EMPA 2025 Melbourne registrations now open!
The EMPA Australia Committee is pleased to announce that EMPA Australia 2025 will be held in Melbourne from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 June 2025!
Registrations are now open!
The conference will take place at the Pullman Melbourne Albert Park.
The committee has planned another high-quality line-up of speakers, panels and workshops, so ensure you are on the mailing list to keep up to date with announcements!
EMPA Australia is the meeting of the voices of emergency management in this country
Effective public information and connection with communities is critical to building safer and more resilient communities. The need for constant improvement in warnings, information and engagement is always a major component of Royal commissions and inquiries into natural disasters.
It is critical that we focus on improving the capability and capacity of our public information and communications staff by
exposing them to research and experience of their local, interstate and overseas peers.
EMPA’s are the only EM conferences which occur in this region that provide the intense focus on communications and engagement that Australasia’s EM professionals require.
2025 Conference Programme
If you're an emergency or crisis communications practitioner or researcher, then you will want to join us this June.
Joe Buffone the Deputy Coordinator General of the Emergency Management and Response Group of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is this year's opening keynote speaker. Joe will discuss why NEMA is focusing on 2025 as the Year of Crisis Communications.
Anni Fordham is a communication specialist with a passion for emergency public information and is the Day 2 Keynote speaker. As the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship, Anni travelled to Switzerland, the United States of America, Japan and New Zealand in late 2024 to investigate the provision of highly accessible information to people impacted by emergencies.
By popular demand the EMPA conference team has also invited world renowned Risk, Crisis and Emergency Communication Consultant Philippe Borremans to present a workshop on Day 3 on how to utilise AI whilst maintaining quality as emergency communications practitioners.
Philippe has 25 years of experience guiding organisations through crises and emergencies. He advises multinational companies and works with large public institutions such as the European Union, the World Health Organisation and the African Union. He develops training and designs simulations to improve crisis communication strategies.
Philippe is the author of the book “Mastering Crisis Communication with ChatGPT; A Practical Guide” and editor of the weekly newsletter Wag The Dog, which reports on trends in risk, crisis, and emergency communication.
The event also includes a dinner on the first evening (Wednesday 4 June) to celebrate the winners of the 2025 EMPA AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION.
Delegates’ highlights and key take-aways from 2024
Register
Registrations for 2025 are now open. Special rates for groups of three or more available.
Program
Join us for two days of engaging and insightful presentations and panel discussions from leading emergency communicators.
EMPA Awards
The EMPA awards recognise excellence in emergency communications in Australia over the past year. Entries for the 2025 awards are now open and will close on 5pm, 4 May.
Venue
Pullman Melbourne Albert Park - 65 Queens Road, Melbourne
Over 100 delegates attended EMPA Australia in 2024. Delegates came from a broad range of emergency services agencies, local and State government, NGOs and industry groups. The EMPA Australia conference has become an important professional development and engagement event for communications specialists within the emergency management community.
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