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Choose One Selection Per Track.
Tuesday 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Strategic Session 4
Putting 'Management' into BCM
Intermediate/Advanced
Ken Simpson, VR Group
 One of the most common laments in the industry is that senior executives are not supportive of BCM efforts. This session will provide techniques you can adopt to change this situation. Executives understand the need for continuity. They just might not demonstrate it in the way we want! Explore proven methods for engaging and maintaining executive support for a BCM program, methods to help balance the often competing demands of governance and compliance, enterprise risk management, BC/DR capability and the emerging concepts around organizational resilience.
Ken Simpson, MBCI, is a management consultant with 20 years experience working in risk and continuity. He is a member of the BCI Partnership group developing papers on the disciplines that support resilience.
Managerial Session 4
Business Interruption Insurance: An Important Tool for Your BC Toolbox!
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Bobby Williams, Emdeon
 You have recovery plans that use subscription based warm sites with leased hardware. You have armies of personnel that will travel to the alternate site for several months. Your plans cover every detail down to the last bit of information recovery. But can you afford to activate your recovery plans? How do you budget for something that may never happen? Business interruption insurance will cover your recovery costs and the revenue lost while recovering, if you have the right coverage. This session will help you understand what it is and what it can do for you.
Bobby Williams, MBCP, serves as the business continuity manager for Emdeon in Nashville, TN. He has worked in the IT industry for 20 years in technical roles, vendor education, pre/post sales engineering, DR and BC management.
Technical Session 4
Using a Standards-Based Management-System Approach to Increasing Resilience
Intermediate/Advanced
James Nelson, Bus. Cont. Svcs.
 Managing risk and responding to crisis events is becoming more complex. Learn the benefits of using a standards-based management-system. Standards discussed include the upcoming ISO 223 family of standards, on societal security, ISO 27031 on information and communication technology, ISO 28000 on supply chain security management, ISO 31000 on risk management, and the three adopted PS-Prep business continuity standards. Also included are practical recommendations for implementing a management system approach to embed the culture and systems of organizational resilience into the day to day operations.
James Nelson, M.S., MBCP, CDCS, and CORP is president of Business Continuity Services, Inc. He is the founder and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (ICOR), a non-profit education and credentialing organization.
Emergency Response Session 4
DRJ and Forrester BC/DR Market Study: The State of DR Preparedness
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Stephanie Balaouras, Forrester
Learn the current state of enterprise business continuity preparedness and how much progress we've made since our BC preparedness survey in 2008. The results will reveal how company practices regarding business impact analysis, risk assessment, BC planning, maintenance, exercising and communication have changed over years. It will also examine how the scope of BC is expanding to address third party risks as well as cyber security risks. The conclusion will provide an overall assessment of current BC preparedness efforts and provide recommendations & suggestions for improving.
Stephanie Balaouras is a principal analyst, covering business continuity for Forrester Research. She is also the research director of Forrester's Security & Risk research team.
Advanced Session 4
The Impact of Catastrophic Events on Global Supply Chains
Advanced
Steven Craig, CBCPi Tuesday
George Paganini, BD Bio- sciences
  The recent devastating events in Japan continue to effect business interruptions worldwide. A variety of industries are being impacted by these events domestically and internationally. The reduced ability to produce by businesses in Japan directly affects the production and distribution capacity of the businesses they supply. Learn issues faced by companies, much like BD Biosciences, that rely on the delivery of goods and services from other sources, and a review of the strategies in dealing with business interruptions to their supply chains brought on by catastrophic events elsewhere in the world.
Steven P. Craig, CBCP, CISSP, is a member of Assc. of Sacramento Area Planners and Sacramento Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association.
George Paganini is currently the director of facilities planning and environmental health and safety for the BD Biosciences segment. \
Information Session 4
Validation of Crisis Management Procedures. Case Study: Arab National Bank, Saudi Arabia
Novice/Intermediate
Abdulrahman Alonizan, Arab Natl. Bank
 The key to success for plans and procedures is to keep validating them. The crisis management team at ANB provides command and leadership to create strategy and deal with external stakeholders. For each threat, the consequences have been analyzed and a response plan has been prepared. Validation helps the program become more robust and its procedures more appropriate. The cycle of awareness, reporting, exercises, feedback and enhancement provides the basis not only of validation but also continuous improvement of the crisis management procedures.
Abdulrahman Alonaizan is a member of BCI, United Kingdom. He has 22 years of experience in the banking sector. He has been the head of business continuity management at Arab National Bank, Saudi Arabia, for the last seven years.
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