I am headed to Davos for the 3rd Annual Conference on Community Resilience. I am co-chairing the conference along with John R. Harrald and Jim Bohland, both from Virginia Tech. This conference was organized while I was a Director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. I will chair a session on Citizen Engagement & Technology Deployment in Disaster Mitigation Preparedness Response and Recovery. Panelist include:

• Maggie Cowell, Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech
• Liesel Ritchie, Assistant Director for Research, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado
• Georg Frerks, Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University
• Isabel Ramos, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information Systems, Minho University