Posts Tagged ‘Events’

Canberra Business Continuity Certification – Bringing Public and Private Sectors Together

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Attaining the prestige of business continuity certification in Australia is one good reason for attending a course. For many professionals, there’s also another one – mixing with BCP peers and exchanging points of view. The give and take between private and public sectors is a good example. Private industry and service sectors often take their lead from the public sector in terms of which policies and strategies to implement. After all, successfully running a 1.7 trillion dollar economy means due care and planning, especially in terms of business continuity. Likewise, Government gets some of its best ideas from hearing about solutions and best practices from independent enterprises.

The Canberra venue for the BCLE-2000 Business Continuity Planning course reflects this. OpsCentre is running this DRII course in response to the drive for business continuity certification in Australia. The course will be held in Canberra from Monday November 28th to Friday December 2nd. The course runs for 4.5 days and covers the 10 professional practices for BCP professionals and the qualifying exam for CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional) qualification. In keeping with the CBCP program, the course is for professionals with a minimum of two years of business continuity experience.

Canberra with its concentration of Federal Government departments is therefore a location with particular potential for exchanges between professionals seeking business continuity certification in Australia. The principles of BCP remain the same in any industry, including risk evaluation, business impact analysis and BC strategy development and planning. Instructors make use of case study material and other selected exercises that will bring out the best of the mix of experience among the course attendees, ensuring the BC planning expertise that is taught and put into practice is balanced and relevant for all.

Full course outline and registration form are available on our DRI Australia Website.

Sydney Round Table Event – Testing Business Continuity Plans

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

OpsCentre’s Managing Director, Rod Crowder, will be facilitating a round table event on behalf of Continuity Forum, to be held 29th Jun 2011. The topic is Business Continuity Testing/Exercising.

For more information and registration details please go to the Continuity Forum website here.

We hope to see you there.

Business Continuity Awareness Week Events

Monday, March 21st, 2011

OpsCentre have updated our Events page with details and links for some of the Australian activities for Business Continuity Awareness Week (this week).

Plus we’ve also put up the topics for our June and August Round Table Discussions in Sydney.

Happy BCAW!

OpsCentre Round Table Event – Cloud Computing: Risky Business?

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

OpsCentre is hosting another Round Table event at the Vibe Hotel in Sydney on 28th April 2011 to discuss Cloud Computing Risks.

Details have been updated on OpsCentre’s Events page and there is a link through to more information and registration.

OpsCentre Events Page

Webinar: Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing – The Real Cost of Downtime

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Novell is hosting a complimentary Webinar on the Real Cost of Downtime on January 19, 2011 (or Thu, Jan 20, 2011 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM AEDT if you’re in Australia).
The main topics to be covered are:
- Traditional disaster recovery challenges, particularly when it comes to testing and recovery planning
- Best practices for reducing disruption and improving coordination and communication
- How virtualisation is a potential game changer in increasing the level of trust businesses have in disaster recovery plans
Register to participate here.

Roundtable Event – Building Resilence in your organisation – Is it really possible?

Monday, November 29th, 2010

OpsCentre is hosting a roundtable event on the 7th of December, 2010. 

With today’s ever changing environment; with new technologies, environmental factors and new generation risks pose increasing threats to managers in an ever changing landscape of uncertainties. The question we pose is does resilience really exist within an organisation, and how can it be achieved

The discussion is relevant to Chief Executives, Chief Financial Officers, Managing Directors, Business Continuity Managers, Risk and Compliance Managers, and all senior executives looking to understand and identify “Building Resilience within an Organisation and whether it is actually possible” during 2010/11

More information and register to attend here

OpsCentre Roundtable Event – Managing Emerging and New Era Risks

Monday, October 11th, 2010

In the 21st century, a number of New Era or Emerging risks are challenging our traditional risk management methodologies, tools and techniques.  Risk professionals must keep up-to-date with them: assessing, mitigating and managing these risks, each and every day.

 What is a New Era, or Emerging, Risk? Categories include Economic, Environmental, Geopolitical, Societal and Technological.  Examples include Demographic shift, Climate changes, Social Networking, Terrorism, Pandemics and Critical information infrastructure, to name just a few. 

Join us for this roundtable discussion to share your ideas and find out how your peers assess and manage new era risks and ensure protection of their organisation’. 

OpsCentre extends an invitation to the roundtable event to Chief Executives, Chief Financial Officers, Managing Directors, Business Continuity Managers, Risk and Compliance Managers, and all senior executives looking to understand and identify “Emerging Risks” during 2010/11.

Rod Crowder, Managing Director of OpsCentre, will facilitate an open and unbiased discussion between participants; providing an opportunity to comment and discuss individual perspectives and share related issues and experiences with each other.   He will outline a number of action areas where senior executives can gain rapid traction on this important challenge.   

Our round table discussion topics include:

What are the major categories of Emerging Risk?

Do existing Risk Management practices cater for these types of risk?

What emerging risks will your organisation face next?

How are organisations assessing qualitative and quantitative Emerging risks?

What risk response strategies need to be implemented?

Is there a need for collaboration with an external party to deal with emerging Risks?

What methods are there of effectively using indicators to monitor Emerging risks?

 

We look forward to sharing your views and perspectives at our Roundtable event.

When:
Thursday October 21, 2010
from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST

Where:
Vibe Hotel Sydney
111 Goulburn St
Sydney 2000

Register Now

OpsCentre Round Table Event – Operational Risk – the convergence of People, Processes & Technology

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Operational Risk emerges from various sources; sometimes lying undetected for years, or more often, unexpectedly, catching executives off-guard.   Join us for this roundtable discussion to share your ideas and find out how your peers mitigate operational risk and ensure protection of their organisation’.

The discussion is relevant to Chief Executives, Chief Financial Officers, Managing Directors, Business Continuity Managers, Risk and Compliance Managers, and all senior executives looking to assess and mitigate risks during 2010/11.

Rod Crowder, Managing Director of OpsCentre, will facilitate an open and unbiased discussion between participants; providing an opportunity to comment and discuss individual perspectives and share related issues and experiences with each other.   He will outline a number of action areas where senior executives can gain rapid traction on this important challenge.

Operational Risk is one of many categories of risk managed by all organisations, others include; strategic, compliance, reporting, market, credit, legal, political and insurance risks.  Whilst some types relate to generation of strategic advantage or profitability, operational risk is inherent to the imperfections or errors of its people, processes and technology assets.  Organisations must assess the likelihood and impact to generate an overall rating, against which mitigation strategies can be implemented or accept a level of ‘residual risk’.

Our round table discussion topics include:

What are the major categories of operational risk?

How are organisations assessing qualitative and quantitative operational risks?

How does ‘risk appetite and tolerance’ vary across different organisations?

What strategies, methods and tools are organisations using for risk mitigation?

What operational risk management standards or ‘good practice guides’ are relevant?

What experiences do people have in responding to incidents?

We look forward to sharing your views and perspectives at our Roundtable.

When?

Thursday July 08, 2010, 4:00PM to 6:00PM

Where?

OpsCentre - Level 18, 323 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 2000 Australia

Or

Online: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/672734064

Audio: +612 6108 4655, Access Code: 672-734-064

Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting ID: 672-734-064

Contact Rod Crowder ASAP to register your attendance.

About your Facilitator

Rod Crowder is Managing Director of OpsCentre, a boutique provider of risk, business continuity and disaster recovery consulting, software and training solutions.  He has worked in the Management Consulting sector for 17 years in a variety of management, training, facilitation, project management and consulting roles.

Rod has project managed and consulted on projects for organisations including Telstra, Lend Lease, Nestle, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu Australia, DCA Group, Thomson Legal and Regulatory, Omnilab Media Group, Ambience Entertainment, Amity Group, Amnesty International, Integral Energy, Coates Hire, Westlink M7, Hills M2 Motorway, Franklins Foods and several Federal and NSW Government Agencies, and local councils.

He has undertaken extensive overseas consulting assignments in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, USA and Europe. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies from Brighton University in the UK.