ReadyWhen Foundations in Event and Emergency Operations
Pre-conference intensive for cultural venue professionals preparing for climate and disaster impacts
Museums, libraries, historic sites, and other cultural venues operate sophisticated systems for managing people, resources, and facilities—capabilities that become critical community assets during disasters. This conference, IFCPP and Majestic Collaborations are partnering to present a tactical bootcamp to earn the ReadyWhen Foundations Certificate in Event and Emergency Operations, which translates in-demand cultural properties expertise—crowd management, logistics under pressure, resource coordination, and safety planning—into frameworks cultural institutions can use to enhance both daily operations and disaster preparedness.
The classroom component of the certification will be taught in a full-day pre-conference on Sunday, April 18. Learn practical strategies for assessing your facility's resilience capacity, coordinating with emergency management partners, and positioning your institution as a community resource during crisis—unlocking new funding streams through disaster planning and emergency readiness grants. Whether you're improving safety protocols for public programs, documenting institutional capacity for funders, or exploring positioning your venue as a community resilience hub, this training builds transferable skills in logistics, accessible design, stakeholder coordination, and adaptive planning.
Come a day early to take part in an Immersive Intensive at French Quarter Festival on Saturday April 17th! Experience operations firsthand through a 3-4 hour guided tour of the festival infrastructure, featuring interviews with professionals and interactive learning activities. See how large-scale event systems function in real-time. This session fulfills the practicum requirement of the ReadyWhen Foundations Certificate in Event and Emergency Operations.
Registration opens in just a couple weeks—stay tuned!
Who should attend: Cultural property and venue staff, city officials and municipal workers, security professionals, event producers and venues, historic property managers, cultural organization directors, operations and facilities staff preparing for disruption.
Part of a broader learning program in New Orleans, April 2026—where 20 years post-Katrina, we're exploring what it means to protect cultural infrastructure in an era of accelerating disasters.
