| |
Past Meetings
2010
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| June |
Herakles Data
Center, Sacramento |
Herakles Data recovery facility
tour |
|
| Mobile/Alternate Workspace –
Lessoned Learned in Real World Recoveries |
Steve O’Neal,
Rentsys Recovery Services, Inc |
| Cloud Computing for Disaster
Resilience |
Andrew Pryfogle,
Terrapin Solutions |
| What is Your Disaster
Personality |
,
Ernst
& Young |
| BRMA Software Survey Results |
,
Emergency Planning International, Inc. |
| May |
San Francisco |
Motorized Trolley Earthquake Tour |
United States
Geological Survey (USGS) Guides |
| April |
Fireman's Fund
Insurance,
Novato |
PS-Prep Update |
,
Union Bank of California |
| Cross Sector Liaison —
Mitigating Shortfalls in Public/Private Sector Disaster Planning
Relationships |
Forrest Franklin,
Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) |
| Haiti Earthquake - Operation
Unified Response |
,
Bond Consulting, LLC |
| March |
Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo |
Crisis and Emergency-Risk
Communication (CERC) |
Barbara
Reynolds, PhD,
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) |
| February |
Marvell Semiconductors, Inc., Santa
Clara |
Accomplishing More With Less:
5 Breakthrough Practices for the Digital Age!
Bonus: Introduction to Virtual
Worlds |
Pierre Khawand, Founder and Principal of
People-OnTheGo |
|
Advances and Opportunities of P-Wave Earthquake Scott Nebenzahl, VP Sales & Director of Government Affairs, Seismic Warning SystemsEarly Warning |
Scott Nebenzahl, VP Sales & Director of Government Affairs,
Seismic Warning Systems |
| January |
Schwab, San Francisco |
Introduction to new Board
Members and Message from the President |
, BRMA President,
Ernst & Young |
| What has business continuity
learned from the pandemic?
Findings from the Second Wave |
, CEM, RN, BSN, MPA, President,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |

2009
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
The City Club of San Francisco, San
Francisco |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
Hotel
Whitcomb, San Francisco |
Vendor Faire 2009 |
Various Vendor Speakers |
| September |
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Board Room, Oakland |
Insurance Claims – A Backwards Look |
,
Hutson Resource Group |
| Open Session: What’s New
in the H1N1 world? What was “hot” at DRJ? |
facilitated |
| August |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Preparing for Fall 2009: H1N1
Pandemic Flu Preparedness |
Jennifer Lachance, MSE |
| How to Get Them to Drink the
Koolaid |
,
McKesson |
| July |
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland |
Pandemic Preparedness Roundtable Discussion |
,
Delta Dental of California |
|
The Big Rumble San Francisco
The Great California
Shake Out |
Lyz Luke,
Commited 2 Community
,
Department of Emergency Management San Francisco
Dorothy Lee, Bay Area Red Cross
Erika Amir, Bay Area Earthquake Alliance |
| June |
The Gap, San Bruno |
Joint BARC-BENS-BRMA Infrastructure
Symposium |
|
Setting the Stage — Earthquake Impact on Bay Area |
Mary Lou Zoback, Risk Management Solutions
Jeanne Perkins, Association of Bay Area Governments
Roger Sigtermans, CalEMA Coastal Region |
|
Telecom |
Don Boland, California Utilities Emergency Association
Robert Spinelli and Ira Messner, Verizon Wireless
Jeffery Jackson and Craig Yamato, TW Telecom |
|
Power, Gas, Water |
Lessly Field, PG&E Steve Frew, East
Bay Municipal Utilities District
Jim Wollbrinck, San Jose Water |
|
Transportation |
Radiah Taylor Victor, Sr., Metropolitan Transportation
Commission Sean Nozzari, Caltrans
Catherine Westphall, BART |
|
Financial and Consumer Services |
Cody South, Federal Reserve Bank of SF
Michael Bacon, Wells Fargo
David Wiedeman, Brinks
Jill Rulon, California Grocers Association
Chuck Salby, Wal-Mart |
| May |
Schwab,
San Francisco |
EQ Risk Assessment and Mitigation:
Surviving the Next Earthquake. New Information on an old threat |
Akshay Gupta, Ph.D., PE, SECB, Principal
Engineer & Director,
Catastrophe Risk Engineering |
| Open Session: Lessons Learned –
H1N1 |
Stasha Wyskiel to Facilitate |
| April |
Fireman's Fund
Insurance,
Novato |
Regional Disaster
Recovery: Facility Restoration – Potential Issues After the Big One! |
David Warters,
BELFOR Property Restoration |
| Making Your Claim: What
to Expect When it’s Time to Talk Insurance |
Amy Bach,
United Policyholders |
| March |
Symantec, Mountain View |
PG&E/Power: Overview of Planning Efforts – what assumptions can WE make
around the return of power after a large event? |
,
PG&E |
|
BART/Transportation: Status of the Hazard Mitigation/Seismic Upgrades and BART response capabilities. |
Catherine Westphall,
BART |
|
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission/Water: What about the water? Overview of planning and response efforts. |
Brad Wilson,
SFPUC |
|
Panel
Discussion/Preparedness: Training in the corporate sector, what can we learn
from community outreach efforts and an introduction to the American Red
Cross’ public/private partnership; Ready When the Time Comes program. |
,
CirclePoint
Nina Swanson,
American Red Cross Bay Area |
| February |
The
Gap, Inc., San Francisco |
A New Take on an Old System: A
fresh look at the Incident Command System for the Private Sector |
, Emergency Management
Consultant |
| PS-Prep: Is there a “Dark
Side”? The need for BRMA to take a closer look |
,
Union Bank of California |
| January |
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), Oakland |
Develop a SMOKING Action Plan |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| Introduction to the Northern
California Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center |
Brandon Bond, Private Sector
Liaison Officer |

2008
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Renaissance
ClubSport Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Infectious Disease
Prevention and Preparedness |
,
San Francisco Department of Public Health |
|
Travel Safely |
, Center for Disease Control at SFO |
|
Responding to Trauma |
Wilma Bass and Vanessa
Watt, Trauma Outreach Associates |
| Bringing it to your Companies |
,
Kaiser
Permanente |
| September |
Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco |
Business Impact
Analysis |
, Union Bank of California |
| War Stories Panel Discussion |
, BRMA
President, Delta Dental of California
, ASAP President, Blue Shield of
California
Krista Slanker, Emergency Services Manager, San Francisco Division of Emergency Services |
| Ready Your
Business: Government and Business Preparedness Cooperation |
,
Certified Business Continuity Professionals |
| August |
Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo |
The Business Case for BCM
Software — Top Ten Reasons |
,
COOP Systems |
| Phoenix 2.0: Recovery Road Map |
, Chief Administrator's Office, City and County of San Francisco |
| Public/Private Partnerships |
| July |
Chevron Corporation,
San Ramon |
Chevron’s BCP New Standards Process |
,
Chevron Corporation |
| Building a State-of-the-Art Disaster
Resiliency Center in Silicon Valley |
, CEO,
Joint
Venture: Silicon Valley Network |
| Ten Reasons Plans Fail |
,
www.LucienCanton.com |
| June |
San Francisco State University |
Preparing for Pandemic Flu: Employer
Strategies for Protecting Employees |
|
Getting Ready – Pandemic Influenza |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
|
Panel Discussion |
Multi-disciplinary representatives from: McKesson, McKenna/Long & Aldridge,
Roche, California Department of Health & Emergency Preparedness, James Lee
Witt Associates, and PG&E |
|
Facilitated Tabletop Exercise |
|
| May |
Fireman's Fund
Insurance, Novato |
2008 BRMA Compensation Survey Findings |
(BRMA
Information Resources Coordinator),
Ernst
& Young |
| Long-Term Disaster Recovery
Planning - Lessons from Katrina, Northridge, and Loma Prieta |
Jeanne Perkins, Association of
Bay Area Governments (ABAG) |
| April |
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), Oakland |
Risk Assessment: The First Step
in Emergency Planning |
, Consulting Engineer |
| Lessons Learned From a Review
of the EBMUD Business Continuity Program |
, P.E., East Bay
Municipal Utility District |
| March |
Symantec, Mountain View |
BCP and Supply Chain Risk – The
Same, Only Different |
,
Global Risk Advisers |
| Post Earthquake Response |
David L. McCormick,
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger |
|
Joint Venture Disaster Planning Initiative |
Jim Wollbrinck,
San Jose Water Company |
| February |
Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo |
Regulatory Trends in Business
Continuity Planning |
,
Union
Bank of California |
|
Infectious Disease Emergencies and Mass Prophylaxis
Preparedness |
Amy Pine, San Francisco’s Department of Public Health |
| January |
Citrix, Santa Clara |
BCP at Citrix — The Follow the
Sun Model |
,
Citrix
|
| Rising Waters: Global Warming
and Business Continuity Planning |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |

2007
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Marriott Oakland City Center, Oakland |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
United
Way Bay Area, San Francisco |
HAZUS/BAHUG Update |
Richard Davies, Western
Disaster Center |
| Prepare Bay Area initiative |
Scot Ferrell, Marsh Risk & Insurance Services |
|
The Changing Face of Risk Management |
Dave Morgan,
Delta Dental of California |
| September |
VISA International,
Foster City |
Remote Sensing |
,
Genetech, Inc. |
| Computer Modeling |
,
Procovery Risk Services |
| Search Dog Demonstration |
Pluis Davern,
Search Dog Foundation
Tom Carney, South San Francisco Fire Department
Gypsy, Search Dog Extraordinaire |
| August |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District
(EBMUD), Oakland |
Regulatory Follow-Up: Improving
America's Security Act of 2007 |
, Littler Mendelson |
|
Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) Committee Report |
OCEG Ad Hoc Committee |
| Current State Assessment Tool |
,
Ernst
& Young |
| July |
Fireman's Fund Insurance, Novato |
Virtualization |
,
VISA
Kathy King,
Teichert Construction
Beverly Ark,
City of Livermore
Cynthia Donovan, Reliability Consultant
Steve Kaplan,
AccessFlow |
| Prove It: Two Steps to Ensuring
the Recoverability of Critical Enterprise Application Data |
,
21st
Century Software |
| June |
DTS Training Center, Sacramento |
EOC Presentation and Exercise |
, Symantec |
|
AT&T |
EOC/NOC Tour |
John Bianchi,
AT&T |
| May |
Applied
Materials, Santa Clara |
Benchmark for Continuity |
, Praetorian
Protective Services |
| Pandemic Planning at Applied
Materials |
,
Applied Materials |
| April |
PMI
Mortgage Insurance Company, Walnut Creek |
Vendor Faire 2007 |
Various Vendor Speakers |
| March |
Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo |
Recovery Safety |
Dr. Molestad,
OSHA |
| Legal Aspects (OSHA) of Work at
Home Strategies |
Fred Walter |
| February |
Chevron Corporation,
San Ramon |
CFO Viewpoint |
John Schaefer, Global Risk Advisors |
| Results of the Annual Survey |
,
AT&T |
| January |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Preparing for Continuity of
People Processes |
, Trauma Outreach Associates, Inc. |
| Crisis Management Planning |
Sam Singer |

2006
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Marriott Oakland City Center, Oakland |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
PMI Mortgage, Walnut Creek |
Introduction to ITIL |
Sallie Kennedy, World Savings
Bank |
| ITIL, ITSM, and LotR |
, Network Edge LLC |
| Business Continuity in COBIT,
ITIL and SOX |
, Network Edge LLC |
| ITIL Certification |
, Network Edge LLC |
| September |
Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo |
Terrorism and the Law:
Emergency Action Plans, Responses and Civil Liberty Issues |
,
Chapman University |
| Legal and Regulatory Aspects of
BCP |
Garry Mathiason,
Littler Mendelson |
| August |
ADP
ProBusiness, Pleasanton |
Business Process Analysis |
, Enterprise Security and
Availability Group, LLC (ESAAG) |
| Application Continuity Framework |
,
HP |
| July |
Visa International, Foster City |
Pandemic Awareness and Preparedness |
| Principles for Community and
Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza |
Dr. Scott Morrow, San Mateo
County Health Services Agency |
| Sun’s Corporate Approach to
Multi-National Pandemic Planning |
,
Sun
Microsystems |
| Pandemics from a SARS
Perspective |
|
| Corporate Pandemic Planning |
,
Visa International
,
Emergency
Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| Panel Discussion and Q/&A |
Members of BRMA and BARC FIRST |
| June |
Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Novato |
NCS-GETS/TSP/WPS/SHARES |
,
AT&T |
| Disaster Communications |
Art Botterell |
| May |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Salary Survey |
,
Ernst & Young
,
Franklin
Templeton Investments
,
Union
Bank of California
|
| Employee Notification Systems
|
,
send
word now |
| E&Y Employee Notification
System |
,
Ernst & Young |
| April |
Guidant Corporation,
Santa Clara |
100 Years later: the 1906
Earthquake |
| The 1906
Earthquake and Future Ramifications |
Jeanne Perkins, Association of
Bay Area Governments (ABAG) |
| Earthquake Hazard Mitigation |
Fred Turner, California Seismic
Safety Commission |
| March |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Salary Survey |
,
Contingency
Management Consultants |
| The Final Word on Emergency
Response Planning |
,
Praetorian Protective Services |
| Moulage Training:
Its Not Just Blood, Guts and Gore |
|
| February |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
It's Hard To Plan If You Don't Know What You
Are Facing! |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| Results of the 2005 BRMA Survey |
,
ATT |
| January |
Franklin Templeton Investments,
San Mateo |
Katrina Lessons Learned |
, Kaiser Permanente |
| , Gap, Inc. |
| Walt Flannery, Chevron |
| , Vision Service Plan |

2005
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
California
Culinary Academy, San Francisco |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Mistress of Ceremonies |
| October |
Symantec,
Mountain View |
Creating or
Updating DR Plans Using NIMS |
Jim Fey, PMI Mortgage Insurance |
| Demonstration on the Pros and
Cons of Using an Automated External Defibrillators |
Jennifer Carlson, Medtronic,
Inc. |
| September |
Ramada Plaza Hotel, San Francisco |
Vendor Faire 2005 |
Various Vendor Speakers |
| August |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
Public/Private Partnership: Coordinating
Exercises |
, Inter-Con Security Services |
| July |
Union
Bank of California, San Francisco |
Are You Ready? Or Why We Perform BIA's and Who Are the
Stakeholders |
,
Greater
Bay Bancorp |
| Analyzing BIA Data |
,
Union
Bank of California |
| June |
VISA,
Foster City |
Bottom-Up to Top-Down
Continuity Plans |
,
VISA |
| Administering LDRPS at
Providian |
,
Providian Financial Corporation |
| Why UBOC Uses a Recovery Plan System that
was Developed Internally |
,
Union
Bank of California |
| May |
ADP ProBusiness, Pleasanton |
Case Study: Producing a
BCP Report Card for Blue Shield of CA |
Karen Rinaldi, Blue Shield
of CA |
| The BRMA Library: We're
Not Just Books Anymore |
,
Praetorian
Protective Services |
| April |
Fireman's Fund Insurance, Novato |
Business Interruption Insurance -
Considerations |
Mike Roney, Fireman's Fund
Insurance |
| March |
ATT, San Ramon |
How IT Security and Continuous Operations are
Integral to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) |
Edmund Lam, San Jose State
University |
| Business Readiness: What
Businesses Need to Know to Get Ready for a Disaster |
Wendy Walsh
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizen Corps
Alfred Judd, Small Business Administration |
| FFIEC Guidelines and the BCP |
Barry Cardoza, Union Bank of California |
| The Business Continuity
Management Program Audit: An Overview |
Kathleen McGrorty and
Neville Morcom, Deloitte and Touche |
| February |
Union
Bank of California, San Francisco |
The Public Private Interface—What Isn't
There and What to Do About It |
,
Contingency
Management Consultants |
| Results of the 2004 BRMA Survey |
, ITBC - IT
Business Continuity |
| January |
Franklin Templeton Investments,
San Mateo |
Get on Board!: Incorporate the Incident
Command System into Your Plan: How the Incident Command System (ICS) Can Provide Your Company With Clear Guidelines for Incident Management
|
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |

2004
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
California
Culinary Academy, San Francisco |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Mistress of Ceremonies |
| October |
Franklin Templeton Investments.
San Mateo |
Emergency Action Plans: the
Southern California Fires |
,
Chapman University |
| September |
Sacramento Airport, Sacramento |
RTO and RPO |
|
| How to Perform Effective
Exercises |
, Eclipse Solutions, Inc. |
| Lessons Learned from Recent
Events in California |
Henry Renteria, Governor's
Office of Emergency Management |
| August |
Franklin Templeton Investments.
San Mateo |
Weapons of Mass Destruction —
Understanding the Threat |
,
Kaiser Permanente |
| July |
VISA,
Foster City |
BC Plan Building Tools Panel |
| Moderator |
,
VISA |
| In-House BC Planning
Database |
|
| BCM Online |
,
VISA |
| LDRPS (Living
Disaster Recovery Planning System) |
,
Franklin
Templeton |
| REVO |
, Charles
Schwab |
| BIA Professional |
,
Guidant Corporation |
|
Operational and Notification Systems
Panel |
| Moderator |
,
VISA |
| Schwab Dialogic vs.
Application Service Providers |
,
Charles
Schwab |
| MiR3 Notification System |
,
VISA |
| Notification Vendor
Selection Criteria |
,
The
Gap |
| Alertcast Notification
System |
,
Union
Bank of California |
| Eteam EOC Operations/
Crisis Management |
,
Macy's West |
| June |
Schwab,
San Francisco |
Incident Management |
Gary Ackerman and Doug
Nelson |
| People Reading: How to
Influence Diverse Styles |
Marilyn Manning,
The Consulting Team |
| BCP Testing |
, Macy's West
,
Disaster
Survival Planning Network |
| The Importance of
Integrating Physical Security with Business Continuity Planning |
Mike Farnham, Providian
Financial |
| May |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
Overcoming Chronic
Business Continuity Program Issues and Obstacles to Build a First Class
Business Continuity Program |
, Providian Financial Corporation |
| Weapons of Mass
Destruction — Understanding the Threat |
,
Kaiser
Permanente |
| BRMA's Annual Salary Survey |
,
Ernst
& Young
,
Contingency
Management Consultants
,
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund |
| April |
HP, Pleasanton |
How the Anti-War
Demonstrations Effected the San Francisco Unified School District |
, San Francisco Unified School District |
| Determining Business Risk for
New Projects |
,
Sun
Microsystems |
| March |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Logical Security and BCP |
, San Jose State University |
| Paradigm Shift for Meeting Business
Objective Encourages Strange Bedfellows? IS and BC Working Together? |
,
ESAAG |
|
Automating BCP Controls: What are Some of the Controls and How Can We Automate Them? |
,
Strohl
Systems Group, Inc. |
|
Integrating
IT Security into the BCP Planning Process |
, PWC |
| February |
ATT, Hayward |
Managing
Incidents Effectively — Suggestions and Tools for Large and Mid-sized
Companies |
,
Greater Bay Bancorp
,
Ernst & Young |
| BRMA Annual Survey Results |
,
ATT |
| January |
Franklin Templeton Investments,
San Mateo |
Now A New Threat To Add To
Your Plan — A Pandemic |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| BRMA Website Demonstration |
, BCP and More |

2003
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
California
Culinary Academy, San Francisco |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Mistress of Ceremonies |
| October |
Ramada Plaza Hotel, San Francisco |
BRMA Vendor Faire |
| Declaration — Selling The Need |
Bob Fuhr, Historical Perspectives |
| September |
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland |
Building Employee Awareness |
, Macy's West |
| Employee Training and Awareness Program at SCIF |
,
State Compensation Insurance Fund |
| BCP Management vs. BCP Leadership |
,
Sun Microsystems |
| August |
Charles Schwab, San Francisco |
Alternate Work Area Recovery Strategies |
,
Blue Shield of CA |
| Planning and Implementing a Successful Drill |
,
Charles Schwab |
| Building a Business Response to Domestic Violence |
Marianne Balin, Blue Shield of CA |
| Obtaining Management Support |
|
| July |
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland |
Risk Management for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning |
, Lockheed Martin |
| Business Impact Analysis |
, VISA |
| OCTAVE — A Risk Assessment Technique |
Steve Kruse, Impruve |
| June |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
EOC Design & Testing |
, Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| Emergency Response |
,
San Francisco Unified School District |
| Web Based Emergency Evacuation Training |
, Building Safety Solutions |
| Lessons Learned — What Information You Really Need During a Crisis |
,
Union Bank of California |
| Financial White
Paper Analysis |
,
Strohl Systems Group, Inc. |
| May |
State Office of Emergency Services, Mather |
Tour of the State OES Headquarters Building |
|
| OES Recovery Process |
Paul Jacks, Deputy Director of Disaster Assistance |
| Herakles Data, Sacramento |
Class A Data Center Tour 1 |
Tim Coats, Herakles |
| Vendor Neutral DR Technology 101 |
Bill Dufton and Jim MacKay of Forsythe Solutions Group |
| Mobile and Quick Ship Recovery Strategies |
Rich Zane, RBZane Advisory Group |
| Class A Data Center Tour 2 |
Tim Coats, Herakles |
| April |
East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
Emergency Action Plans — A Legal and Practical Blueprint |
,
Chapman University |
| BRMA NFP1600 Committee |
|
| March |
Union Bank of California, San Francisco |
Business Continuity Program Development |
Ed Clayton, Greater Bay Bancorp |
| Business Resumption Planning Interactive Panel Discussion |
Linda Pahkim, Strohl Systems Group, Inc.
Judy Bell, Disaster Survival Planning Network
Jim Kotowski, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
, Rohrs Consulting Service, was the moderator |
| February |
State Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco |
Don't Let Media Become Medea in the Time of Crisis |
, Executive Director, Office of Public Engagement and Information, San Francisco Unified School District |
| January |
Franklin Templeton Investments, San Mateo |
How to Write White Papers |
,
TechProse |
| BRMA Annual Survey Results |
, Rohrs Consulting Services |

2002
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
California Culinary Academy, San Francisco |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Mistress of Ceremonies |
| October |
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Novato |
Final Report by the BCI Certification Committee |
,
Ernst & Young
,
VISA
,
Contingency Management Consultants |
| Home Office: Trial By Fire — Lessons Learned by SCIF |
,
State Compensation Insurance Fund |
| BCP Concepts/Awareness Training
Resource |
"Ready for Anything"
Video Commonwealth Films
www.commonwealthfilms.com |
| September |
Bank
of America Technology Center, Concord |
Symposium on Business
Recovery Planning and Testing |
| BCP Testing Process |
Lee Milligan,
Strohl
Systems Group, Inc.
|
| Communicating with and Through the Media |
Tom
Vacar,
KTVU
Channel 2 |
| Exercises |
John Dalisky,
Deltanet |
| Building The Business Continuity Plan |
Skip Skivington,
Kaiser
Permanente |
| Breakout Sessions |
| Writing Your Plan — Share your Business
Continuity Plan |
|
| Exercising Your Plan — Information
Exchange on Lessons Learned from Exercises |
Karen Dye,
Clorox |
| Executing Your Plan or Reality vs. an
Exercise — How Things Really Went |
,
Charles
Schwab |
| August |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
BRMA Business/College Speaker's Bureau ad
hoc Committee Report |
Chris Rohrs, Rohrs Consulting Services |
| Managing Critical Electronic Data |
Moderator:
, Ernst &
Young
Alex Hesterberg,
Veritas
Ken McGlothlin,
SunGard
Recovery Systems
Tom Downey,
EMC |
| July |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
DoD's Continuity of Operations Program |
Tom Daniels, Director CoOP, DoD |
| Building The Connection Between Your
Business and Your IT Infrastructure |
Elizabeth Diamond, Technology Connection,
Inc. |
| June |
State
Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco |
"Setting up Crisis Management
Teams" Workshop |
|
| "Managing the Emergency Response"
Workshop |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| May |
Oakland OES EOC, Oakland |
BRMA Salary Survey Committee Report |
,
Ernst
& Young |
| WTC — 9/11 Search & Rescue
Operations — A Different Perspective |
Mark Hoffman,
Oakland
Fire Department, Fire Training Division |
| Henry R. Renteria, Emergency Services
Manager for the
City
of Oakland |
| April |
Mortenson
Development and SOMARA Capital, Oakland Telecommunications Access
Center (OTAC), Oakland |
Business Continuity: Applying Lessons
Learned from 9/11 to Reduce Risk |
,
Ernst
& Young |
| Seismic Performance: How Well Will
Your Building Perform? |
John Myers, Structural Engineer,
Principal,
Simpson
Gumpertz & Heger Inc. |
| Can Your Fiber Survive the Big One? |
Erin Canden, Vice President/General Manager,
Time
Warner Telecom |
| March |
VISA, Foster City |
Getting Management Buy-in for Business
Planning |
Dr. Raja Iyer, San Jose State University,
OnGlo Inc. (developer of the
Emergency
Response Service), and
BackInBiz |
|
EERI
Quake
'06 and
SF DBI CAPSS
(Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety) |
Zan Turner, San Francisco City and County,
Department
of Building Inspection (DBI) |
| February |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
Introduction to the Program
"Planning for Bio/Chem Terrorism Incidents"
Survey Results |
Bob Robinson, Double R Consulting |
| Planning for Bio/Chem Terrorism Incidents |
Lucien Canton,
Director
of Emergency Services, City and County of San Francisco |
| Business Recovery Response to Terrorism |
Jonathan Tol,
TAL
Global |
| Q&A Panel |
Lucien Canton
Jonathan Tol
Mary Clair Bennett,
CMP
Media
Patrick Kelley,
Franklin
Templeton Investments |
| January |
State
Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco |
Grass Roots Public/Private Partnering: NERT/CERT
Programs |
Sara Wynne, BRMA Community Liaison
Coordinator
Lt. Patricia Yuen, Program Director of SFFD NERT
Dan Lunsford, CEM, Emergency Services Manager, City of
San Leandro
Mike Stone, Fire Chief, Southern Marin Fire District |

2001
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Embassy
Suites Hotel Pleasant Hill-Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek |
Annual Meeting and Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
San Jose State University |
World Trade Center Recovery and Key Learnings |
Gary Tanaguchi,
Franklin
Templeton Mutual Fund |
| The World Trade Center Recovery Efforts and
Issues |
Jim Kotowski,
Fireman's
Fund Insurance
|
| September |
Sheraton Concord Hotel |
4th Annual Vendor Faire |
Vendor representatives from:
Comdisco
Data Rescue Services
E Team Inc.
Ernst & Young
Fennell
& Associates
Fijitsu Softek
GE Capital IT
Solutions
Iron Mountain
Off-Site Data Protection
Q-Safety, Inc.
Recall Total Information
Management
SunGard Recovery Systems |
| August |
State
Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco |
The Hidden Trap in Business Continuity
Planning |
John M. Stagl, CBCP,
INRECON |
| Doing Business After A Major Bay Area
Earthquake |
Jeanne Perkins, Principal, Earthquake
Program,
ABAG |
| July |
SunGard
Recovery Services, San Ramon |
Testing your Disaster Recovery Plan |
Bob Litchfield,
SunGard
Recovery Services |
| June |
State
Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco |
Energy Crisis Update: Bay Area Emergency
Operations |
Amelia Gannon,
PG&E |
| Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP):
After the Earthquake Hits |
Zan Turner, City & County of San
Francisco, Dept. of Building Inspections |
| Setting up a Desktop Exercise |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| May |
Alameda County EOC, Dublin |
Combined CESA/BRMA Meeting on Public
Private Partnerships
|
| Local Government Perspective on Public
Private Partnerships |
Dan Lunsford, CEM, Emergency Services
Manager, City of San Leandro |
| Private Industry Perspective on Public
Private Partnerships |
Gene Burbank, Manager of Business Continuity
Planning, California State Automobile Assoc. |
| How to Create a Public Private Partnership:
Emergency Preparedness in Milpitas |
Cecil Williams, Principal Disaster Planning
Consultant, Williams Associates Consulting
Cliff Williams, Planning Commissioner for City of
Milpitas, & Contractor at NASA - Ames Research Center |
| The Collaborative Approach: Disaster
Mitigation at San Jose State |
Guna Selvaduray, Ph.D. , Executive Director
of CDM (Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation), & Professor of
Materials Engineering, San Jose State University |
| The State OES Perspective on Public Private
Partnering |
Paul Jacks, Deputy Director, Governor's
Office of Emergency Services |
| Suggestions for Partnering with Schools |
Anne Warren, Director of Emergency Planning,
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) |
| April |
Hills Brothers Complex, San
Francisco |
Power Issues in California |
| ISO Summer Assessment and Emergency
Notifications |
Ean O'Neill,
California
Independent System Operator |
| |
Hector Fulgencio,
Pacific
Gas & Electric |
| |
Selby Mohr,
Sacramento
Municipal Utility District |
| March |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
Interactive Presentation on the Incident
Command System |
George Berry,
CSAA
Terry
Gitlin, Santa Clara County OES |
| Panel Discussion on Implementing ICS/IMS/SEMS
in Private Industry |
Bonita
Gohler,
Intuit
Stasha
Wyskiel,
Charles
Schwab
George Berry,
CSAA
Patrick Kelley,
Franklin
Templeton Investments |
| Hazus Update |
Brian
Quinn,
Charles Schwab |
| February |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
The Titanic: A Business Recovery Perspective |
Bob Fuhr, Historical Perspectives |
| January |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
Certification Committee Update |
Certification Ad Hoc Committee Members |
| Public/Private Partnerships for Recording
and Utilization of Strong Earthquake Motion |
Dr. Mary Lou Zoback,
US
Geological Survey (USGS) |

2000
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Lafayette Park Hotel, Lafayette |
Annual Meeting and Holiday Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
Oakland Emergency Operations
Center |
Tour of the Oakland EOC |
Colleen Bell, Oakland Fire Department |
| HAM radio usage for Business Recovery |
Brian Quinn,
Charles
Schwab
Bob Czapinski,
Sandia
National Laboratories |
| September |
Hilton
Pleasanton at the Club |
Vendor Faire |
Various speakers and vendor booths |
| August |
Comdisco,
San Ramon |
BRMA Salary Survey |
,
Ernst
& Young
,
Contingency
Management Consultants
,
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund |
| IBM Crisis Response Team |
Brent Woodworth,
IBM/ISSC |
| July |
Hilton
Pleasanton at the Club, Pleasanton |
Public/Private Partnering of Emergency
Management Associations: A Public Sector View |
Terry Gitlin, President,
CESA
Coastal Chapter |
| Employee Awareness Programs |
Karen Dye,
Clorox |
| June |
VISA,
Foster City |
Workplace Violence Discussion |
Eugene Tucker,
Alburger
Basso de Grosz, Inc. |
| Workplace Violence |
Regina Phelps, Health Plus |
| Triage Injury Simulation Moulage |
Tecia Ryan |
| May |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
Network Security in e-commerce |
James O'Niel,
Ernst
& Young |
| April |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
The Challenge that BCP Presents |
Van Volovik,
New
United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. |
| Home and Family Preparedness |
Colleen Bell, Oakland Fire Department |
| March |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
BCP for the Connected Ecomomy |
Scot Ferrell,
Ernst
& Young |
| February |
East
Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland |
Obtaining ROI from your Y2K Preparations |
Scott Lawrence,
Lawrence
Consulting Associates, LLC |
| Roundtable Discussion: E-Commerce Business
Continuity Planning |
Rhonda Jones, Continuity Works, and ,
Ernst & Young LLP |
| Roundtable Discussion: Business Continuity
Basics |
Cris Castro,
Ernst
& Young LLP |
| HAZUS Update |
Brian Quinn,
Charles
Schwab |
| January |
Levi Strauss
& Company, San Francisco |
Choosing the Right Strategies |
,
Contingency
Management Consultants |

1999
| Month |
Location |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Lafayette Park Hotel, Lafayette |
Annual Meeting and Holiday Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
Alameda County Emergency Operations Center |
Exercise Design |
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| September |
Hilton
Pleasanton at the Club |
Vendor Faire |
Various speakers and vendor booths |
| August |
Chevron's
Emergency Operations Center, Dublin |
Tour of Chevron's Business Resumption Center
Chevron's Business Recovery Operations |
Mia Weller,
Chevron |
| July |
Pacific
Bell, San Ramon |
Risk Management and Mitigation Techniques |
Eugene Tucker,
Alburger
Basso de Grosz, Inc. |
| June |
Charles
Schwab, San Francisco |
Y2K Zero Hour Strategies
|
| Panel Discussion |
Dan Berg,
Miller Freeman |
| City of San Francisco "Last
Minute" |
Lou Canton,
City
of San Francisco |
| BRMA White Paper |
Philip Smith, Data Rescue Services |
| May |
Educational
Testing Service, Oakland |
Telecommunications Network Diversity |
Paul Cullinane,
WinStar |
| April |
Chevron,
San Ramon |
Business Continuity Planning: Now and
Tomorrow. A Review of Y2K and e-Commerce Planning |
Scot Ferrell and Lisa Trousdale,
Ernst
& Young LLP |
| March |
Clorox,
Pleasanton |
Electrical Outage 101 |
Wolfgang Hase,
PG&E |
| Water When the Power Goes Out |
Raymond Riordan,
East
Bay MUD |
| Getting the Power You Need |
Scott Anderson,
Quick
Response Services |
| Backup Hardware |
Steve Kelly, Building Operation Services |
| February |
Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland |
Preparing for the Big One: Earthquake
Mitigation at EBMUD |
Andrea Pook and I-Pei Hodge,
East
Bay MUD |
| January |
San
Francisco Airport Marriott |
Use of the Internet During Recovery |
BRMA Member Discussion |

1998
| Month |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Annual Meeting and Holiday Luncheon |
, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
The Development of a Corporate EOC — A Case Study |
Karen Rinaldi, Levi Strauss & Company
,
Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc. |
| Y2K Discussion |
Y2K Committee |
| September |
Vendor Faire |
Various speakers and vendor booths |
| August |
Y2K Awareness and Discussion |
| July |
Distributed System: A Sample Solution |
Gary Tanaguchi,
Franklin
Templeton Mutual Fund |
| June |
Keynote |
Judy Kay Bell,
Disaster
Survival Planning, Inc. |
| How to: Business Impact Analysis |
|
| Recovery Planning Basics |
Judy Kay Bell,
Disaster
Survival Planning, Inc. |
| Emergency Response Test |
Ginny Peterson,
Hewlett-Packard |
| Work Area Recovery |
,
Charles
Schwab |
| May |
Developing Employee Support for the BCP
Program |
Scot Ferrell,
Ernst
& Young LLP |
| April |
Development of a
Hazus
Risk Assessment for the San Francisco Bay Area |
Jim Buika,
FEMA |
| Emergency Provisions |
Miriam Snedaker, Simpler Life Emergency
Provisions |
| March |
Contingency Planning -- A Range of Experience
|
| Contingency Planning Awareness |
Tonya York,
Charles
Schwab, Inc. |
| Compensation Survey |
Lisa Trousdale,
Cellular
One
,
Contingency
Management Consultants |
| Nuts and Bolts of Cellular Communications |
Lisa Trousdale,
Cellular
One |
| Risk Based Approach to Business Planning |
Scott Anderson,
Quick
Response Services |
| Testing "A" to "Z" |
Ed Clayton,
Chevron |
| February |
Taking Another Look -- A Readiness
Assessment |
Betty Kildow,
University
of California, Berkeley |
| January |
The New FEMA Outreach Program |
Suzanne Frew and Diane Earl,
FEMA
Region Nine |

1997
| Month |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Annual Meeting and Holiday Luncheon at the
Lafayette Park Hotel |
Brian Gladden, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
Using Satellite and Cellular Communications
for Disaster Recovery |
Lisa Trousdale,
Cellular
One
Robert Rosen,
Remote Satellite
Systems International |
| September |
Vendor Faire |
Various speakers and vendor booths |
| FEMA Outreach Program Report |
Michael Wilson, A.S.A.P Representative |
| August |
Executive Support -- How To Get It And How
To Keep It |
Lee Milligan,
The
Gap |
| July |
Strategies for Physically Protecting and
Recovering Data |
Charles E. Cassani,
Steamatic
of Sacramento |
| June |
Business Partner Planning |
Scot Ferrell,
The
Gap |
| "Sharing Our BR Plans" Panel
Discussion |
Dan Berg,
Sumitomo
Bank of California
Claire Le Donne,
University of
California, Berkeley
Ed Clayton,
Chevron |
| Testing the BR Plan |
Ralph Wheeler,
R
Square Consulting |
| May |
Internet Security |
Marvin Christensen,
IBM
Internet Emergency Response Services |
| April |
Power Failures, Backup Generators, and a
Halon "Accidental Dump" Story |
Diana Wirt,
City
of San Jose
Scott Anderson,
Quick Response Services |
| March |
Network Recovery Planning Strategies and
Issues |
Larry Ficher, CIO of
Network
Recovery Services |
| Workshops on client server
recovery strategies and planning issues |
| February |
Emotional Fallout |
Dr. Stewart Proctor, Ph.D.,
Kaiser
Permanente |
| January |
Business Unit Recovery Planning and a tour
of the SunGard recovery facility |
Vince Condon,
SunGard
Recovery Services |

1996
| Month |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Annual Holiday Luncheon at the Berkeley City
Club, Berkeley |
Brian Gladden, Master of Ceremonies |
| October |
Paying for Plan Execution: Business
Interruption Insurance |
Fred Smith,
Deltanet,
Inc.
Mary Ann Langer,
Johnson & Higgins of
California |
| September |
Re-engineering Client Server |
R.J. Pittman, Broadway Technologies
Brian Gladden, Parity Systems, Inc |
| Multi-Platform Recovery Strategy |
Bonita Gohler, Union Bank of California |
| Multi-Platform Network Recovery |
Jim Ezop,
SunGard
Recovery Services |
| August |
Alameda County EOC Tour |
Terry Gitlin, Alameda County EOC |
| July |
Family Preparedness |
Chris J. Wimmer,
Chevron |
| June |
Data Communications |
Al Parso,
AT&T |
| Mail and Print Recovery |
Jeff Gustafson, Moore Business
Communications Services |
| Internet Communications |
R.J. Pittman, Broadway Technologies |
| Voice Communications |
Mary Kay Morgan,
IBM/ISSC |
| May |
Professional Development Strategies |
,
Contingency
Management Consultants |
| April |
Data Recovery |
Philip Smith, Data Rescue Services |
| Electronic Recovery |
Jim McGovern, RestoreTek |
| Paper Recovery |
Eric Lundquist,
Document
Reprocessors |
| March |
Oklahoma Bomb Crisis Response |
Brent Woodworth,
IBM/ISSC |
| Crisis Communication |
Marty Boyer, Communication Advantage |
| Emergency Response |
Fred Lucier,
San
Francisco Fire Department |
| February |
Violence in the Workplace -- Portland Gunman |
Keith Headman,
Charles
Schwab, Inc. |
| January |
Kobe, One Year Later |
Cole Emerson, Cole Emerson & Associates |

1995
| Month |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Annual Holiday Luncheon at the Blackhawk
Country Club, Blackhawk |
Belinda Wilson, Mistress of Ceremonies |
| October |
Exercise Design |
Mary Meyer, Bay Area Safety Services |
| Business Resumption Plan Testing
Methodologies |
Alan Jolly,
Wells
Fargo Bank |
| September |
Workplace Violence: Legal Issues |
Jeffrey Tanenbaum, Littler, Mendleson,
Fastiff, Tichy & Mathiason |
| Violence in the Workplace |
Richard Drutman,
Arcus
Data Security, Inc. |
| August |
Developing Business Unit Plan Templates |
Stacey Jonasen, The Bank of California |
| July |
Group Discussions:
 | Recovery Planning |
 | Stumbling Blocks |
|
| Developing Mutual Aid Agreements and II-WARN |
Martin Falarski, P.E.,
East
Bay Municipal Utility District |
| June |
Vendor Faire |
| May |
Bomb Incident Planning |
Eugene Tucker, Minet Risk Services |
| Establishing an Amateur Radio Communications
Program |
David Otey,
Kaiser
Permanente |
| April |
ROLM Switch Outage at Charles Schwab Co. |
Tonya York,
Charles
Schwab, Inc. |
| March |
The Great Hanshin Earthquake |
John Osteraas, Ph.D., P.E. and William
Murray Jr., Ph.D.,
Failure Analysis
Associates |
| Case Study Discussion: Critical
Planning Issues and Solutions |
| February |
Business Resumption in Client Server
Environments |
Roger Farnsworth,
Cisco
Systems |
| January |
Developing Business Unit and End User Plans |
Paul Coleman,
Pacific
Bell |

1994
| Month |
Subject |
Speaker |
| December |
Annual Holiday Luncheon at the Blackhawk
Country Club, Blackhawk |
Belinda Wilson, Mistress of Ceremonies |
| October |
Televaulting for LANs |
Greg Turley, Rimage Datapath |
Discussion Groups:
 | Data Synchronization Across Multiple Platforms |
 | Backup/Recovery of Paper Files and Source Documents |
|
| September |
Auditing Disaster Recovery |
Dave Holcombe,
Pacific
Bell
Sam Singer, Longs Drugs |
| August |
Business Impact Analysis at DHL |
Wiley Gilvin,
DHL |
| Business Impact Analysis White Paper |
Tim Updike,
Wells
Fargo Bank |
| July |
Disaster Recovery Services for the MCI Group |
Wanda Gamble-Braggs,
MCI |
| June |
Exercise Planning Workshops |
| Los Angeles Civil Disturbances |
Bayan Lewis, L.A.
Police Department |
| May |
Northridge Earthquake |
|
| Emergency Management Institute |
David Locke,
Sacramento
Municipal Utility District |
| April |
Office of Emergency Services Overview
Tour of State of California EOC |
Thomas Murray and John Passerello,
Office
of Emergency Services |
| March |
Telecommunications Planning |
Gary T. Taniguchi, CDRP,
Pacific
Bell |
|
Pacific
Bell EOC and ECC Tour |
Gary T. Taniguchi, CDRP,
Pacific
Bell |
| EOC Exercise Walk-Through |
| February |
Supporting Northridge Earthquake Disaster
Declarations |
Stacy Schwarz-Gardner,
Comdisco |
| Halon Alternatives |
Charles Sabah, C.A. Sabah Company |
| January |
The Disaster After the Disaster: Insurance
Documentation and Recovery After the World Trade Center |
Bonita Gohler, The Bank of California |

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