With successful partnerships across North America, the BOD Conference champions change within Western Canada’s Emergency Management by creating networking opportunities, hosting speakers to discuss lessons learned and industry best practices and attempting to foster the bridge between academic knowledge and practitioner application. The conference views and caters Emergency Management learnings over a multitude of disciplines, including, but not limited to; municipal, industrial, environmental, fire departments, civil security and emergency social services. Further, this conference creates an excellent opportunity to strengthen relationships between the commercial, industrial and municipal sectors with the newly implemented trade show.