Successful Partnerships in Contingency Planning

The Association of Contingency Planners is to hold its Second Annual Symposium on Friday May 14th at the NCERA Conference Facility in Arlington, VA.

Entitled ‘Successful Partnerships in Contingency Planning,’ the event’s programme is as follows:

7:45-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Opening remarks

8:45-9:30 Session 1 - Arlington County's Community Alert System, Ron Carlee, County Manager, Arlington, Virginia

9:30-10:15 Session 2 - Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster – Charles Hess, director, Department of Homeland Security/FEMA

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-11:30 Session 3 – DC Region Planning Efforts – Caroline Cunningham, vice president, Regional Partnership Greater Washington Board of Trade (BOT)

11:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:45 Session 4 - Partnering with the Media in a Crisis – Doug McKelway, anchor/reporter, WJLA-TV

1:45-2:30 Session 5 – DC Regional Public/Private Partnerships - Mary Hill, former chairperson of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG)

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-3:45 Session 6 - Lessons Learned from Hurricane Isabel - How internal and external partnering is critical to recovering your operations - Blaise D’Ambrosio, CBCP, VP, business continuity manager, T Rowe Price

3:45-4:00 Closing remarks

Attendance at the symposium costs $125 for ACP members and $195 for non members. For registration information, please visit http://www.acp-international.com/dc

•Date: 16th March 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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