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BRMA Webinar | Charlie Maclean-Bristol: Is Business Continuity a Victim of Covid?
2021-09-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Webinar
September 30, 2021: Is Business Continuity a Victim of Covid?
Before COVID-19, we dutifully completed BIAs, developed our plans, including preparing for pandemics. Some organizations who had developed pandemic plans, found them to be useless and out of date…as the pandemic they planned for ,was not the pandemic they got. COVID-19 arrived and BIAs was chucked into the corner. Our senior managers wanted all processes to function normally and immediately, and everything became a priority. RTOs (in some cases) were not adhered to, and parts of the organization did not recover for weeks.

Our plans were used to manage COVID, but lots of organizations who didn’t have BCPs in place worked out what to do and developed their response very quickly. With the increasing threat of cyber ransomware and a push by the government for operational resilience amongst financial institutions, is business continuity losing, or has it lost its relevance? Will the job of the business continuity practitioner be condemned to the bin of history along with switchboard operators, milkmen and leech collectors?

Join us for a conversation with Charlie Maclean-Bristol and hear his thoughts on how to turn BCM into Operational Resilience and what you can do to continue to stay prepared through any impact that your organization may face.
Speaker Spotlight: Charlie Maclean-Bristol
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BRMA Webinar | Scott James: Connecting Through Resilience
2021-09-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Connecting Through Resilience

Consider how your Business Continuity planning is connected to both the overall group resilience of your surrounding neighborhoods and city, and the personal preparedness of each of your staff.
Join us to hear from preparedness expert Scott James on how these three aspects of preparedness – usually considered separate – have been successfully connected in his nonprofit’s unique approach to FEMA’s Whole Community doctrine.

Speaker Spotlight: Scott James

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BRMA Webinar | Anya Fleischer | Cultural Influences and Decision Making in a Crisis
2021-09-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Cultural Influences and Decision Making in a Crisis
Like values, a culture’s social norms provide a foundation for understanding the underlying assumptions that guide people’s behaviors, feelings, and interpretations of events. Crises and unforeseen incidents serve as perfect case studies that showcase how decisions are made. They also provide opportunity to practice decision making. Resiliency professionals can help with guiding the team to find the appropriate decision owner, mapping key stakeholders in the business and following a structured process to assist leaders in moving through the decision-making process.
In this session, Anya Fleischer (Chime) will cover tangible ways to create pathways and empower teams to work together to define the decision, identify influencers and help avoid knee-jerk reactions that may lead to poor outcomes.
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BRMA Webinar | Fiona Raymond-Cox | Technical Specifications: The unsung heroes of ISO 22301 certification
2021-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Technical Specifications: The unsung heroes of ISO 22301 certification
Fiona Raymond-Cox, Raymond-Cox Consulting, currently serves as a member of the ISO Working Group responsible for updates to both the ISO 22301 Standard and supporting Technical Specifications. Find out what’s new in the latest Standard. Learn about the family of associated Technical Specifications that can lead you to a more resilient and robust business continuity program. Fiona will also present options to consider whether certification should be in your future.
Speaker Spotlight: Fiona Raymond-Cox
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BRMA Webinar | Buddy Loomis: Personal Resilience
2021-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Personal Resilience

As a former law enforcement professional and now in the Tech Industry as a safety & security professional, Buddy has dedicated the better part of her life (both personally and professionally) to empowering people to feel safe in their homes, places of employment, the communities in which they live and the online communities in which they socially connect.
Join us and hear Buddy speak in an interactive session on how she defines personal resilience, how it has shaped her, and how she has used that reliance in both her personal and professional life to help others grow to find their own level of resiliency.
Speaker Spotlight: Buddy Loomis
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BRMA Webinar | Shree Prasad: Changing Perceptions: Transforming Business Continuity Management into Resilience
2021-06-24 20:00 - 21:00 | Webinar
Transforming Business Continuity Management into Resilience

The concept of Business Continuity & Resilience has existed from times memorable. But the term Business Continuity came into the limelight with the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. It was a ‘wake-up call’ for the organizations. Despite this, did Business Continuity or Resilience really garner and propagate the terms Business Continuity and Resilience beyond the Corporate World? The answer is both Yes and No. Yes, because there was surge in the number of people taking up BCM / Resilience roles. And No, because these terms were never applied on self or taught to others outside the Corporate world.
With the world getting highly volatile and COVID-19 setting the standards high, it is imperative that Resilience should now tap the door of every household, school, college and community. The world has moved from Business Continuity to Resilience. But have we?
Join our session to learn how Resilience should be a way of life and part of our DNA. Changes in perception and shifting their mindset, will help everyone both professionally and personally. By creating the right awareness around every threat and risk, it will help operations become proactive rather than reactive.

Speaker Spotlight: Shree Prasad

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BRMA Workshop | Steve Eberlein: Persuasive & Impactful Business Communication
2021-05-20 11:00 - 12:15 | Webinar
Persuasive and Impactful Business Communication

One of the obstacles that we face as resilience professionals is securing internal support from senior leadership. As planners, “selling” isn’t always in our wheelhouse, but it’s a skill that we all need to gain backing for our most ambitious resilience projects. If you’re looking to polish your next big pitch, or if you simply want to become a more impactful and persuasive communicator, this workshop is for you.
BRMA’s own Membership Director, Steve Eberlein, is a TEDx alum and professional speaker. In the course of delivering more the 200 live and virtual presentations, including to leadership teams of name brand companies, he’s seen everything go wrong, and has learned to do it right. He has developed a three-part workshop exclusively for BRMA members.
Part 1: Prepping Your Pitch
Steve will take you through the fundamentals of preparing an effective presentation. Par1 of the workplace will cover:
•The two things that you need to know about your audience
•How to deliver a noteless presentation
•Effective vs. awful use of PowerPoint
•Choosing the scope of your pitch –what’s too much, what’s too little
•Winning the day with Q&A
•Special tips for virtual presentations
Part 2: Rehearsal
It’s as trite as it is true that practice makes perfect. Practice before a friendly audience is the best practice of all. The second part of our workshop will present an opportunity to deliver your presentation before others in the Speakers Workshop cohort and receive candid, supportive feedback. Your session will be recorded and shared back to you with notes so that you can make the tweaks needed to nail your pitch.
Part 3: Take the Stage
Our BRMA monthly membership meeting is a great opportunity to take your newly learned skills primetime. While wholly optional, BRMA wants to hear from its members and for its members to benefit from one another’s expertise. We will give you any amount of support you need to get you over the finish line!

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BRMA Webinar | MaryJane Leslie: Alternative Social Media - Monitoring and Intelligence Strategies
2021-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Alternative Social Media – Monitoring and Intelligence Strategies

One of the biggest challenges facing the security industry is the trend in users moving towards less regulated, alternative social media. Threat actors and disruptive events are being planned and promoted on sources that are becoming increasingly more difficult to monitor. While it may seem like new networks are popping up and falling off rapidly, it is critical for teams to understand what types of intelligence are available to them and how to best stay on top of these sources.
MaryJane Leslie will lead this exciting session and provide insights concerning alternative social media and how they might play a role in the future.

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BRMA Webinar | Mark Pierepiekarz: Bounce Back Stronger
2021-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Bounce Back Stronger – Practical strategies to rapidly recover after earthquakes

The current Covid-19 pandemic teaches us that pre-disaster risk assessment, preparedness, mitigation, and rapid response can reduce a potential disaster into a manageable emergency. This is also the case with earthquakes, and when such low-probability high-risk events happen, businesses want to be prepared and resilient. Consequently, business recovery managers require good understanding of earthquake exposures and effective mitigation strategies for their organizations.

Mark Pierepiekarz will lead this exciting session and describe lessons from recent earthquakes, an approach to assessing and quantifying earthquake risks, as well as prioritizing mitigation actions that lead to a rapid recovery of operations in the event of a major earthquake.

Learning Objectives/Takeaways
At the conclusion of this session, the attendee will be able to better understand:

What are earthquake hazards?
What are “drivers” for earthquake losses and business interruption?
What is key in reducing the severity of earthquake impacts to bounce back stronger?

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BRMA Webinar | Paul Lambert: Resiliency Training for a Virtual Workplace
2021-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Resiliency Training for a Virtual Workplace
Your fellow employees and you are probably still working from home. Odds are 2020, and now 2021, have ushered in an incredible amount of change to your program – such as new software, evolving methodology, new team members, etc. But best practices, experience, standards, and regulators keep whispering that training and awareness are required for a continuously improving program. And we can’t train everyone on Zoom!
Join our presentation where Paul Lambert will cover the importance of a well-organized resiliency training strategy, which includes:

Different types of effective training,
Delivery models that will work for you and your organization
How to train a dispersed and overwhelmed workforce, and how you can do it yourself.

Following the presentation, all attendees will receive a free training video titled, “Back to the Office after Covid-19” branded for your organization and licensed to use internally.
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BRMA Webinar | Joint Presentation: Steve Eberlein & Josh Bashioum
2021-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Earthquake Science and Technology: Early Warning Systems and Detection
Earthquake Early Warning systems are operational in several countries around the world, including Mexico, Japan, Turkey, Romania, China, Italy, and Taiwan. The west coast of the US is the newest entrant with full public and private availability in California and Oregon, and Washington’s participation soon to follow. The onus is now on us as earthquake zone residents and business operatives to employ ShakeAlert’s capabilities to keep our families, assets, and enterprises prepared for the inevitable seismic events that await us. This program is an opportunity to ask the basic questions and to imagine aloud the benefits of this game-changing technology. The program will include:

Earthquakes 101 – The Anatomy of California and Pacific Northwest Earthquakes.

The difference between the San Andreas Fault System and the Cascadia Subduction Zone
The correlation between fault length and magnitude
The roles that magnitude, distance and soil play in our earthquake experience

ShakeAlert

The difference between earthquake prediction, earthquake forecasting, and Earthquake Early Warning
What a ShakeAlert is and how it’s produced

Earthquake Early Warning applications and availability

ShakeAlert apps and personal protection
ShakeAlert automated capabilities
ShakeAlert workplace applications
Geographic availability

Presenters
Steve Eberlein and Josh Bashioum
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BRMA Fireside Chat | Jerry Davis
2021-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Lessons Learned from NASA: Operating in a Compromised Environment
Rebuilding a Trusted Environment after the SolarWinds Compromise
Join us for an engaging conversation about Jerry’s experience at NASA during a time when two multi-billion dollar Earth observing imagery satellites were compromised, and how he developed a path forward for NASA to rebuild a trusted infrastructure. This discussion will also contain a number of key elements that Jerry’s counterintelligence experience from CIA will help analyze the current situation with SolarWinds and impacts it has created for global businesses.
SolarWinds_Case Study_010821

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MIT Professional Education: Crisis Management & Business Resiliency Course
2021-01-19 - 2021-01-28 | Online Event
Crisis Management and Business Continuity Course

December 3, 2020 BRMA Virtual Annual Membership Meeting
2020-12-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
2020 BRMA Virtual Annual Membership Meeting

For the first time every member is welcome and encouraged to attend. We have an exciting and interactive agenda planned for you. During this wonderful event we will acknowledge those who helped shape the organization this year; reveal the new BRMA Board; present the BRMA Award of Excellence; find out what’s ahead for 2021 under new leadership; catch up with fellow BRMA members; and, participate in a magical virtual experience (bring the kiddos).

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2020 IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX
2020-11-13 - 2020-11-18 | CA
2020 IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX – Visioning the Future of Emergency Management

BRMA Community Series | COVID-19 | Ibrahim Almufti
2020-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
COVID Risk In The Workplace
Discussion on how we are quantifying Covid risk and de-risking spaces as companies return to the workplace.
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November 2020 Board of Directors Meeting | In-Person
2020-11-05 11:30 - 14:00 | AC Hotel San Francisco Airport Oyster Point Waterfront, 1333 VETERANS BOULEVARD, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, United States
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BCI World 2020
2020-11-05 - 2020-11-06 | CA
BCI World 2020
Birmingham, UK

BRMA Inspire Series | Steve Eberlein
2020-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Creating Cultures of Preparedness
Why do people not prepare for disasters? How do we create cultures of preparedness? These have long been the questions, and we have consistently chosen the wrong answers. In March of 2019, FEMA issued a scathing report on two decades of its own national preparedness efforts, declaring them nothing short of a miserable failure.
We have to fix these problems through a shift in our mindset. In this session, Steve Eberlein is a professional preparedness speaker who specializes in earthquake preparedness will show you how he convinces people to prepare for disaster events. His presentation will include:

A short overview of the history and science of Bay Area earthquakes
An exploration of how the “knowledge myth” has misguided decades of preparedness efforts
A personal case study in how his behavior leads perfect strangers to change their own
The role that emotion plays in one’s preparedness conversion

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BRMA Inspire Series | Skyler Hallgren
2020-10-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Tools for Emergency Preparedness Advocates: Best Practices in Persuasion from a Million Data Points
Every business recovery professional knows how important emergency planning is, but often our job is persuading those around us to take it seriously. Whether it’s requesting a budget for resilience initiatives, getting buy-in from your staff to take preparedness seriously, or simply encouraging people you care about to get prepared, getting others on-board with preparedness is crucial.
At the heart of his role, Skyler Hallgren is a professional marketer for preparedness. He Co-founded Redfora, the most successful consumer preparedness company in the country, and leads the Organizational Marketing team at Ethos Preparedness.
Skyler’s team has invested over a million dollars to discover what messaging, delivery, and timing can truly persuade preparedness, and he’ll share his marketing toolkit for business recovery professionals that never signed up to be marketers, but rely on communication and persuasion to make an impact in their organizations.
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BRMA Inspire Series | Jerry Davis
2020-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
The Business of Personal Resilience!
Business Continuity professionals are sufficiently capable of planning for, initiating and recovering business functions during the most arduous and catastrophic events. But how does one plan for, or recover from highly disruptive life events? In this session, Jerry Davis will share his personal experience on how to initiate personal resilience in the face of unforeseen and potentially unrecoverable events, that at times have put his own livelihood at great risk.
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BRMA Community Series | COVID-19 | Kamroon Mohideenbasha
2020-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Kamroon Mohideenbasha | City and County of San Francisco
Kamroonbanu Mohideenbasha from City and County of San Francisco will discuss with us the challenges they faced from the start of COVID-19.
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Everbridge Coronavirus Virtual Symposium | COVID-19 R2R Autumn 2020
2020-10-14 - 2020-10-15 | CA

October 2020 Board of Directors Meeting | Online
2020-10-01 11:30 - 13:00 | Webinar

DRJ Fall 2020
2020-09-28 - 2020-10-01 | CA
DRJ Fall 2019 – Focus on the Future of Resiliency
Phoenix, AZ

BRMA Community Series | COVID-19: Returning to Work | Kevin Cunningham
2020-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Kevin Cunningham
When will offices reopen? In the face of so much uncertainty, the best option is to design an approach that’s based on flexibility.
Kevin Cunningham will share with us what public health metrics to track, how to utilize all respective data inputs in order to effectively and consistently determine criteria in the evolving landscape of COVID-19, and when to move forward or roll back return to workplace phases.
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September 2020 Board of Directors Meeting | Online
2020-09-03 11:30 - 13:00 | Webinar

BRMA Community Series | Shelly Munoz
2020-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Shelly Munoz (Box)
Disaster risk is systemic, and as resilience professionals we should not approach crises in isolation. Disasters weaken entire systems and cascading impacts are felt across all aspects of life and have compounding effects.
Shelly Munoz of Box will be discussing preparedness initiatives for handling multiple disruptions simultaneously.
Reminder!
This is the last chance to be entered to win 1 of 4 free DRJ 2020 Fall passes. The virtual conference is taking place from September 28th to October 1st and will provide informative sessions, expert speakers, networking, and access to exhibitors you expect from DRJ, without the need to travel.
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August 27, 2020 Membership Meeting | Webinar
2020-08-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Operational Resilience, The New Frontier
Traditional BCM programs are shifting toward Operational Resilience at a rapid pace catching the wave will be extremely valuable to your organization and your career.
In this session David Halford of Fusion Risk Management will unpack the emerging industry concept of an Operational Resilience focused program, reference the new regulatory drivers, and the inclusion of thinking in terms of Business Services and their tolerances (top down) as part of the program.
David will present insightful high-level concepts of an Operational Resilience program and reference new regulatory drivers to enable resiliency. He will also share inclusive and holistic ways of thinking how an organization can continue to provide business services in the face of adverse operational events, by creating appropriate tolerances in anticipating, preventing, recovering from, and adapting to such incidents or disruptions.
Read David’s Speaker Spotlight to learn more about him.
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BRMA Community Series | COVID-19 Discussion | Stasha Wyskiel
2020-08-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar
Stasha Wyskiel (Salesforce)
Stasha will discuss their recently launched work.com app and how their contact tracing app works in practice.
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