Please note, this session requires a separate $50 fee, in addition to your Conference registration fee.
Professional Development Session presented by Colliers Project Leaders, Team Rubicon, Insurance Bureau of Canada
Disasters are no longer isolated events. Municipalities today face increasing pressure to develop recovery systems that strengthen resilience, maintain continuity of operations, and provide structure before, during, and after times of crisis. Yet many municipal administrators and community leaders are left asking the same questions: Where do we start? How do we determine priorities? What needs to be in place before recovery can truly begin? How do we know what phase of recovery our municipality is in?
This interactive half-day workshop brings together partners from Insurance Bureau of Canada, Colliers Project Leaders and Team Rubicon to explore how municipalities can shift their focus from traditional business continuity planning to continuity of operations that enables a successful transition to recovery.
Through practical exercises, peer discussion, and real-world examples, participants will work through challenges within their own organizations and communities while learning proven methodologies and recovery frameworks from industry experts. The session will demonstrate how continuity planning can be embedded into broader municipal resilience, emergency management, and recovery programs.
Key topics include continuity of government, continuity of operations, recovery management, strategic planning, community stabilization, and the foundational elements required to support municipal service delivery during and after disruption. Participants will also examine organizational capacity, financial readiness, mutual aid and partnership agreements, governance structures, and the role innovative cross-sector partnerships play in strengthening recovery outcomes.
Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable strategies to:
This is a valuable opportunity to collaborate with peers from municipalities across Newfoundland and Labrador and explore how to turn chaos into coordinated recovery action. As disasters become more frequent and complex, municipalities can no longer afford to build recovery systems after a crisis has occurred.