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Learn How To...Navigate Crisis Logistics
Learn How To...Maintain Business Continuity
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STORM School is a new online learning environment initiated by the private sector to help you learn the principles of crisis management faster, and how to apply them from instructors who have prepared for and responded to 1,000+ storms and incidents over their 35+ years of past experience.
STORM School is a new online learning environment initiated by the private sector to help you learn the principles of crisis management faster and how to apply them from instructors who
bring real world experience from the past 35+ years.
STORM School is the first in a series of training and educational initiatives of the AHCi that will leverage the AHC's operational partners in the private sector who have collectively responded to thousands of storms and disasters over the past 30+ years.
What is STORM School?
Why STORM School?
STORM School is a new online learning environment initiated by the private sector to help you learn the principles of crisis management faster and how to apply them from instructors who
bring real world experience from the past 35+ years.
STORM School is the first in a series of training and educational initiatives of the AHCi that will leverage the AHC's operational partners in the private sector who have collectively responded to thousands of storms and disasters over the past 30+ years.
What is STORM School?
- Learn the secrets to saving up to 50% of storm related costs by reducing delays in your preparation or response efforts
- Get short-cuts by the pro's to streamline your logistics, communications and cost controls
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Identify the top "time wasters" and "cost inflaters" and take proven steps to avoid them
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Discover the top mistakes to avoid during response efforts that can hurt your brand and confuse, and even upset, your internal /external customers
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Get the framework template used by the pros to enhance communications & coordination with your stakeholders
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TOPICS
The initial STORM School topics will include:
Equipping New Leaders
Learn how to get up to speed faster in a new leadership role by reviewing proven strategies and approaches that reduce your learning curve, avoid common mistakes, and build confidence in you and your team.
Navigating Crisis Logistics
Learn how to increase the productivity, confidence, and safety of your crisis response workforce through well-planned and coordinated logistics.
Business Continuity and Impact Analysis
Learn how to quickly identify the top three (3) threats to your business operations and leverage proven strategies and checklists to enhance your business continuity planning to keep your business protected from any present or emerging threat.
Managing Storm Expenses
Learn secrets from industry experts to identify, manage and recover the millions you are leaving on the table in un-reimbursed or lost dollars before your next disaster.
Cross-Sector Communications & Coordination
Learn the operational value and processes to develop, maintain and enhance effective industry and government operational partnerships to coordinate communications, actions, and create and sustain trust with stakeholders before, during, and after a crisis.
Predictive Impacts and Pro-Active Planning
Learn how to merge available predictive weather data with historical storm damage to predict the potential impacts of impending storms, build confidence indecision-making, and empower proactive planning.
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4.97 based on 27 reviews
100% 14-Day Money Back Guarantee
After your purchase, you have 14 days to ensure the resource is valuable for you. If you're not completely satisfied and don't find enough value in it, we will refund your payment, guaranteed!
STORM School creates an experience-based forum for public and private sector to come together to learn from seasoned, proven, experts who have decades of actual operational experience
COSTS
The Initial Offerings of STORM School Are Free
Who Are These Courses For?
The Storm School program is for individuals or organizations in industry or government who want to improve their knowledge, strategies, tactics, and skills in the crisis management field.
These courses are derived from many years of hands-on experience in the field and are tailored towards decision-makers, managers, planners, consultants, risk managers, technical data analysts, financial analysts, logisticians, safety, or any individuals involved in emergency preparedness, response, or recovery processes related to any type of disaster or crisis (e.g. wildfires, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, winter storms, earthquakes, etc...).
Sample job categories for Storm School students include, but not limited to:
■ Communications
■ Employee health & safety
■ Crisis management & business continuity
■ Business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR)
■ Disaster recovery
■ Crisis management
■ Disaster management and humanitarian assistance
■ Emergency management
■ Equity, inclusion, and diversity
■ Business resilience
■ Business operations
■ Enterprise risk management ■ Supply chain operations
■ Community disaster preparedness
■ Security, risk & regulatory
■ Response and recovery coordination
■ Regulatory Compliance
■ Risk Mitigation
■ Energy transmission & distribution
■ Utility and facility services
■ Utility Construction
■ Health, safety, security & environmental
■ Restoration/Construction management
■ District support specialist
■ Communications web coordinator
■ Internal communications manager
■ Social science research program manager
■ Communications web coordinator
■ Internal communications manager
■ Social science research program manager
■ Health communications specialist
■ VP of cybersecurity services and programs
■ Director crisis management & business continuity
■ Senior business continuity manager
■ Manager, organization design and assessment solutions
■ Business continuity/Disaster recovery (BCDR) Analyst
■ Business continuity governance director
■ Disaster recovery specialist
■ Business continuity specialist (Crisis management)
■ Disaster management and humanitarian assistance advisor
■ Emergency management specialist
■ Emergency management analyst
■ Health and protection data specialist
■ Development coordinator
■ Strategic growth initiatives leader
■ Program specialist
■ Program coordinator/BU coordinator
■ Equity, inclusion and diversity manager
■ Public sector professional
■ Communications program analyst
■ Regional business continuity officer
■ Business resilience specialist
■ Business operations manager
■ Principal business continuity manager, security & resilience
■ Enterprise risk management specialist
■ Senior business continuity planner consultant
■ Business continuity planning leader
■ Director of supply chain operations
■ Community disaster preparedness coordinator
■ Security, risk & regulatory project manager
■ Director, response and recovery coordination
■ Director energy delivery (4100)
■ Utility manager, facility services
■ Project manager, heavy civil (Roadway)
■ Utility Construction Planner
■ Director of facility services
■ Health, safety, security & environmental manager
■ Restoration/Construction project manager
■ Regional communications director
■ Development coordinator
■ Health and protection data specialist
■ Equity, inclusion and diversity manager
■ Program coordinator/BU coordinator
■ Impact measurement advisor
■ Incident manager/Enterprise tech crisis management
■ Disaster recovery project manager
■ Health and protection data specialist
■ Communications web coordinator
■ Public sector professional
■ District support specialist
About AHC
All Hazards Consortium, a 501(c)(3) organization, fosters an environment where industry and government can collaborate on cross-sector issues, explore interdependencies, broaden situational awareness, lower operational risks, prioritize investments and enhance infrastructure security and resilience via public/private planning, training, exercises and research.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
As with all disasters, any information is subject to change without notice. The All Hazards Consortium, its working groups and partners, and industry and government stakeholders expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever, for any usage of this information by its recipient(s). Recipient’s usage of this data constitutes a waiver of any claim it may have with respect to its use of the data. Please consider all information operationally confidential.
Ministering to People in Pain
Level: Intermediate
Number of lessons: 10
Avg. Length: 18 min.
Time Required: 7 Hours min.
Course code: CC205
Courses
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
- Priorities for Enhancing Cross Sector Coordination
- What are the Resilience Strategies for the ISACs Going Forward?
-
Cross Sector Practitioners–Resiliency Challenges During COVID-19
-
State Perspectives on Regional, Cross-Sector Resilience Panel
- Strategies for Federal, State and Industry Coordination
-
And More!
1:00 - 1:15 PM - Welcome & Opening Remarks & Scenario for the Workshop
Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences, All Hazards Consortium
Kelly McKinney, Senior Director, Emergency Management & Enterprise Resilience, NYU Langone Health, AHC Board Member
1:15 - 1:50 PM - Equipping New Leaders: Becoming Better Able to Collaborate and Execute During Disasters
Mike Zappone: Managing Partner at Consult Mike Z, LLC, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will discuss strategies and shortcuts on how to better prepare new disaster management leaders by understanding the what you organizations needs to equipment them with confidence, how to be prepared, and how to develop a seamless transition to new leaders dealing with any type of crisis. Topics will include: overcoming common myths; how to prioritize actions prior to, during, and after an incident; steps needed to activate a team; leveraging mentors; dealing with mistakes; and steps to leading efficiently to avoid pitfalls.
3:55-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
DAY 2 – Wednesday, January 27, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
What’s being done (projects and initiatives) to strengthen resiliency?
12:30-12:40 PM - Virtual Welcome, Opening Remarks & Resiliency Scenario for the Day
Mike Zapponne, Chair, Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group
Learn about the DHS CISA Integrated Operations Center (IOC), what is does, how it aggregates critical infrastructure threats and information, and how it benefits industry.
12:40-1:10 PM - Day Two Keynote Presentation: Integrated Operations Center
Rick Driggers, Assistant Director, Integrated Operations Division, DHS CISA
Learn about the DHS CISA IOC and how it benefits industry
1:10-2:10 PM - Public/Private Partnerships for Regional Cyber Resilience - Best Practices from the Pacific Northwest
Moderator: Matt Morrison, CEO, Pacific Northwest Economic Region
Panelists Include:
- Mike Hamilton, CISSP, CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security
- Eric Holdeman, Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience
- Alisha King, CEM, Emergency Manager, Washington Technology Solutions
2:10-2:15 PM - Virtual Break
2:15-3:15 PM - Public-Private Operational Partnerships for Power Restoration - Combating All Hazards Threats
Moderator: Laura Schepis, Senior Director, National Security, Edison Electric Institute
Panelists Include:
- Adrienne Lotto, Senior Director, Energy Security & Resilience Programs, New York Power Authority
- Sam Rozenberg, Senior Director, Security and Resilience, American Public Power Association (APPA)
- Steve Swick, Vice President & Chief Security Officer, American Electric Power
- David Terry, Executive Director, National Association of State Energy Officials
Over the past 20 years, the electricity sub-sector has strengthened its partnerships with federal and state governments to increase coordination and counter an expanding array of threats. Experts from diverse backgrounds will share insights into how the sub sector and its government partners can build upon these successes going forward.
3:15-3:50 PM - Promoting Information-Sharing with Process Transparency: COVID-19 & SolarWinds
Brian Tishuk, Executive Director, Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
A transparent, repeatable incident response process facilitates information-sharing, and resilience. Learn the approach taken by the financial sector approach to address the pandemic and supply chain compromise.
3:50-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
4:00-4:55 PM - Breakouts Begin
6:00-6:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception / End of Day Two
- Next Steps Towards Public/Private Sector Resiliency
-
State and Industry Partnerships to Combat All Hazards Threats
-
COVID-19: Cyber Awareness, Preparedness and Response
- Cross-Sector Information Sharing for Planning, Preparing, and Responding to Wildfires and PSPS in a COVID-19 Environment – Lessons from 2020
-
Benefits and Initiatives of State BEOC Programs
-
Using DHS' ESF#14 for Private Sector Coordination
-
Introduction to Operational Readiness Level Standards (ORLS)
-
Law Enforcement’s Role in Resiliency
-
Participant Exchange Breakout Session
-
And More!
DAY 3 – Thursday, January 28, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
How can you address resiliency challenges moving forward?
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
12:30-2:15 PM - Breakout Sessions
- Commercial Routing Assistance App for Vehicle Movement
- Integrating with the Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE)
- Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience
- How to Securely Collaborate Your Data with the SISE?
-
INL Cyber Security Training
-
COVID Impacts on State Operations Policy
-
Regional Economic Recovery
- Health Sector Guide with State Health Agencies
- Resilience in Electricity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
-
And More!
1:50 - 2:25 PM - Emergency Management 101: How Do We Prepare?
This session will discuss how a broader disaster education can save your business. Topics will include understanding the current environment with mass retirements; the importance of networking and how to do it; overcoming common myths and obstacles to planning and exercises; how to be acting instead of reacting; strategies for planning; coordinating with government; how to maintain your plans annually.
Anthony Hurley - Consultant, Utilities and Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management & Physical Security Professional, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
2:25 - 2:35 PM - Virtual Break
2:35 - 3:10 PM : Navigating Crisis Logistics : Using Strategic Flexibility to Increase Productivity, Confidence, and Safety During Disasters
Aaron Strickland - Director of Business Development, Utilicon, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will help participants learn how to better manage logistics dollars and your personnel safe through flexible logistics strategies during varying storm conditions. Topics will include understanding what safety and wellness of workers is worth to your company; how to develop contingencies in planning; planning considerations "blue sky" days; internal and external communications; managing expectations, working with your vendors; mutual assistance strategies, and networking with logistics experts.
3:10 - 3:45 PM - Managing Storm Expenses : Don’t Let Un-Reimbursed Storm Dollars Destroy Your Bottom Line
Jim Nowak - Sr. Director, Operations, Products & Services, ARCOS, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will help you understand to high level concepts on how to identify, manage, and recover the millions of disaster dollars being left on the table including: Avoid bottle-necking through back office staffing; managing resources better, recognize financial waste before it happens, and knowing what really matters most in storm cost management.
3:45 - 3:55 PM - Virtual Break
3:55 - 4:30 PM - Predictive Impacts and Pro-active Planning: Using Data From the Past to Predict The Future
David Vanderbloemen - Principal Consultant at DV Consulting, LLC & Retired, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will discuss how to use data and innovative technology to help raise credibility and trust when it matters most to your key internal and external stakeholders. Topics will touch upon how to leverage past storm related data and technologies to help predict future impacts; how to build
credibility and trust with internal and external stakeholders; how to ensuring senior leadership is in-sync; understanding the real connection between weather and your operations desk; developing simple Standard Operating Procedures; creating and adhering to a governance process, performing meaningful after action reviews to inform future disasters; and the financial, operational, branding, and customer satisfaction incentives for doing this.
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Cross Sector Communications & Coordination : Creating and Maintaining Mutually Beneficial Partnerships.
Carlos D. Torres - Independent Consultant/Experienced Utility-Emergency Management Executive
Learn how to Save Time, Resources, and Lives by Forging Advanced Partnerships
Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences, All Hazards Consortium
Tom Moran, Executive Director, All Hazards Consortium
2:25-4:45 PM - Breakout Sessions
4:45-4:50 PM - Virtual Break
4:50-5:50 PM - Breakout Sessions
5:50-6:00 PM - Closing Remarks and Virtual Conference Adjourn/ End of Day Three
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception
*Agenda is subject to change.
Materials
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
- Priorities for Enhancing Cross Sector Coordination
- What are the Resilience Strategies for the ISACs Going Forward?
-
Cross Sector Practitioners–Resiliency Challenges During COVID-19
-
State Perspectives on Regional, Cross-Sector Resilience Panel
- Strategies for Federal, State and Industry Coordination
-
And More!
1:00 - 1:15 PM - Welcome & Opening Remarks & Scenario for the Workshop
Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences, All Hazards Consortium
Kelly McKinney, Senior Director, Emergency Management & Enterprise Resilience, NYU Langone Health, AHC Board Member
1:15 - 1:50 PM - Equipping New Leaders: Becoming Better Able to Collaborate and Execute During Disasters
Mike Zappone: Managing Partner at Consult Mike Z, LLC, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will discuss strategies and shortcuts on how to better prepare new disaster management leaders by understanding the what you organizations needs to equipment them with confidence, how to be prepared, and how to develop a seamless transition to new leaders dealing with any type of crisis. Topics will include: overcoming common myths; how to prioritize actions prior to, during, and after an incident; steps needed to activate a team; leveraging mentors; dealing with mistakes; and steps to leading efficiently to avoid pitfalls.
3:55-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
DAY 2 – Wednesday, January 27, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
What’s being done (projects and initiatives) to strengthen resiliency?
12:30-12:40 PM - Virtual Welcome, Opening Remarks & Resiliency Scenario for the Day
Mike Zapponne, Chair, Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group
Learn about the DHS CISA Integrated Operations Center (IOC), what is does, how it aggregates critical infrastructure threats and information, and how it benefits industry.
12:40-1:10 PM - Day Two Keynote Presentation: Integrated Operations Center
Rick Driggers, Assistant Director, Integrated Operations Division, DHS CISA
Learn about the DHS CISA IOC and how it benefits industry
1:10-2:10 PM - Public/Private Partnerships for Regional Cyber Resilience - Best Practices from the Pacific Northwest
Moderator: Matt Morrison, CEO, Pacific Northwest Economic Region
Panelists Include:
- Mike Hamilton, CISSP, CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security
- Eric Holdeman, Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience
- Alisha King, CEM, Emergency Manager, Washington Technology Solutions
2:10-2:15 PM - Virtual Break
2:15-3:15 PM - Public-Private Operational Partnerships for Power Restoration - Combating All Hazards Threats
Moderator: Laura Schepis, Senior Director, National Security, Edison Electric Institute
Panelists Include:
- Adrienne Lotto, Senior Director, Energy Security & Resilience Programs, New York Power Authority
- Sam Rozenberg, Senior Director, Security and Resilience, American Public Power Association (APPA)
- Steve Swick, Vice President & Chief Security Officer, American Electric Power
- David Terry, Executive Director, National Association of State Energy Officials
Over the past 20 years, the electricity sub-sector has strengthened its partnerships with federal and state governments to increase coordination and counter an expanding array of threats. Experts from diverse backgrounds will share insights into how the sub sector and its government partners can build upon these successes going forward.
3:15-3:50 PM - Promoting Information-Sharing with Process Transparency: COVID-19 & SolarWinds
Brian Tishuk, Executive Director, Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
A transparent, repeatable incident response process facilitates information-sharing, and resilience. Learn the approach taken by the financial sector approach to address the pandemic and supply chain compromise.
3:50-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
4:00-4:55 PM - Breakouts Begin
6:00-6:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception / End of Day Two
- Next Steps Towards Public/Private Sector Resiliency
-
State and Industry Partnerships to Combat All Hazards Threats
-
COVID-19: Cyber Awareness, Preparedness and Response
- Cross-Sector Information Sharing for Planning, Preparing, and Responding to Wildfires and PSPS in a COVID-19 Environment – Lessons from 2020
-
Benefits and Initiatives of State BEOC Programs
-
Using DHS' ESF#14 for Private Sector Coordination
-
Introduction to Operational Readiness Level Standards (ORLS)
-
Law Enforcement’s Role in Resiliency
-
Participant Exchange Breakout Session
-
And More!
DAY 3 – Thursday, January 28, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
How can you address resiliency challenges moving forward?
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
12:30-2:15 PM - Breakout Sessions
- Commercial Routing Assistance App for Vehicle Movement
- Integrating with the Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE)
- Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience
- How to Securely Collaborate Your Data with the SISE?
-
INL Cyber Security Training
-
COVID Impacts on State Operations Policy
-
Regional Economic Recovery
- Health Sector Guide with State Health Agencies
- Resilience in Electricity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
-
And More!
1:50 - 2:25 PM - Emergency Management 101: How Do We Prepare?
This session will discuss how a broader disaster education can save your business. Topics will include understanding the current environment with mass retirements; the importance of networking and how to do it; overcoming common myths and obstacles to planning and exercises; how to be acting instead of reacting; strategies for planning; coordinating with government; how to maintain your plans annually.
Anthony Hurley - Consultant, Utilities and Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management & Physical Security Professional, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
2:25 - 2:35 PM - Virtual Break
2:35 - 3:10 PM : Navigating Crisis Logistics : Using Strategic Flexibility to Increase Productivity, Confidence, and Safety During Disasters
Aaron Strickland - Director of Business Development, Utilicon, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will help participants learn how to better manage logistics dollars and your personnel safe through flexible logistics strategies during varying storm conditions. Topics will include understanding what safety and wellness of workers is worth to your company; how to develop contingencies in planning; planning considerations "blue sky" days; internal and external communications; managing expectations, working with your vendors; mutual assistance strategies, and networking with logistics experts.
3:10 - 3:45 PM - Managing Storm Expenses : Don’t Let Un-Reimbursed Storm Dollars Destroy Your Bottom Line
Jim Nowak - Sr. Director, Operations, Products & Services, ARCOS, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will help you understand to high level concepts on how to identify, manage, and recover the millions of disaster dollars being left on the table including: Avoid bottle-necking through back office staffing; managing resources better, recognize financial waste before it happens, and knowing what really matters most in storm cost management.
3:45 - 3:55 PM - Virtual Break
3:55 - 4:30 PM - Predictive Impacts and Pro-active Planning: Using Data From the Past to Predict The Future
David Vanderbloemen - Principal Consultant at DV Consulting, LLC & Retired, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will discuss how to use data and innovative technology to help raise credibility and trust when it matters most to your key internal and external stakeholders. Topics will touch upon how to leverage past storm related data and technologies to help predict future impacts; how to build
credibility and trust with internal and external stakeholders; how to ensuring senior leadership is in-sync; understanding the real connection between weather and your operations desk; developing simple Standard Operating Procedures; creating and adhering to a governance process, performing meaningful after action reviews to inform future disasters; and the financial, operational, branding, and customer satisfaction incentives for doing this.
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Cross Sector Communications & Coordination : Creating and Maintaining Mutually Beneficial Partnerships.
Carlos D. Torres - Independent Consultant/Experienced Utility-Emergency Management Executive
Learn how to Save Time, Resources, and Lives by Forging Advanced Partnerships
Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences, All Hazards Consortium
Tom Moran, Executive Director, All Hazards Consortium
2:25-4:45 PM - Breakout Sessions
4:45-4:50 PM - Virtual Break
4:50-5:50 PM - Breakout Sessions
5:50-6:00 PM - Closing Remarks and Virtual Conference Adjourn/ End of Day Three
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception
*Agenda is subject to change.
Objectives
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
- Priorities for Enhancing Cross Sector Coordination
- What are the Resilience Strategies for the ISACs Going Forward?
-
Cross Sector Practitioners–Resiliency Challenges During COVID-19
-
State Perspectives on Regional, Cross-Sector Resilience Panel
- Strategies for Federal, State and Industry Coordination
-
And More!
1:00 - 1:15 PM - Welcome & Opening Remarks & Scenario for the Workshop
Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences, All Hazards Consortium
Kelly McKinney, Senior Director, Emergency Management & Enterprise Resilience, NYU Langone Health, AHC Board Member
1:15 - 1:50 PM - Equipping New Leaders: Becoming Better Able to Collaborate and Execute During Disasters
Mike Zappone: Managing Partner at Consult Mike Z, LLC, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will discuss strategies and shortcuts on how to better prepare new disaster management leaders by understanding the what you organizations needs to equipment them with confidence, how to be prepared, and how to develop a seamless transition to new leaders dealing with any type of crisis. Topics will include: overcoming common myths; how to prioritize actions prior to, during, and after an incident; steps needed to activate a team; leveraging mentors; dealing with mistakes; and steps to leading efficiently to avoid pitfalls.
3:55-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
DAY 2 – Wednesday, January 27, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
What’s being done (projects and initiatives) to strengthen resiliency?
12:30-12:40 PM - Virtual Welcome, Opening Remarks & Resiliency Scenario for the Day
Mike Zapponne, Chair, Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group
Learn about the DHS CISA Integrated Operations Center (IOC), what is does, how it aggregates critical infrastructure threats and information, and how it benefits industry.
12:40-1:10 PM - Day Two Keynote Presentation: Integrated Operations Center
Rick Driggers, Assistant Director, Integrated Operations Division, DHS CISA
Learn about the DHS CISA IOC and how it benefits industry
1:10-2:10 PM - Public/Private Partnerships for Regional Cyber Resilience - Best Practices from the Pacific Northwest
Moderator: Matt Morrison, CEO, Pacific Northwest Economic Region
Panelists Include:
- Mike Hamilton, CISSP, CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security
- Eric Holdeman, Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience
- Alisha King, CEM, Emergency Manager, Washington Technology Solutions
2:10-2:15 PM - Virtual Break
2:15-3:15 PM - Public-Private Operational Partnerships for Power Restoration - Combating All Hazards Threats
Moderator: Laura Schepis, Senior Director, National Security, Edison Electric Institute
Panelists Include:
- Adrienne Lotto, Senior Director, Energy Security & Resilience Programs, New York Power Authority
- Sam Rozenberg, Senior Director, Security and Resilience, American Public Power Association (APPA)
- Steve Swick, Vice President & Chief Security Officer, American Electric Power
- David Terry, Executive Director, National Association of State Energy Officials
Over the past 20 years, the electricity sub-sector has strengthened its partnerships with federal and state governments to increase coordination and counter an expanding array of threats. Experts from diverse backgrounds will share insights into how the sub sector and its government partners can build upon these successes going forward.
3:15-3:50 PM - Promoting Information-Sharing with Process Transparency: COVID-19 & SolarWinds
Brian Tishuk, Executive Director, Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
A transparent, repeatable incident response process facilitates information-sharing, and resilience. Learn the approach taken by the financial sector approach to address the pandemic and supply chain compromise.
3:50-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
4:00-4:55 PM - Breakouts Begin
6:00-6:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception / End of Day Two
- Next Steps Towards Public/Private Sector Resiliency
-
State and Industry Partnerships to Combat All Hazards Threats
-
COVID-19: Cyber Awareness, Preparedness and Response
- Cross-Sector Information Sharing for Planning, Preparing, and Responding to Wildfires and PSPS in a COVID-19 Environment – Lessons from 2020
-
Benefits and Initiatives of State BEOC Programs
-
Using DHS' ESF#14 for Private Sector Coordination
-
Introduction to Operational Readiness Level Standards (ORLS)
-
Law Enforcement’s Role in Resiliency
-
Participant Exchange Breakout Session
-
And More!
DAY 3 – Thursday, January 28, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
How can you address resiliency challenges moving forward?
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
12:30-2:15 PM - Breakout Sessions
- Commercial Routing Assistance App for Vehicle Movement
- Integrating with the Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE)
- Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience
- How to Securely Collaborate Your Data with the SISE?
-
INL Cyber Security Training
-
COVID Impacts on State Operations Policy
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Regional Economic Recovery
- Health Sector Guide with State Health Agencies
- Resilience in Electricity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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And More!
1:50 - 2:25 PM - Emergency Management 101: How Do We Prepare?
This session will discuss how a broader disaster education can save your business. Topics will include understanding the current environment with mass retirements; the importance of networking and how to do it; overcoming common myths and obstacles to planning and exercises; how to be acting instead of reacting; strategies for planning; coordinating with government; how to maintain your plans annually.
Anthony Hurley - Consultant, Utilities and Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management & Physical Security Professional, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
2:25 - 2:35 PM - Virtual Break
2:35 - 3:10 PM : Navigating Crisis Logistics : Using Strategic Flexibility to Increase Productivity, Confidence, and Safety During Disasters
Aaron Strickland - Director of Business Development, Utilicon, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will help participants learn how to better manage logistics dollars and your personnel safe through flexible logistics strategies during varying storm conditions. Topics will include understanding what safety and wellness of workers is worth to your company; how to develop contingencies in planning; planning considerations "blue sky" days; internal and external communications; managing expectations, working with your vendors; mutual assistance strategies, and networking with logistics experts.
3:10 - 3:45 PM - Managing Storm Expenses : Don’t Let Un-Reimbursed Storm Dollars Destroy Your Bottom Line
Jim Nowak - Sr. Director, Operations, Products & Services, ARCOS, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will help you understand to high level concepts on how to identify, manage, and recover the millions of disaster dollars being left on the table including: Avoid bottle-necking through back office staffing; managing resources better, recognize financial waste before it happens, and knowing what really matters most in storm cost management.
3:45 - 3:55 PM - Virtual Break
3:55 - 4:30 PM - Predictive Impacts and Pro-active Planning: Using Data From the Past to Predict The Future
David Vanderbloemen - Principal Consultant at DV Consulting, LLC & Retired, (retired operations executive in electric sector for 30+ years)
This session will discuss how to use data and innovative technology to help raise credibility and trust when it matters most to your key internal and external stakeholders. Topics will touch upon how to leverage past storm related data and technologies to help predict future impacts; how to build
credibility and trust with internal and external stakeholders; how to ensuring senior leadership is in-sync; understanding the real connection between weather and your operations desk; developing simple Standard Operating Procedures; creating and adhering to a governance process, performing meaningful after action reviews to inform future disasters; and the financial, operational, branding, and customer satisfaction incentives for doing this.
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Cross Sector Communications & Coordination : Creating and Maintaining Mutually Beneficial Partnerships.
Carlos D. Torres - Independent Consultant/Experienced Utility-Emergency Management Executive
Learn how to Save Time, Resources, and Lives by Forging Advanced Partnerships
Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences, All Hazards Consortium
Tom Moran, Executive Director, All Hazards Consortium
2:25-4:45 PM - Breakout Sessions
4:45-4:50 PM - Virtual Break
4:50-5:50 PM - Breakout Sessions
5:50-6:00 PM - Closing Remarks and Virtual Conference Adjourn/ End of Day Three
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception
*Agenda is subject to change.
Professor
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Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
- Priorities for Enhancing Cross Sector Coordination
- What are the Resilience Strategies for the ISACs Going Forward?
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Cross Sector Practitioners–Resiliency Challenges During COVID-19
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State Perspectives on Regional, Cross-Sector Resilience Panel
- Strategies for Federal, State and Industry Coordination
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And More!
3:55-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
DAY 2 – Wednesday, January 27, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
What’s being done (projects and initiatives) to strengthen resiliency?
12:30-12:40 PM - Virtual Welcome, Opening Remarks & Resiliency Scenario for the Day
Mike Zapponne, Chair, Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group
Learn about the DHS CISA Integrated Operations Center (IOC), what is does, how it aggregates critical infrastructure threats and information, and how it benefits industry.
12:40-1:10 PM - Day Two Keynote Presentation: Integrated Operations Center
Rick Driggers, Assistant Director, Integrated Operations Division, DHS CISA
Learn about the DHS CISA IOC and how it benefits industry
1:10-2:10 PM - Public/Private Partnerships for Regional Cyber Resilience - Best Practices from the Pacific Northwest
Moderator: Matt Morrison, CEO, Pacific Northwest Economic Region
Panelists Include:
- Mike Hamilton, CISSP, CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security
- Eric Holdeman, Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience
- Alisha King, CEM, Emergency Manager, Washington Technology Solutions
2:10-2:15 PM - Virtual Break
2:15-3:15 PM - Public-Private Operational Partnerships for Power Restoration - Combating All Hazards Threats
Moderator: Laura Schepis, Senior Director, National Security, Edison Electric Institute
Panelists Include:
- Adrienne Lotto, Senior Director, Energy Security & Resilience Programs, New York Power Authority
- Sam Rozenberg, Senior Director, Security and Resilience, American Public Power Association (APPA)
- Steve Swick, Vice President & Chief Security Officer, American Electric Power
- David Terry, Executive Director, National Association of State Energy Officials
Over the past 20 years, the electricity sub-sector has strengthened its partnerships with federal and state governments to increase coordination and counter an expanding array of threats. Experts from diverse backgrounds will share insights into how the sub sector and its government partners can build upon these successes going forward.
3:15-3:50 PM - Promoting Information-Sharing with Process Transparency: COVID-19 & SolarWinds
Brian Tishuk, Executive Director, Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
A transparent, repeatable incident response process facilitates information-sharing, and resilience. Learn the approach taken by the financial sector approach to address the pandemic and supply chain compromise.
3:50-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
4:00-4:55 PM - Breakouts Begin
6:00-6:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception / End of Day Two
- Next Steps Towards Public/Private Sector Resiliency
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State and Industry Partnerships to Combat All Hazards Threats
-
COVID-19: Cyber Awareness, Preparedness and Response
- Cross-Sector Information Sharing for Planning, Preparing, and Responding to Wildfires and PSPS in a COVID-19 Environment – Lessons from 2020
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Benefits and Initiatives of State BEOC Programs
-
Using DHS' ESF#14 for Private Sector Coordination
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Introduction to Operational Readiness Level Standards (ORLS)
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Law Enforcement’s Role in Resiliency
-
Participant Exchange Breakout Session
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And More!
DAY 3 – Thursday, January 28, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
How can you address resiliency challenges moving forward?
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
12:30-2:15 PM - Breakout Sessions
- Commercial Routing Assistance App for Vehicle Movement
- Integrating with the Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE)
- Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience
- How to Securely Collaborate Your Data with the SISE?
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INL Cyber Security Training
-
COVID Impacts on State Operations Policy
-
Regional Economic Recovery
- Health Sector Guide with State Health Agencies
- Resilience in Electricity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
-
And More!
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Cross Sector Communications & Coordination : Creating and Maintaining Mutually Beneficial Partnerships.
Carlos D. Torres - Independent Consultant/Experienced Utility-Emergency Management Executive
Learn how to Save Time, Resources, and Lives by Forging Advanced Partnerships
2:25-4:45 PM - Breakout Sessions
4:45-4:50 PM - Virtual Break
4:50-5:50 PM - Breakout Sessions
5:50-6:00 PM - Closing Remarks and Virtual Conference Adjourn/ End of Day Three
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception
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Tuesday, June 29, 20211:00PM – 5:00PM EST
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
Take-charge leaders are who you want around in a crisis, these employees excel in leadership and blaze the way in the day-to-day business roles and disaster management.
What happens when they retire?
What happens when these integral leaders move on to new chapters of their lives?
- Priorities for Enhancing Cross Sector Coordination
- What are the Resilience Strategies for the ISACs Going Forward?
-
Cross Sector Practitioners–Resiliency Challenges During COVID-19
-
State Perspectives on Regional, Cross-Sector Resilience Panel
- Strategies for Federal, State and Industry Coordination
-
And More!
3:55-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
DAY 2 – Wednesday, January 27, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
What’s being done (projects and initiatives) to strengthen resiliency?
12:30-12:40 PM - Virtual Welcome, Opening Remarks & Resiliency Scenario for the Day
Mike Zapponne, Chair, Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group
Learn about the DHS CISA Integrated Operations Center (IOC), what is does, how it aggregates critical infrastructure threats and information, and how it benefits industry.
12:40-1:10 PM - Day Two Keynote Presentation: Integrated Operations Center
Rick Driggers, Assistant Director, Integrated Operations Division, DHS CISA
Learn about the DHS CISA IOC and how it benefits industry
1:10-2:10 PM - Public/Private Partnerships for Regional Cyber Resilience - Best Practices from the Pacific Northwest
Moderator: Matt Morrison, CEO, Pacific Northwest Economic Region
Panelists Include:
- Mike Hamilton, CISSP, CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security
- Eric Holdeman, Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience
- Alisha King, CEM, Emergency Manager, Washington Technology Solutions
2:10-2:15 PM - Virtual Break
2:15-3:15 PM - Public-Private Operational Partnerships for Power Restoration - Combating All Hazards Threats
Moderator: Laura Schepis, Senior Director, National Security, Edison Electric Institute
Panelists Include:
- Adrienne Lotto, Senior Director, Energy Security & Resilience Programs, New York Power Authority
- Sam Rozenberg, Senior Director, Security and Resilience, American Public Power Association (APPA)
- Steve Swick, Vice President & Chief Security Officer, American Electric Power
- David Terry, Executive Director, National Association of State Energy Officials
Over the past 20 years, the electricity sub-sector has strengthened its partnerships with federal and state governments to increase coordination and counter an expanding array of threats. Experts from diverse backgrounds will share insights into how the sub sector and its government partners can build upon these successes going forward.
3:15-3:50 PM - Promoting Information-Sharing with Process Transparency: COVID-19 & SolarWinds
Brian Tishuk, Executive Director, Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council
A transparent, repeatable incident response process facilitates information-sharing, and resilience. Learn the approach taken by the financial sector approach to address the pandemic and supply chain compromise.
3:50-4:00 PM - Virtual Break
4:00-4:55 PM - Breakouts Begin
6:00-6:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception / End of Day Two
- Next Steps Towards Public/Private Sector Resiliency
-
State and Industry Partnerships to Combat All Hazards Threats
-
COVID-19: Cyber Awareness, Preparedness and Response
- Cross-Sector Information Sharing for Planning, Preparing, and Responding to Wildfires and PSPS in a COVID-19 Environment – Lessons from 2020
-
Benefits and Initiatives of State BEOC Programs
-
Using DHS' ESF#14 for Private Sector Coordination
-
Introduction to Operational Readiness Level Standards (ORLS)
-
Law Enforcement’s Role in Resiliency
-
Participant Exchange Breakout Session
-
And More!
DAY 3 – Thursday, January 28, 202112:30PM – 6:00PM EST
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
How can you address resiliency challenges moving forward?
How can you learn from the available solutions (or those that are being produced?)
12:30-2:15 PM - Breakout Sessions
- Commercial Routing Assistance App for Vehicle Movement
- Integrating with the Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE)
- Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience
- How to Securely Collaborate Your Data with the SISE?
-
INL Cyber Security Training
-
COVID Impacts on State Operations Policy
-
Regional Economic Recovery
- Health Sector Guide with State Health Agencies
- Resilience in Electricity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
-
And More!
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Cross Sector Communications & Coordination : Creating and Maintaining Mutually Beneficial Partnerships.
Carlos D. Torres - Independent Consultant/Experienced Utility-Emergency Management Executive
Learn how to Save Time, Resources, and Lives by Forging Advanced Partnerships
2:25-4:45 PM - Breakout Sessions
4:45-4:50 PM - Virtual Break
4:50-5:50 PM - Breakout Sessions
5:50-6:00 PM - Closing Remarks and Virtual Conference Adjourn/ End of Day Three
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Optional Virtual Networking Reception
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