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While you wait, please introduce yourself.Tips for WebEx interaction:
– Raise your virtual hand to ask a question.– Post your coffee cup to let us know when you are away.– Use the chat window to interact throughout the session. Send messages to all participants.– Participate actively.– Have fun!
*6 Mute your line, so participants cannot hear you. Repeat to cancel your request*7 Unmute your line, so that participants can hear you.
Welcome! We will begin shortly…
Please put your microphone and telephone on mute
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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 ([email protected]). The conversation will be recorded and posted on www.hazuscanada.ca.
Introduction
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• 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
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• Training – EMI courses https://www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training and at
www.training.fema.gov. Upcoming courses include Hazus for Flood, Earthquake, Floodplain Managers, as well as Basic Hazus and CDMS.
– Esri online courses http://training.esri.com/ search for Hazus
• Resources– www.hazuscanada.ca: 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– www.usehazus.com/canadianhug and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG
groups and resources
Updates, new resources, news and views
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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 [email protected] Hazus Hotzone newsletter http://www.fema.gov/hazus/hazus-hotzone-newsletter
Events• ICLR Friday Forums http://iclr.org/workshops/fridayforums.html. • Next Hazus Conference November 2-4, 2015 in Atlanta Georgia• 11th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Victoria, BC July 21-24 2015
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• Introduce yourself• Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or
conferences of interest …
Roundtable
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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
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Next CanHUG meeting is January 21, 2014
See you then, and have a great holiday season and happy new year!
Thank you
