Thursday, May 23, 2013
   
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Day 2: Masterclass Agenda

Track 1. Time: 9am to 5pm
BCM-640: Testing Business Continuity Exercises
Facilitator: Nicholas Ruston-Young

This workshop will guide the participants to develop and conduct effective tests and exercises.  Testing and exercising is a necessary and key element in the Business Continuity Management (BCM) program management. If you are BC project managers and coordinators, you will be given a practical overview of the tasks and activities to be carried out for your organizational and its business units levels.

The content of this workshop includes the development of the overall testing schedule which needs to be approved by the Executive Management once the BC project ends. In addition, you will be expected to learn how to design tests such as the simple, notification call test, walkthrough test, to the advanced level: integrated, partial simulation and full simulation tests.

This course will empower the participants with the knowledge and skills needed to:
  • Develop a corporate-wide test programs.
  • Design and implement a simple to advanced-level tests.
  • Introduce measures to rehearse the recovery teams and their readiness

Participants will be provided the necessary templates upon completion of this workshop.


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Track 2. Time: 9am to 5pm
BCM-2050: Crisis Simulation for Pandemic Flu
Facilitator: Dr. Goh Moh Heng

As organisations and agencies moving into a mature stage in Business Continuity Management (BCM), they should be looking more into the ability for the crisis management and business continuity team to manage different disaster scenario. In view of the impending outbreak of the H1N1 Influenza A pandemic, organization should begin to ensure that this scenario is not only tested but also ensure that the teams are versed with the possible scenarios that may not be considered in the routine planning of tests.  This crisis simulation is a tabletop exercise to simulate the outbreak of a pandemic flu within organizations in Malaysia, taking the global outbreak in perspective.

Participants can expect to learn on how to:
  • Manage an outbreak under careful supervision and expert feedbacks.
  • Conduct a gap analysis of your current pandemic flu BC and crisis management plan.
  • Facilitate from the facilitators so that this similar simulation can be replicated within your organization.

Using a simulated pandemic flu outbreak as a case study, this is a practical course that will take the participants through the business continuity life cycle in handling the threat of a pandmeic flu outbreak.

 

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