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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.

It’s what you’ve all been working on - so let’s talk about it. Success, challenges, strategies for returning to work, it’s all fair game for our pandemic panel. - Eric McNulty, Associate Director, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Join cybersecurity expert Wade Richmond for an information-packed hour of important information on one of the profession’s hottest topics. Explore aspects of cybersecurity and business continuity, with the goal of integrating the two and achieving the ultimate goal -- cyber resilience. Learn how to talk to top management about these issues and sell them on the concept of cyber resilience.

Attend this session for a unique and proven approach to smashing through traditional barriers and earning a sustained executive buy-in, especially where crisis management is concerned. The presenters will share logistics of key successes in gaining significant ground in program maturity and execution through proven and thoughtfully targeted training/awareness programs. Learn more about this winning strategic model which results in a unprecedented cultural gains. See what happens when you color outside the lines and challenge everything so as to closely align a rapid program elevation agenda to a company’s most treasured values.

This session is a continuation and expansion of the Business Continuity Management Risk Index (BCM-RI) concept introduced at DRI2012 and returning the next two years. Continued interest in program metrics for executive management has resulted in another return, expanding beyond risk and preparedness to include compliance and program maturity.

You and your teams put a lot of effort into contingency planning to ensure your business functions endure even when faced with challenges. Attend this workshop to get simple, yet powerful tips on how to transform your message and materials into compelling content your audience will embrace.

Larry Chase, DRI's 2015 Business Continuity Program Manager of the Year, will share his repeatable secret sauce and game-changing winning practices that have earned numerous international honors during his two decades of private sector successes. If you are looked to or expected to deliver the wow factor with your program by your executives, staff/team members, stakeholders and partners.

Larry Chase shares his criticality matrix as well as executive fiduciary statements, as he explains how to take the BIA product to create an organizational "value chain" for mapping the critical path in people, process, and technology resilience.

This session will present a step-by-step method that guides you through the identification of the most appropriate metrics to report to executive management. This includes basic foundational issues related to deciding whether to focus metrics reporting on risk, preparedness, compliance, and/or maturity.

From obtaining executive-level buy-in to applying industry best practices in a higher education environment to selecting and implementing an online tool, learn how Carnegie Mellon University launched a sustainable business continuity program that fits the culture of the institution (and can perhaps apply to yours).

This presentation at KL 2014 details Mr. Nagase's experience managing crises and the lessons learned for resiliency.

Possibility Thinking in Global Business Continuity: ""They Stopped Saying 'No'"

Is there a metric that clearly can demonstrate to executive management the overall value of the business continuity management (BCM) program to the organization? Can BCM professionals quantitatively measure current risk levels that can be compared with established risk tolerances and report them to management in a meaningful way that drives both risk management and BCM initiatives? How could such a metric actually be implemented successfully in a large organization? This session explores these questions and presents a case study of how the BCM-RI was developed and implemented at DTE Energy. You will learn how the BCM-RI was implemented to measure the overall risk/preparedness level of DTE Energy business units, departments, subsidiaries, and the entire organization. You will see how gap analyses were performed to effectively compare BCM-RI levels to risk tolerance levels previously defined by management. Finally, you will learn how DTE Energy plans to expand the BCM-RI to develop risk indices for use by enterprise risk management and business resilience management programs.

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