2022 Hurricane & Storm Preparedness Forum

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (EDT)

Hilton UF Gainesville Conference Center

1714 Southwest 34th Street Gainesville, FL 32607 United States

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2022 Hurricane & Storm Preparedness Forum

The annual Hurricane & Storm Preparedness Forum is a one-day event that offers presentations on hurricane preparedness and response, mutual aid, FEMA, and other disaster and emergency response related issues, as well as opportunities for Florida public power utilities to share best practices and lessons learned from each other.

Sponsorship Opportunities

There are a limited number of sponsorship available for this FMEA event.

Exhibiting Sponsorship: Includes corporate branding (website, email promos, on-site materials, and presentation slides), two (2) attendees, and an exhibit table in the check-in area.

Forum Sponsor: Includes corporate branding (website, email promos, on-site materials, and presentation slides) and two (2) attendees.

Who attends this event?
Utility Directors	Mutual Aid Coordinators
T&D Managers & Supervisors	Engineers
Lineworkers & Lineworker Foreman	Safety Managers & Officers
Customer Service Managers & Representatives	Key Account Managers & Representatives
Communication Managers & Specialists	Community Outreach Coordinators

FMEA Continuing Education Program

There are 4.5 PDH (Professional Development Hours) available for attending this FMEA event.

Attendee Registration
FMEA Municipal Member	$90
FMEA Associate Member	$200
Non-Member	Registration is only open to FMEA members.

2022 Forum Overview

	8:00 - 9:00 am	Breakfast and Registration
Presentation	9:00 – 9:45 am	Welcome and Public Power Mutual Aid Processes and Activation Amy Zubaly, Executive Director, Florida Municipal Electric Association and Chris Henry, Transmission and Distribution Supervisor, Ocala Electric Utility
Presentation	9:45 - 10:15	Better Storm Damage Assessment Darris Friend, Utility Project Team Leader, Gainesville Regional Utilities
	10:15 – 10:30 am	Refreshment break
Presentation	10:30 – 11:15 am	Preventing, Recovering and Rebuilding from Crises Michelle de Alba and Dave Bell, Transmission and Distribution Utilities Specialists, Aggreko
Presentation	11:15 - 12:00 pm	Mutual Aid with Reimbursement in Mind Kevin Guthrie, Director, Florida Division of Emergency Management and Alyssa Carrier, CEO, AC Disaster Consulting
	12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch & Networking Lunch provided. Exhibitors at tables.
Presentation	1:00 – 1:45 pm	2022 Hurricane Season Outlook Michael Spagnolo, Deputy State Meteorologist, Florida Division of Emergency Management
	1:45 – 2:00 pm	Refreshment break
	2:00 – 4:00 pm	Concurrent Breakouts & Roundtables
	Customers and Communications Breakout	Best Practices from GRU Kinn’zon Hutchinson, Interim Chief Customer Officer and David Warm, Communications Director, Gainesville Regional Utilities Roundtable discussion to follow
	Operations and Logistics Breakout	Mutual Aid since 2020: Best Practices after 10 Events in 2 Years Heath Gebhart and Mark Vickers, Line Crew Supervisors, City of Tallahassee Roundtable discussion to follow