Risk Management, Business Continuity and Financial Strategies Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management Towards Resilient and Sustainability Goals is being held on 16 - 17 April 2008, Pragati Maidan New Delhi, India

The Conference on Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management being held under the Auspices of National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMA), Government of India. This will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India on April 16 and April 17 2008. Corporate Resilience and Preparedness for Disaster Management, Business Continuity for Disaster Management, Risk Transfer through Techno Financial Strategies are areas being covered in this conference.

Conference partners include International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies, Regional Delegation for South Asia - USAID, IRG - UN/ISDR - Geo Hazards International - International Association of Emergency Managers - Tata Teleservices - Sphere India.

Knowledge Partners partners include Micro Insurance Academy(MIA) - Swiss Re - British Standards Institutions(BSI) - Grant Thornton - Motorola - XANSA A Steria Company - IFFCO-TOKIO - Services International - Duran Audio - AMS Acoustics - Digitexx - AAVISS

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The conference will cover issues, experiences, practices and future for corporate resilience, preparedness, business continuity, risk management, techno financial strategies, opportunities, threats and many more areas for disaster management. This will be across Public Sector, IT and IT enabled, Telecommunications, Aviation, Manufacturing, Financial, Services and developmental sectors among others.

This provides an opportunity to integrate and meet potential partners and clients while learning from experiences across industry sectors. This provides a high level networking opportunity in a comfortable environment and opportunity for informal interactions.

The Conference is being innaugrated by J K Sinha, NDMA. Corporate Preparedness will be a topic covered in a session being chaired by N M Prusy, Chief of Party, USAID, IRG, and this session will include interactions onKnowledge Sharing of the Airport Contingencies Plan for Emergency by Cdr. Pradeep Dixit - General Manager, Mumbai International Airport Ltd. - GVK. The Role of Tele Communications in Affordability, Accessibility & Application for Disaster Preparedness will be covered by Yogesh Kocchar - Head Corporate Sustainability & Govt. Business Unit, Tata Teleservices Pvt. Ltd. Hari Kumar of Geo Hazards International will be touching upon the topic of PPP in mitigation phase as a case study. The Criticality of Communication Perspective to Disaster Management is being highlighted by Subodh Vardhan, Director Sales and Country Head, Government & Public Safety, Motorola India.

The session on Business Continuity for Disaster Management is being chaired by Lourdes Pérez Grants and Relationship Manager for South Asia, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, South Asia Regional Delegation (SARD) - Regional Disaster Management. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning is being prested by Venkataram Arabolu - Managing Director, British Standards Institution (BSI) and the topic on Risk Management. The Business Continuity from the Corporate Perspective - Onsite & Offsite is being provided expert insight by J B Verma - Executive Director, Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD). The topic on Business Continuity Management Standard & Sustainability sharing on What are the opportunities, and what can we do? is being discussed by Daman Dev Sood - Vice President - Quality & Business Assurance, Steria India Limited.

The Career Potentials in Business Continuity for Disaster Management being highlighted by Nathaniel L. Forbes MBCI - Director, Forbes Calamity Prevention Pte.Ltd. will provide insights of the opportunities with International Association of Emergy Managers (IAEM). Business Continuity & Crisis Management using Incident Command System will be provided insight by Jayaraj Puthanveedu - Vice President Asia Pacific Manager Global Business Continuity & Recovery, Northern Trust

The second days agenda focusses on Risk Transfer through Techno Financial Strategy with the first session of the day being chaired by Iddo Dror - Director Operations, Micro - Insurance Academy (MIA). With the Insurance Sector and the Emerging Opportunities in Disaster Management being many, this is going to be discussed further by S. Narayan - Managing Director & CEO, IFFCO-TOKIO General Insurance Co.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance is being discussed by Khushroo B Panthaky - CEO, Grant Thornton and the critical area of Reinsurance and Disaster Management, is being provided expert insight by Andreas Bollmann - Director, Swiss Re Singapore

Madhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandu from the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, UN/ISDR Secretariat and Nirankar Saxena Additional Director, The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will be providing their expert interventions and insights on PPP during the valedictory session being chaired by M S Reddy, Member , NDMA

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