Lights! Calamity! Action! Excitement to your Business Continuity Exercises

Starts: Tuesday 21 June 2011, 5:15PM

Finishes: Tuesday 21 June 2011, 7:00PM

Venue: Ernst and Young, 11 Mounts Bay Road, Perth WA 6000

RSVP (before 5pm Friday 17 June please) and any queries: Perth@aisa.org.au

Topic: "Lights! Calamity! Action! Excitement to your Business Continuity Exercises"

Are your businesses motivated and excited about participating in business continuity (BC) exercises, or do they moan and groan of having to do the same old things year after year?

Running a BC exercise is more than just testing a plan or validating a sequence of procedures. It is also about providing the participants with an experience that maximises learning, enhances team effectiveness and encourages greater participation in the BC program. It is therefore important that organisations design realistic and engaging exercise scenarios to achieve the desired outcomes.

This presentation will use examples from different organisations to show how they performed various types of BCM exercises, and illustrate different techniques that can be applied to make BC exercises more exciting and engaging.


Presenter: Kenny Seow
Kenny Seow has 20 years of international experience in disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management in banking, securities, logistics and government. He runs his own consultancy practice in Perth, Western Australia, and is currently contracted with the WA government and a number of other organisations to provide business continuity support, training and advisory services. Prior to this, Kenny was the Director and Regional Head of Business Continuity Management of Deutsche Bank with responsibility for the development and implementation of the bank's BCM program across 16 countries in Asia Pacific.

Kenny is currently the WA Area Representative for the Australian chapter of the Business Continuity Institute. He is also a volunteer with the WA State Emergency Service.

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Many thanks to Ernst & Young for sponsoring the venue for this meeting.