POSTPONED

Business Continuity and Convergence with other Disciplines

• Where is BCP located within your organizational structure?\

• If you had an opportunity to place BCP anywhere in the organization - where would you place it?

• What are examples of partnerships that you have established to advance resiliency within your organization?

• What are some of the challenges in establishing partnerships within your organization?

• What are the opportunities that can be achieved with the convergence of BCP, Digital Security, and Physical Security ?

Managing Crisis / Business Continuity Events in a Virtual Environment
How does your organization manage a crisis / BCP event in a virtual environment?
Does your organization continue to use a physical emergency operation center or have you shifted to using a virtual emergency operation center?
What technology has your organization implemented to support managing a virtual EOC?
What new policies and procedures has your organization implemented during the past two years to help manage crisis / BCP events virtually?
What are lessons learned from managing a crisis / BCP event remotely?

Vaccination mandates and policies and their potential to both enhance business resilience and cause business disruption.

• What policies have your organization put into place?

• How are these policies being implemented?

• How are these policies helping your organization become more resilient?

• How are these policies potentially impacting the business?

• What continuity plans have been implemented to reduce the impacts from such policies?

DRIE West Chapter Annual General Meeting (AGM) - virtual

• Tara Tobler, President of the DRIE West Chapter, and the Board of Directors

1. Collaborative Round Table: dialogue

   Working” Forward - What will ‘work’ look like moving forward

   o Review the results of the Covid Return-to-Work survey

   o Discuss business challenges as we emerge from Covid 4th wave

This will be an interactive discussion with other DRIE West and DRIE Chapter Members and professional colleagues to share best practices and potential challenges. Come prepared to discuss:

• Status of your BCM program

• How you will change your BCM program moving forward

• Current Challenges and Opportunities

• Activities your organization is considering

Chuck Russell will share his conference presentation to the Regional Healthcare Preparedness Coalition in Galveston, TX at the end of 2019 titled, “Delivering Business Continuity Value Beyond Compliance.” Most of the lessons are relevant to all industry practitioners, especially those that must push back against the perspective that business continuity planning is a “check the box exercise” to meet some internal requirement or external regulation.

Disaster mythology continues to hinder preparedness and community resilience in some very real and harmful ways. From the century old fairy-tale of 'mass panic', to the still popular myth of 'victim helplessness', disaster dollars and preparedness efforts are still being spent to combat problems that simply don't exist. Are your plans based on fact? Or have you been contributing to the 'disaster fiction' section? Come and find out!

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This webinar will cover the essentials of what needs to be included in your re-opening plan and more importantly the framework for an Infection Control Program, including:

Design
Setting goals and objectives, and developing workplace-specific actions and strategies to achieve them.

Oversight
Ongoing monitoring to ensure that design plans and procedures are carried out.
Testing
Verifying and documenting that your standards are met.

Disaster mythology continues to hinder preparedness and community resilience in some very real and harmful ways. From the century old fairy-tale of 'mass panic', to the still popular myth of 'victim helplessness', disaster dollars and preparedness efforts are still being spent to combat problems that simply don't exist. Are your plans based on fact? Or have you been contributing to the 'disaster fiction' section? Come and find out!

With the 2019-nCoV Coronavirus situation developing rapidly, emergency and continuity management professionals are wondering if this is the long awaited/anticipated threat realization, or is it becoming a media driven phenomenon? Planners should be implementing some assessment analysis regarding the potential for impacting business operations.

This will be an interactive discussion around Pandemic Planning where we will share best practices and potential challenges. Come prepared to discuss what activities are your organization is currently considering with this emerging threat.

It’s Here!

A new DRIE West website is on the horizon!

Join Benjamin Morgan, Principal of the Centre for Crisis & Risk Communications for an introduction to insights, theories, and practical tips for communicating during high stress, high concern situations. Learn foundational elements for building a crisis communication plan to help support your organization when faced with an event. The next crisis is coming. Are you ready? The Centre for Crisis & Risk Communications is passionate about preparedness.

Learn how the affects of a facility fire affected a number of Government of Alberta departmental operations and the valuable lessons learned that you can add to your business continuity planning and response tool kit.

We are thrilled to announce a joint social with

DRIE WEST & IAEM

Please join your DRIE West & IAEM peers for a beverage and good conversation!

Learn how the affects of a facility fire affected a number of Government of Alberta departmental operations and the valuable lessons learned that you can add to your business continuity planning and response tool kit.

This will be an interactive discussion around the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) where we will share best practices, tips and techniques, and challenges around gathering, documenting and maintaining your BCP.

If possible, please bring and/or submit (in advance) a cleansed BCP template we can use during our discussion. Those who provide BCP templates will receive all provided copies.

In today’s increasingly interconnected business environment, third party partnerships offer organizations greater agility by reducing service time, enhancing customer experience, or lowering costs. Organizations benefit from the ability to outsource services or functions, however, leadership continues to be responsible for ensuring continuity of business operations, regardless of whether the function is supported in-house or through a third party provider. As a result, organizations using third party providers are facing increasing risk should an event occur that impacts the third party’s ability to adequately fulfill its contractual obligations.

This presentation will explore risks posed by third parties and consider ways to transform risk into opportunities to build resilience and competitive advantage. With effective business continuity planning and exercising, an organization should not only be able to recover from interruption in third party services, but also demonstrate the ability to mitigate third party risk and resume business operations regardless of whether the service is outsourced or performed in-house.

An interactive discussion around the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), to share best practices, tips and techniques, and challenges around gathering, documenting and maintaining your BIA.

Following the 2013 flood, The City of Calgary developed a novel business continuity program designed to minimize future interruptions to city services. This presentation will review Calgary’s corporate process, and discuss how this process has enhanced the city’s ability to identify, prioritize and implement resiliency for those IT systems required for delivery of critical city services.

“Prepare for Recovery”, and highlights both individual and community resiliency “lessons learned” from the major disaster events over the past several years in Alberta.

Please join your DRIE West peers for a beverage and good conversation!