Continuity of Planners Workshop is Test Fema
Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Emergency Planning in Government Training Workshop XXVIII
Learn about New COOP Requirements, Federal Government Policy, Best & Proven Practices and what they mean for your organization.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - Thursday, September 12, 2019
- Meeting Location
- Overview
- What You Will Learn
- Why You Should Attend
- Who Should Attend
- Agenda
- Registration Information
- Comments from Students
Keynote Speaker
Calvin W. Turner, Jr.
Director
National Finance Center
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The National Finance Center is the "poster child" for Successful Data Center Reconstitution.
Guest Speakers:
Kenneth Briscoe
Chief, Readiness Branch
Continuity Division
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Veronica (Roni) M. Glass
Director, Continuity Division
Office of Operations Coordination
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Joe Douglas, ABCP
Continuity Program Manager
International Trade Commission (USITC)
Dean Gallup
Disaster Recovery Professional
Advantaged Solutions, Inc.
Coauthor of Information Systems Contingency Planning Guidance
NIST Special PUblication 800-34 Rev. 1
Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems
Elizabeth Voeller, PMP, ABCP
Incident Response, Emergency Management, Cyber Risk Management/Security Consultant
Vice President of the Mid Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association (MADRA)
Program Manager
eGlobalTech (eGT)
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - Thursday, September 12, 2019
Meeting Location:
Willard InterContinental Hotel
Willard Intercontinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington 20004
United States
Metro Center (Red, Orange, Blue Lines). Use the exit marked "12th & F Sts" to exit onto F St., then continue straight two blocks and cross 14th St.
Overview:
Learn about New COOP Requirements, Federal Government Policy, Best & Proven Practices and what they mean for your organization. Learn vital take-aways from this year's National Continuity Exercise Eagle Horizon and how to make future exercises successful. How will your agency react to a continuity event, whether large or small scale? This workshop will show how to add resilience to multiple facets of your organization immediately using practical operational methods and actionable templates. There will be no excuses for lack of performance in the event of an emergency. Your agency leadership is more dependent than ever on its COOP personnel.
- Is your agency management currently satisfied with its COOP Planning, Policy and Execution?
- Is your agency prepared for all level of incidents and is it resilient?
- Attend this proven Potomac Forum Training Workshop to improve or fine-tune your agency COOP planning and policy.
Government and Industry Leaders Present Practical Solutions to Government Continuity of Operations Requirements. This is a "How To" workshop "with proven instructors and guest speakers. Rated as "Excellent" the previous 26 workshop sessions!
Quality Promise – Full Refund if Not Satisfied with the Quality of the Information Presented:
Potomac Forum is so confident that each and every attendee will be pleased with the information presented and its value to the government that Potomac Forum will provide a FULL REFUND for any student that does not find the two day workshop of value to their organization.
What's In It For My Organization - Instructors will simply and clearly answer the "what's in it for me" question from the leadership level through, and right down to the individual implementers' level. Learn how to Justify Continuity Efforts to Senior Management and Build Cooperation and Consensus with "Front Line" Leaders. This technique, though simple and easily tailored, is often the key to gain leadership's buy-in and individual understanding of the complexities involving the many facets of COOP. You will see a simple concept that will allow you to capture, catalog, measure and report on existing Continuity Implementations that already exist within your organization.
This workshop will help advance your program with new strategies, methods and templates. Included in the course materials will be numerous Federal continuity references as well as several ready-to-use templates to advance your program. (Material is Updated to Include the Latest Guidance from NIST, DHS and Administration Initiatives.)
Consider this Workshop...
- If you have recently taken over an existing COOP Program and want to ensure that it is up to speed with the government and industry's best practices
- If you have a COOP Program that is just taking off
- If you have an established COOP Program and need to find new areas to quickly and easily improve
- If you are looking for ways to make your COOP Program execute effectively on a "bad day"
- If you are new to the Federal COOP environment
- If you are in top leadership and need to learn more about what you are "on the hook" for within COOP
- If you are not satisfied with your current agency COOP Plan or Policy
- If you have new Agency Leadership and want to be better prepared to discuss COOP
... then this is the session for you to deliver a practical and sustainable Continuity Program that complies with government regulations, best practices and effective management.
What You Will Learn:
- Execution - How the development of executable procedures First drives policy development Later
- Action Plan - Develop an action plan for tracking progress and delivering a COOP Program that shows regular improvement and due diligence
- Telework - How to effectively engage Telework within your COOP Program
- Implementation – See methods to rapidly develop a COOP Implementation plan complete with Emergency Response Strategies
- Alternate Sites– See proven, easily used techniques to evaluate and better develop seamless activation and functionality of your Alternate Sites
Why You Should Attend:
- Learn proven methods that work Smart, but not necessarily Hard, to improve multiplefacets of your COOP Program
- Network with colleagues on COOP/DR capability in the Federal, State, Local Government
- Take a fresh look at practical experience and proven concepts that can take your program in new directions
- Obtain numerous functional Plug and Play Templates that can augment your program immediately
- Review the development phases, tasks, and method to deploy personnel for COOP/DR implementations, testing, and exercises
- Gain insight into building resilient data centers that scale efficiently
- Learn how the cooperation of Continuity of Operation Planning and IT Disaster Recovery is an essential requirement for government emergency preparedness
- Understand the reasons why some COOP/DR implementations fail
Who Should Attend:
- Program Managers responsible for program operation
- Senior Leadership who own the COOP Program
- Senior Leadership who is Accountable for COOP Planning, Policy and/or Implementation
- Middle managers and staff tasked with the development and implementation of COOP
- Facility managers of Alternate and Emergency Relocation Sites
- IT Managers and Staff tasked with Information Systems Contingency Planning according to NIST SP800-34 Rev. 1 Guidance
- IGs, QA Managers and Staff
- Procurement Staff responsible for COOP Contracting
- Human Resource Managers and Supervisors responsible for Implementing COOP Telework and tracking personnel during emergencies
- Industry managers and staff supporting the government
Format:
Lectures, classroom exercises, and government panelists.
Agenda:
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Registration Information:
| Early Bird Registration Fee before August 2, 2019 | AFTER August 2, 2019 | |
| Government Employees: (Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID) | $1295 Special Reduced Rates in Support of Government Budget Reductions | $1395 |
| Team Rate: Send a team to learn together. Register two employees from the same office at the same time and the third person onwards registers at $300 off the current rate. | ||
| Industry and Contractors: (Including contractors on-site and in direct support of government agencies). | $1395 | $1495 |
Registration Includes: Presentations, Workshop Notebook, Continental Breakfast, All Day Refreshments and two Hosted Luncheons
Keynote Speaker:
Calvin W. Turner, Jr.
Director
National Finance Center
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
(The National Finance Center is the "poster child" for Successful Data Center Reconstitution.)
Calvin W. Turner Jr. is the Director of the National Finance Center (NFC). Mr. Turner joined NFC in October 2011, as the Deputy Director, and most recently, he was the Acting Director.
Prior to joining NFC, Mr. Turner had more than 20 years of leadership experience in the banking industry with Whitney National Bank, Hibernia National Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank. He was also an Associate Instructor with the University of Phoenix at the New Orleans campus, and he was the owner of two small businesses.
Mr. Turner is active in the community and frequently volunteers as on-air talent with WYES TV/Channel 12 Public Television to help raise money with their pledge drives, and he has served on the boards of numerous local community organizations.
Mr. Turner has a Master's degree in Public Administration and an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Communications.
Guest Speakers:
Veronica (Roni) M. Glass
Acting Director, Continuity Division
Office of Operations Coordination
Department of Homeland Security
Veronica M. Glass (fondly known as "Roni") started her public and professional service working for U.S. Customs Service under Department of Treasury (now Customs and Border Protection (CBP)) before it was merged with the 24+ Components comprised of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). During her 40+ years of federal service, she has held positions at multiple levels of project and personnel management. Her experience within the changing world of IT afforded her the unique opportunity to revitalize the CBP Continuity Program. As the Manager of CBP Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program, Ms. Glass exercised complete oversight and responsibility of not only CBP Headquarters but all of CBP's port, airport, and border locations as it relates to COOP activities and execution.
Now, as the Acting Director of the Office of Operations Coordination for DHS, Ms. Glass is responsible for department-wide oversight, coordination, integration, and execution of continuity and continuity of government program, policy, and plans as it pertains to all threat / all hazard conditions across DHS. She has been working in the Emergency Management field (contingency planning) for over 18 years and completed certifications and training that include the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI), FEMA and DOD Information Resource Management College (IRMC). Ms. Glass is passionate about her challenge of emergency management, working with people and championing the cause of continuity whenever and wherever she can.
Dean Gallup, MBCP, CHEP
Disaster Recovery Professional
Advantaged Solutions, Inc.
Co-author of NIST SP800-34 Revision 1 Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems
Dean Gallup, MBCP CHEP, is a well respected Disaster Recovery Professional. He has over 35 years' experience in in emergency management, disaster recovery and continuity planning, data center operations, governance and security risk management. His clients included the IRS, U.S. House of Representatives, SEC, FDIC, and other federal and DoD agencies, and state agencies including Virginia Tax. He is a co-author of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-34 Revision 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems, and regularly speaks on Federal contingency planning. Prior to moving to Virginia, Mr. Gallup was Chief of Technical Services at the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, managing a 24/7 data center and overseeing infrastructure implementation for a state-wide automated fingerprint identification system.
Mr. Gallup is chair of the DRI International Glossary for Resiliency, and volunteers with the DRI International Veterans Outreach, Healthcare and Resiliency in Education committees. He volunteers as Vice President for the Mid Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association (MADRA). He is an Advanced Life Support EMT with Spotsylvania (Virginia) Rescue Squad, and was recently awarded the agency's 2017 Good Role Model award, and was 2015 Member of the Year, continuing his nearly 40 commitment volunteer emergency services.
Elizabeth Voeller, PMP, ABCP
Incident Response, Emergency Management, Cyber Risk Management/Security Consultant
Vice President of the Mid Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association (MADRA
Program Manager,
eGlobalTech (eGT)
Elizabeth Voeller is a Program Manager at eGlobalTech where she provides consulting support on cyber risk management, incident response, emergency management, and strategic communications to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Information Security. Prior to that, Ms. Voeller spent 8 years at Booz Allen Hamilton as a Lead Associate supporting Federal business continuity/COOP, critical infrastructure analysis, strategic planning and communications, and emergency management programs. She has facilitated national level exercises and senior leadership meetings for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), written Congressional briefings for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), drafted and rolled out national-level plans for DHS, and developed pandemic response tools and emergency communications curriculum for the Department of Defense (DoD) PACOM and USAFRICOM. She has a Masters degree in International Affairs from American University and an Bachelors degree in Political Science and English from Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN. Ms. Voeller is currently the Vice President of the Mid Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association ("MADRA", a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and a DRII-certified Associate Business Continuity Professional (ABCP).
Joe Douglas, ABCP
Continuity Program Manager,
US International Trade Commission
Joe Douglas is a recognized expert within continuity operations COOP and emergency planning. Previously he was the Director of the ICE ITS Continuity of Operations Practice based in Reston, Virginia. He has planned and executed continuity efforts for DHS, Customs and Border Protection, US Coast Guard and Department of Justice. He is currently the Continuity Program Manager for the US International Trade Commission.
Prior to this engagement he supported DHS with emergency relocation site planning and led the tactical continuity planning and implementation of CBP's Continuity Program. Joe has performed as an exercise controller in Eagle Horizon and National Level Exercises. He developed the alternate site reception plan for US Coast Guard Commandant Staff and completed the IT Contingency Plan for DOJ's Consolidated Asset Tracking System. He was a trusted agent in Forward Challenge 2004 and has been instrumental in the planning, outfitting and accreditation of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF) within the Continuity Community.
Joe previously served as an officer in the United States Coast Guard performing both operational and staff duties that included coordination of directorate-level Year 2000 (Y2K) contingency planning. Mr. Douglas holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Appalachian State University.
Kenneth Briscoe
Chief, Readiness Branch
Continuity Division
Department of Homeland Security
Kenny Briscoe has over 25 years of professional service; he is a Retired Military Officer with Special Operation and Combat experience, a Manager in Corporate America and is presently the Chief of the Readiness Branch for DHS. His experience is evident in his broad knowledge and expertise in Business Continuity Planning and Emergency Management/Security Operations. Mr. Briscoe was instrumental in supporting numerous large and complex operations that include, Hurricanes Isabelle, Katrina, Andrew, Fran, Marilyn St. Thomas, Floyd, Uphold Democracy Haiti, Restore Hope Somalia, Desert Shield and Desert Storm
Kenny holds a Masters in Security Management/Emergency Planning, is a DRII Certified Business Continuity Planner, is Six Sigma (Green Belt) certified and a published author. His book is titled "Disaster Management & COOP Handbook". Kenny has developed and implemented numerous programs and process improvement procedures within the Federal Government and National Capitol Region for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, Defense Information Systems and Department of Homeland Security.
Cancellation Policy:
Confirmed registrations who cancel within 3 business days of the program will be subject to a $250 cancellation fee. Registrations cancelled after the program starts are subject to the full registration fee. Substitutions can be made at any time. In the event a particular training workshop is cancelled, the liability of Potomac Forum, Ltd is limited to refund of any prepaid registration fee.
Source: http://www.potomacforum.org/content/continuity-operations-coop-and-emergency-planning-government-training-workshop-xviii-new
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