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Will Your Lights Go Out When the Lights Go Out?
Ken Schroeder, Vice President for Business Continuity
Southeast Corporate

Session Description
Make sure your Business Continuity (BC) plan Works! This session will look at some of the aspects of BC planning that often get overlooked. It will give you a different way to look at your entire planning process. Enterprise Risk Planning, one of today's buzz topics, is a key element in BC planning. No ERP? That's ok, but you still need to view threats, risks, and mitigations. You've got your plan written--where you go in a hurricane, where IT recovers, how to recall your staff, including how you'll address a pandemic. But will it really work? We will rephrase the questions into a simple, easy-to-understand approach to evaluate your plan. Looking at the phases of a disaster, you will walk away with a different perspective--one that will help you make sure your plan works--whether you are customer service representative, senior management, or a Board member.

About the Speaker
Ken Schroeder is Vice President for Business Continuity at Southeast Corporate. He is responsible for the life cycle management of all business continuity functions, coordinating with each business process owner to ensure backup processes are in place for all critical functions and single points of failure within the corporate structure. He develops and exercises critical portions of the plan, trains staff on their roles, and encourages a climate of redundancy, resiliency, and rapid response. He provides consulting services to member credit unions and is recognized as a Certified Business Continuity Professional by Disaster Recovery Institute International. He holds a position on the Board of Directors of PPBI, Public Private Businesses, Inc., a non-profit organization of professionals dedicated to enhancing cooperation, understanding, and relations between the public and private sectors with respect to emergency management, disaster response, and business continuity. Prior to joining Southeast Corporate, he served in public service with a career in the United States Air Force as a pilot, contingency and employment planner, and supply squadron Commander.