June 12, 2012: Check out the Speakers at MIT's Crisis Management & Business Continuity course!
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Informational Update For June 12, 2012
Check out the Speakers at MIT's Crisis Management & Business Continuity course!
POP QUIZ: What do Business Continuity, the Department of Homeland Security, ABC News, current IT/DRP trends, and the Intel Corporation have in common?
ANSWER: Experts in these topics/organizations and many others will be speaking at MIT’s Crisis Management & Business Continuity course this July! Guest lecturers scheduled include:
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Rick Welch |
Director, Advanced Cyber Security Center |
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Rick Reed |
Issue and Crisis Management, Intel Corporation |
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Howard Price |
News Editor and Director, Business Continuity, ABC News, New York |
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Dr. Barry Dorn |
National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard University |
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“Nooch” Minafo |
Field Intelligence Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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Heather Read |
Program Manager, Social Media - Issues & Crisis, DuPont |
We also have a BCP lawyer; a BCP standards expert; current and former BCP program managers; pandemic expert; federal, state, and local government emergency response officials; as well as newspaper and radio news editors. Actual practitioners, not consultants! Where else can you have access to all this BCP/DR expertise in one course?
Networking time and events are built into this experience. Students will also practice what they learn: the course concludes with a crisis exercise in which students take active roles in a simulated disaster, including a realistic news/social media briefing.
Join us at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 23 - 27, 2012. Apply by June 30 and use Promotion Code DRJ10 to save 10%. For more information, click the banner or click here >>.
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