ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Preparing Organisations to Anticipate, Absorb, Adapt and Recover
Date to be confirmed
Adelaide, South Australia
Event Overview
Disruption is no longer an occasional exception to normal business operations.
Organisations face a complex operating environment shaped by cyber incidents, supply chain interruption, infrastructure failure, workforce shortages, extreme weather, geopolitical change, regulatory pressure, technology dependency and rapidly shifting markets.
Organisational Resilience and Business Continuity will examine how organisations can prepare for disruption while protecting their people, operations, customers, assets and reputation.
The event will focus on the practical connection between governance, risk management, business continuity, crisis leadership, emergency management, technology recovery, supply chain resilience and organisational culture.
Beyond Having a Continuity Plan
A business continuity plan is important, but organisational resilience requires a broader operating capability.
Resilient organisations understand:
Which services and functions are genuinely critical
How long those functions can be unavailable
Which people, systems, suppliers and assets they depend upon
Where single points of failure exist
Who has authority during disruption
How information will be communicated
How operations will continue under degraded conditions
How recovery priorities will be determined
How lessons from disruption will be implemented
This event will help organisations move from documented plans to tested and operational resilience capability.
Key Discussion Areas
The event will examine:
Organisational resilience governance
Board and executive accountability
Business impact analysis
Critical service identification
Risk and dependency mapping
Business continuity planning
Crisis management structures
Emergency and incident response
Cyber incident continuity
Information technology recovery
Operational technology recovery
Supply chain and third-party risk
Workforce and key-person dependency
Alternative sites and operating arrangements
Communications during disruption
Exercises, simulations and scenario testing
Recovery priorities and performance measures
Organisational culture and leadership under pressure
Post-incident review and continuous improvement
Who Should Attend
This event is relevant to:
Board members and directors
Chief executives and senior executives
Chief operating officers
Business owners
Risk and governance professionals
Business continuity managers
Emergency management professionals
Cybersecurity and technology leaders
Property and facilities managers
Human resources leaders
Supply chain and procurement professionals
Government and local government representatives
Infrastructure operators
Health, aged care and community service providers
Universities and educational institutions
Professional advisers and insurers
Event Outcomes
Participants will gain a clearer understanding of:
The difference between risk management, business continuity and organisational resilience
How to identify genuinely critical operations
How to establish practical disruption tolerances
How to strengthen executive decision-making during a crisis
How to test plans before an actual disruption
How to improve recovery speed and organisational adaptability
How to embed resilience within everyday management
How to identify and address critical dependencies
Event Format
The event is proposed to include:
Opening remarks from C4R - CENTRE FOR RESILIENCE
Expert presentations
Industry panel discussion
Practical case studies
Moderated questions and answers
Audience discussion
Professional networking
Registration of Interest
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