMI presentation of Disaster Risk Reduction in Megacities from an International Perspective.

1. L.A. City Councilman Greig Smith
2. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (invited)
3. Dr. Fouad Bendimerad, President, EMI
4. Jim Featherstone, General Manager, LA City Emergency Management Department

9:30am

“How do MegaCities – metropolises like Los Angeles – live and deal with earthquakes?” What has worked and what hasn’t. Using examples from Los Angeles, information will be provided to illuminate the importance of this conference and the outcomes we’ll get from it.

Ellis Stanley,
former General Manager of the LA City Emergency Preparedness Department

10:45am

Session 1A

Lifeline Readiness & Fault Crossings:
Most of the important “lifelines” for cities – Water, fuel, fiber optic cables, sewers lines, etc. - travel underground and often cross fault lines. This panel presents case studies and scenarios with action items to secure these lines and the importance of making the investment in this preparation.

Mike Reichle, Chief Seismologist, California Geological Survey (retired)

2. Lloyd Cluff, PG&E
3.  David Nahai, General Manager, LA Department of Water and Power
4. Prof. Kuwata, Kobe University

10:45am

Session 1B

Methods of Preparedness:
In preparing the residents and workers of cities, certain programs have had greater success than others. Looking at techniques that are used to reach the various sectors of the population, this panel provides resources and programs that have proven successful from government to media outlets in developing strategies to prepare various sectors of the population.

Jack Popejoy, Anchor, KFWB Radio

1. Richard Kushelak, President, Art Center College of Design
2. Guillermo Escobar, Bogota
3. Mark Benthien, Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country
4. Dr. LuAn K Johnson, “Map Your Neighborhood” Program (invited)

10:45am

Session 1C

Disaster Risk Reduction through Land Use Planning
Private property structures in a seismically active region pose some of the greatest threats to the City’s resiliency. How can a City plan its structures, where they are located, and how they are built as they move forward? This panel also looks at the leading building codes for new construction and land use in a seismic city.

Ken Topping,
President, Topping Associates International

1.Semih Turhan, Istanbul
2. Nury Bermudez, Quito
3. Makati City representative
4. Sergio Puente, Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City

10:45am

Session 1D

Technologies for Disaster Management

Dr. Keith Porter,
University of Colorado

1.Chris Chiesa, Pacific Disaster Center
2.Luis Yamin, U. de los Andes, Bogota
3.Sergio Alcocer
4.Dr. David Wald, USGS (invited)

12:15pm

Lunch 1

Lunch/report backs:
Each of the moderators of the preceding panels will present a five minute report, followed by an address by Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, LA County Fire Chief Michael Freeman, and LA City ire Chief Douglas Barry.

LAPD Chief William Bratton (invited)

L.A. County Fire Chief Michael Freeman (invited)

L.A. City Fire Chief Douglas Barry(invited)

1:30pmn

Transition

1:45pm

Plenary2

China Response to the May 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
The most recent example of a devastating earthquake provides information and case studies for response and recovery. This session will provide information from those who were there in the aftermath of the earthquake and will provide and update on the recovery status.

Speakers to be announced

2:45pm

Session 2A

Legislative Process for Enacting Seismic Safety Regulations:
Many times, the best ideas for earthquake preparedness and seismic security require action by government at the local or national level. This panel offers best practices in meeting the needs of the community through a law-making process. It will also look at some landmark legislation over the last 100 years in California & Los Angeles.

Dick McCarthy. Executive Director,
California State Seismic Safety Commission

 1. Violeta Seva , Metro Manila
2. Sam Blakeslee, State Seismic Safety Commissioner (invited)
3. Representative from Istanbul  (invited)

2:45pm

Session 2B

Megacity Infrastructure and Engineering the Future: The design of critical infrastructure related to roads, ports and public projects needs special attention in large cities. This session looks at how engineering can render our infrastructure systems, including transportation networks, ports, and bridges more resilient to earthquake, and avoid cascading effects of catastrophic proportion in megacities.

Dr. J.P. Bardet
Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California

1.Steve McCabe, NEES
2. Mahmut Bas, Istanbul, Turkey
3. (To be announced)

2:45pm

Session 2C

Retrofitting: How to Deal with What You Have:
In a built city, often times planning does not address the concerns of preexisting structures or infrastructure. How does a city deal with its investment? Where are old buildings and historic structures and what measures can be taken to protect these financial and cultural investments? Examples of what can be done with historic structures will be presented.

1. Hal Bernson, LA City Councilman (ret.)
2. Craig Comartin, EERI
3. Chris Poland Chairman  & CEO, Degenkolb

2:45pm

Session 2D

How to Assess Seismic Risk and Policies
This international panel will look at the ways in which seismic risk and polices are assessed. Speakers will present information related to microzonation and policy practices in place around the globe.

Dr. Fouad Bendimerad
Preisdent, EMI

1.Omar Cardona, Bogota
2. Mesut Pektas, Istanbul
3. Carlos Sainz, Mexico City
4. Jorge Olarte Navarro, Lima
5. Jeannette Fernandez, Quito

4:15pm

Plenary3

Report back:
Each Panel will present 5 minutes, followed by a panel on The Great Southern California ShakeOut: How It came to be What was involved in creating the largest earthquake preparedness campaign in US history. How did the diverse communities of Southern California come together for this effort? What appealed to governments, schools, private businesses and communities to make them take this effort as a serious one?

Monica Buchanan,
State Farm Insurance

1. Dr. Lucy Jones, USGS
2. Mark Benthien,  SCEC & Earthquake Country Alliance
3. Mariana Amatullo, Art Center College of Design
4. Councilman Greig Smith, City of L.A.

6pm

Board transportation to The Autry National Center

6:30pm

Dinner and Cultural night at the Autry National Center. This causal dinner will be presented in the main gallery space of the museum dedicated to the American West. Multiple galleries will be open for viewing, including the special Maverick Art exhibit.

Time

Title

Activity

Moderator

Speakers

7:30am

Breakfast 2

Breakfast

7:30 am

registration

Registration

8am

Plenary 4

Briefing/ Press Event : The “ShakeOut Scenario” The great Southern California ShakeOut is an effort based on the science of over 300 experts describing the impacts and effects of a probable great earthquake along Southern California’s largest fault, the San Andreas.. Chief Scientist Dr. Lucy Jones will give an overview of the scenario and its impacts as way to prepare attendees for the things they will see as part of the Golden Guardian exercise and the ShakeOut Drill, the largest in US history.

Dr. Lucy Jones
Chief Scientists of the Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project, USGS

9am

Field trips

Depart for Field Trips
A selection over field trips will be offered to conference attendees to see, firsthand, the local efforts underway relating to preparedness and response. Simultaneously, different groups will visit  NEES@UCLA to see a earthquake simulation, a drill in Urban Search and Rescue with the Los Angeles Fire Department, a visit to the Los Angeles City Hall and Emergency Operations Center, a drill in schools and hospitals in Burbank, and other trips to be announced at the conference.

9:30am to 10am

Arrive at exercise locations

11am to 12:30pm

Depart exercise locations

11:30am to 1:30pm

Lunch 2

Lunch (buffet)

12 to 3pm

Share Fair

International MegaCity “Share Fair” As part of the commitment EMI has to direct exchange between experts from the many megacities located in seismically active regions, this “share fair” will offer an opportunity for one on one exchanges between the leaders of those various invited cities. Direct exchange in booths will be facilitated so that best practices can be shared discussed in a way unable in any other setting.

2:45pm

Plenary 5

EQ Technology : Early Warning & Prediction
This panel will look at the technologies being used internationally to warn, predict and track the seismic activity in a way that allows for response. After the formal presentations, a moderated roundtable discussion will follow with leaders from the US and abroad.

Dr. Tom Jordan, Executive Director, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

1. Prof. Hugo Yepes, Quito
2. Dr. Tom Heaton, Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory at Caltech
3. Mustafa Erdik & Erdal Safak, Turkey

Roundtable
1. Secretary Rosario Marin of California State & Consumer  Services Agency (invited)
2. Secretary Kempthorne of US Department of the Interior (invited)
3. Jim Mori, Japan (invited)

7pm

Dinner 2

Gala Dinner
Attendees and guests are invited to a gala dinner at the Omni Hotel in which to recognize those who’ve attended as well as those dignitaries coming to Los Angeles for the conference and ShakeOut.

Time

Title

Activity

Moderator

Speakers

7:15am

Breakfast 3

Breakfast

None

8:30am

Plenary 6

Plenary:
Communicating a Message of Preparedness
Dr. Dennis Meliti will present a comprehensive report on what sociologists find to be the best ways to reaching people in the US and beyond. Sampling includes Los Angeles and multiple ethnic backgrounds. This will be the first public presentation of these findings.

Emcee

Dr. Dennis Mileti
Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado
(former Director of the Natural Hazards Center and Chair of the Department of Sociology)

9:45am

Session 3A

Economics/Business Recovery
How do businesses prepare and recover from Earthquakes to get back up & running. What are ways to mitigate long-term economic impacts?

Ines Pearce
President, Pearce Global Partners

1.Prof. Toyodo, Kobe (invited)
2. Adam Rose (invited)
3. Louise Comfort, Pittsburgh University
4. Dr. Dan Alesch (invited)

9:45am

Session 3B

Community Recovery
What can be done at the community level to respond to earthquake? What are steps a community can take in response to an earthquake?

1. Jose Fernandez, Lima on Pisco EQ recovery
2. Dick Andrews – NC4 & former director of California OES
3. Dr. Ed Kavazanjian, Arizona State University (invited)

9:45am

Session 3C

Medical recovery:
How to respond to mass casualties, what are health concerns from an earthquake (dust, particulates, etc.)

Steve Storbakken Service Area Director Emergency Preparedness & Safety, Providence Healthcare

1. Skip Skivington, Kaiser Permanente
2. Kay Furworth, EMS services for LA County (invited)
3. World Health Org. (invited)

9:45am

Session 3D

Risk Financing and Disaster Recovery
This session will discuss how insurance, reinsurance, and other programs can help cities prepare to deal with the recovery effort? Will cities and communities, and individuals have the resources not only to respond to the immediate needs, but for the longer term recovery efforts?

-Representative from SwissRe (invited)
-Representative California earthquake Authority (invited)
-International Speaker to be announced

11:15am

Plenary 7

Report Back & Policy discussion:
What Are the Three Most Important Things a City Can Do?

12:30pm

Lunch 3

Closing Luncheon
The Closing ceremony & luncheon for the conference will feature the final policy recommendations from the conference sessions. It will also feature a keynote address by James Lee Witt (invited), former Director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

2pm to 5pm

SSSC meeting

State Seismic Safety Commission Meeting
The State of California has a commission of 20 members that meets to increase the seismic safety of the state through programs and legislation. This special meeting is open for all to attend and is an official meeting for the State of California.

4pm to 11 pm

“Get Ready Rally”

Get Ready Rally!
Organized by Art Center College of Design, the “Get Ready Rally” will engage the community of Los Angeles with special media presentations, activities and booths. Giant screens will premiere the “ShakeOut Scenario Movie” and the Earthquake Game will also be demonstrated. This will be held at the entertainment plaza of LA Live.