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Will members of a board of directors like their duty of care served with a side of negligence lawsuits from not investing in preparedness? Are law firms the ones that should be offering business continuity as part of a suite of services on top of regulatory compliance? Will force majeure become a force no more when protecting businesses? The “new normal” is impacting more than we realize. This session will shed some light on the emergence of business continuity and preparedness combining with the legal world.

This session is the culmination of nearly a year of research, surveys, and C-Suite interviews while Young was at the Harvard Kennedy School NPLI studying Executive Meta-Leadership. In this presentation, he explains why the time has come for resilience to be elevated to the C-Suite and how to turn it from a cost center into a business competitive advantage. This paradigm-shifting idea is backed up with case studies, interviews with Fortune 500 C-suite executives, and data visualization.

Attend this can’t miss session to hear from a C-Level executive who truly understands resilience, as DRI Board Director Ray Seid sits down with Uniper CIO Damian Bunyan. About Uniper Düsseldorf-based Uniper is an international energy company with activities in more than 40 countries. With around 7,000 employees, it makes an important contribution to security of supply in Europe. Uniper’s core businesses are power generation in Europe, global energy trading, and a broad gas portfolio. Uniper procures gas – including liquefied natural gas (LNG) – and other energy sources on global markets. The company owns and operates gas storage facilities with a capacity of more than 7 billion cubic meters. Uniper plans for its 22.5 GW of installed power-generating capacity in Europe to be carbon-neutral by 2035. The company already ranks among Europe’s largest operators of hydroelectric plants and intends to further expand solar and wind energy, which are essential for a more sustainable and autonomous future. Uniper is a reliable partner for communities, municipal utilities, and industrial enterprises for planning and implementing innovative, lower-carbon solutions on their decarbonization journey. Uniper is a hydrogen pioneer, is active worldwide along the entire hydrogen value chain, and is conducting projects to make hydrogen a mainstay of the energy supply.

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Imagine walking into your boss’ office announcing that you just helped your organization save up to 20% of its annual insurance spend for the next 5-10 years. In this “hard market”, executives are struggling to find the balance between investing in business continuity programs and investing in insurance. However, this creates an opportunity to find new ways to add value to your organization and demonstrate a return on investment. During this session, we will discuss how the insurance industry looks at business interruption insurance, how business continuity and disaster recovery programs can improve the outcomes of your insurance negotiations, and how to more effectively work with risk managers. We will explore how re-framing the roles that insurance and business continuity play can help you improve the efficiency of your insurance programs, “right size” your insurance and resilience programs, and leverage your claims data to be more effective.

For DRI’s latest webinar we look at the relationship between organizational and operational resilience, and the regulations in-between, with three of the UK’s top professionals: - Dr Aaron Gracey, Managing Director of Squared Apples, will introduce listeners to the concept of Organisational Resilience and how organisations should start to review how they develop their frameworks in order to incorporate the capability. - Mike Price, Managing Director of Resilius Consulting, will introduce listeners to two new policy and regulatory landscape changes. While they target principally the finance sector, he will explain why they have wider implications into others. - Steve Yates, CBCP, Director of Acertia Unlimited, will close the presentation by delineating the relationship between organizational and operational resilience.

Hiring the right business continuity professionals will enable your organization to withstand any crisis and come through even stronger. Because of the importance of these positions, more and more organizations are exclusively recruiting certified business continuity professionals. As the oldest and largest nonprofit institute representing business continuity management and resilience fields, DRI International has developed a guide to help you entitled Hiring a Business Continuity Professional.

Natural and man-made disasters can strike without warning. During a large-scale disaster, no one expects to be left alone by municipal emergency responders. However, when a large disaster strikes, emergency responders will be hours, if not days away from assisting corporations. Corporate self-sufficiency is paramount not only to the successful recovery to business normalcy, but for the well-being of its employees and the company’s reputation. This session examines the thought processes and subsequent actions all corporations should take to attain self-sufficiency during major disasters. It also includes a hands-on component to demonstrate thinking beyond the incident itself.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points. The CRBC team succeeds by providing business impact analysis (BIA) workshops with those 63 ABCs to create a holistic view of the priorities of the customer agencies in an enterprise approach. The CRBC team gathers a business-driven set of data-points which provide for informed recovery decisions based upon the realistic implications of different outage scenarios provided through the informed feedback of the business owners and subject matter experts who hold the intimacy of operations. This enables more effective and efficient spending surrounding disaster recovery and business continuity. The presenters will discuss how this effort got off the ground, the strategy, the tools, and techniques used to ensure consistent understanding of the BIA throughout the enterprise ensuring in the end, DoIT’s CRBC team has gathered apples from each of the ABCs and not a fruit cocktail.

Only in the past few years have resilience and risk-reduction practitioners have to develop strategies for engaging public and private sector stakeholders in implementing resilient strategies. The “resilience industry” is now an identifiable economic sector bringing creative ideas, innovations, and strategies from several areas. Whether addressing flood mitigation, green infrastructure, transportation or reducing climate-driven inequities, today architects, urban planners, civil engineers and policy designers are now connected by a common language of resilience. This session will discuss how this is coming together, where further engagement can take place and what are the future paths.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the IT service provider for the majority of the 63 agencies, board, and commissions (ABCs) under the governor. Their cyber resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery (CRBC) team is tasked with ensuring information systems and infrastructure are resilient and available for continuous delivery of services provided by the state to the constituents of Illinois. The CRBC team acts as the recovery and continuity experts who liaise with the business owners and translate business needs into disaster recovery and cyber resiliency data points.

Listen to an impressive panel of MBCPs answer your questions from various industries and with a wide range of expertise during our “Ask the MBCPs” webinar.

As BCM matures and moves from a business recovery model to an integrated risk partnership within organizational resilience, its use cases and purpose are evolving. In this session, the speaker will share one example of where BCM/OR is uniquely qualified to become a core component of the operational risk landscape. Through three stages of maturity – compliance, readiness, and resilience, this session will discuss how to create the infrastructure to leverage BCM as your organization’s primary operational risk service provider.

This presentation will discuss the current and future state of organizational resilience across multiple management disciplines including business continuity management, information security and more. Using the five layers of culture, people, process and infrastructure, we will address the role of the chief risk/strategy officer and present a framework for developing a business/organizational resilience program in the organization.

Lou Drapeau, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for DRI International, presents on enterprise risk management and business continuity. How do we define resilience? Why is resilience important? What makes a system resilient? What does resilience mean for an organization? The answers to these questions will be revealed through a discussion of the roles of business continuity and risk management as well as where these functions reside in organizations. You’ll learn about the terminology of resilience, relevant trends identified by DRI’s Future Vision Committee, as well as cyber resilience and developing strategies for resilience.

Streamlining business continuity management as an integral part of the emergency management framework, the Organizational Resilience Management System (ORMS) comprises crisis management, ICT disaster recovery, security, medical, staff support, crisis communications, records, facilities management and BCM. The ORMS at the UN provides an effective means to integrate and harmonize the emergency management activities. The ORMS provides a framework for cooperation across institutional silos and between the various actors responsible for the key components.

This white paper is designed as a tool for integrating organizational approaches to business continuity management and disaster risk reduction, a roadmap for implementing the Sendai framework into their existing resilience program.

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Earthquakes! Fire! Security Breaches! Acquisitions! New Service Offerings! What do these events have in common? They all represent major organizational changes requiring change management proficiency. External events force us to change; understanding how people respond is critical to a successful BCP. As BC professionals, we are in the business of managing immediate and often catastrophic changes. Basic project management can deal with the discreet tasks required to make a change, but it does not account for the human experience. This presentation introduces the structure of change, what we experience when forced to change, and strategies for managing the process.