Presenter Biographies (draft)

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Dave wowed us with his "Think Big on Cyber" presentation. Add more
Members can download Dave's presentation here


 

BIO - Dennis Lenard, PMP, CBCP, MBCI is a Senior Technical Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Consultant.  With over 35 years of experience in industry, he offers expertise in the areas of business continuity, IT disaster recovery, project management, IT security operations and IT Management. Mr. Lenard holds certifications in project management, business continuity and ITIL.
Currently with CGI he has aided clients with analysis, creation, and exercise of their Disaster Recovery environments. Mr. Lenard’s background includes experience as a senior project management professional with a proven track record of providing teams/projects with direction, process, and automation to maximize efficiency, improve service levels, and gain cost reductions via transformation and re-engineering.

Dennis presented us with a well rounded list of best practices that he has either adopted or created over his career as the BCP expert.
Members can download Dennis' presentation here.  

Synopsis - Planning and Execution of a Disaster Recovery Live System Exercise.
This presentation covers the preparation, conducting, and post exercise actions for a live IT DR exercise.
Key Points that an Attendee will take away from your presentation:

• How to approach a live DR exercise
• Preparation is key
• Risks and mitigations in preparing for the exercise
• My observations from exercises

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Frank's presentation "Execise to Prepare for Cyber Attacks and Data Breaches" confirmed that we need to be prepared.  Find out how your team would manage a Cyber incident nad help them become the experts they need to be when a real event occurs.
Members can download Frank's presentation here 

Synopsis:
The frequency and depth of data breach events over the past two years is a clear indicator that this type of threat will continue to have one of the most profound impacts on our day to day operations. So WHEN it occurs, not IF it occurs, within our organization will we have a data breach recovery plan in our portfolio of plans and arrangements? Will it have been tested with the same rigour we put around our other BCP/ITDR exercises and tests? 
 
Unfortunately the answer is that most organizations don’t have a formal plan in place and will subsequently “wing-it” and the vast majority of organizations who do have plans in place do not have them tested.
 
We owe it to our organizations to use our extensive exercise development expertise to produce exercises that prove out data breach recovery plans. The objective of this presentation is offer guidance on setting up a Data Breach TTX, identifying the appropriate individuals who ought to be participating, choosing the scenarios that could impact operations and discussing possible injects

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John's presentation "The New Norm - Highlighting Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace" touched on a subject that many of our workplaces need to think about.  Using humour, and relevant examples, he informed us of the Workplace Standard and the many things we can do to create and maintain a safe, productive and positive work environment.
Members can download John's presentation here