Pre-Conference Workshops
Quality education is a prominent feature throughout the CPM conference. These half-day workshops provide contingency planning professionals in-depth learning opportunities before the main conference program begins.
Monday, May 9th - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Critical Incident Response to an Active Shooter: The Workplace Violence Response Preparation
This interactive program will help you create a critical incident response plan. It is imperative that you and your staff are trained in active shooter violence response and prevention strategies, are prepared both mentally and tactically, and have trained your workforce in emergency evacuations and movement to shelter in keeping out of harms way.
Ensuring a Successful Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
This session will review the “critical success factors” that lead to a quality BIA. It will also discuss the pitfalls that probably guarantee failure. Areas discussed include: What should the project plan be? How long should it take? What kind of survey should be used? How long? What should be the goals? What about interviews versus workshops? What is the Output?
Monday, May 9th - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Disaster Experience
Chances are that while you read this, an unexpected disaster is causing an organization stress and confusion and is affecting its long-term ability to provide products and services to its customers. Are the organization’s leaders prepared to handle it? Will they be able to recover? Disasters of every shape, size, look and feel happen all the time, affecting businesses, people's jobs, lives and families. This session has been designed to put you in the throes of a real-life disaster situation, as it unfolds.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to make the critical decisions and learn to deal with the consequences of those decisions! After you've finished, you'll understand the importance of planning in advance for a disaster or other business disruption. You'll never want to be caught unprepared again!
All Things Hot Site: Evaluating, Processing and Contracting
Recovery time objective (RTO) requirements are demanding solutions not achievable with a traditional shared risk hot site solution. Bringing everything in-house is expensive and may be impractical for your organization. Turning to hot sites as an alternative to in-house solutions can save you money and get you up and running quickly but only if you select the right vendor and negotiate the best agreement possible. This workshop will include presentations on negotiating hot site contracts, alternative hot site strategies, human concerns of BCP and hot site RFPs. They will give you information only the vendors know so you'll get the best prices and service.
Learning Objectives:
This workshop will teach you how to negotiate current and future pricing, line item pricing, auto renewals, annual increases, geographic exclusivity and liabilities. This workshop will also discuss contract provisions you should fight for and against and when to surrender. Also included will be a discussion on technology and service guarantees and how the vendor measures them, which can be critical to your success.