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Breakout Session 4
Tuesday, March 27 - 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Sessions in each breakout track run concurrently.
Choose one session from each track.

Strategic Session 4
Intermediate/Advanced

Keeping Transportation Moving When Disaster Strikes

Richard Levick, Levick Strategic Comm.

Gary Pudles, The AnswerNet Network

Transportation disasters obviously have major impact on industry providers as well as customers. Companies and agencies need to be ready for sudden call volumes and counter crushes, as well as the inevitable media, legal, and political questions and scrutiny. Learn a twofold strategy for the transportation industry. First is emergency planning, focusing on public response and employee training to communicate in real time. Second is a communications plan, implemented simultaneously, in which crisis teams assess the stakes, encourage public confidence, and minimize exposure.
Richard S. Levick, Esq. is the president of Levick Strategic Communications. He was named to the PRNews Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement.
Gary A. Pudles founded The AnswerNet Network in 1998. He won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Managerial Session 4
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Pandemic Preparedness in your Community: Starting up a Grass Roots Organization

Harlan Dolgin, Reuters

Learn how to organize a grass roots movement to educate the community and develop community plans for preparing for a pandemic.  Public and private entities are busy making plans, but often they are planning in isolation, without knowing how their neighbor company or municipality is planning.  In order to be most effective against a pandemic, it is critical that we share plans between organizations. Learn how a few motivated individuals can organize meetings, obtain speakers, get funding and create sub-committees who can deal effectively with the issues surrounding a pandemic. 
Harlan Dolgin is Americas BCP/DR manager for the global operations department at Reuters. He began working in the business continuity field in 1997 at Mercantile Bank.

Technical Session 4
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Virtual Office Work as a
Business Continuity Strategy

Heidi Skatrud, Rnnzheimer Int'l.

Is your organization ready to sustain its operations in the case of an emergency? Many BC plans fail to prepare for and create a critical mass of employees who are able to remain productive even when faced with a business interruption. Explore how virtual office work or telework can become an integral part of the overall contingency planning. Learn how you can develop, test, and deploy virtual office programs that will help a critical mass of your employees function even if faced with weather events, road closures, highway construction, fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, pandemics or terrorist incidents.
Heidi Skatrud is a vice president at Runzheimer International and has been with Runzheimer for the past 13 years. She has held a diversity of positions.

Emergency Response Session 4
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Operation Pink Mist – Conduct a Surprise Exercise in Your Company

Regina Phelps, EMS Solutions

Bonnie Ward, Liberty Mutual

Imagine coming to work one day and your company CIO greets you with…”SURPRISE! This is a Emergency Operations Center Exercise.” That is exactly what happened last summer at the Portsmouth New Hampshire mission critical data center for Liberty Mutual. Only three people inside the company knew the exact date and time! This session explores exercise design, ways to challenge a well-developed team, the pitfalls to avoid and how to develop a stellar team! Learn exercise design and team development to help you build a great team.
Regina Phelps, CEM, RN, BSN, MPA has more than 25 years of experience. She has provided consultation and speaking services to clients in four continents.
Bonnie Ward has responsibility for Liberty Mutual’s voice, data and video networks and equipment and for strategic direction of nationwide voice, data wire line and wireless networks.

Advanced Session 4
Advanced

Generally Accepted Practices:
Networking Session

Session registration is limited to 200.
Designed for experienced BC professionals.

Would you like to contribute to the formation of the DRJ/DRII Generally Accepted Business Continuity Practices document? The mission of the DRJ/DRII effort is “to be recognized as a leading source of ‘sound’ Generally Accepted Practices by providing a depository of knowledge and recommendations offered by skilled business continuity practitioners. This session will allow you to provide feedback on the Generally Accepted Business Continuity Practices document. This document is being written by practitioners from the public and private sectors as wells as partner organizations. Join in this ground-breaking initiative and gain the insights that will be shared during this session. Be prepared to communicate your questions and/or answers in an interactive roundtable environment. Your expertise will be invaluable to this effort.
Members of the DRJ’s Editorial Advisory Board will facilitate this session.

Information Session 4
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Professionalism in BCP

This session features an overview of the certification and education programs available from DRI International. DRII has been providing instruction in business continuity planning (BCP) methodology since 1988. Staff and leaders will be on hand to describe course objectives, the process for attaining certification in BCP and other services.
DRII is a recognized leader in providing education, standards, and professional certification. DRII’s goals are to create a base of common BCP knowledge through education, assistance, and the development of a resource base; to certify qualified individuals; and to promote the credibility and professionalism of certified professionals.

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