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Past Meetings

2008

Month Location Subject Speaker
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