Each year, the CPMEA offers our membership the opportunity to connect and engage with fellow CPMs across our campuses to help enhance their professional networks, all while receiving the benefits of learning programming and skills development opportunities through several lunch & learn sessions, Membership Breakfast and Annual General Meeting.
We live in a time when it is becoming increasing difficult to rationalize what we should truly worry about. In this Lunch and Learn, look to gain insights into the hazards that present a risk to York University and develop an awareness and understanding of the strategies and initiatives that the Community Safety Department employs to bolster disaster and emergency resilience of our community.
Takeaways: Participants will gain an understanding of how to achieve personal and community disaster resilience. Increase awareness and understanding about the strategies and initiatives the Community Safety Department employs to prepare for Disasters and Emergencies, and learn how to be part of the program, including incident management training, emergency warden training and business continuity planning.
Presented by Mike O'Brien
Mike O’Brien is the Manager of Emergency Preparedness for York University. He spent twenty years in the Canadian Forces where he deployed on operations as diverse as peacekeeping in the Balkans, the Manitoba Flood of the Century and Afghanistan. His operational experiences inspired him to transition into a career in Emergency Management where he has previously worked a variety of positions in the municipal sector. Mike has completed a Master’s Degree in Disaster and Emergency Management at Royal Roads University and is a Certified Business Continuity Professional, and he is also the President of the Ontario Association of Emergency Managers. In his spare time, he perpetually drives his kids to-and-from sporting events, and he also runs slowly and gardens badly.
Join your CPM colleagues for our Annual General Meeting. In addition to elections and an update on 2019 activities, enjoy a hot breakfast, a chance to network with colleagues and a hear from our guest speakers!
Join your CPM colleagues for a hot breakfast, table games and an opportunity to build your York network! Let's celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Catalyze your inventive problem solving!
The smallest unit of innovation is the idea - the experiment to try. The common approach to generating ideas is brainstorming. Unfortunately, too many brainstorming sessions get dominated by early ideas and loud voices. Toward the end, brainstorming can feel like a chore with each idea you think of looking too much like earlier ones. To get past that feeling, catalyze your thinking using SCAMPER, a set of seven powerful, proven idea generators. Individuals and teams have been using SCAMPER to produce an abundance of ideas, both in quantity and variety, since the 1950s. It is easy to use, and just as importantly, easy to reuse in many settings, even when the pressure is on.
Speaker: Tim Hampton is the director of computing in AMPD. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering (Carleton) and is the author of the innovation blog: repeatablegenius.com.
Join your colleagues for the eighth annual CPMEA Membership Breakfast!
We're inviting all CPM members to come out and enjoy a hot breakfast. This is a great opportunity to network with your peers and win some prizes!
