Scientific Session 1:
Experience in dealing with Calamity and Conflict: Personal Perspective

• 20 mins - Experience Sharing on Community Response: 2024 Wayanad Landslides - Mr.Sahadh K K ,Meppadi,Kerala

  20 mins - Surgical care for Polytrauma victims of Gaza - A management challenge during war - Dr.Chanjiv Mehta [MSF,South Asia]

Inauguration & Keynote Address: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM & Bar Member,
National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India.

• Guests of Honour

• Dr.Shalini Rajaneesh ,IAS,
  Chief Secretary ,Government of Karnataka

  
  

  Dr.Pratima Murthy
  Director
  NIMHANS

  
  

  Shri V.V.S. Sreenivas
  Director
  Indian Railways Institute of Disaster Management

Tea Break

Scientific Session 2:
Understanding Disaster Risk and Community Vulnerability

• 20 mins - Role of ISRO in Disaster Prediction & Response using Satellite Technology - Dr.John Mathew
  [ Associate DIRECTOR,EDPO,ISRO]

  20 mins - Risk Reduction and Mitigation measures for Disaster prone community - Shri Ambika Prasad Nanda
  [Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Tata Steel, Odisha]

  20 mins - Tsunami 2004 – Memories recalled; lessons learnt - Dr.Suresh David
  [Emergency Medicine, Krishna University Hospital, Karad – Maharashtra]

  20 mins - CBRN:Risk management strategies for a Nuclear Disaster - Air Marshal (Dr) M S Sridhar [Deputy Chief ,Integrated Defence Staff]

Lunch Break

Scientific Session 3:
Disaster Preparedness and Capacity Building in Community

• 20 mins - Engaging Community for Increasing Disaster Resilience in South Asia - Dr.Muralee Thummarukudy [Bonn,Germany]

  20 mins - Community Sensitization and Asset Mapping In Disaster Prone areas in India - Shri. Abhishek Mishra
  Manager,Drawing To Health [Dehradun ,Uttarakhand ]

  20 mins - Geo Informatics with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Disaster Risk Reduction -
  Dr. T.V.Ramachandra
  [Centre for Ecological Sciences,IISc ]

  20 mins - Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation: Perspectives from Japan - Dr. Ranit Chatterjee
  [RIKA Foundation, New Delhi]

Parallel Scientific Session 4:
Hospital Preparedness for Disasters

• 20 mins - The Triage Dilemma: How to make Tough Decisions under high pressure Situations - Dr.Aruna Ramesh
  [Head of The Department of Emergency Medicine, M.S.Ramaiah Medical college and Hospital]

  20 mins - Managing Mass Causalities: Armed Forces Perspective - Gp Captain (Dr) G.Rajaram
  [Military Hospital, Bareilley]

  20 mins - Air Ambulance Rescue service for transport and early referrals - Dr.Jayanth Savanth
  [Consultant , Emergency Medicine, UK]

  20 mins - Impact of Hazardous waste on the environment & its Management - Dr. Atul Vaidya Vice Chancellor, LIT [Nagpur, Maharashtra]

Tea Break

Scientific session 5

• 30 mins - Managing Psycho social support for victims and Health Care Workers during a disaster - Dr.Jaya Kumar C [NIMHANS ]

Panel Discussion :
Indigenous knowledge in Disaster Management - Panelists -Dr.Devendra Raj Madhanagopal, Dr.Ram Manohar , Dr. Amita Singh, Tsering Dorjai
Moderator - Dr. M.R.Seetharam

Cultural programme and Banquet