Behind this perhaps cryptic title (for some, but not for others, especially those in the BCM industry) is the Contingency Planning & Management Conference (CPM 2010 East) that is coming up November 3-4 in New York City. It offers a 2-day, 4-track advanced-level program taught by expert faculty in small, classroom settings. Joseph Bruno, Commissioner of the NYC Office of Emergency Management, will also be this year’s keynote speaker. I won’t be going there myself, but if you’ve never attended before and are interested in attending, through my contacts I am pleased to offer a special registration code that will save you $100 off the full conference rate.
CPM 2010 East
Since I devoted myself to literature reviews, conference announcements have become a rare event on my blog, but this one seemed particular interesting. The CPM 2010 EAST is a two-day event that will bring together experts in risk management for advanced-level education on today’s hot topics. All in all I counted 29 sessions across these tracks:
- Business Continuity
- Security & Emergency Management
- Risk Management
- Leadership & Professional Development
The sessions are designed as either Lecture, Case Study, Panel Discussion or Workshop, and range from Beginner to Intermediate to the Advanced level, so there should be something for everybody here. With 4 sessions per day that makes a maximum of 8 sessions you can possibly attend, so I guess you will have to chose your sessions wisely. Each session is described in detail in the conference brochure which you can download below.
To me, some of the more interesting sessions are (follow the link to read the program details):
- Chief Risk Officer: A Career Path Strategy
- How to develop and execute a comprehensive career path strategy
- Teaming Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity
- Identify synergies and ways to optimize ERM and BC methodologies
- Crisis-Decision Making
- How to make important decisions when (1) information is scarce; (2) time is limited; and (3) the future is uncertain
- Looking For Risk Up and Down the Supply Chain
- How “For want of a nail, the war can be lost.”
and let’s not forget
- Breaking the Spin Cycle: Managing Crisis Communications with Credibility
- The three things that make the difference between brand protection and destruction
As I said, I counted 28 sessions, and while some are obviously more interesting than others, I wish I could attend them all.
Conference website
- contingencyplanning.com: CPM 2010 East
Download
- contingencyplanning.com: Conference Brochure
Save $100
If you’ve never attended before and are interested in attending, I am pleased to offer a special registration code to share that will save $100 off the full conference rate when you use this link to register for the CPM 2010 East with the promotion code NX1C79.
