POC–1: Everything You Need To Know
to Design The Successful Exercise
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
$750 per person
Presenter: Regina Phelps

Learn from the exercise master – Regina Phelps conducts 50+ exercises a year! Do you have a plan but have not yet tested it? You might discover that your document is less than sufficient. There are really only two ways to find that out. One is to have an actual disaster; the other is to do an exercise. The latter is usually a better learning experience and certainly a lot less stressful! The workshop details everything you need to do to design a successful exercise from the ground up. You will walk out of this workshop with your next exercise planned and under your arm!

• Five types of exercises
• Exercise Design Team
• The development of the Exercise Plan
• Selecting & Training a Sim Team
• Rules of exercise facilitation
• Participate in two advanced tabletop exercises
• Develop the outline for your own tabletop exercise

Regina Phelps, CEM, RN, BSN, MPA is founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions, a consulting and training firm.

POC-2: Six Steps To Comprehensive
Business Continuity Program
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
$695 per person
Presenter: Randall Till, CBCP

It’s one thing to have a business continuity program in place. It’s quite another to implement it. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to identify risks, avoid common pitfalls and implement your BCP so that emergency response and recovery plan execution go according to plan. To help ensure the success of your company’s program, you’ll leave this class with a firm foundation in the six steps towards a Comprehensive BCP Implementation. The topics covered include:

• BCP Oversight and gaining management participation
• Assessing risks and determining business impacts associated with disruptions
• Defining processes and practices for effective emergency response
• Defining strategies, practices and techniques for successful recovery plans
• Exercising and evaluating recovery plans and capabilities
• Reporting recovery readiness and BCP status

Participants will learn the concepts and techniques needed to evaluate their current BCP strengths and weaknesses while gaining insights to better assess risks and determine impacts associated with business disruptions.

Randall Till, CBCP, is a senior business leader at MasterCard Worldwide where he is responsible for developing and implementing an enterprise-wide business continuity management program.

POC-3: Advanced Business Continuity Program Audit
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Fri., Sept. 21, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
DRJ Attendee Fee: $2,610
Non-Conference Fee: $2,900
Presenter: Doug Weldon

This course teaches students how to conduct a business continuity program audit.  It provides a comprehensive and in-depth audit methodology to help you determine the effectiveness, adequacy, and quality of an organization’s business continuity program and is designed for anyone who wants to:

• Learn audit concepts, principles, and a step-by-step methodology
• Become a BC program auditor
• Conduct a BC program assessment within their own organization
• Provide BC program audit consulting services

At the end of this course students will learn how to:
• Conduct a BCP audit based on a well-founded audit framework
• Review the organization’s business continuity program process
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of a business continuity program
• Formulate recommendations to strengthen a BC program
• Avoid common auditing mistakes

Course Features
• A comprehensive overview of the business continuity program including the BCP and management processes.
• A step-by-step audit methodology based on industry standards, guidelines, and best practices such as ISO/IEC 17799, Cobit, NFPA 1600, FFIEC, and SAS 70.
• A sample case study of a business continuity program audit.
• Business continuity program audit take-home templates.

For more information, visit www.sentryx.com or call (800) 869-8460.

Doug Weldon is a senior business continuity trainer and consultant for Sentryx and is also the president and managing consultant for Vigilant Services Group.

POC-4: Sell Your Program to Executives:
The Balanced Business Case
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 21, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (consultations)
$795 per person
Presenters: Barry Pruitt
Michael Herrera, CBCP

Challenged with persuading senior management to fund and support your plan? Value is created through operating and investment decisions -- and you must make strategy and value creation actionable. Industry leaders out perform counterparts consistently because of a focus that adds business value.
Organizations must reduce uncertainty and risk, and the competition is forcing them to speed decision making. Management is faced with balancing conflicting priorities – and we’ll show you how to build a business case that will address three questions:

1. Is your plan strategically viable, aligned with strategy, and can it pass the “so what?” test?
2. Is the plan financially viable, providing acceptable financial returns?
3. Has sufficient due diligence been completed for the plan - including a maturity map?

With a clear vision of your organization’s strategy, critical success factors, key performance indicators, and proposed solutions – you’ll make your case. Get participant workbook, tools, executive summaries, and presentation materials on CD, plus a free audio CD “Negotiate for All Your Worth.”
Note: This workshop concludes Thursday 5:00 p.m. Bring your plan and questions to schedule a FREE private consultation Friday morning. You’ll receive personal and specific advice on how to sell your plan.

Barry Pruitt has 22 years selling plans and projects to management, and teaches at USC school of business.
Michael Herrera, CBCP, is the president/CEO of MHA Consulting Inc. and has over 16 years BCP consulting, training and persuading senior management.

POC-5:  BC Planning for the Avian Influenza:
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
$695 per person
Presenters:  Ted Brown, CBCP
Morris Davis, CBCP

Avian Influenza – “The Y2K of 2007.”  American business faces unprecedented  challenges in preparing for the potential of an Avian Influenza pandemic.  Every BCP conference and publication has at least one dialogue on Avian Influenza.  Most focus on the health of citizens.  Important…but so are the implications to your BCP.
This interactive session is aimed at you, the business continuity professional.  You will learn everything pertinent about Avian Influenza and its potential effect on your people, your customers, your suppliers, and your supply chain.  You will learn the risks and the solutions – including an entire module on teleworking.  You will be educated on how to get your executives to invest in BCP for Avian Influenza.
The session will cover the four C’s of Avian Influenza BC Planning:  Commitment, Contingency, Coordination, and Communications.  Following this extensive education, you will participate in an Avian Influenza Table Top Exercise.
Your take-aways from this session include articles and publications from WHO, the CDC, news media, and other sources. You will also receive checklists, and an outline of your Avian Influenza Component to your BCP. You will receive a “thumb drive” with all the presentations.

Edward (Ted) Brown, CBCP, President and CEO of KETCHConsulting, is a nationally- recognized BCP leader, speaker, and educator.
Morris Davis, CBCP, National Practice Leader of KETCHConsulting, has years of experience in BCP, including conducting many table exercises for business and government.

POC-6: Public/Private Partnership Building
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
$595 per person
Presenters: Dr. Tom Phelan
Lee Goldstein, CBCP

Since the publication of the 9/11 Commission Report, the interest in the value of public/private partnerships has grown. In this course, the instructors will present the basics of partnership development for business continuity and emergency management.
Learn how to explore the partnership possibilities for your organization and the added value they bring. Both Goldstein and Dr. Phelan are experienced in partnership development and implementation.

Dr. Thomas D. Phelan, president, Strategic Teaching Associates, Inc., is a founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Lee Goldstein, CBCP, MBCI is the president of the Business Contingency Group specializing in disaster/business recovery and emergency management planning. Goldstein serves on the Board of Directors for PPBI.

POC-7: The Command Center
Wed., Sept. 19, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
$595 per person
Presenters: Norm Harris, CBCP
Tracy Cowan, CBCP

If a disaster occurred and your organization/company was forced to implement their DR/BC Plan could you do it and would it be effective? It is critical to keep control of the situation during this pressure-packed time. If you are to maintain control you need to assure that all teams involved are receiving accurate information about the situation and are given proper instructions to follow.
They must communicate with each other. This is where having a well-organized and effective command center, your nerve center, comes in. Without it you are just “flying by the seat of your pants”, passing out information and giving instructions in haphazard ways.
This detailed training class/workshop is a hands-on consultative approach that leads the participants through the command center process. You’ll gain valuable knowledge and receive cutting edge material focused on recovery efforts.
Building an effective command center can be challenging enough but doing it efficiently and economically is even a bigger challenge. You can’t afford to miss this “all new class.” Sign up early as setting is limited.

Norm Harris, CBCP, Certified Recovery Planner, chairman, president and CEO of Norman L. Harris & Assc., is recognized as a leader in information technology management and disaster recovery.
Tracy Lee Cowan, CBCP, CRP is business continuity/disaster recovery consultant for ICSI Consulting Services, Inc.

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