Agenda and Presentations

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Monday, March 22nd

8:30AM	Call to Order: David Applegate, NSTC Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction
8:35AM	Welcome: Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean, University of Miami Medical School (Introduced by Tim Dixon, University of Miami)
8:50AM	Keynote: Haiti Minister of Environment Jean Marie Claude Germain
9:15AM	Plenary Panel: Strategies for Achieving Disaster Risk Reduction Moderator: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Suzanne Nossel Margareta Wahlstrom (Special Representative to the U.N. Secretary General for Disaster Reduction) Hyogo Framework for Action - preparedness for reconstruction and recovery Guido Bertolaso (Director of Italian Civil Protection, Presidential Council of Ministers) Whole-of-government approaches to rapid, risk-resilient recovery Ambassador Sergio Romero Cuevas (Advisor of the Vice Minister for Economic Relations and International Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico)
10:30AM	Plenary Panel: Assessing Haiti's Hazard and Risk Moderator: Paul Mann (University of Texas at Austin) Eric Calais (Purdue University) Overview of the Jan. 12 earthquake and future seismic hazards Presentation Reggie DesRoches (Georgia Tech) Engineering perspective on the vulnerabilities of the built environment in Haiti Presentation Sergio Mora-Castro (Consultant, in Risk Management, to the World Bank) Preliminary results of multi-hazard assessment Presentation
1:30PM	Reconstruction Timeline/Technical Assistance Needs Andrew Morton, United Nations Environment Programme Presentation
1:45PM	Plenary Panel: Lessons Learned from Other Rebuilding Efforts Moderator: Cari Enav (U.S. Department of State) Tomio Saito (Hyogo Prefecture) The recovery experience after the Kobe earthquake Gavin Smith (University of North Carolina) Assessing the disaster recovery assistance framework: Planning for post-disaster recovery Rob Olshansky (University of Illinois) The process of reconstruction: lessons from other catastrophic disasters Brian Tucker (GeoHazards International) Low-cost, culturally appropriate construction
3:00PM	Charge to Breakout Groups
3:30PM	Breakout Sessions Breakout sessions will focus on what can be offered now and what short-term and long-term data needs must be addressed to increase the benefit of what science and engineering can offer. Breakouts will identify key recommendations/considerations to share with broader group. Topics include: Seismic hazard issues (including geology, geodesy, seismology and imagery) Lead: Wayne Pennington (USAID) Presenters Eric Fielding (NASA) Art Frankel (USGS) Carol Prentice (USGS) David Wald (USGS) Engineering issues (including structural, geotechnical, infrastructure) Lead: Ellen Rathje (UT Austin) Presenters Marc Eberhard (Univ. of Washington) Pierre Fouche (Univ. at Buffalo) Multi-hazard issues (including landslides, floods, hurricanes, tsunami) Lead: Craig Dobson (NASA) and Roberto Gutierrez (UT Austin) Presenters Christa von Hillebrandt (NOAA) Dalia Kirschbaum (NASA) Chris Landsea (NOAA) Marc Levy (Columbia Univ.) Scott Peckham (Univ. of Colorado) Vern Singhroy (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) Societal issues (include planning, policy) Lead: Dennis Wenger (National Science Foundation) Presenters: Philip Berke (UNC) Jose Holguin-Veras (RPI) Joanne Nigg (Univ. of Delaware) Rob Olshansky (Univ. of Illinois) Gavin Smith (UNC)
7:30PM	Public Forum Open to the community, this event will feature presentations by Eric Calais and Reggie DesRoches, both of whom led teams in Haiti and have served as advisors to their government and private sector; ample time for questions from the audience.

Tuesday, March 23rd

8:30AM	Haiti's Unique Societal Challenges John Harding, Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor, Office of the U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti
8:50AM	Plenary Panel: Planning for Rebuilding Moderator: Arthur Lerner-Lam (Columbia University) Doekle Wielinga (World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery) Post-disaster needs assessment in Haiti Michael Armstrong (International Code Council) Building code/enforcement perspective Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (University of Miami) Urban planning in Haiti Rui Pinho (Global Earthquake Model Foundation) The need for consistent earthquake risk assessments
10:00AM	Initial Reports from Breakout Sessions
11:00AM	Breakout Sessions Breakout sessions will continue previous afternoon's deliberations to establish take-away priorities. Flexibility to keep same breakouts or reorganize to suit discussion.
1:30PM	Final Breakout Session Reports and Discussion Having identified during the breakout sessions what information is currently available and what is still needed, how can this knowledge be effectively developed into strategies and plans to inform rebuilding efforts? Participants will work to generate a bulleted list of recommendations for policymakers. Discussion Points: Identify institutional mechanisms for ingesting science/engineering information How to make redevelopment risk-sensitive Finding appropriate ways to provide incentives for mitigation What requirements do donor nations/organizations need to impose on rebuilding
2:45PM	Next Steps
3:00PM	Adjourn

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