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Sponsored Fusion Risk Management Webinar: Pillars of a Successful Business Continuity Program - A Path to Resilience
10/17/2024
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Changes in the way we experience disruption mean that business continuity practitioners must respond with confidence in times of crisis with an airtight response plan in place. But to go a step further, for today's teams to be truly prepared for anything, organizations need to be consistently improving their programs with an eye towards resilience. In this upcoming webinar, learn how nurturing a culture of resilience within your organization not only prepares your teams for unexpected challenges but also strengthens overall adaptability and agility in the face of disruptions.

Join Fusion Risk Management on October 17 at 2:00 p.m. ET for an expert-led, focused webinar on how a successful business continuity program improves business resiliency. Moreover, this session will underscore the importance of regular testing and exercising as vital practices for validating and refining your business continuity plans. We will illustrate how these foundational pillars collectively support a robust framework for resilience, ultimately showcasing the tangible value of a well-structured BC program.

Key Takeaways:
· Understand the role of BIAs in prioritizing critical business functions
· Learn how testing and exercising validate and improve continuity plans
· Discover strategies to demonstrate the tangible value of a BC program
· Chart a clear path toward sustained business resilience

Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to gain actionable insights and equip your organization with the knowledge needed to navigate uncertainties with confidence.

Attending this webinar will earn DRI Certified Professionals one Continuing Education Activity Point (CEAP) toward recertification.

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by Fusion Risk Management. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of Fusion and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

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Past Webinars

Fusion Risk Management Sponsored Webinar: Data-Driven Scenario Testing - Maximize Your Activities with Less Effort
08/27/2024
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Fusion Risk Management’s Lead Data Scientist Davis DeRodes and Sr. Product Marketing Manager Mandy Leavell illustrates how a strategic, data-driven scenario testing program can assess your organization’s ability to deliver critical business services during a crisis, as well as boost confidence in your strategic decision-making.

You’ll learn how to:
- Use new technology to complete more resiliency activities with less effort
- Identify which scenarios are relevant for your organization to test against quickly and efficiently
- Build scenarios that are relevant to your organization’s specific vulnerabilities
- Prioritize scenarios based on material business impact, not just impact size
- Leverage AI to streamline and automate the testing process

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by Fusion Risk Management. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of Fusion and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

BDO Sponsored Webinar: Don’t Sleep on Tech – Life After Resilience Technology Implementation
06/13/2024
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Enabling your organization’s resilience capabilities can be a daunting task. Risk domains traditionally sit in siloed functions and resiliency plans struggle to gain footing across an enterprise. An organization’s disjointed areas of resilience may hinder efforts to empower employees to make sound resilience-based decisions.

In this webinar, we will explore how properly leveraging technology promotes greater stakeholder engagement and increases connectivity across an organization. We will focus on the following elements crucial to the adoption of technology following its implementation:

- Engage stakeholders through change management
- Always be automating
- Don’t set it and forget it

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by BDO. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of BDO and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

Riskonnect Sponsored Webinar: There's No Business Resilience Without Cyber Resilience
05/16/2024
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Jim Kastle, Chief Information Security Officer at Kimberly-Clark and Brian Zawada, General Manager, Business Continuity & Resilience at Riskonnect, discuss how information security contributes to cyber resilience and ultimately, at the most strategic level, business resilience.

You’ll learn:
- What are accepted definitions of information security and cyber resilience (including key outcomes).
- The relationship – and ideal coordination – between information security and business continuity to delivery cyber resilience.
- Who should be involved in the journey toward cyber resilience.
- The key processes that contribute to cyber resilience maturity.

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by Riskonnect. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of Riskonnect and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

Fusion Risk Management Sponsored Webinar: Choosing the right technology partner to bolster your BC Program
02/08/2024
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Dan Jarva from Fusion Risk Management discusses how industry-leading organizations evaluate selecting the appropriate partner to ensure programmatic success. Learn the right questions to ask and the framework to follow to truly learn what you need from a vendor beyond basic functionality.

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by Fusion Risk Management, a Patron Sponsor for DRI2024, coming to New Orleans, LA Mar. 3-6. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of Fusion and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

DRI Webinar - Resilience in the Digital Era: Navigating Business Continuity in the Wake of Rapid Digital Transformation
10/26/2023
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Australia and New Zealand's Rod Crowder, CBCP, discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic brought about rapid change for businesses and industries across the world, who were forced to implement years of planned digital solutions in a matter of weeks or months. The unexpected need to transition large numbers of employees to a work-from-home model required a major rethink to business and IT delivery models, with risks quickly transitioning from premises and office environments to data centres, networks, software applications and data security. In this webinar, we discuss how this transition has impacted business continuity planning and how it is evolving to keep pace with the emerging digital-era.

Riskonnect Sponsored Webinar - Threat Intelligence: What Is It and How Can It Benefit Business Continuity?
09/26/2023
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Natural disasters, civil unrest, transportation disruption and crime are just a few of the threats that can affect your operations in an instant. How do you actively monitor everything? The answer is threat intelligence. Threat intelligence is increasingly becoming an important early-warning part of broader business continuity programs. This webinar explains the value of threat intelligence, how it connects to broader continuity and resilience program outcomes, and how you can incorporate it into your program. You'll discover how to get ahead of risk and learn from the threats that are actively affecting your operations, locations, and people.

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by Riskonnect. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of Riskonnect and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

DRI Live Webinar - ESG, Sustainability and Climate Resilience: A Business Continuity Perspective
08/01/2023
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) has become a major topic of discussion. How should the resilience community navigate ESG to better manage sustainability and develop best practices for their organizations? A new report from DRI International and the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard (NPLI), based on input from a wide range of business sectors, will shed more light on the subject. In this webinar, Lyndon Bird (Chief Knowledge Officer, DRI), Eric McNulty (Associate Director, NPLI) and Chloe Demrovsky (President & CEO, DRI) will discuss the findings of the report, and how organizations can move forward to ensure future performance and success within an ESG framework.

DRI Webinar - The Case for Business Continuity Training in State Emergency Management
06/22/2023
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

With natural disasters on the rise and cyber attacks on the nightly news, are state governments ready to meet the challenges and risks of the modern world? For the state of Maryland, the answer to that question is a resounding YES! In this live webinar, hear how Maryland state emergency managers are taking a uniquely effective approach to improving resilience: Training! A two-year program aims to increase resiliency by cross-training staff in business continuity, IT disaster recovery, and cyber resilience. Learn from Maryland OEM's Brian Bauer and Ken Maloney how it’s working, as well as how this approach also benefits both the private sector and public-private partnership initiatives. Alex Abdun-Nabi, Emergency Preparedness Manager for Capital Metro (CAPMET), Austin's public transportation system will also discuss his experiences incorporating private sector resilience practices into public sector operations.

BDO Sponsored Webinar - Operational Resilience: Something Old or Something New? (Presented by DRI International)
01/25/2023
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Three industry leaders discuss their take on Operational Resilience and present an overview of recent drivers for OpRes, namely regulatory requirements in the Financial Services Industry (FSI) and the increasing pressures of unhindered operations in an interconnected customercentric world. They then outline what it means for organizations inside and outside the regulated industry, wrapping up with challenges to consider when thinking about adopting OpRes capabilities in your organization.

NOTE: This is a sponsored webinar with content produced by BDO. The information contained in this presentation represents the views and opinions of BDO and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of DRI International.

El camino a la resiliencia organizacional desde la continuidad del negocio como impulsor
06/28/2022
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

De acuerdo con el reporte de la Contraloría General de La República de Costa Rica sobre la continuidad de la entrega de servicios por Covid, el Banco Nacional de Costa Rica es la única institución pública en el país que alcanzó un nivel óptimo en la Continuidad Institucional. Este Webinar busca mencionar las acciones y caso de éxito que han hecho que el Banco Nacional de Costa Rica lidere procesos exitosos para dotar de resiliencia a sus procesos, beneficiando al cliente final con productos y servicios de alta calidad. El expositor, Randall Villalobos, CBCP, es el Gerente de Continuidad de Negocio del Banco Nacional, con amplia experiencia en desarrollo e implementación de proyectos.

DRI Resilience Excellence Summit - Day 3 (approximately 90 min)
05/04/2022
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Keynote Address: An Interview with Scott Baldwin, Head of Enterprise Resilience, Netflix
Spotlight: Awards of Excellence winners
Presentation by Dr. Gianluca Pescaroli: Cascading Risks

DRI Resilience Excellence Summit - Day 2 (approximately 90 min)
05/03/2022
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Keynote Address: Robyn Kimbro, MBCP, CCRP, Sr. Manager, Enterprise Business Continuity, Walmart, Inc.
Spotlight: Awards of Excellence winners
Presentation by Peter Morris, IT Service Continuity Management Expert, Operational Resilience – Group Security, AXA Group Operations UK Ltd.: Distant Lands

DRI Resilience Excellence Summit - Day 1 (approximately 120 min)
05/02/2022
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Keynote Address: Mike LeFever, Vice Admiral (Ret.), U.S. Navy
Spotlight: Awards of Excellence winners
Sponsor Presentation: Critical Event Management with BlackBerry
Presentation by Raelene Anderson and Bobby Cook, Delta Dental of California: From Creation to Culmination - How We Built an Entire BR Program in 18 Months During a Global Pandemic

Money Never Sleeps: Business Continuity at the Federal Reserve - During this webinar, a panel of business continuity professionals from the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, Minneapolis, and San Francisco along with the Fed’s Cash Product Office explains how the Fed’s structure allows for autonomous operations among its twelve regional banks when addressing local issues while ensuring unity of effort for events that could have systemwide impacts.
11/17/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Weatherproofing your Business Continuity Program: During a severe weather event, employee safety is the top concern, followed by minimizing operational disruptions. Hear business continuity experts from a variety of industries share how they prepare ahead of severe weather incidents — from hurricanes to tornadoes to hail to extreme heat — and provide insights into how they make decisions for operations, employees and facilities. Featured speakers include Scott Cormier, Vice President, Emergency Management, EC, & Safety, Medxcel, and Alicia Henderson, CBCP, Business Continuity Incident Management Manager, Enterprise Business Continuity, Zions Bancorp. This webinar is sponsored by StormGeo.
08/18/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

New Era of Crisis Communications: Case Studies & Lessons Shared Communication is key, especially in a crisis. Hear from crisis communications experts who will draw on their experiences to help you get a handle on what to say — and what not to say — as well as how to craft messaging that will inform others while serving your organization. Featured speakers include Suzanne Bernier, President, SB Crisis Consulting, Bob Jensen, Senior Managing Director, Strat3 LLC and Jessica Kindig, Exercise Program Manager, Indiana Department of Homeland Security.
07/28/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

The Resilience Landscape: Today's Relationship Between Organizational and Operational Resilience - We look at the relationship between organizational and operational resilience, and the regulations in-between, with three of the UK’s top professionals Dr. Aaron Gracey, Managing Director of Squared Apples, Mike Price, Managing Director of Resilius Consulting, and Steve Yates, CBCP, Director of Acertia Unlimited.
06/30/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Mindfulness Practices to Improve Incident Management: DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management (WBCM) Committee hosts this webinar led by WBCM member Karina de Allicon who developed and teaches DRI’s new Mindfulness Practices to Improve Incident Management workshop. Mindfulness is about learning how the brain works so we can increase cognitive function and situational awareness, which helps to lower stress, spot common traps, and make better decisions when it matters the most.
04/28/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Resilience Excellence Summit - Day 3 (approximately 90 min) includes keynote address with Ronald S. Ross, Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, spotlight on Resilient Enterprise recipient Copa Airlines, Awards of Excellence announcements (Newcomer of the Year, Team of the Year, Product/Service Provider of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement Award), BlackBerry presentation on 'How AI and Machine Learning will Transform Critical Event Management' and an expert cyber panel.
03/03/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Resilience Excellence Summit - Day 2 (approximately 90 min) includes keynote address with Lolita Jackson, Climate Policy and Programs Advisor, New York City Mayor’s Office, spotlight on DRI's BC Exercises workshop Spotlight, Awards of Excellence announcements (Honor Roll, Program Leader of the Year – Non-Profit Sector, Program Leader of the Year – Public Sector, and Program Leader of the Year – Private Sector), and resilience trends and predictions panel led by members of the DRI Future Vision Committee.
03/02/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Resilience Excellence Summit - Day 1 (approximately 90 min) includes keynote address with Michael Berkowitz, Founding Principal, Resilient Cities Catalyst, a spotlight on DRI's newest Incident Management Mindfulness workshop, Awards of Excellence announcements (Response and Recovery of the Year, COVID-19 Response and Recovery of the Year, and Consultant of the Year) and an expert pandemic panel.
03/01/2021
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Asia Webinar: Has India Managed to Convert the Pandemic Threat Into an Opportunity? The answer to this is two parts: 1) The decisions taken by the Indian government in dealing with the threats/risks, analyzed by Rakesh Pande, and 2) The operational industry insight by Harsha Sastry, providing a brief of industry responsiveness and uncertainties, and strategies adopted to secure people, assets, environments, business operations and the overall federation enabling continuity and resilience overall.
12/16/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar en Español: ¿Qué lecciones nos deja el COVID-19 a los Planificadores de Continuidad de Negocio?
11/13/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Returning to the Worksite During COVID-19 with Pandemic Preparedness Expert Dr. Lisa Koonin — When and How? Start Planning Now!
11/12/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Disaster Exercises - Assessing the Effectiveness of Your BCM Plan: Community management expert Lisa Orloff gives an overview of effective disaster exercises to assess your business continuity plan and 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.
08/19/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Preservando la Continuidad del Negocio ante la "Nueva Normalidad" derivada por el Covid-19: Estrategias para la transición y adaptación empresarial: Juan Carlos González Cardozo, CBCP, consultor, conferencista e instructor internacional en materia de Gestión del Riesgo Empresarial, Resiliencia Organizacional, Gestión de Continuidad del Negocio y Gestión de Crisis conversa sobre los lineamientos estratégicos de la Gestión de Continuidad del Negocio en momentos de Pandemia, como orientación a la Dirección de las organizaciones en la preservación de sus operaciones y en la mitigación de los efectos del Covid-19.
06/11/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Cybersecurity & COVID-19 - The Current Landscape: While organizations are overwhelmed meeting the challenges of a pandemic, cyber criminals have found a perfect opportunity to attack. Dr. Pano Yannakogeorgos of the NYU Center for Global Affairs presents an up-to-the-minute look at cybersecurity in the age of COVID-19 and covers recent examples of how hackers have taken advantage of the crisis, how governments and grassroots efforts have responded, and the risks of shifting to remote work without cybersecurity procedures in place.
05/14/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

COVID-19 Q&A with Infectious Disease Specialist: Megan Coffee, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, NYU Langone offers an up-to-the-minute presentation on the current state of COVID-19 response and answer questions from the audience in a special live Q&A.
03/27/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Trends and Predictions from the DRI Future Vision Committee: How to Prepare for 2020 - Future Vision Committee members including Lyndon Bird, David Porter, and Boris Issavi will discuss highlights from the Fifth Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends and Predictions reports. Discover how your job will be impacted by world events – including cyber threats, natural disasters, and much more – and what you can do about them.
02/12/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Resiliencia Cibernética Transformando Riesgo en Competitividad: Una introducción a la Resiliencia Cibernética y cómo la gestión de riesgos, bajo la premisa de la resiliencia cibernética, permite innovar y aumentar la competitividad empresarial, brindándole conceptos y casos reales de aprendizaje.
02/12/2020
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Veterans and Continuity: Lessons for All Resilience Professionals - Since its inception, the DRI Foundation’s Veterans Outreach Program has had a tremendous impact on connecting transitioning military service members with resilience careers, and these efforts are only growing. In this webinar, you can learn more about how this program can benefit your organization – and the resilience community. Hear first-hand the lessons learned from transitioning from the military to the private sector, what resilience professionals can learn from their colleagues with military service experience, advice for both companies hiring veterans and veterans thinking about careers in BCM/resilience careers, and much more.
12/18/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Preparing for Mega-Events: Lessons from the London Olympics - Follow a real-life case study on preparing, planning, and executing a massive public event while managing all the potential risks that come with such an endeavour. One day after the announcement that London had won its bid to host the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, there was a series of bomb attacks on the London transport network, leaving many seriously injured and killing 52 people. This presentation takes you through the steps that were used during the preparation, planning and execution of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games, for which such “Mega Events” are classified as the “Greatest Show on Earth.”
12/10/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

The Future of Resilience: Trends and Predictions for Professionals in Asia: Patrick Alcantara discusses the latest risks and resilience trends in Asia and Oceania from our Future Vision Committee. In his presentation, he gives an overview of the most pressing economic and political concerns facing resilience professionals. Patrick is joined by Lim Sek Seong of Marsh Risk Consulting who will share their perspective on the risk and organizational landscape and trends in the region.
10/29/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

MBCP Panel Answers Your Continuity Questions: Listen to an impressive panel of MBCPs answer your questions from various industries and with a wide range of expertise during our “Ask the MBCPs” webinar.
09/26/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Resiliencia en las Organizaciones: Adrián Sanchez, CBCP, profesional con 15 años de experiencia profesional en BCM y Resiliencia, será el expositor principal del webinar sobre la resiliencia desde una perspectiva integral en la organización y se darán recomendaciones para impulsar la resiliencia organizacional.
09/10/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Cyber Resilience Q&A: The Answers to Your Compelling Questions - Complex and often confounding, all things cyber resilience are challenging continuity and resilience professionals worldwide. We go beyond the theoretical to provide thoughtful answers to your real-world questions.
06/26/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Trends and Predictions from the DRI Future Vision Committee: How to Prepare for 2019
02/07/2019
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Achieving Cyber-Resilience: A Formula for Success - Cybersecurity expert Wade Richmond delivers important information on one of the profession’s hottest topics on Dec. 13 at 2:00 pm ET. Sponsored by Continuity Logic.
12/13/2018
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

GDPR: Considerations for Continuity Professionals - Nov. 29 webinar discussing GDPR and its implications across business continuity with Lyndon Bird, Ovidiu Diaconescu and Luuk Akkermans.
11/29/2018
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

'Ask Betsy' Women in Business Continuity Management (WBCM) Webinar - Nov. 8 at 2:00 p.m. ET with Betsy Sayers, MBCP, ITIL, ICS - IT/DR
11/08/2018
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Webinar en Español: Tendencias y Predicciones en Continuidad de Negocio - 12 de Octubre de 2018 en el horario 9:00 a.m. CDT con Chloe Demrovsky, Presidente del DRI y Karol Cordero, Directora de Mercadeo para América Latina del DRI
10/12/2018
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Real Recovery Lessons and a Partnership that Passed the Test: Ryan Miller, CBCP, CBCLA, Director of Emergency Management for Howard County, MD, and Larry Twele, CEO of Howard County Economic Development Authority
05/16/2018
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Trends and Predictions from DRI's Future Vision Committee: How to Prepare for 2018
01/17/2018
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Beyond Compliance: Getting Real about Regulations
11/16/2017
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

Webinar del DRI: Principales cambios a las Practicas Profesionales
10/10/2017
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Cyber Risk: The Internet of Things
08/09/2017
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Active Shooter and Mass Casualty Response - A Crisis Management Perspective
05/17/2017
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Moving beyond firm boundaries - Is resilience enhanced by supply chain continuity programs?
03/15/2017
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Trends and Predictions from DRI's Future Vision Committee: How to Prepare for a Volatile 2017
01/11/2017
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: What's New with the Professional Practices
11/15/2016
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: DRI's Organizational Certification
09/28/2016
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Business Continuity Meets Healthcare : From Zika to Patient Care to Ransomware...and Beyond
06/29/2016
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: DRI's 2016 Trends Report Webinar
02/04/2016
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: IT/DR and Business Continuity
11/12/2014
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Business Continuity Meets Risk Management
07/11/2014
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: Why Words Matter - DRI's International Glossary for Resiliency Unveiled
03/29/2014
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: DRI Professional Practices for Business Continuity
05/22/2013
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

DRI Webinar: The State of Healthcare and BCM and a New Certification
02/17/2012
The presentation materials can also be found in the resource library here.

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