• Identifying “the rules of the game”
• Seeking out key uncertainties and risks
• Evaluating the options available to your organisation on the gameboard
• Formulating a 2x2 scenario gameboard
• How do you handle these scenarios?
• Selecting the best options and converting them into an effective solution

Clem Sunter
Chairman
Anglo American Chairman’s Fund

• Why management of risk is so important when developing the business continuity plan
• Critical success factors for the management of risk
• Essential elements of risk management
• Techniques available to assist the management of risk

Grahame Wright
Chairman
Disaster Recovery Association for Southern Africa
Manie Cronje
Manager: Business Continuity
Clover

• The Business Continuity industry in 5 years
• Emerging trends and practices in the 21st century
• Updating your organisation with the latest developments
• Management’s roles and responsibilities with respect to business continuity
• Advantages of Business Continuity Planning
• Establishing a Business Continuity Management culture throughout your organisation

John Sharp 
Policy and Development Director
Continuity Forum, UK

• Understanding Corporate Governance
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Corporate Governance and Business Continuity
• Roles and responsibilities: Board and Management
• Stakeholders – drivers of the risk management model for governance
• Benchmarks and processes to improve governance

Xoliswa Motswai
Group Company Secretary
ISPAT ISCOR

• The benefits of planning and corporate responsibilities
• The fiduciary duties of executives
• The role of the CIO with regards to compliance with regulations

Robert Shaw
Chief Executive Officer
Indigo Stone International, USA

• External influences such as regulations, legislation and customer requirements
• The impact of backlog work on business continuity management and planning
• Planning, implementing and maintaining your plan
• The importance of timing

Jim Burtles
Principal
Total Continuity Management, UK

Speed networking is an exciting, quick, non-pressured way to
meet fellow delegates and industry peers in one thirty minute
session. These brief meetings are the starting point for
conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is
where long-lasting and profitable relationships begin.

• Exciting, quick, no pressure
• Meet…move on…meet…move on
• Form long-lasting and profitable business relationships
• Exchange business cards with fellow conference delegates and industry peers
• The best thirty minute networking session you have ever experienced

Dr David Smith
Principal consultant
Veritas

• Factors to consider when implementing a Business Continuity programme
• Developing a programme with minimal costs
• How to overcome internal opposition

Jim Burtles
Principal
Total Continuity Management, UK
Robert Shaw
Chief Executive Officer
Indigo Stone International, USA

• Thou shalt keep continuity and business synchronised
• Thou shalt get thy people back in business
• Thou shalt cover all links in the value chain
• Thou shalt test all aspects of the programme
• Thou shalt ensure all employees know how to respond to disaster
• Thou shalt conduct a reality check on ones data
• Thou shalt use quality metrics for continuity services
• Thou shalt ensure continuity strategy is locked in the minds
of experts

Francois Muscat
Consultant
Unibit Solutions

Proponents of business continuity planning and disaster
recovery planning often square off over the domains and targets
of their efforts. BCP focuses on business process continuity,
while DRP looks at the restoration of key applications and their
technology infrastructure following an unplanned interruption.
The nexus between these two disciplines is data, which next to
key personnel, is the most irreplaceable asset of any
organisation. There are many data disasters waiting to happen.
In this session, Toigo will cover:
• Time and data as a metric for evaluating recovery capabilities
• Structural and point exposures of data in contemporary business environments
• A common-sense, business-savvy methodology for data protection

Jon William Toigo
Chief Executive Officer
Toigo Partners International, USA

• Getting the right message across in a crisis
• The impact a crisis has on your organisation’s reputation
• Principles of crisis management
• Using the media to restore confidence in your company

Jonathan Ackerman
Marketing and Communications Director
Pick ‘n Pay

• Challenge of convincing the ‘old school’
• Implementation of a smart mediation system
• Challenges and successes
• Lessons learned during the product lifecycle

Gerard Cannoo
Project Manager – Integration Development
Vodacom

• Recovering transactions
• Insurance
• The way forward

Michael Jordan
Finance Director
Makro SA

• Minimising costs and protecting your assets
• Identifying inefficiencies in standard business processes
• Enhancing the efficiencies of processes
• Managing the plan at all levels

Bryn Phillips
Information Systems Manager
Peermont Global

• Identifying critical business processes
• Identifying minimum critical requirements for the continued operation of the business
• Risk versus Business Impact Analysis

Francois Muscat
Consultant
Unibit Solutions
Gerard Cannoo
Project Manager – Integration Development
Vodacom

• Identifying the potential weaknesses in the organisation’s personnel structure
• Establishing a training programme involving all your staff
• The importance of keeping staff regularly informed

Murray Coombs
Chief Executive Officer
Global Occnet Consultants