Autumn & Winter Event Series announced

Major Series of events and workshops launched by the Continuity Forum

We are delighted to announce our Autumn & Winter series of events and workshops aimed at supporting and promoting professional BCM to Business and helping those involved gain the skills needed to effectively create Continuity within your organisation

The Continuity Forum, in association with a number of the UK’s leading Companies, is pleased to announce our High Risk Industries Special event and an associated Forum Development Group (FDG).

This event is scheduled for 15th September 2004 at the British Airways EPIC Centre at Heathrow and will focus on issues affecting the Business Continuity Management, Security and other ‘Special Considerations’ within organisations working in or affected by ‘High Risk’ Industries Environments. if you are interested in attending this event please contact the Forum directly at events@continuityforum.org

This will be followed by our Annual Telecoms & Resilience event, this year at the BT Tower, on the 23rd September, and a new ‘Special Event’ aimed at boosting the planning for BCM in the Charities sector.

In October, we’ll be adding two more Special Events covering Basell II and Sarbanes Oxley, where we’ll be exploring compliance and BCM under the Legislative and Regulatory framework needed. This will be followed with another new special event and focussing on the needs of the Public Sector prior to the Royal assent of the Civil Contingencies Bill expected in November. This event is designed to coincide with the further development of the CCB and the increasingly high profile of a wide variety of UK BCM and security issues.

In December we'll be running our Business and Terrorism Annual Event again and sharing the results of this years research into this delicate and important topic. You'll be able to meet experts from a wide variety of backgrounds and discuss the issues as they affect your business or organisation. It is intended that this event will support government initiatives in raising the awareness and information available to promote good corporate and civil resilience to a range of threats.

All these events are all part of an exciting Autumn and Winter programme of events, research and workshops for the Continuity Sector with over 40 different events and workshops provided by the Continuity Forum across the country, covering public promotion of Business Continuity Management, specialist events, professional development workshops and numerous private group meetings. We are also extending our research still further and have 4 major programmes completing in the next few months, covering the developing BC sector and its related issues, which our members will be able to receive free of charge.

Remember that while events are free to access, we will, of course, give preference in our delegate allocation to Forum Members for all these events.

Just look at the value you could be getting with your membership of the Forum. If you were to book with commercial event organisers these events alone would cost you nearly £15,000 per person!

Whatever your level of experience, you and your organisation simply cannot get better value or support.

So what are you waiting for? Join us today!

For more details or to join the Continuity Forum please contact us on either 020 8993 1599 or by email via events@continuityforum.org

These events are part of our 'Public Series' and are run to promote BCM generally to organisations of all types.

Major Public Events

Security and the City ... Securing Safety and Continuity

High Risk Industries ... BCM at the frontiers

Telecoms and Resilience ... Communicating in a crisis

Civil Contingencies Bill, EP, BCM and the Public Sector ...
Public Sector Planning and Preparation

Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley ... creating a Strategic framework for Compliance

Business Continuity and Terrorism ... The unlikely Counter Terrorist - You?

The following CPD workshops are geared to support the professional development of those involved in planning and managing an Organisations BCM Programme. Spaces are limited at these events as they are held in a workshop format. New events will be added based on feedback received from those attending our CPD series.

*** CPD Event Series ***

CPD - Introducing & Developing a BCM culture within organisation
CPD - Introducing Crisis Management
CPD - Plan Initiation and BIA Development
CPD - Communications and Resilience
CPD - BC for SME’s
CPD - Emergency Planning and BC Workshop
CPD - Managing ‘Risk’
CPD - Media Skills
CPD - Security and BCM
CPD - an Introduction to BCM and IT
CPD - Reputational Risk and BCM
The following are part of our Regional programme of events and are part of our 'Public Series' run to promote BCM generally to organisations of all types with a 'regional' focus. New events are constantly being added so do check back regularly for updates!

Regional Events Series

Croydon Continuity
West Midlands Forum
Eastern Counties Forum
North West Forum
North East Forum
Scottish Development Agency & CF Event
Greater London Boroughs LA Programme
South East Forum
South West Forum
In addition, we have created Forum Development Groups covering the main industry issues, which are designed to focus on specific topics of interest to the BC planner and Business in general. These FDG's are run on either a 'standalone' basis or as part of a larger event. Each group has an Independent 'chair' nominated by the group who can direct Forum resources proactively to undertake research or develop events.

Forum Development Groups

High Risk Industries Group
Insurance and RM Group
Regulation and Standards Group
Telecoms and Resilience Group
Emergency Planning & BCM Group
Security Forum Group
Financial Services & City Continuity Group
Charities Group
Public Sector Group

If you have any questions please contact Sara Mckenna or Russell Price at the Continuity Forum directly on 020 8993 1599 or events@continuityforum.org