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Whether you are a veteran tabletop writer or brand new to the field, this workshop is a creative space to take your tabletop exercises to the next level. The secret to a riveting and compelling tabletop exercise is not hiring a Hollywood screenwriter – the secret is actually thoughtful research and in-depth planning. Our workshop instructors are seasoned tabletop facilitators who will help you hone the art of blending practical considerations, collaborations with external parties, and focused research to create riveting tabletops that keep people thinking long afterward – and lead to significantly improved confidence and resilience for your stakeholders. The workshop will include time for hands-on planning; the goal is for all attendees to leave inspired, refreshed, and with an actionable list of tabletop ideas for implementation.

This session will present proven practices for managing vendor disruptions. Applying “the best defense is a good offense” approach (the strategic offensive principle of conflict), rings true for planning and mitigating the risk of supply chain disruptions. The presenter will explore general planning practices to manage vendor risk and continuity of operations in the procurement process. Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of a due-diligence approach to engaging and including essential vendors in exercises to identify gaps and surgical actions needed to respond quickly to minimize the impact when a vendor cannot deliver its product and service to your organization which your organization relies upon.

The world of business is now interdependent more than in any other time in history. In addition to the expansion of multi-national companies, local and regional organizations of all sizes and industry sectors maintain cross-border relationships and global supply chain dependencies (human capital, raw materials, and data) that increase operational risk. Business Resiliency Professionals should have a clear understanding of these direct and indirect interdependencies, monitor these threats, and plan for anticipated impacts to their operations. Armed conflicts by their very nature are volatile, multi-regional, and non-linear; security conditions can deteriorate, and aggression escalate without warning. The unique impacts of each conflict must be evaluated and considered. While some will experience the direct impacts of an armed conflict because it is their country/entity involved, exponentially more will experience the indirect impacts. For example, recent conflicts have caused high fuel prices world-wide even for countries not directly involved or directly dependent on the warring parties. This is a key consideration for why business resiliency professionals should include this type of planning in their resiliency planning approach – their businesses are not insulated just because their country is not at war. The panel will share recommendations for ACM pre-conflict planning, crisis response and ongoing crisis management including: Geopolitical Threat and Risk Analysis Critical Staff Resiliency Strategies Scenario Based Exercises Crisis Management and Response Management and Employee Training and Awareness, and Internal and External Collaboration and Communication

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Community management expert Lisa Orloff provides an overview of effective disaster exercises to assess your business continuity plan. The webinar reviews the key learning objectives of successful models including DRI's Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Plan and World Cares Centers Boots on the Ground X. The training is meant to be flexible, scalable, and adaptable so that participants can adapt what is useful to the size and type of organization.

In this session Ms. Orloff and Dr. Jones will present a blended exercise-assessment model intended for professionals to adapt in gauging the efficacy of their company’s business continuity plans. Traditional methods with be discussed alongside virtual and hands on exercises with the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program is used as a foundation. Ms. Orloff will present the use of physical disaster simulation exercises while Dr. Jones will present his work using the St John’s University simulation lab and the Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS™) training suite. Through ADMS, a variety of scenarios can be exercised, including an active shooter, HAZMAT and CBRNe situations, medical emergencies and natural disasters.

In this session Ms. Orloff and Dr. Jones will present a blended exercise-assessment model intended for professionals to adapt in gauging the efficacy of their company’s business continuity plans. Traditional methods with be discussed alongside virtual and hands on exercises with the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program is used as a foundation. Ms. Orloff will present the use of physical disaster simulation exercises while Dr. Jones will present his work using the St John’s University simulation lab and the Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMS™) training suite. Through ADMS, a variety of scenarios can be exercised, including an active shooter, HAZMAT and CBRNe situations, medical emergencies and natural disasters.

Attend this session to learn the essential elements necessary to manage an exercise on a large scale. The presentation walks through the process used by Texas Children’s to manage multiple large-scale exercises involving multiple external agencies and hundreds of participants. While the presentation is from a healthcare organization, the lessons are applicable to all. Topics covered include working with external partners (such as law enforcement and EMS0, internal and external communications, and developing after-action reports and corrective actions.

This three-hour, hands-on workshop is a practical exercise design course during which you will be actively engaged. If you want to learn how to build (or better!) your exercises, this is the workshop for you. Exercising can mean the difference between surviving a crisis and not. We practice to ensure all participants understand their roles and responsibilities during crisis. An exercise is NOT a test, but rather to practice skills learned through training. Equally as important, is to set your exercise up right from the beginning. Designing an exercise takes time, patience, and support. An exercise should produce measurable, useful, timely and relevant results. Designing exercises is not a one size fits all, however many of the foundations are the same. This course will take you through the steps to design a creative, effective and fun exercise.

This three-hour, hands-on workshop is a practical exercise design course during which you will be actively engaged. If you want to learn how to build (or better!) your exercises, this is the workshop for you. Exercising can mean the difference between surviving a crisis and not. We practice to ensure all participants understand their roles and responsibilities during crisis. An exercise is NOT a test, but rather to practice skills learned through training. Supplementary Active Shooter Exercise Example. See presentation listing. Equally as important, is to set your exercise up right from the beginning. Designing an exercise takes time, patience, and support. An exercise should produce measurable, useful, timely and relevant results. Designing exercises is not a one size fits all, however many of the foundations are the same. This course will take you through the steps to design a creative, effective and fun exercise.

We test our backups and recovery processes occasionally and pass our audits, isn’t that enough? Only if your BCP goals are just that. Those are certainly important objectives. But, those types of exercises are not enough if the ultimate goal of your BC/DR Program is for your business to survive an actual disaster and the ensuing chaos. Reality-based, scenario driven exercises pull everything together by encouraging a holistic view of impacts and consolidated recovery considerations/efforts not discoverable in more narrowly focused exercises. This workshop will build on previous topics from the same presenter and take things further into the practical realm of disaster exercises. Come and participate in this workshop as we look at and talk about the benefits of robust disaster exercises; quickly review definitions and disaster scenario creation process (previous topics); exercise ingredients, methods, and script techniques; potential outcomes. The presenter brings deep experience with both actual disaster situations and reality-based disaster exercises, which will add a real-life perspective to our discussions.

Applied Materials, a $9.7 billion technology giant, takes business continuity and emergency response seriously. Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. At the center of the company’s overall program is a robust test and exercise strategy and schedule. Designed to protect 14,000+ employees, 10,200+ patents in 81 sites and 18 countries, it all starts at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. It is here that our commitment from top executives makes excellence and innovation possible. Attend this session for an in-depth case study detailing two massive recent exercises — from start to finish. The presenters spent decades in the public sector and have translated their experience, knowledge, and training into a world-class global program for use in any public or private organization.

In this session, the McKesson service Continuity Office team shares the processes and tools it uses to manage semiannual exercises and actual events. Learn how McKesson created a SharePoint-based event and exercise-management tool that is flexible, real-time, and allow the team to successfully manage 24-hour contiguous exercises with over 200 participants from two data centers, work-from-home locations all over the U.S., and outsourcers' locations in India and Mexico.