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May 18, 2010 - People, Places & Things - Maintaining Resource Situational Awareness During Crises presented by Steve Hauser and Steve Ososkie. The threat is spreading and it's time to make decisions, but can you make effective decisions while flying blind?  With the advent of low-cost database and graphic mapping technologies, more and more businesses are supplementing their crisis intelligence resources by mapping the locations of their assets relative to a developing incident.  What are assets?  Simple, the people, places and things we use everyday for prosecuting our business.   Join us to learn more about the benefits of implementing resource mapping and how to cost-effectively add mapping capabilities to your resilience planning and emergency response efforts.

April 20, 2010 - Jack Golman of BPSI presented on Risky Business - How Directors and Officers View Risk. Not everyone views risk through the same set of eyes. Jack Goldman, a director for Boise Inc and CEO of Business Protection Systems International offers his insights as the director of a multibillion dollar office services conglomerate and head of continuity services company on how directors, officers and executives view the risks in ways we never imagined.

March 16, 2010 - Tom Beasley and Susan Conniry, local San Diego Survivalists presented on Ready or Not Survival Training. Knowing that emergency services personnel are often understaffed and under-budgeted, they undertook the unique approach to disaster preparedness by adapting wilderness skills into an urban environment and began teaching citizens techniques that utilize resources in their immediate environment. By “creating awareness without precipitating panic”, they teach communities how to “take care of themselves.”

January 19, 2010 - Dave Smith of Professional Workplace Interaction, Inc. presented on Preventing Workplace Violence. Far too often, there is misunderstanding about what organizations can or should do to reduce and manage the risk of violence in the workplace. The good news is that much can be done to reduce the risk. Research on workplace violence has shown that warning signs and detectable inappropriate behaviors usually precede acts of violence.  This workshop will prepare participants to recognize the basic danger signals, enabling them to provide intervention or seek assistance before problems escalate. Please select the appropriate handout: PWI Workplace Violence Liberty Directions Article OR ACP WPV HANDOUT.

November 17, 2009 - Dr. Stuart B. Weiss, FAAP, FACEP, CBCP, Pandemic and Business Continuity expert presented H1N1 Pandemic from a Medical Standpoint.

As you create and implement your plan for ensuring business continuity, it's important to understand the potential health impact of the H1N1 virus on your organization and the local, national and global community; as well as the worldwide medical response to this threat. 

October 20th, 2009 - Phil Lambert, President and Founder of The Center for Continuity Leadership, presented 'Hands Free Continuity (happens by design, not by accident)' where he discussed leveraging current economic times for greater significance and how to design a Strategic Continuity Program.

August 18th, 2009 - Greg Livingston from Centurion Compliance Partners, LLP spoke about making sure your Business Continuity Plan meets Regulatory and/or Audit scrutiny.

July 21st, 2009 - "It's the People Stupid" presented by Rene Jones from Total Logistics Solutions focused on how to help your employees feel confident that their homes and assets are protected so they can focus on the job of recovering your business in the event of a regional disaster.

June 6th, 2009 - Ron Fauset from Symitar conducted an interactive Mock Disaster Drill focusing on the real life and economical ways to make your drill realistic and exciting. This learning experience provided suggestions around improving business continuity program participation as well as testing strategies to prepare members for an interruption.

May 20th, 2009 - 4th Annual Workshop - this well-attended event featured Emergency Management sessions presented by Leslie Luke with SD County OES speaking about the readiness programs San Diego County has in place, Phil Van Saun on the Dynamics of Crisis Leadership and Erik Pounders discussing Earthquakes in California. The Business Continuity track featured Brandon Dempsey explaining how to Integrate Working Remotely into Your Business Continuity Program, Frank Crimi with San Diego Business Healthcare Connection telling you how to Incorporate Pandemic Planning into your BC Program and Lee Goldstein from Business Contingency Group discussing Business Continuity and Emergency Management Convergence. The keynote luncheon speakers was Fred Klapetzky from Marsh Risk Consulting reviewing Emerging Trends in Business Continuity Management.

April 20th, 2009 - Crisis Management Planning - A Workplace Violence Perspective - Tony Adame from Marsh identified how the economic downturn and the accompanying high number of 'reduction-in-force' actions emphasizes the need to develop general Crisis Management Plans specifying how to respond/react to Workplace Violence Events.

March 17th, 2009 - Business Resilient Contracting-Business resilient contracting has become increasingly popular since 9/11 and will continue to grow as standards for measuring the capabilities of organizations mature. You can't blindly rely on the capabilities of your subs and supplies when a disaster strikes. A panel discussed the topics of complying with customer requirements, evaluating subcontractor readiness and capability and establishing minimum contracting criteria through adherence to standards. The panel was composed of Suzy Hall from Qualcomm, Wes Colvin from Garda and Fernando Lara from Singular Security.

February 17th, 2009 - InfraGard & Infrastructure Protection-Erika Foxworth, FBI Special Agent and InfraGard Coordinator discussed how the need for infrastructure protection in a 9/11 world is more important than ever. InfraGard, the FBI's public-private partnership has assumed the lead and responsibility for partnership between an association of private businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information.

January 20th 2009 - Build - A BERT - Katie Wiest from Qualcomm shared how their organization has successfully completed four academies and plans for more CERT/BERT programs in the future. Carie DeMaraco-Kryzys, San Diego's CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) program manager revealed how CERT training in a BERT programs can provide your employees with hands-on, proactive training tailored to address specific concerns unique to your business / location.

November 18th, 2008 - Effective Crisis Communications was presented by Danell Adams with the Laguna Beach Police Department and discussed the successful collaboration with media, the utilization and leveraging of communications technology related to the Southern California wildfires in 2007.

October 21^st, 2008 – Virtualization for Disaster In the beginning, for Intel and other PC–type server designs, the basic rule was one application running on one server. As hardware improved and software matured, the norm changed to one application running on many servers. As hardware has continued to improve and software is being component, a new norm is to have many services and applications running either on a single server or a fleet of servers. The key to allowing multiple applications optimized for a variety of specific OS versions to coexist on the same physical server is virtualization of the server. Join us for lunch on Tuesday, October 21^st to learn about leveraging virtualization for disaster recovery. Download Complete PDF.

August 19^th, 2008– Keep it Clean and Simple! The topic of BCP and Business Resiliency has been around for years, but with recent planned and unplanned events in California and the world today, businesses of any size need to proactively develop plans to protect their associates and their business. We know the statistics: up to sixty percent of small companies can collapse within a year after experiencing a major denial of their systems, their associates, or their facilities.

June 17^th, 2008 – Third Annual Community Preparedness Workshop! Are you curious about how to improve the business resilience of your company? But you can’t take the time or spend the money going to an all–day or multi–day seminar on risk reduction, business continuity planning or disaster recovery practices? Cool! We have just the workshop you need and wouldn't you know it, to help you make up your mind.

April 15^th, 2008– Ready to Live the Dream? Shake, Rattle and Roll – When The Big One Hits! How well are you and your company prepared to deal with a truly significant earthquake resulting in local damage? Just how bad could it be and what can we expect will still be intact after The Big One? Find out more about what your peers and area experts are doing to prepare for surviving a significant quake as we Shake, Rattle and Roll in April! See complete presentation.

March 20^th, 2008 – Leveraging ITIL’s Built– in Business Continuity. Presented by: Guta Basner, a recipient of numerous awards; recognition certificates, conducts training classes and executive briefings and is the CEO & President of Process Service Management Corporation. See complete presentation.

February 19^th, 2008 – Let's Make a Crisis Decision Game – Feel what it’s like to be the CEO, COO or the Corporate Crisis Manager for a simulated day full of unexpected hurdles and opportunities.

January 15^th, 2008 – Professional Certifications – What Do You Need?
Presented by Steve Hauser.