Speakers Module

Patrick Hardy is founder and CEO of Hytropy Disaster Management, the largest small business disaster management company in the US. A Certified Emergency Manager®, Master Business Continuity Professional®, he has been a disaster professional for over twenty years. In 2012, he became the youngest person ever selected as the National Private Sector Representative to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the first small business owner to do so. A published author and award-winning keynote speaker, he is now a YouTuber who takes on the most difficult disaster challenges in the world, such as doing CPR for 28 hours straight, evacuating 240 cats in 90 minutes, and building the world’s first emergency structure out of Lego blocks. In 2025, he partnered with Arizona State University to create the world’s first small global business response initiative to pilot his new SME framework.