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The Canadian Hazus User Group meets on the third Wednesday of each month to share knowledge and updates about incorporating Hazus risk assessments into decision making in Canada. Natural Resources Canada’s National-Scale Geohazard Risk Project of the Public Safety Geoscience Program supports the forum. Today’s meeting will be facilitated by Malaika Ulmi The conversation will be recorded and posted on Introduction 2
Meet and greet as we connect Updates, new resources, news and views Round table Presentation: Case studies from “Cities Adapt to Extreme Rainfall” – Paul Kovacs, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and The Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation Questions and Discussion Agenda 3
Training – EMI courses and at Upcoming courses include Hazus for Flood, Earthquake, Floodplain Managers, as well as Basic Hazus and CDMS. – Esri online courses search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Resources – Order a copy of Hazus Canada 2.1, get material of past and future meetings, ask questions and have discussions – Hazus group on LinkedIn for Canada and the US – and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources Updates, new resources, news and views 4
5 Updates, new resources, news and views (cont’d) Resources -FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from -Hazus Hotzone newsletter Events ICLR Friday Forums Next Hazus Conference November 2-4, 2015 in Atlanta Georgia 11 th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Victoria, BC July
Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 6
7 Presentation: Case studies from “Cities Adapt to Extreme Rainfall” – Paul Kovacs, Executive Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, adjunct professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and CEO of The Property and Casualty Insurance Compensation Corporation
Next CanHUG meeting is January 21, 2014 See you then, and have a great holiday season and happy new year! Thank you 8