The world’s largest cross-
sector resilience exercise
Focused on Individual, Organizational, and Community Resilience
EARTH EX 2021
EARTH EX has become the largest resilience exercise in history, with participation from all corporate and government sectors, individuals, families, and communities in more than 40 nations.
This year’s exercise is particularly timely, with its focus on serious wildfire and flood scenarios, eerily similar to events making headlines, worldwide.
Also this year, in addition to providing comprehensive training resources for both public and private organizations, for the first time, EARTH EX will be presenting participants with a Hollywood-class interactive video inject feature to help participants explore their personal and family preparedness.
When is EARTH EX 2021?
EARTH EX is now live and will be available for play continuously through November 31, 2021. The exercise features multiple “lanes,” providing detailed guidance for organizations in many different sectors.
Why Play EARTH EX 2021?
EARTH EX is offered by EIS Council as a free service for all participants, worldwide. With the rapid growth in the pace and scale of disasters and their global effects, the need for a worldwide cross-sector exercise is becoming increasingly apparent. Earth Ex is the single, largest opportunity for people and organizations everywhere to prepare for both conventional and complex catastrophes. This year’s focus on wildfires and floods makes the exercise particularly timely and an opportunity for all of us, corporations, communities, government agencies, and families, to make sure we’re ready for the challenges we may need to face
What to Expect
This year the exercise can be played as a single play-through or as two separate phases, “fires” and “floods”
Who Should Play EARTH EX-2021
Everyone – there is an Individual and Family Functional Area that is perfect for everyone to participate. Six additional functional areas support in-depth play for organizations, businesses, and government agencies. Within those six areas, thirty-eight unique lanes address nearly all of the functions that make up the modern, highly interconnected, and interdependent world.
New features in this year’s exercise
EARTH EX this year begins with an engaging, story-based video inject, then moves on to provide detailed, varying disaster injects for discussion and decision making, for both wildfire and flood scenarios. As a special added feature, an interactive video follows each of these scenarios to help participants explore their personal and family preparedness.
EARTH EX Themes
This year’s themes include developing situational awareness, understanding supply chain and resource management impacts, recognizing the factors that go into evacuation decision-making, and navigating the critical restoration mission.
EARTH EX Evaluation
EARTH EX is a self-assessed, self-evaluated exercise opportunity.
Each person or organization will evaluate their level of play and readiness.
EARTH EX Preparation
EARTH EX offers optional pre-play training workshops to maximize exercise productivity.
Grants and Certificates
EARTH EX follows HSEEP guidelines and is perfect for meeting EMPG exercise requirements. Everyone that completes the exercise and the survey will receive a certificate of completion.
Crisis readiness
for our interconnected world
In 2020 over 12,000 participants engaged in EARTH EX, many playing multiple times and multiple lanes.
Again, this year, participants can register to play multiple functional areas and lanes.
Playing EARTH EX
EARTH EX is a highly adaptable and flexible exercise built to support virtual play.
Uniquely configured, EARTH EX is excellent as an individual exercise. EARTH EX can drive group play such as a section or team.
With local facilitation, it can drive significant organizational elements like an emergency operations center or corporate boardroom discussion.
EARTH EX provides all of the information needed to support these environments, including User and Facilitator Guides.
OPTIONAL PRE-PLAY TRAINING WORKSHOPS
While EARTH EX offers “Come As You Are”, no preparation exercise play, participants are encouraged to take advantage of these pre-play optional training workshops.
Training Opportunities
EARTH EX 2021 Functional Areas
The EARTH EX design supports cross-sector awareness using customized injects to advance play. Participants can sign up and play one or more of the exercise areas listed below.
- Individuals and Families
- Leaders and Communities
- Government Functions
- Medical and Health Care Functions
- Critical Infrastructure – Utility Functions
- Private Sector and Financial Functions
- Communications and IT Operations
EARTH EX-2021 Training and Resilience Objectives
EARTH EX-2021 is focused on the following objectives to drive learning.
- Improving planning for actions in response to a catastrophic event
- Refining and developing restoration priorities and support concepts
- Educating about the tools and capabilities required
- Developing internal and external future training and support requirements
