The second day at the conference consisted of a range of great sessions spanning across so many interesting topics. Here are a few papers that I would like to highlight. In addition to these papers, the keynote by Patrick Meier on the Next Generation of Humanitarian Technologies was very inspiring.

• Crowdsourcing Rare Events: Using Beauty to Draw Participants into Science and Early Warning Systems, Andrea Tapia, Nicolas Lalone, Elizabeth MacDonald, Reid Priedhorsky, Michelle Hall
• Banning Mobile Devices: Workplace Policies That Selectively Exclude Can Shape Emergency Response Keri K. Stephens, Jessica Ford The University of Texas at Austin, USA
• An Action Design Research Approach to Developing Emergency Management Systems , Torbjørg Træland Meum