Register Now for the 2025 EMAI Conference
October 22-24, 2025
Pre-conference trainings and tour October 20-21
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Conference Information
Conference Agenda: Click here to see the 2025 Conference Agenda
Hotel Information: Indianapolis Marriott East for $131.00 USD per night - Last Day to Book: Saturday, September 20, 2025. Click here to book your hotel room at a group rate for the conference
Conference fee: $350 for full conference. 1-Day only: $175
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Save the date for the 2025 EMAI Annual Conference. The conference will be held at the Indianapolis East Marriott.
Pre-conference dates will be Monday, October 20 through Tuesday, October 21. Join us for a tour of IDHS incident response assets at 5-Points* and trainings including:
Legal Issues in Emergency Management** (Students MUST bring a laptop to class)
MGT-318 Public Information in an All-Hazards Incident (Click HERE to register or register in Acadis)
Public Assistance and Damage Assessment (Click HERE for more information and to register)
The conference will start on Wednesday, October 22, and conclude on Friday, October 24.
Topics include:
Updates from IDHS (Mary Moran, Emergency Management Director, IDHS)
An overview of the Greenwood Park Mall shooting (James Ison, Greenwood Police Dept.)
Washington D.C. January 2025 Plane Crash (Jeremy Bersin, Bureau Chief, D.C. Homeland Security/EMA)
IMAT in the North Carolina Hurricane (Amir Mousavi, Chief, Tri-Township Fire & Rescue; Gavan Hebner, Director, Clark County EMA)
Drone use in emergency management (Matt True, Dirrector, Jefferson County EMA)
Critical Incident Stress management (Kimble Richardson, Community Health Network)
Search and rescue training standards (John Summerlot, Director, IU Emergency Management)
Special events planning (Steve Broniarczyk, Protective Security Advisor, CISA Region 5)
Conducting damage assessments with WebEOC and ArcGIS (Mike Hill & Graham Jessiman, IDHS)
Fatality management: Past, Present, and Future (Jason Smith, IDHS)
THIRA/HIRA/SPR/NIMS (Joshua Kiilu, IDHS)
Cybersecurity/Artificial Intelligence (Chetrice Mosley-Romero, Ice Miller)
Whelan Mass Notification System (Mike Dyer, ECS Radio)
Debris Management (Beth Carpenter, IDHS)
Threats versus Freedom of Speech (John Summerlot, Director, IU Emergency Management)
EOP vs. CEMP (Beth Carpenter, IDHS)
Peer Support: Lending a Hand in Times of Need (Toby Liff, Battalion Chief, Monroe Fire Protection District)
Indiana Electric Cooperatives Mutual Aid for Outage Restoration (Jon Elkins, Indiana Electric Cooperative, VP Safety, Training, & Compliance)
Community Organizations Active in Disasters (Jane Crady, Chair, Indiana VOAD)
Duke Energy EMA Grants (Marvin Blade, Vice President of Indiana Community Relations and Economic Development, Duke Energy)
Task Force 1 Deployment to the Texas July 2025 Flooding (Jay Settergren and Tom Neal, Indiana Task Force 1)
EMAI Board Meeting
*The original tour of Gainbridge Fieldhouse has been cancelled due to scheduling difficulties.
**This course is sponsored by EMAI. Enrollment is NOT in Acadis. Students will receive Certificate of Completion from EMAI, but will not receive an IDHS certificate.
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