The 15th Annual Continuity Insights Management Conference moves to the Mile High City, April 24-26, 2017. Join your colleagues and other subject matter experts at the industry's leading event for experienced business continuity professionals.

More than 60 sessions devoted to Case Studies, Trending Topics, Program Development & Advancement, Measurement, Metrics, and Maturity, Emerging Technology, and Professional Development, as well as the highly-anticipated "Ask the Experts" panels, highlight the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference scheduled for April 24-26 in Denver, Colorado. The full conference program, including speakers, sessions, plenaries, and panel discussions, is now available. The opening keynote, Institutional Knowledge! When Good Employees Leave, What Do We Really Lose and How Do We Retain It?, will be presented by Dr. Andrew Pena, Assistant Vice President for Human Resource Services at New Mexico State University.

As the power base within companies is changing include more to Gen X and Millennials, crisis management and business continuity programs will need to adapt. Our industry must find ways to communicate and implement our programs in better ways. In this presentation, Grace Burley will explore how to best use metrics and the power of a great story to communicate with Gen X and Millennials to get their buy-in and develop plans and tools to support them.

Planning as it should be: smart, systematic, practical, and functional. The Rapid Continuity program represents a major breakthrough in the design and approach to the strategic and tactical implementation of the resiliency planning process. These components are innovative and unique in their ability to establish buy-in, ownership and participation.

Now in its 10th year, the Business Continuity Management Trending Index, also known as the BC Management Trending Survey, is a globally recognized tool by risk and business continuity management professionals to survey, assess, and report on specific attitudes and findings as they relate to the discipline of business continuity management (BCM). All business continuity and resilience professionals are invited to participate in the 2016 survey. BC Management, Inc. and Aon business continuity management consultants will review and analyze the results and will prepare a BCM benchmarking report, which will be completed in Q1 2017. All participants will receive a complementary copy of the final report.

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