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Programme National Emergency Management Conference Hui Taumata o Te Uepū Whakahaere Haumaru 25 — 27 May Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Contents
Name: Welcome04
Day One 08
Programme10
Breakout Sessions 13
Day Two 18
Programme20
Day Three 24
Programme26
Breakout Sessions 30
Keynote and Plenary Speakers 40
Housekeeping46
Te Papa Map 47
Venue Information 48
2 3
Welcome
Welcome to the National Emergency
Management Conference 2021 | Hui Taumata o Te
Uepū Whakahaere Haumaru.
Nau mai, haramai ki Te Whanganui ā-Tara ki te
mahi tahi ki te manaaki i ngā iwi o te motu. Tēnā
koutou katoa.
We all recognise that emergencies can We’re also looking forward to recognising
only be managed through collective those individuals, groups and organisations
effort. This is reflected in the theme for the who have made significant contributions to
conference; ‘Building Safe and Resilient emergency management in New Zealand
Communities: The Future of the Emergency at the Emergency Management Awards
Management System’. Dinner. There are many outstanding
achievements to honour.
This theme sets the scene for us to explore
how we work better together – through I wish to thank all our speakers for taking
partnerships, co-creation, and collective time out of their busy schedules to share
effort to support improved emergency their knowledge with us, and to the
management outcomes for individuals delegates that have joined us to take part
and communities. Together, we’ll consider in the important discussions we’ll be having
how we value communities and their lived at this conference.
experiences to ensure our emergency
management system is responsive, I’m sure you’ll have a great time engaging
inclusive and effective. We’ll look at what with, and giving recognition to your peers,
can be done to remove structural barriers and making new connections.
to achieve equitable outcomes, and to
value mātauranga Māori and indigenous Nāku me ngā mihi
perspectives in emergency management.
Nā Carolyn Schwalger
Chief Executive
National Emergency
Management Agency
4 5
Whaowhia te kete
mātauranga
Fill the basket of
knowledge
Valuing mātauranga Māori and indigenous
perspectives in emergency management.
6 7
Day
One
8 9
Hui ā-motu Hui ā-motu
Tuesday 25 May Tuesday 25 May
07:15 Oceania Room Registrations open 11:15 Oceania Room Ko te hāpai ō ki muri | Facilitators report
Panel back from Breakout Sessions
08:00 Te Marae Pōwhiri
11:45 Oceania Room Te Pito o Te Ao: Withstanding crises
08:45 Oceania Room Kapu tī | Cup of tea Keynote through localised action
Tina Ngata
09:00 Oceania Room Kia hiwa rā! | Opening of Hui
Keynote Hon Kris Faafoi - Acting Minister for 12:15 Oceania Room Kai o te rā nui | Lunch
Emergency Management
12:15 Rangimarie Room 1 Kia toa takitini | Tangata Whenua kōrero
09:30 Oceania Room Ko te Amorangi ki mua | Māori leaders
Panel making decisions on behalf of Māori 13:30 Oceania Room Making a responsive, inclusive and
Robyn Wallace Rōpū whā effective emergency management system
(Chair, Ministerial Advisory Committee) Breakout 4 John Whaanga
Trevor McGlinchey (Deputy Director-General, Māori Health)
(General Manager, Oranga - Te Rūnanga o
Ngāi Tahu) Rangimarie Room 1 Which relationships will strengthen the
Rōpū rima entire emergency management system?
10:15 Oceania Room Recognising the critical role of iwi Māori in Breakout 5 Daryn and Ramari Te Uamairangi
Morning Rōpū tahi the emergency management system (Tamaūpoko Community-Led)
Tea in Breakout 1 Lil Anderson (Chief Executive - Te Arawhiti)
Rooms Rangimarie Room 2 Valuing communities and their
Rōpū ono lived experiences
Rangimarie Room 1 Reflecting Māori contributions at all levels Breakout 6 Rongoitekai Paenoa Pahuru-Huriwai
Rōpū rua of the emergency management system Tyson Cairns
Breakout 2 Piki Thomas (National Manager Kaupapa Decade Akapita
Māori - Fire and Emergency New Zealand)
Colleen Mills
Rangimarie Room 2 Valuing the role Māori rōpū Tina Ngata
Rōpū toru play in a responsive emergency
Breakout 3 management system 14:30 Oceania Room Mā pango, mā whero e oti ai | Facilitators
Helen Leahy (Pouarahi - Te Pūtahitanga Panel report back from Breakout Sessions
o Te Waipounamu)
Kahutane Whaanga (Pouwhakataki - Te 15:00 Kapu tī | Cup of tea
Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu)
Vanessa Whangapirita (Pouwhakataki - Te
Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu)
10 11Hui ā-motu Breakout Sessions
Tuesday 25 May
15:30 Oceania Room Nā tō rourou Nā tōku rourou | Report back
Rōpū tahi
Report Back on Tangata Whenua kōrero Breakout 1
Carolyn Schwalger
(Chief Executive - National Emergency Recognising the critical role of iwi Māori in the
Management Agency)
Lil Anderson
emergency management system
(Chief Executive - Te Arawhiti)
Paul James This session will focus on the partnering processes between Māori
(Chief Executive - Department of
Internal Affairs)
and others within the emergency management system. It will also
explore ways of recognising Māori as Treaty partners.
16:00 Oceania Room Whakamutunga
Lil Anderson
(Chief Executive - Te Arawhiti)
Rōpū rua
Breakout 2
Reflecting Māori contributions at all levels of the
emergency management system
This breakout session will consider the contributions that Māori
make right across the emergency management system - Māori in
the workforce, Māori in decision-making roles, Māori designing and
delivering services. It will also look at how local initiatives nest within
regional initiatives.
Piki Thomas
(National Manager Kaupapa Māori - Fire and Emergency
New Zealand)
12 13Rōpū toru Rōpū rima
Breakout 3 Breakout 5
Valuing the role Māori rōpū play in a responsive Which relationships will strengthen the entire
emergency management system emergency management system?
This session will consider the multitude of Māori rōpū that are part This session will look at the range of relationships that get drawn on
of the emergency management system and the ways they spring to ensure the emergency management system works optimally. It will
into action as required. It will also consider ways that the broader consider the relationships that strengthen the system, whether they
emergency management system can tap into their expertise and be centrally or locally.
build ongoing relationships.
Daryn and Ramari Te Uamairangi
Helen Leahy (Tamaūpoko Community-Led)
(Pouarahi - Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu)
Kahutane Whaanga
Rōpū ono
(Pouwhakataki - Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu)
Breakout 6
Vanessa Whangapirita
(Pouwhakataki - Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu) Valuing communities and their lived experiences
This breakout session will consider the lived experiences of
Rōpū whā communities and the crucial role that they play in making things
Breakout 4 happen. It will also explore the added benefits of this strengths
based approach.
Making a responsive, inclusive and effective
emergency management system Rongoitekai Paenoa Pahuru-Huriwai
Tyson Cairns
This breakout session will consider the factors of an effective Decade Akapita
emergency management system that make it responsive, inclusive
and effective. It will draw on experiences during COVID-19. Colleen Mills
John Whaanga Tina Ngata
(Deputy Director General - Ministry of Health)
14 15He waka eke noa A canoe that we are all in with no exception Valuing communities and their lived experiences to ensure an emergency management system that is responsive, inclusive and effective. 16 17
Day
Two
18 19Plenary and Breakout Sessions Plenary and Breakout Sessions
Wednesday 26 May Wednesday 26 May
07:30 Oceania Room Registrations open 13:45 Soundings Theatre Kia waka kōtuia | iwi Māori/Crown
Panel Partnerships (Risk-Scape)
08:45 Soundings Theatre Mihi Whakatau Jamie Ruwhiu
(Programme Lead, Whānau and Emergency
09:00 Soundings Theatre Kia mataara | Opening address Response - Ngāi Tahu)
Keynote The Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Awhina McGlinchey
Introduced by Carolyn Schwalger (Senior Advisor, Whānau and Emergency
(Chief Executive - National Emergency Response - Ngāi Tahu)
Management Agency) Madison Simons
(Rangatahi Labs Director - Ngāi Tahu)
09:30 Soundings Theatre Report Back From Hui ā-motu Tokona te Raki
Report Back (Technical Expert - Ngāi Tahu)
Richard Woods
10:30 Oceania Room Kapu tī | Cup of tea (Senior Natural Hazard Risk Management
Specialist - GNS Science)
11:00 Soundings Theatre Te Pūtaiao | The role of science in Tania Gerard
Plenary emergency management (General Manager Māori Strategy and
Dame Juliet Gerrard Partnership - GNS Science)
(The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor)
14:20 Soundings Theatre Kia waka kōtuia | iwi Māori/Crown
11:45 Soundings Theatre Hari huritau | GeoNet 20 Years Celebration Panel Partnerships: A Presentation of Manaaki -
Plenary Ian Simpson Tirohanga Mōrearea
(Chief Executive - GNS Science) Chris Kumeroa
(Director - Global Risk Consulting)
12:30 Oceania Room Kai o te rā nui | Lunch Anaru Mill
(Director - Te Puni Kōkiri)
12:30 – Forecourt Emergency Services inter-operability and Duane Wilkins
18:00 Exhibition collaboration display (Lead Advisor - Te Puni Kōkiri/Toitū te
Whenua)
13:30 Soundings Theatre Te aka kūmara | The role of
Plenary communications in emergency 15:00 Soundings Theatre ‘Regulating in a Crisis’: Three collaborative
management: EMPA Conference Plenary films co-created by G-Reg and NEMA
2021 Summary Ian Caplin
Anthony Frith (Government Regulatory Practice Initiative)
(Communications Manager - National
Emergency Management Agency)
20 21Plenary and Breakout Sessions
Wednesday 26 May
15:15 Oceania Room Kapu tī | Cup of tea
15:45 Soundings Theatre Te Moananui a Kiwa | Pacifica communities
Panel and emergencies: A lived experience
Laulu Mac Leauane
(Chief Executive - Ministry for Pacific
Peoples) - Facilitator
Tevita Funaki
(Chief Executive - The Fono)
Debbie Sorensen
(Chief Executive - Pasifika Futures)
Rev Victor Pouesi
(Ekalesia Faapotopotoga Kerisiano Samoa
Mangere East Church)
16:30 Soundings Theatre Whaowhia te kete mātauranga / Valuing
Panel mātauranga Māori and indigenous
perspectives in emergency management
Glenis Philip-Barbara
(Kaikōmihana Māori mō ngā
tamariki ō Aotearoa - Office of the
Children’s Commissioner)
Piki Thomas
(Chair – Ngāti Pikiao Iwi Trust)
Te Whenua Harawira and Wairere Iti
(Creative Nātives)
Shaan Kingi
(Māori Warden)
17:30 Wā Whakatā | Break
18:30 Wellington Foyer He Pō Whakanui | Emergency
Management Awards Dinner
22 23Day
Three
24 25Plenary and Breakout Sessions Plenary and Breakout Sessions
Thursday 27 May Thursday 27 May
07:30 Oceania room Mihi Whakatau 09:45 Oceania Room Community Resilience
Rōpū tahi (Christchurch 10 Years On)
07:35 Oceania room KOWHEORI-19 | COVID-19 Breakout 1 Jessica Petersen
(for 08:00) Breakfast Keynote Dr Ashley Bloomfield (Group Welfare Manager - Canterbury
(Director-General of Health) CDEM Group)
09:00 Soundings Theatre Titiro ki tua | Future of emergency Soundings Theatre Emergency Management National
Panel management Rōpū rua Collaboration
Carolyn Schwalger Breakout 2 Kerry Gregory
(Chief Executive - National Emergency (National Commander/Deputy Chief
Management Agency) - Facilitator Executive Service Delivery - Fire and
Emergency New Zealand)
Rhys Jones
(Chief Executive - Fire and Emergency Colonel Andrew Shaw
New Zealand) (New Zealand Defence Force)
Sarah Stuart-Black Tania Kura
(Secretary General - NZ Red Cross) (Deputy Commissioner - NZ Police)
Brook Barrington Dan Ohs
(Chief Executive - Department of the Prime (Deputy Chief Executive - St John)
Minister and Cabinet) Gary Knowles
Sid Miller (Deputy Chief Executive Emergency
(Chief Executive - Earthquake Commission) Management - National Emergency
Management Agency)
Icon Room Expanding engagement with communities
Rōpū toru (CALD & Disabilities)
Breakout 3 Anthony Frith (Communications Manager -
National Emergency Management Agency)
Sean O’Neill (Senior Communications
Advisor - Office of Ethnic Communities)
Lara Draper (Team Leader - Deaf Aotearoa)
Cathie Cotter (Chairperson - Southland
Rural Support Trust)
10:30 Oceania Room Kapu tī | Cup of tea
26 27Plenary and Breakout Sessions
Thursday 27 May
11:15 Oceania Room Emergency Preparedness – Working 12:00 Oceania Room Community Empowerment:
Rōpū whā with volunteers Rōpū whitu How I learned to stop worrying and love
Breakout 4 Michelle Kitney Breakout 7 spontaneous volunteers
(Chief Executive - Volunteering Dan Neely (Manager of Community
New Zealand) Resilience and Group Recovery Manager -
Duncan Ferner Wellington Regional Emergency
(New Zealand Search and Rescue) Management Office)
Sarah Stuart-Black
(Secretary General - NZ Red Cross) Soundings Theatre New Zealand Tsunami Monitoring and
Rōpū waru Detection Network
Rhys Jones Breakout 8 Kevin Fenaughty (Team Leader Hazard
(Chief Executive - Fire and Emergency Risk Management - National Emergency
New Zealand) Management Agency)
Dr Mike Williams (Principal Scientist -
Soundings Theatre Staff wellbeing and fatigue management
Marine Physics - National Institute of Water
Rōpū rima in response
and Atmospheric Research)
Breakout 5 Charlotte Penman
(Senior Manager COVID-19 Response Dr Bill Fry (Seismologist - GNS Science)
- Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport
Agency) Icon Room Progressing emergency management
Rōpū iwa Regulatory Framework Reform
Icon Room Climate Change Adaptation: Sharing Breakout 9 Adam Allington
Rōpū ono the costs (Manager Policy - National Emergency
Breakout 6 Prof Ilan Noy Management Agency)
(VUW, Economics of Climate Change)
Dr Judy Lawrence 12:45 Oceania Room Kai o te rā nui | Lunch
(VUW, and Board of the Climate Change
Commission - Climate Change adaptation) 13:45 Soundings Theatre Kia manawaroa | Personal resilience
Dr Catherine Iorns Keynote Nigel Latta (Clinical Psychologist, Author,
(VUW, Law and Climate Change) Television Presenter)
14:45 Soundings Theatre Tuituinga | Closing plenary
Closing Plenary Carolyn Schwalger (Chief Executive -
National Emergency Management Agency)
15:00 Soundings Theatre Poroporoaki Haere rā
28 29Breakout Sessions
Rōpū tahi Rōpū rua
Breakout 1 Breakout 2
Community Resilience (Christchurch 10 Years on) Emergency Management National Collaboration
Christchurch has certainly had more than its fair share of This breakout session looks at ensuring we have a more
emergencies. This session will look at an assessment of community collaborative approach to emergency management. It will feature
resilience prior to the 2010/11 earthquakes, community actions the new Emergency Services Sector Strategy with its mission
during the response and recovery, and work done post-earthquake to collaborate and coordinate for a faster, more effective and
to develop community resilience. It will also explore community sustainable response to significant emergencies and will cover the
resilience in later events – the Kaikōura earthquake, the Port Hills core principles, functions and enablers needed for the successful
fire and the Mosque shooting – and the role of CDEM in building delivery of this mission.
community resilience into the future.
Kerry Gregory
Jessica Petersen (National Commander/Deputy Chief Executive Service Delivery -
(Group Welfare Manager - Canterbury CDEM Group) Fire and Emergency New Zealand)
Colonel Andrew Shaw
(New Zealand Defence Force)
Tania Kura
(Deputy Commissioner - NZ Police)
Dan Ohs
(Deputy Chief Executive - St John)
Gary Knowles
(Deputy Chief Executive Emergency Management - National
Emergency Management Agency)
30 31Rōpū whā
Breakout 4
Rōpū toru Emergency Preparedness – Working with volunteers
Breakout 3
This session offers conference attendees the chance to discuss
Expanding engagement with communities current challenges and opportunities for volunteer emergency
(CALD & Disabilities) management with a panel of sector leaders from a range of
organisations and agencies holding diverse viewpoints on
volunteerism.
Some communities face greater exposure than others to the
impacts of emergencies. This session will shed light on the barriers Michelle Kitney (Chief Executive - Volunteering New Zealand)
that are contributing to these impacts, and how better engagement
and collaboration can improve the resilience of those who Duncan Ferner (New Zealand Search and Rescue)
are disproportionately impacted by emergencies, with a Sarah Stuart-Black (Secretary General - NZ Red Cross)
particular focus on disabled, rural, and culturally and linguistically
diverse communities. Rhys Jones (Chief Executive - Fire and Emergency New Zealand)
Anthony Frith
(Communications Manager - National Emergency Rōpū rima
Management Agency) Breakout 5
Sean O’Neill
(Senior Communications Advisor - Office of Ethnic Communities) Staff wellbeing and fatigue management
in response
Lara Draper
(Team Leader - Deaf Aotearoa)
A discussion on ‘bad response behaviours’, staff wellbeing, and
Cathie Cotter fatigue management in responses. An interactive session that
(Chairperson - Southland Rural Support Trust) will use shared experiences to brainstorm tools and activities for
improvement. The session will also incorporate psychological safety
and holistic wellbeing elements.
Charlotte Penman
(Senior Manager COVID-19 Response - Waka Kotahi New Zealand
Transport Agency)
32 33Rōpū ono Rōpū whitu
Breakout 6 Breakout 7
Climate Change Adaptation: Sharing the costs Community Empowerment: How I learned to stop
worrying and love spontaneous volunteers
This session will address some pressing questions. How does
New Zealand share the costs of adaptation – across society, For the last ten years, WREMO has been incorporating recognised
communities and individuals – in ways that can address inter and community development practices into its work programme with a
intra-generational equity? What are some of the issues, options goal of better enabling households, businesses and communities
and pitfalls to consider? to take action in readiness and response. This presentation will
Prof Ilan Noy highlight some aspects of this journey – where they have succeeded
(VUW, Economics of Climate Change) and stumbled. It will also provide an overview of the Community
Emergency Hub model which has reshaped how the region prepares
Dr Judy Lawrence for emergency events by empowering spontaneous volunteers.
(VUW, and Board of the Climate Change Commission - Climate
Change adaptation) Dan Neely (Manager of Community Resilience and Group Recovery
- Wellington Regional Emergency Management Office).
Dr Catherine Iorns
(VUW, Law and Climate Change)
34 35Rōpū waru Rōpū iwa
Breakout 8 Breakout 9
New Zealand’s Tsunami Monitoring and Progressing emergency management Regulatory
Detection Network Framework Reform
New Zealand is at risk of experiencing large and catastrophic Hear about the amendment to the Civil Defence Emergency
tsunami. Our improved understanding of this risk has led to the Management Act, National CDEM Plan and Guide, and take
recent investment in New Zealand’s first Tsunami Monitoring the opportunity to input into the thinking around the scope and
and Detection Network. The network, comprising 12 Deep Ocean policy options for this work. The session will include options for
Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) Buoys, is designed to participants to focus on the legal framework, critical infrastructure
detect tsunami from our biggest and closest threats, stretching from (lifeline utilities), and lead agencies.
New Caledonia and Tonga to New Zealand coastlines.
Adam Allington
This session will explore the science underpinning our knowledge of
(Manager Policy - National Emergency Management Agency)
tsunami risk to New Zealand and provide an overview of the new
DART Buoy network, its operation, technology and how it serves to
assist us in better managing the risks we face from tsunami threat.
Kevin Fenaughty
(Team Leader Hazard Risk Management - National Emergency
Management Agency)
Dr Mike Williams
(Principal Scientist - Marine Physics - NIWA)
Dr Bill Fry
(Seismologist - GNS Science)
36 37Ruia taitea kia tū ko taikākā anake Strip away the sapwood to leave the heartwood Removing structural barriers to achieve equitable outcomes. 38 39
Keynote and Plenary Speakers
Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Hon Kris Faafoi Dr Ashley Bloomfield Tina Ngata
(Prime Minister of New Zealand) (Acting Minister for (Director-General of Health)
Emergency Management)
Tina Ngata is a Ngāti Porou mother of two
Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern has served Dr Bloomfield qualified in medicine at the from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. Tina’s
as Prime Minister since 2017. Hon Kris Faafoi was elected as the Member University of Auckland in 1990 and after work involves advocacy for environmental,
of Parliament for Mana in November 2010, several years of clinical work specialised indigenous and human rights. This includes
In addition to being Prime Minister, Jacinda following more than a decade working as in public health medicine. His particular local, national and international initiatives
Ardern holds the roles of Minister for a journalist at both TVNZ and the BBC. area of professional interest is non- that highlight the role of settler colonialism
National Security and Intelligence, and communicable disease prevention and in issues such as climate change and waste
Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. She is He is also Minister of Justice, Minister for control, and he spent 2011 at the World pollution, and promoting Indigenous
also the Minister Responsible for Ministerial Broadcasting and Media, and Minister Health Organization in Geneva working on conservation as best practice for a globally
Services and Associate Minister for Arts, of Immigration. this topic at a global level. sustainable future.
Culture and Heritage.
Minister Faafoi will welcome Dr Bloomfield was Chief Executive at Hutt Tina will reflect upon the value of a
The Prime Minister will talk about delegates to the hui ā-motu and host Valley District Health Board from 2015 to strengths-based approach for supporting
her experiences and observations the Awards Dinner. 2018. Prior to that, he held a number of community-level responses to crises, and
from leading New Zealand during crises, senior leadership roles within the Ministry what this might mean at a national level
such as the Christchurch terrorist event, the of Health. for the increasing range of crises we face as
Whakaari/White Island eruption and the a nation.
enduring COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Bloomfield will discuss New Zealand’s
COVID-19 response.
40 41Laulu Mac Leauanae Lil Anderson Nigel Latta Ian Simpson
(Chief Executive – Ministry for (Chief Executive – Te Arawhiti) (Clinical Psychologist, Author, (Chief Executive – GNS Science)
Pacific Peoples) Television Presenter)
Lil Anderson (Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi), Ian joined GNS Science in January 2017.
Laulu is Secretary for Pacific Peoples and Chief Executive of the Office for Māori Nigel trained as a Clinical Psychologist Prior to his appointment Ian spent seven
Chief Executive of the Ministry for Pacific Crown Relations – Te Arawhiti (Te Arawhiti) and worked for over two decades in the years as the head of the Earthquake
Peoples. Since he started in the role in July is from the small community of Panguru. areas of forensic psychology and family Commission (EQC) where he led the
2017 he has led the development of a bold therapy. In 2010 Nigel was invited to response to the 2010/2011 Canterbury
and unifying vision for Pacific communities Te Arawhiti is a departmental agency which become an associate of the world leading earthquake sequence, one of the world’s
in New Zealand, and has secured new consolidates several distinct but related Multidisciplinary Health and Development largest natural disaster insurance events.
investments and Pacific-led initiatives to lift government functions, supporting the Study at the University of Otago. In 2012 he
the economic, social and cultural wellbeing Māori Crown relationship from grievance to was made an Officer of the New Zealand After holding corporate finance roles with
of Pacific peoples. true Treaty partnership. Order of Merit (ONZM) for services BP plc and Diageo plc, Ian emigrated
to psychology. from Britain in 2006 as GM of Finance at
Laulu actively contributes to the public Lil has more than 25 years’ experience ACC. He has a BSc (Mathematics) from
sector’s diversity and inclusion programme spanning the public service and state Nigel has written eight books which Manchester University and an MBA from
and leads Pou Mātāwaka, which aims to sector. Authentic leadership, vision and have now been published in 19 countries INSEAD, France.
eliminate ethnic pay gaps. strategy, problem solving and driving and 10 languages. His television career
results are features of her career. has spanned almost a decade and he’s Twenty years is a long time in emergency
Laulu holds an MBA from Henley presented a number of series including management, and GeoNet has evolved
Management College, UK, with his Recently Lil spent six months in the New almost beyond recognition since its
Beyond the Darklands, The Politically
dissertation focusing on ‘Community Zealand COVID-19 Response, leading the launch in 2001. Through it all, enduring
Incorrect Parenting Show, On Thin Ice: Nigel
Participation in Governance’. He also holds ‘Caring for Communities’ cross-Government partnerships have been at its heart. Ian will
Latta in Antarctica, and The Hard Stuff.
an LLB from Auckland University. programme, supporting vulnerable groups takes us through the past and present of
within our communities across Aotearoa Nigel will address the topic of GeoNet – and offers his vision for its future.
Laula will chair a panel with Pacific leaders through COVID-19. personal resilience.
to share the lived experiences of Pacific
People in recent emergencies in NZ. Her session recognises the critical role of iwi
Māori as Treaty Partners in the Emergency
Management System.
42 43Carolyn Schwalger Anthony Frith Ian Caplin
(Chief Executive – National Emergency (Communications Manager – National (Government Regulatory
Management Agency) Emergency Management Agency) Practice Initiative)
Carolyn has been the interim Anthony has led or supported Ian is with the Government Regulatory
Chief Executive of the National Emergency New Zealand’s public information Practice Initiative (G-Reg), the world’s first
Management Agency (NEMA) since management response to multiple cross government professional capability
1 December 2019. Carolyn has led NEMA’s emergencies since 2016, while using network for public servants with public
reorientation as the government’s ‘peacetime’ to strengthen system-wide powers and has contributed to G-Reg’s
emergency management system arrangements and promote public development since its inception.
lead and overseen a period of education messages and campaigns.
organisational growth. Previously, Ian was a lawyer, then
Anthony is driven by a passion for broadcaster, in London and was a legal
Prior to her appointment as Chief Executive, accessible and inclusive communications, commentator for the BBC, Sky News, CNN
Carolyn was NEMA Transition Programme and the importance of harnessing the role and ITV. He wrote about law for the Times,
Director and a member of the Department of media in emergency communications. Financial Times, New York Times and
of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) Anthony lives in Wellington with his wife many others.
Executive Leadership Team. and two pre-school children.
Ian will present ‘Regulating in a Crisis’:
Before her move to DPMC, Carolyn was Anthony will provide a summary of the Three collaborative films co-created by
Deputy Secretary/Principal Capability EMPA Conference 2021 and discuss the G-Reg and NEMA.
Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs role of communications in emergency
and Trade (MFAT). management.
44 45Te Papa Map
House 01 — Wellington Foyer
02 — ICON function venue
03 — Soundings Theatre
Level 2
keeping
04 — Blue Whale function room
05 — Oceania function venue
06 — Te Huinga Centre
function venues / Angus Room /
Rangimarie Room
01
02
04 03
Level 3
05
06
46 47Venue Information
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