‘Best practices in contingency planning’

UPDATED: ‘Best practices in contingency planning’

The Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC, October 29th 2003.

This conference and vendor trade show will address emergency preparedness, COOP and contingency planning from both a private and public perspective. It is sponsored by the DC/Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) and the USDA Graduate School.

The registration fee is $125 for ACP members and $195 for non-members. This includes the luncheon. Registration and payment must be received by October 24th, 2003.

PROGRAMME:
8:15 a.m.
Keynote Speaker, Tom Daniel, former director, Department of Defense Preparedness
Keynote Speaker, Elsa Murano, Under Secretary for Food Safety for the USDA

11:00 a.m. Morning Concurrent sessions
• Marriott Crisis Management - Lessons Learned from 9/11, Penny Turnbull, director of Business Continuity, Marriott International, Inc.
• Regional Planning Panel - Donald "Doc" Lumpkins, director, Maryland Preparedness Division, Cathy Lanier, DC Metro Police

1:45 p.m. Afternoon concurrent sessions I
• Kaiser Permanente in the 2nd Year of National BCM Program Launch - Skip Skivington, national director of Business Continuity Planning, Kaiser Permanente, Scott Ream, president, Virtual Corporation
• Implementing COOP in Governmental Agencies - Jack Barnett, deputy director of the Office of Security and Emergency Planning, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Richard Shiles, director of Operations, National Security, FEMA

3:15 p.m. Afternoon Concurrent Sessions II
• AT&T, 9/11 Lessons Learned - Jim Crosson, technology consultant, AT&T
• Risk Environment Panel - Bill Kmetz, director of Security, FDIC, Joan Hash, group leader for Security Management and Assistance, NIST.

For more information please contact Graduate School, USDA, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, CPDC (IH), Washington, DC 20024, Isabelle Howes by phone at (202) 314-4713, by fax at (202) 479-6801 or by e-mail at isabelle_howes@grad.usda.gov.

•Date: 14th October 2003 •Region: N.Amercia •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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