My colleague Dr. Paula Lytle from the World Bank and I will be co-hosting a panel at the Polytechnic Institute of Lausanne’s Tech4Dev Conference, June 4-6 2014!  Our session will cover policy and technology for disaster risk reduction.  The conference is a good one, particularly since it covers topics ranging from social policy to hardware to civil engineering, but is thematically designed so that the broad variety of topics all relate to one another over the three days of the event.  If you’re interested in submitting an abstract, the deadline is October 14, 2013 – hope to see you in Lausanne next summer!