Welcome to the 2009 Illinois Emergency Management Agency Conference. Since our initial conference in 1997, the IEMA Conference has played host to thousands of professionals in the emergency responder community. The conference has always provided an opportunity to receive valuable training, build coalitions among a diverse population of responder disciplines, and learn innovative ways to help the individuals and communities in our state become better prepared to confront disasters. This year's conference will once again provide all of that and more.
The focus of the 2009 IEMA Conference will be on developing strategies for identifying and responding to emerging threats. In the time since the events of 9/11 and subsequent experience of Hurricane Katrina, the emergency response community has focused significant attention and effort on enhanced planning and preparedness in response to a wide range of natural and man-made disasters. We have hardened our critical infrastructure against terror threats, increased our capacity to mitigate threats like IEDs and VIEDs, and strengthened our plans for responding to floods, tornados, earthquakes and a host of other catastrophes. << read more >>
Andrew Velasquez III, Director
Online conference registration is now complete.
If you wish to attend you will need to register upon arrival at the Conference.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Advanced conference registration and contributions will be processed exclusively online and with credit card only.
- As of Monday, August 31st at 12:00pm, the ability to register on-line for the conference will be removed. We invite those that still wish to attend the conference to register at the Crowne Plaza upon arrival.
- The final date that a conference registrant can request a refund of their conference contribution is August 28th.
- As of August 5th, hotel accommodations are no longer available.
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Crowne Plaza Hotel, Springfield, Illinois
