8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Welcome Address and OSSNHS Induction

Join Chloe Demrovsky as she welcomes DRI2022 attendees to Las Vegas. She will address key updates from DRI International and our profession as a whole as she sets the tone for our annual event. At this time, we are also proud to induct DRI’s newest MBCPs in the Order ...
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
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Keynote Presentation: A Life of Resilience

Sichan Siv embodies resilience and will share his inspiring story with DRI2022 attendees in the perfect keynote kick-off session. Siv is the international bestselling author of Golden Bones, an American dream story, and the political thriller Golden State. In 2001, after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, he was ...
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
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Supply Chain Resilience: Recent Examples of Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions

Join us for a discussion from a global manufacturer’s perspective on how their supply chain has been impacted with their business continuity teams playing a key role in its resiliency the past few years. Included in this session are: Key supply chain components and contributors Common known and unforeseen ...
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
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The Shift Towards IT Response, Recovery and Resiliency

As IT threats continue to grow, IT outages will remain a rising challenge for organizations. Therefore, it becomes crucial to develop disaster recovery strategies and implement IT resilience capabilities to protect the most valuable assets and services. Advancements in communication and technology have reshaped the development of disaster recovery ...
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
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Enterprise Resilience at Netflix

Taking Netflix’s unique culture into account, we have developed a strategic vision for the Enterprise Resilience (ER) program to identify where our critical assets are, how resilient they currently are, and how to increase their resilience when and if needed. This process includes: Educating leadership and risk owners of ...
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
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Chokepoints That Can and Will Affect Your Organization

Are you aware of the various chokepoints that may be affecting your organization? During this session, we will look at physical and/or natural issues, as well as operational issues, that ultimately affect your day-to-day production capabilities. Discussion will involve topics global in nature, including technical threats to your supply ...
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
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  • DRI2017 Speaker Lyndon Bird

Afternoon Plenary: Leadership During Covid-19: New Report on Trends and Outcomes from DRI International and Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative

For the resilience community and executive leadership across all industries, the pandemic has become the seminal challenge of their careers. This can’t miss session will share key findings from joint research conducted by DRI and Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI). Findings were published in a report titled “Covid-19: ...
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Plenary Session – Cryptographic Currency, Economic Security and the Disintermediated Environment

Intermediaries serve as partners, facilitators, arbiters, and sometimes gatekeepers as people go about their daily lives. They enable payments between parties, creation of contracts, setting and enforcing standards, and matching buyers and sellers. However, what happens when intermediaries go away? Do complex, interconnected systems remain trustworthy and resilient? If not, what ...
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
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Business Benefits of Personal Emergency Plans

When we boil it all down, people are a business’ single most critical asset.  Of course, we plan to have backups for key personnel, but what happens when our people are also affected by the same disaster and repercussions that impacts our business?  This presentation is intended to provide ...
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
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COVID-19: Continued Threat! Lessons Learned and Critical Path Forward

We are entering the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Omicron variant has caused an extremely high case rate that has disrupted many businesses’ operations. What do business continuity professionals need to do now? When and how can a safe return to the workplace resume? There have been ...
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
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  • DRI2017 Speaker Lyndon Bird

The Great Debate: Your Chance to Weigh in on Important Issues

What risks are you most concerned about? How well prepared are you to manage them? How do you think our profession will change over the next few years? In this highly-interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to vote on a number of the key issues which have emerged ...
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
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Public-Private Partnerships and Intelligence Coordination

The failure of the public and private sector to share intelligence information in a timely manner delays and inhibits crisis response. How does the cross-sector information sharing community operate? What barriers or challenges inhibit effective cross-sector information sharing? How can the public and private sector better coordinate to prepare ...
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
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Mindfulness to Promote Physical and Mental Well-being

Climate change, globalization, and the intricate complexity of multiple operational risks (e.g. supply chain, technological innovations) have challenged Business Continuity Management Professionals to quickly respond to and recover from a growing number of business disruptive events. The need to strengthen business resiliency cannot be questioned, yet promoting the physical ...
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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Assessing your Vendors: Taking Resiliency to the Next Level

Understanding third party vendor risk is essential for organizational resiliency. This session will address best practices for assessing vendor risk and resiliency.  We will review how to evaluate residual risks and potential impacts to incorporate vendor risk into a comprehensive resiliency program.  We will also review using data analytics ...
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
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  • DRI2017 Speaker Michele Turner

Looking Back to See the Path Forward

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  Whether you align to this original quote communicated by George Santayana, or the latter summary by Winston Churchill, the underlying message is spot on. The year 2020 brought with it a pandemic, civil unrest, and multiple natural and ...
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
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Creating a Center of Excellence to Build Out Community-wide Resilience

Organizations can play an active role in the resilience of their communities by establishing a Center of Excellence in Resilience. Community resilience builds by utilizing ground-up/grassroots efforts and a Center of Excellence is a top-down approach. By bringing these together in this session attendees will learn what, why, and ...