EMPA Australia 2025

4 - 6 June 2025

Mercure Melbourne Albert Park

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EMPA Australia to be held in Melbourne in 2025

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 will open in February 2025.

The conference will take place at the Mercure Melbourne Albert Park.

The committee is busy planning another high-quality line-up of speakers, panels and workshops, so ensure you are on the mailing list to receive program 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.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The EMPA Australia 2025 program will be available in early 2025.

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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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DELEGATES’ HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM 2024

"Thanks to the committee and HPE for an incredible event. It was my first EMPA conference and you bet I'll be campaigning hard to come back next year 😊”
"Had a ball. Great program. Great people, great fun 😊”
“Great program this year, lots of different topics across comms, community engagement, media. Well done to the team for putting together an excellent event”
“This was one of the first conferences that I have attended where I found almost all the sessions useful and relevant and have followed up speakers so I can share with my team”
“There's an increasing need for effective communications with all communities, and the challenge is figuring out how we can reach diverse communities in short timeframes”
“That we have a passionate, resilient and dedicated workforce across Aus and NZ and sharing our practice examples helps us all to do better”
“It was great to be able to mix with government and industry as well as academic researchers. It is really good to hear about research that can assist industry to do things differently”

Register

Registrations for 2025 will open in February 2025. One-day and full registrations available. Special rates for groups of three or more and student rates available.

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Program

The 2025 program will be announced in early 2025. Join us for two days of engaging and insightful presentations and panel discussions from leading emergency communicators.

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EMPA Awards

The EMPA awards recognise excellence in emergency communications in Australia over the past year. Entries for the 2025 awards will open in February 2025.

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Venue

Mercure Melbourne Albert Park - 65 Queens Road, Melbourne

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