Session at a Glance  
Title: 304:Creating Global Resilience: Pushing the Boundaries - From Both Ends of the World
Speaker: Peter Power/Erica Seville
Stream: Future Trends
Time: 12:45 - 1:45 PM (EST)
   
Description
Stretched supply chains, shared dependencies and economic imperatives make your problems mine and my solutions yours. This session will explore ideas to help identify and mitigate risks from one side of the globe to the other; how to overcome local and international differences; and receive a snapshot of what the future of risk/business continuity/crisis &emergency management might look like.
 
Co-Speaker Bio

Peter Power has been Managing Director of Visor Consultants since 1995. He regularly helps organizations to plan and deliver highly successful scenario based exercises as well as workshops, leadership courses and motivation sessions and is one of the most requested UK public speakers on Crisis and Business Continuity (BC) management who often appears on TV and radio in the UK and other countries. Much of his work is based on pioneering new ideas.

Peter has considerable front-line experience of many real crises and is very well known as an authoritative and entertaining presenter and writer. His research on crisis decision making is quoted in the UK Government (Cabinet Office) Guide on Integrated Emergency Management and he is the author of many advice guidebooks including the original UK Govt. (DTI) booklet ‘Preventing Chaos in a Crisis' and the British Bankers Association guide on Crisis Management within their Business Continuity advice booklet. He is a founder member of the UK judging panel for BC Awards and sits on the British Standards Institute working party on Crisis Management. In addition, he is the primary author of the ubiquitous Gold, Silver & Bronze command structure used throughout the UK .

He is a Special Advisor to a number of key organizations including the UK Commission on National Security, the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness, BC Institute London Forum and the editorial board of Continuity Professional Magazine in the USA. Peter is also listed in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses and occasionally lectures at Reading University.



Co-Speaker Bio

Erica is a fellow researcher at the University of Canterbury and leads a six year FRST funded research program "Resilient Organizations". The research seeks to develop innovative strategies for improving the resilience of organizations to major crises. The Resilient Organizations program involves researchers from the University of Canterbury, University of Auckland, Unitec and Kestrel Group and continues through until 2010.

Erica is also director of Risk Strategies Research and Consulting, a small company specializing in bringing the principles of risk management, business continuity planning, and crisis management together into a common framework to maximize business resilience in the face of both foreseeable and unexpected challenges.