Schedule

The GADMC 2023 conference schedule is now available. Take a peek and mark your calendars!

Please note that the schedule is subject to change (Last updated: July 28 2023)

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Session A: Friday July 28 (all times for this session are AEST, Sydney, GMT + 10)

9.00: Official Opening and Welcome – Dr. Steve Glassey, New Zealand

9.25: Keynote: Climate Change, The Expanding Bull’s Eye Effect of Disasters, and Farm Animals – Gerardo Huertas, Costa Rica

10.10: Dogs of Chernobyl : Beyond the Russian Invasion – Dr. Jennifer Betz, USA

10.45: No Pet(s) Left Behind: A Case for Aquatic Animal Evacuation Plans – Dr. Christine Parker Graham, USA

11.20: Cloud Based Resource Inventory Tracking and Deployment for Exotic Disaster Response, Rescue, and Recovery – David Kleven, USA & Cari Wittenborn, USA

11.55: Animal Welfare Information Sheet for Horse Incident Response Teams – Julie Fiedler, Australia

12.30 Case Studies- Stories from the frontline of animals caught in Lismore’s flood and the people who risked their lives to save them. – Anna Ludvik, Australia

Session B: Friday July 28 (all times for this session are EDT, New York, GMT – 4)

8.00: Official Opening and Welcome – Dr.  Steve Glassey, New Zealand

8.25: Keynote: Can Nature Take the Naturalness Out of ‘Natural Disasters’? – Prof. Ilan Kelman, United Kingdom

09.05: ZDR3: Specialized Disaster Response for Organizations Housing Exotic Animals with a Focus on Human Safety and  Animal Welfare – Julia Wagner, USA

9.40: Why India’s Disaster Management System Needs to Be More Inclusive of Animals? – Praveen Suresh, India

10.15: Organizing Ecologies of (Human) Abandonment on Portuguese Wildfires – Prof. Leticia Fantinel, Brazil & Veronica Policarpo, Portugal

10.50: What Could the EU do to Better Protect Animals in Disasters? – Valentyna Vozna, Ukraine

11.25: Panel DiscussionThe Increasing Trend of Unofficial Response to Animals in Disasters (US Focus) – Dick Green and Adam Parascandola

Session C: Saturday July 29 (all times for this session are AEST, Sydney, GMT + 10)

9.00: Contributions of Working Equines to Community Resilience in the Dry Corridor of Nicaragua – Fredred Valdivia, Nicaragua

9.35: Hurricane Ian Animal Medical Response, Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities – Dr. Lawrence Garcia, USA

10.10: Noah’s Ark, Disaster Triage – Erica Honey, Australia

10.45: The Role of Vulnerability Assessments in Agricultural Program Disaster Planning – Dr. Susan Harper, USA & Joshua B. Fine, USA

11.20: When They Can’t Leave – Slade Macklin, Australia

11.55: Panel Discussion: The Increasing Trend of Unofficial Response to Animals in Disasters (Australian Focus) – Dr Mel Taylor , Slade Macklin , David King, Erica Honey

Session D: Saturday July 29 (all times for this session are EDT, New York, GMT – 4)

8.00: Keynote: Championing Animal Disaster Law at an International LevelDr. Jackson Zee, Austria

8.45: The Drowning Dogs of Mumbai. Exclusionary Management & Dog Vulnerability in Urban Floods – Tarusha Mishra, India

9.20: Effect of February 2023 Earthquakes on Livestock in Turkey – Kubilay Kaptan, Turkey

9.55: Best Practices for Unstable Ground / Mud Rescue of Large Animals – Dr. Rebecca Husted, USA

10.30: Wildlife Disaster Response in the US – Dave Pauli, USA

11.05: Can Artificial Intelligence Prevent Lessons Lost? – Dr. Steve Glassey, New Zealand

Session E: Sunday July 30 (all times for this session are AEST, Sydney, GMT + 10)

9.00: Keynote:Meeting conflict with compassion – Azzedine Downes (IFAW) and Shannon Walajtys (IFAW), USA

9.45: Cebritos, a Pedagogical Experience that Changes the World – John Manuel Agudelo Camacho, Colombia

10.20: AVMA Veterinary First Responder Certificate Program – Dr. Warren Hess, USA

10.55: SAR dogs: Heroes or Martyrs? – Gerardo Huertas, Costa Rica & Dr. Diego Hernandez, Colombia

11.30: Working for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Emergency Management Centre – a personal perspective – Dr. Ian Dacre, Italy

12.05: Making the Decision to Evacuate: A Small Farm’s Perspective  – Cindy and Jeffrey Campbell, Canada

12.40: An Introduction to the National Alliance of State Animal and Agricultural Emergency Programs (NASAAEP) and the National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition (NARSC) – Jimmy Tickel and Anne McCann, USA

Session F: Sunday July 30 (all times for this session are EDT, New York, GMT – 4)

8.00: Safer Animal Rescue in Turkey – Prof. Halil Biricik, Turkey

8.35: Promoting Companion Animal Guardians with (dis)abilities’ Access to Veterinary Medical and Behavioral Services during COVID-19 – Haorui Wu, Canada

9.10: Pakistan: A Case Study on Disasters and the Legal Way Forward – Altamush Saeed, USA

9.45: Last Chance for Disaster Resilience Building: Visualization of Future Scenarios – Gerardo Huertas, Costa Rica

10.20: Rescuing Responsibly- the pitfalls of unofficial rescue and how to mitigate these – Adam Parascandola, USA

10.55: Panel Discussion: The Increasing Trend of Unofficial Response to Animals in Disasters (International Focus) – Gerardo Huertas, Dr. Jackson Zee , Dr.  Steve Glassey, Adam Parascandola , Jennifer Gardner

Session G: Monday July 31 (all times for this session are AEST, Sydney, GMT + 10)

9.00: Advantages & Disadvantages of Different Types of Temporary Emergency Animal Shelters – Tim Perciful, USA

9.35: Getting Your Practice Ready for a Disaster – Erica Honey, Australia

10.10: Best Practices in Livestock Emergency Response in Ontario, Canada – Victor McPherson, Canada

10.45: Community Resilience in Animal Evacuation in Rural and Isolated Communities – Dr. Temitope Egbelakin & Dr. Olufisayo Adedokun, Australia

11.20: Animal Evacuation during Disasters: Challenges and Best Practices – Dr. Heiman Dianat, Australia

11.55: Closing Remarks and Future Direction – Dr. Mel Taylor, Australia

Session H: Monday July 31 (all times for this session are EDT, New York, GMT – 4)

8.00: An Animal Field Triage Protocol for Livestock and Horses Caught in Disasters – Anne Dubbink, The Netherlands,  & Gerard Mulder, The Netherlands

8.35: Sheltering and Evacuation of People and Animals – James Sawyer, United Kingdom

9.10: Supporting Livestock-Based Response in Emergency through the LEGS Training Programme – Suzan Bishop, United Kingdom & Cathy Watson, United Kingdom

9.45: Livestock farmers state of disaster preparedness (Bulgaria) – Dr. Gergana Balieva, Bulgaria

10.20: On The Tail of the Wind – Development and Maintenance of a Disaster Response Team – Dr. Clayton McCook, USA & Jos Mottershead, USA

10.55: Closing Remarks and Future Direction – Dr.  Steve Glassey