Contingency Planning

Track
BC = Business Continuity Issues EB = Emergency Management & Business Continuity Issues SB = Security & Business Continuity Issues LB = Leadership & Business Continuity Issues

Level	Format
C = Case Study L = Lecture W = Workshop P = Panel Discussion	100 = Beginner 200 = Beginner - Intermediate 300 = Beginner - Intermediate 400 = Intermediate - Advanced 500 = Advanced

Monday, May 19

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration Open

Tuesday, May 20

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Open

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Welcome Breakfast and Keynote Speaker

9:45 AM - 5:00 PM

• BC1: Tutorial: Business Continuity 101 (100L)

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM

• BC2: Conformity Assessment: Can You Prove You're Compliant? (300L)
• BC3: BC Plan Profiling (400L)
• EB 4: Emergency Health Services of Nova Scotia’s Approach to Continuous Availability (200C)
• EB 5: Catastrophic Planning: Response Team Dynamics and Coordination Training (300W)
• SB 6: The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye: The Cost of Compromised Information and How to Protect Against It (300L)
• LB 7: The People Side of Contingency Planning (300L)

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

• BC9: Continuity & Resiliency Paradigm and Proliferation (200L)
• BC10: One Day BIA (500C)
• EB 11: Improved Emergency Response and Preparedness through Advanced Visualization (100L)
• SB 12: Controlling Violence within a Public Setting (300L)
• SB 13: Leveraging IT Best Practice Toolkits for BC Planning (300L)
• LB 14: Beyond Risk: What is the Right Thing To Do? (400W)

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Luncheon and Guest Speaker

2:15 PM - 4:30 PM

• SB 16: Threat Assessment Teams: The Wave of the Future for Workplace Violence Prevention (300W)

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

• BC 17: Selling an Emergency Notification System to Management (300L)
• BC 18: REACH and the Supply Chain (300L)
• EB 19: Creating Hospital Surge Capacity: Emergency Support Functions and Reallocation of Resources (300L)
• SB 20: SOA Security and the Impacts to BCP (500L)
• LB 21: Effective Total Cost of Ownership Strategies for IT Compliance and Governance (200L)

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

• BC22: Resiliency Finally Defined! (300L)
• BC24: Enterprise Risk Management and its' Effective Application in Developing an Organization (400C)
• EB 23: Developing an Integrated Public-Private Emergency Response System: A Blueprint for Success (300L)
• EB 25: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities: Risk Assessment Considerations (300L)
• LB 27: Building a Better Crisis Leader: We CAN Do More (400L)

5:00 PM – 7:30 PM Exhibit Hall Grand Opening Reception

Wednesday, May 21

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Open

7:30 AM – 9:00 AM Attendee Networking Breakfast

9:15 AM - 12:00 PM

• BC30: Disaster Simulation Exercise (300W)

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

• BC31: A Case Study in the Battle of Data Storage Management (300C)
• BC32: Contingency Planning on a Budget for SMEs (300W)
• EB 33: Dirty Bombs, Chemical, and Biological Threats: Separating Fact From Fiction (300L)
• SB 34: Event Logs Don't Lie: Step-by-Step Security (400L)
• LB 35: Verifying IT and Business Continuity (200L)

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

• BC37: Two Sides of a Coin: Policy Management and a Repeatable eDiscovery Process (300L)
• BC38: Legal Issues in Disaster Planning (300L)
• EB 39: Transitioning from Disaster Response and Recovery to Enterprise Risk Management (200C)
• EB 40: Tsunamis: Is the U.S. at Risk? (400L)
• SB 41: Assessing Risk at the Software Level (200L)

12:00 PM – 2:30 PM Exhibit Hall Open with Luncheon and Dessert Buffet

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

• BC43: Virtualization and the “Green” Factor (300L)
• BC44: Building a Business Continuity Program on Campus (200L)
• BC45: Integrating Pandemic Readiness into Your Organization's Resiliency Model (300P)
• BC46: BC on the Front Line: Product Reliability at Thomson Financial (400C)
• EB 47: The New Language of Critical Infrastructure Protection (200L)
• SB 48: Analysis of the Threat Landscape: Interaction between Cyber World and Organized Crime (300L)
• LB 49: Crisis Decision-Making (500L)

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

• BC50: Vendor BCP Risk: Is Your Company Prepared? (300L)
• BC51: How to Find Staff After the Hurricane (300C)
• BC52: Beyond the Hit and Run Tabletop (300W)
• BC53: Implementing Strategic BCM: A Business Led Approach (300L)
• BC 54: Preparing for SAS 70 Audits (400L)
• EB 55: Communications Path Diversity: The Key to Connectivity in a Crisis (400L)
• LB 56: Executive Updates That Get Results! (200L)