Meeting the Changing Hazards of the 21st Century

• Identifying the new threats to the UK
• Creating a resilient UK infrastructure to deal with emergencies
• Protecting key utilities: water, power, telecommunications
• Protecting key elements of the transport infrastructure
• Development of the Capabilities Programme to build capacity
• The Civil Contingencies Act Enhancement Programme
• Creating a more effective joined-up government structure to deal with civil emergencies
  

John Tesh, Deputy Director, Capabilities, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office (CONFIRMED)

The Impact of Climate Change on the UK’s Emergency Preparedness

• Dealing with increasingly extreme weather as a result of climate change:
• What effect does this have on our security?
  
• How best can we adapt our infrastructure to cope with these changes?
  
• The role of Defra in dealing with environmental civil contingencies: flooding; water pollution and contamination; water supply; food supply
  
• The Flood and Water Management Act: Providing new powers to deal with flooding and water scarcity
  
• New requirements on local authorities to create local flood risk management strategies
  

Helena Busby, Adaption to Climate Change Programme, Defra (CONFIRMED)

Managing Severe Weather

• National severe weather warning service
  
• Forecasting the weather
  
• Public weather service advisors
  
• Improved delivery
  
• Met Office super computer - Better models = Improved forecasts
  
• The Met Office and supporting emergency response
  

Tim Donovan, Fire Service consultant, Met Office (CONFIRMED)

Food Security: Moving Towards 2030

• Food security as an important contribution to national security
• ‘Food 2030’: Meeting the need to produce more food in a sustainable way
• Ensuring a clear and resilient food supply chain
• Creating a more competitive and skilled food sector to contribute to UK and global food security
  

Rick Mumford, Head of Programme, Food Security Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) (CONFIRMED)

Facing the Threat of Global Pandemics

• Swine Flu: What lessons have been learnt?
• Creating a joined-up structure to deal with a pandemic
  
• Working internationally to create a uniform response to such an emergency
• What further future steps should the UK take to deal with the threat of pandemics?
  

Helen Shirley-Quirk, Director of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Department of Health (CONFIRMED)

Bringing Medicines to Patients

• Maintaining supplies of medicines to patients is critical to public health
  
• GSK’s crisis and continuity management preparedness
  
• Manufacturing delivery during business disruption
  
• Supply of medicines to patients during a crisis
  

Remembering the Human Factor in Emergency Preparedness

• Equipping and training staff to provide a broad range of services in diverse emergency scenarios
  
• Overcoming communications problems
  
• Lessons learned in preparing for emergencies
  

John Pooley, Assistant Chief Ambulance Officer and Head of Emergency Preparedness, London Ambulance Service (CONFIRMED)

The Role of Cyber Security in Protecting Against Civil Emergencies

• The UK’s first National Cyber Security Strategy
• Creating a new Office for Cyber Security to coordinate the government’s efforts
• Protecting the IT infrastructure from cyber attack
• Responding and dealing with the impact of a cyber attack
  

Anthony McGee, Head of Resilience, RUSI (CONFIRMED)

‘The Biggest Show on Earth – Planning for the Olympics’

• Successful Joined Up Working
• Managing the different resilience issues; CBRN; Where is the threat geographically; Entry into the UK (City Airport); Borough Approach /London Approach; Lead in London; Command and Control and the Role for LAs; How many people; Food Poisoning; Disasters; VIPs
• Managing the problems Identified so far; crowd movement, travel to venues, infectious disease etc
  

Steve Miller, Head of Public Protection, London Borough of Newham (CONFIRMED)

The Importance of Telecommunications in Civil Emergencies

• Ensuring the UK has a resilient telecommunications network that will remain operational in any situation
• Putting effective contingency plans in place based on the threats faced by the UK
• Working with providers and responders to enhance the resilience of every-day commercially available telecommunications
• Improving the management and take-up of privileged telecommunications schemes
• Delivering a means of securely sharing information between all regional and national responders
  

Dr Nigel Brown, Lead for Resilient Telecommunications, Cabinet Office (CONFIRMED)