Schedule 2024

Friday 11.October

11:00 - 12:00

Resiliance in times of disasters

Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Silfurberg A og B

Translated to English

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:45

Nine Essential Characteristics of Highly Reliable SAR Teams

Scott C. Hammond

Volcanic activity at the Reykjanes peninsula

Víðir Reynisson

Translated to English

Accident prevention, looking at the big picture

Alma D. Möller

Translated to English

Wilderness Ophthalmology

Pavandeep Singh Sandhu

14:00 - 14:45

Current and upcoming challenges on 112 in Europe

When the moss is on fire.

Einar Sveinn Jónsson

Translated to English

Safety of law enforcement officers in a changing world.

Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir

Translated to English

How to maximize aerial recourses

Workshop - Taiga and Landsbjörg, the from the start until now

15:00 - 15:45

Extreme Medicine; a world of possibilites

Security control in Grindavik

Ágúst Sigurjónsson

Translated to English

Safety-first approach to tourism

Dagbjartur Kr. Brynjarsson

Translated to English

The appeal of the wilderness

Workshop - HAIX

16:00 - 16:45

Beyond the barn: Large animal rescue in Australia

Jake Cleal-Cook

Race against nature

Ari Guðmundsson

Translated to English

How can I see the volcano?

Þuríður Aradóttir Braun

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Washington State's experience with the limitations of ICS in extended response to complex incidents

Kevin Wickersham

Workshop - Arc’teryx

17:00 - 17:45

New technology Gore Tex

Christophe DIDELOT

Avalanche risk management – actions and lessons learned from an avalanche event in the East Fjords in March 2023

Anton Berg Carrasco

Translated to English

Mitigating Volcanic hazards on the Reykjanes peninsula

Jón Haukur Steingrímsson

Translated to English

Panel discussions - Kevin Wickersham

Zuzana Stanton-Geddes
Friðfinnur Freyr Guðmundsson
Víðir Reynisson
Kevin Wickersham

Climate Change, Risk, and Iceland’s Emergency Response Teams: A Call for Collaboration

Saturday 12.October

09:00 - 09:45

Integrating All-Hazards Response Capabilities into Ground Search and Rescue Operations: The Search and Rescue Alberta Disaster Response Program

A snowmobile club becomes a rescue team, pioneer work in Nuuk

Þorsteinn Tryggvi Másson
Bárður Árnason

Translated to English

Locating bases for helicopter ambulances and selecting transport modes with and app to minimize prehospital times

Björn Gunnarsson

Translated to English

Beyond Basic Scent for Search Dogs

10:00 - 10:45

Interest and experiences after 1 year using active warming system Therm-Up to prevent from accidental hypothermia

What do we know about the effects of the ongoing climate change on slope stability in Iceland?

Þorsteinn Sæmundsson

Translated to English

Ice cave collapse on Breiðamerkurjökull

Freyr Ingi Björnsson

Translated to English

Saveable Life or Saveable Property in Maritime SAR - Duty or Desire

Matthew Schanck

Workshop - Kewatec Cooperation

11:00 - 11:45

Searching for mobil phone. A game changer in search for missing people

Eirik Ahlstrøm

Societal challenges in Iceland due to volcanic activity: The nature of present period of eruptions and ground fracturing on the Reykjanes Peninsula and outlook for the future

Freysteinn Sigmundsson

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Put your hands in your pockets and gain the overview.

Ástvaldur Helgi Gylfason

Translated to English

The evacuation of the cruise ship Viking Sky.

Workshop- Hefring ehf

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:45

Risks & opportunities in the danger zone

Andrea Walraven-Thissen

What can we do when we can´t get to our critically injuried or sick patient?

Axel Ernir Viðarsson

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Use of drones in volcanic eruption and crisis situation

Arnar Þór Egilsson

Translated to English

Mass Rescue Operations "Capability Gap"

Phsycolocical support, how we plan it and what do we offer.

Helga Björk Pálsdóttir

14:00 - 14:45

PoS = PoA x PoD revisited

Mass rescue at Sea / Exercises - Prevention - Response

Audunn Fridrik Kristinsson

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Acceptable decisions and terrible consequences

Daníel Þorláksson

Translated to English

UAS Usage in SAR - Challenges and the next level in getting more productive

15:00 - 15:45

Lessons Learned from Alaska SAR Cases

Julie Marie Anderson

Translated to English

Rapid Responders, dinosaurs or the future?

Ágúst Þór Gunnlaugsson

Translated to English

High and dry: Building Asia Pacific's largest flood rescue capability

Andrew McCullough

Study in Safety and Civil defense, a new university course.

Ólína Kjerúlf Þorvarðardóttir

16:00 - 16:45

Challenges and opportunites with small rescue teams.

Hrafnhildur Ævarsdóttir

Translated to English

Code red! Undefined

Lára Betty Harðardóttir

Translated to English

Mountain Medicine – Where Ambulances Can’t Go

One of Iceland's greatest but little-known rescue achievements.

Einar Magnús Magnússon

Sunday 13.October

09:30 - 10:15

How will rescue teams communicate in the future?

Michael Israelson

Helicopters in joint SAR operations

Kolbeinn Gudmundsson

Translated to English

The USAR response to the 2023 Turkiye earthquake

Sólveig Þorvaldsdóttir

Translated to English

Personnel recovery in the Arctic and how upcoming technologies can help save lives

10:30 - 11:15

Arctic Environmental Response after Tsunami in Northwest Greenland 2017

Peter Hwan Lajgaard

Controlling risks during emergency response

Böðvar Tómasson

Translated to English

The analysis and dispatch procedure of emergency dispatchers.

Vilhjálmur Halldórsson

Translated to English

Summary and improvement measures of earthquake rescue in Türkiye after the mission and international meeting

11:30 - 12:15

Trailing/ Tracking Dogs: Deployment Viability

Volcanic activity around Grindavik

Sigurður Ó. Sigurðsson

Translated to English

Do's and don't when buying new equipment.

Translated to English

The Search Intelligence Process Using Artificial Intelligence

Christopher Young

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