9:00 – 9:15 |
Chairman Opening Speech
Lyndon
Bird, Technical Services Director, The Business
Continuity Institute |
| 9:15
– 10:00 |
Keynote Presentation:
Managing A Business Continuity Project
- Initiation and planning
- Challenges encountered
- Key success factors and criteria
“In a global culture of increasing accountability
and more widespread interdependences, the public sector
in providing services to its citizens, holds an extremely
vital role, in being able to operate in face of adversities,
brings confidence to the nation.”
Janice Lua,
Senior Assistant Director, Project & Quality Management,
Media Development Authority |
| 10:30 – 11.30 |
Role and importance of Business Continuity
in effective Corporate Governance and Compliance
- Defining and implementing effective governance
- Understanding the overall compliance framework
- Regulatory implications
- Approaches to evaluating Compliance
"To derive maximum efficiency by taking a
holistic approach to compliance and understanding
the importance of appropriately integrating continuity
projects within the compliance framework"
JC Sekar, General
Manager, Management Systems Registration Services
for UL’s Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa
operations |
11:30 – 12:15 |
Be Connected, Equipped and Prepared in Crisis
Comms and Pandemic
- How to manage risk in an uncertain environment
- Tips on the 3 BEs (connected, equipped and prepared)
- Building awareness internally and with the community
Wilson Tan Hai Guan, Deputy Director,
SingTel |
| 1:30
– 2:15 |
Business Continuity
Management - A Need for Business Continuity in Supply
Chains
- What is Business Continuity?
- How standards help
- Why a BCMS?
- What does a BCMS achieve?
- BCMS Structure
Vijay Kumar Magan,
Senior Vice President, BSI Management Systems |
| 2:15 – 3:00 |
Risks in Going Global: How do you Manage
Health and Security Risks to your Overseas Workforce?
- What are the common medical and security risks
companies and their employees face?
- Where are the hot spots and key concerns?
- How to implement a cross border BCP from corporate
HQ
- Best risk management practices from international
companies
- Case studies of companies going overseas and their
BCP
“While going global represents untapped
markets with immense growth opportunities, companies
must anticipate and manage risks that are inherent
in having a large workforce around the world. They
must protect their most valuable asset—senior
managers who are sent overseas with their families,
as well as local employees.”
Tony Ridley,
Regional Security Director, APAC, International SOS |
| 3:00 –
3:30 |
Afternoon Networking Break |
3:30 – 4:15 |
Creating Effective Crisis Management Strategies
- Anatomy of a crisis
- Developing an effective crisis communication strategy
and plan
- Universal principles to help protect your brand
during and after a crisis
- The impact of globalization and the internet on
crisis communications
- Some examples of best and worse practice
“Don't communicate something that's not true.
Tell them what you can, but not something that hasn't
been confirmed.”
Anne Costello,
Client Services Director, Asia Pacific Text 100 Public
Relations |
| 4:15 – 5:00 |
Preempt & Prepare : Develop Proactive
Strategies to Cope with Natural Disasters
- Impact of terrorism and natural disasters on business
continuity
- Evaluating risk events that may occur
- Collaborate with the government and authorities
- Prepare, evaluate and test response plans
- Manage through the incident to recovery
“Implementing the right business strategies
means you are more likely to be free of worries and
able to concentrate on your business goals and dreams.”
Alberto A. Lim,
Chairman, Corporate Network for Disaster Response |
