Business Continuity Expo 2008 is a few weeks away and this year’s exhibition, free on-floor seminars and paid-for conference, has lots on offer for those tasked with the role of protecting assets.
Business continuity professionals and risk managers explore how to mitigate risk; access the latest products and toolkits that help you manage crisis; and share experiences on how best to recover before, during and after an incident.
Business Continuity is no longer a case of preparing and dealing with disaster recovery. With it moving far higher up the corporate agenda, impacting on the overall operational success of the organisation, it’s now about having the plans in place to enable an organisation to prepare and cope with potential incidences no matter how big or small. Exercising existing plans, creating the right structure for a fail-safe supply chain, dealing with personal liability and human resources, knowing how to keep your reputation in place in case of an incident, installing and having the back-up so that you can communicate during and after an incident and, corporate governance and commercial strategy all fall under the business continuity remit.
Taking place at ExCeL London, April 2 and 3, 2008, Business Continuity Expo showcases practical and technical products and solutions. Contingency planning experts will be on hand at the event to discuss exercise and scenario testing, data centres and secondary sites, IT back-up and IT and Telecom infrastructure to communications infrastructures and logistics, outsourcing and supply policy.
If it’s crisis and incident management you are interested in there will be specialists to talk to about information availability, emerging communications, facilities and management security, personnel and HR management, casualty management and media relations.
Incident and disaster recovery will also be covered by the event, discussing information retrieval and recovery, salvage and clean-up, brand and reputation management, HR management and legal recourse as well as decentralised workforce solutions. The free to attend on-floor seminars cover topics such as:
How to sell BC to the Board hosted by Richard Waterer, Head of Sales, Marsh.
Corporate Information: will volumes ever stop growing and how do we cope as Business Continuity Planners? – with James Royds, Director, Infosec Associates.
Surviving the 2007 Floods – practical lessons for the BC community’ Glenn Bowker, Sales Manager, BELFOR and
Business Resilience – Standard Life’s journey towards excellence’ Dennis Flynn OBE, CEO, Crisis Solutions.
How resilient are the Mechanical & Electrical Systems that are supporting the critical aspects of your business?
Paul Thorn, Critical Infrastructure Management Consultant, Efficiency Direct Ltd.
The paid-for conference co-located with Business Continuity Expo invites presentations and case studies from practitioners. Speakers are drawn from public and private sectors who share thinking on the spectrum of business continuity management; from risk analysis to protecting your reputation.
Here is a preview of some of the presentations:
National Resilience, Corporate Resilience and Operational Continuity – three sides of the same coin?
In today’s business environment, shareholders, trading partners and regulators demand that every employee from CEO down take responsibility for optimising the operational continuity of their organisation. Featuring the most respected experts in the UK, this session will outline how and why continuity is a vital instrument for your commercial success. In this session there will be much that Government departments can learn from. Speakers include:
Chair Bruce Mann, Director, Civil Contingencies Secretariat (tbc)
Brett Lovegrove, Head of Counter Terrorism, city of London Police
Gerald Corbett, CEO, SSL International
Optimising Resilient Communications
Resilient communications are the most fundamentally important part of any continuity plan – this session looks at the rationale and implementation of communication cascades, and explores some of the media available for disseminating critical information.
Chair: Dr Nigel Brown, Lead for Resilient Telecommunications Strategy, Cabinet Office
Matthew Butterworth, Head of Heathrow Intelligence The Metropolitan Police
Laurence Myerson, CEO, SMSworldwide
Maintaining Corporate Health through Exercise
If you don’t measure – you don’t manage, and the focus for organisations and Government departments on exercising and auditing their BC planning has never been greater. This session looks at the advantages of different ways your organisation can exercise its continuity capabilities, and uses case study analysis to explore how exercising outcomes can be exploited.
Chair: Michael Charlton-Weedy, CEO, EPC
Charles Le Gallais, Director of Homeland Security and Resilience, Finmeccanica
Susan Hayes, Director, New York Metropolitan Opera
Impact of an incident
From flooding to FMD, the last year has seen several high profile incidents, with potential for far reaching consequences for the organisations involved. This session looks at ways in which this can be mitigated, and how accurate reporting, interpretation and representation of incidents can raise awareness of best practice.
Prof Richard Walton, Visiting Professor, Royal Holloway University
Kathy Settle, Head of Regional Resilience, Government Office for the North West
Wayne Harrop, Lecturer in Business Continuity, University of Coventry
Mel Gosling, MD, Merricom
Managing Risk in Supply Chains
For many organisations, supply chain resilience is Business Continuity. This is session looks at how organisations can reduce their exposure to supply chain risk in the global trading environment.
Chair: Matthew Elkington, VP Risk Consulting Practice, Marsh
Jonathan Rush, Editor, Contingency Today
Laura Pearson, Corporate Auditor and Colin Clark, Head of Corporate Business Control, Somerfield Supermarkets
Peter Brudenall, Partner, Hunton and Williams
BS25999: Is it Worth Doing it Well?
With the mass adoption of BS25999 underway, it is time to look at what your organisation can really get from it – beyond the rubber stamp. This session will look at the accreditation process, business advantages and take a critical look at whether your organisation really needs the standard.
Chair: Julian Thrussell, BSI Management Systems UK BS 25999 Product Manager
PJ di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-it ‘some concerns over the use of BS25999’
Gary Locker, Permanent liaison for ACPO and the Cabinet Office
Roger McLoughlin, Continuity Risk Specialist, Vodafone
Human and Personnel Aspects of BC : Reacting to an Incident
This session brings together the some of the most lively and engaging speakers in Business Continuity, exploring the ways that individual human behaviour and can be recognised, modified and optimised before, during and after an incident. Expect neurobiology, psycho-modification and vegetable dissection.
Chair: Rosie Murray, Director, RaisingAwarenessforTrauma
Perfecting and Protecting your performance’ Richard Dean, MD, Horizon
‘How the brain responds to Crisis: How the body reacts to Trauma’ David Tredrea, Clinical Consultant, Visor.
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