1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Sessions are rated: novice for those in the industry less than two years; intermediate for those in the industry for two to five years; and advanced for those in the industry for more than five years.
Sunday Workshop Session 1
Birds of a Feather - Business Continuity Roundtable Discussions
Intermediate/Advanced
Facilitated discussions on business continuity trends and key topics of interest coordinated within Industry roundtables.
Participate in dynamic dialogue with fellow conference participants having similar backgrounds and expertise.
Experienced business continuity professionals will lead these structured, yet flexible BC roundtable discussions. You will gain solutions, while having the opportunity to build relationships and solve problems among BC planners in similar situations.
This session will enable you to explore solutions, address concerns, ask questions, and dialogue about BC planning strategies and practices being used at other organizations.
Potential Topics:
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Recent Events – Planning and Response Crisis Management Planning
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BC / DR Planning Risk Assessment and BIA
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BC Governance and Commitment BCM Exercises and Testing
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Supply Chain Management Other Topics Selected by Participants
Moderator: Randall Till, MBCI, MBCP, Till Continuity Group
Industry Roundtable Facilitators:
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Robbie Atabaigi, MBCP, KPMG
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Mike Gifford, CBCP, The Capital Group Companies
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Frank Lady, CBCP, Bank of America
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Martin Myers, MBCP, Bank of America
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Barney Pelant, MBCP, Barney F. Pelant & Associates, LLC
Sunday Workshop Session 2
Business Continuity In a Box
Novice/Intermediate
Ronald LaPedis, MBCP, MBCI, NetApp
Laura Mosley, ADT Security Services, NA
This workshop is designed to take you through all of the steps and considerations that you will need to write your own business continuity and incident response plans.
Whether a beginner or seasoned pro, you will learn enough to make this class worth every minute. Topics include:
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A self-assessment of where your organization is today
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The six phases of building a business continuity plan
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RTO, RPO, and risk analysis
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The six phases of BC plan deployment - evacuation through normalization
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An introduction to the Incident Command System used by first responders all over the world
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What needs to happen when you activate your BC plan
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Communications – the key to successful deployment
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The incident response process
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When and how to engage with law enforcement
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Examples and exercises to hone existing and new skills
Ron LaPedis is a security products marketing manager with NetApp, an author, blogger, and trainer with more than 21 years information security and IT disaster recovery implementation and more than three years of emergency response. He heads the San Bruno Citizen Preparedness Committee, and is on the board of the San Francisco chapters of InfraGard and the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP).
Laura Mosley is a proven professional leader with 26 years information technology experience including more than 10 years disaster recovery program management and three years Continuity of Operations (COOP) and emergency management experience. She is ITIL, CRP, MBCP, CBCLA, MBCI certified.
Sunday Workshop Session 3
ColourSpectrums Stress Management and Disaster Recovery
Novice/Intermediate
Robert Chubb, ColourSpectrums.
Disasters affect people in different ways and their recoveries are vastly different too. In order to ensure a total recovery from a disaster, you must be able to deal with the different personalities of the people who were affected.
You will learn how to help people recover in diverse ways. ColourSpectrums uses four colors to represent the four dimensions of personality: BLUE emotional, GREEN intellectual, RED physical and YELLOW organizational functioning.
During the first hour you will sort the four colorfully illustrated ColourSpectrums cards to reveal your ColourSpectrums personality; a unique spectrum of strengths and challenges. Group discussions and activities provide insights (ah-ha! learning) and humor (ha-ha! learning)
In the second hour you will work in brightest color groups to identify bright color esteem needs, stressors, fight responses and bright shadow characteristics and in the third hour you will work in pale color groups to identify pale color challenges, stressors, flight responses and pale shadow characteristics.
Ultimately you will identify eight sources of stress people experience in various combinations. You will be able to maximize solutions for stress management and disaster recovery. ColourSpectrums is conducted in a positive atmosphere of respect, fun and entertainment.
Rob Chubb has balanced his professional career and family life with diverse experiences in group homes, residential settings, community-based programs, therapeutic foster care, schools, post-secondary institutions and business settings for more than 25 years.
Sunday Workshop Session 4
Moving Your BCM Program to a Management System
Intermediate/Advanced
Lynnda Nelson, ICOR
Remember when the question was how to move your business continuity "project" to a "program?"
The new question is how to mature your business continuity program to a business continuity management system.
With the adoption of three standards by DHS in the hope of increasing the preparedness of the private sector, business continuity professionals can now use these standards to improve and benchmark their program maturity and audit readiness.
This presentation will introduce all three standards adopted by DHS for PS-Prep in an easy to understand manner and provide you with what you need to quickly evaluate your program's "management system" readiness.
Lynnda Nelson is the president of the Board of The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (ICOR – www.theicor.org), a non-profit 501c3 education and credentialing organization.
As president of ICOR, Nelson manages the day to day operations of ICOR University. ICOR University offers education and certification in the disciplines that support resilience globally. Nelson is also owner and director of Business Continuity Services, Inc., (BCS) a consulting company providing business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and emergency management consulting.
As the director of operations for BCS, Nelson has developed dozens of BCM programs for organizations around the world ranging from conducting the business impact analysis, building awareness and training programs, writing plans, and running exercises.
In addition, Nelson serves as professor for Norwich University's Master's of Business Continuity Management program. She has written and teaches seminars on business continuity management, continuity of governmental operations, and developing a resilient organization.
She is a certified by ICOR as a Certified Organizational Resilience Professional (CORP) and is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD.) Nelson holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a Master's degree from the University of Illinois in Education.
Sunday Workshop Session 5
Workshop: Incident Management Plan Assessment
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Ken Schroeder, Southeast Corp.
Deidrich Towne, Hewlett Packard
David Ziev, Business Continuity Prof.
Once again PPBI has responded to your feedback and updated this highly interactive workshop. You will learn to use the incident management plan maturity model and the BCP audit checklist developed by PPBI from recognized standards and industry best practices.
Due to your evaluations and response, DRJ has requested PPBI facilitate this workshop which is condensed from the one and one-half day course to share the effectiveness this process can have on your plans.
Exposure to the practical experience of the instructors in addition to recognized industry standards in measuring the maturity of your plans benefits both the public and private sectors.
You will use the checklist to assess your capability to assemble, coordinate, collect and channel the resources required for critical incident management.
The tools are free, the simulation authentic and the class is practical, immediately useful and fun!
Ken Schroeder, CBCP is vice president for business continuity at Southeast Corporate.
Deidrich E. Towne, Jr. MBCP is senior technical consultant for Hewlett Packard.
David Ziev, MBCP, MBCI is the principal of Business Continuity Professionals.
Sunday Workshop Session 6
Mock Disaster Exercise: Utilizing ICS for Public and Private Security
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Session limited to 200 participants.
We will approach this mock disaster exercise from the federal government side, using Incident Command System (ICS).
The focus is on a federal agency, that does not have a working plan or that is outdated. This exercise will encompass several scenarios including man-made and nature events.
It is widely known throughout the world that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is a coalition of 17 agencies and organizations within the executive branch that work both independently and collaboratively to gather the intelligence necessary to conduct foreign relations and national security activities.
Their primary mission is to collect and convey the essential information the president and members of the policy making, law enforcement, and military communities require executing their appointed duties.
This mock exercise with focus on the challenges encountered by the very secret 18th U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) Agency.
Before your participation in this exercise, you will take the oath and be, "Sworn for Life to Protect Confidentiality". After which, you must be "Read into the Program".
The dedication and participation of each new agent, will rest upon the success of this critical agency and it's mission to serve and protect this great country and it's territory's. Our motto is, "Even At Our Worst, We Are The Best."
Business Guard, Inc. (BGI) offers business continuity services, risk assessments, physical security, law enforcement training and critical infrastructure management. Their professionals represent hundreds of years of experience with Federal and local agencies, including quasi-government companies. BGI utilize state-of-the-art industry standards and federal guidelines such as DRJ, NIST 800, GAO, OPM, HSPD and others.