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The Canadian Hazus User Group (usually) meets on the third Wednesday of each month to share knowledge on natural hazard risk assessment and the application of the Hazus loss estimation software 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 meeting materials are posted on Introduction 2

Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events Round table Presentation: Quantifying Canadian Catastrophes with CatIQ & Connecting Industry, Government and Academia through CatIQ’s Canadian Catastrophe Conference (C4) – Carolyn Rennie, Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. Questions and Discussion Agenda 3

EMI courses and at Questions to Course flyer at Esri online courses search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 4 COURSE NUMBERCOURSE TITLEDATES E0172Hazus-MH for FloodJune 20-23, 2016 E0190ArcGIS for Emergency ManagersJuly 18-21, 2016 E0317Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus-MHAugust 29-September 1, 2016 E0179Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster OperationsSeptember 26-29, 2016

5 Resources Order a copy of Hazus Canada, see upcoming events, download resources and meeting material, find events, ask a Hazus question, and add content FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from hazus- and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources Hazus solutions page: communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-pagewww.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

6 Resources Global best practices: UN ISDR and Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction: Canadian Risk and Hazards Network HazNet, the magazine of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network:

7 Resources New report from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery: The make of a riskier future: How our decisions are shaping future disaster risk Emergency Management BC “Master of Disaster” preparedness resources at grade 6 level:

8 Resources Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety: Business Continuity Toolkit disastersafety.org/wp-content/uploads/OFB- EZ_Toolkit_IBHS.pdfdisastersafety.org/wp-content/uploads/OFB- EZ_Toolkit_IBHS.pdf Aviva Canada and ICLR launch new emergency preparedness app app: catastrophic-loss-reduction-create-free-emergency-preparedness- mobile-appwww.avivacanada.com/article/aviva-canada-and-institute- catastrophic-loss-reduction-create-free-emergency-preparedness- mobile-app

9 Events Business Continuity Awareness Week, webinars, May 16-20, 2016, Free ATC webinar on Earthquake Strengthening of Cripple Walls in Wood-frame Dwellings, May 26, 2016, portal/news-releases/312-atc-announces-free-webinar-earthquake- strengthening-of-cripple-walls-in-wood-frame-dwellings-atc-125www.atcouncil.org/news- portal/news-releases/312-atc-announces-free-webinar-earthquake- strengthening-of-cripple-walls-in-wood-frame-dwellings-atc-125 World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, ON, June 7-8, 2016, Coastal Zone Canada Association 2016, Toronto, ON, June 12-16, 2016,

10 Events Interdisciplinary Workshop on Risk Information Management, Risk Models and Applications, Berlin, Germany, June 27-28, 2016, International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure, Chania, Greece, June 28-30, 2016, Resilient Cities 2016: 7 th Global Forum on Resilience and Adaptation, Bonn, Germany, July 6-8, 2016, resilientcities2016.iclei.org resilientcities2016.iclei.org 41 st Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO, July 10-13, 2016,

11 Events Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 7-10, 2016, Hazus Users Conference, Charleston, SC, November 7-9, 2016, CRHNet Annual Symposium, Montreal, QC, November 23-25, 2016, Disaster Risk Reduction, Response, and Sustainable Reconstruction: Capacity Building for Equitable Planning and Development, Boston, MA, November 8, 2018,

Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 12

13 Presentation: Quantifying Canadian Catastrophes with CatIQ & Connecting Industry, Government and Academia through CatIQ’s Canadian Catastrophe Conference (C4) Carolyn Rennie, Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc.

Next CanHUG meeting is Wednesday, June 22, 2016 See you then! Please if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. Thank you 14