The 13th annual ‘Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Financial Services’ conference runs on Wednesday, January 29 at Le Meridien Hotel, central London. Organised by City & Financial, it’s sponsored by IBM.
The conference programme is listed below and can also be found at www.cityandfinancial.com/CPDR13.
09:00 Coffee and registration for main conference
09:45 Morning Chair’s opening remarks
Lyndon Bird, Technical Director, Business Continuity Institute
09:50 Keynote address
Speaker to be confirmed
10:20 International security – terrorist flashpoints and tactics
Charles Edwards, Director, National Security & Resilience Studies, Royal United Services Institute
10:50 Cyber risk: protecting the enterprise in the digital age
Roger Gate, Associate Partner, UKI Security and Privacy Services Leader, IBM
11:25 Morning coffee
11:50 Cyber attacks and insurance policy
Ian Birdsey, Senior Associate, Pinsent Masons LLP
12:20 Lessons from Boston
How did business continuity plans cope with the attack and lockdown
Kenneth Otis, Director, Business Continuity and Physical Security, Liberty Mutual
12:55 Lunch
14:05 Concurrent roundtables
A: Business continuity and stakeholder management
Kathryn Holloway, CEO, Press Alert
Michael Paisley, Head of Operational Risk Unit, Santander
IBM speaker to be confirmed
B: Resiliency and security for Big Data
Harvey Lewis, Research Director, Deloitte LLP
Jitender Arora, Information Security & Risk Executive
IBM speaker to be confirmed
C: Resilient and secure clouds
Roger Bickerstaff, Partner, Bird & Bird LLP
Roger Payne, Assistant Business Continuity Manager, RBC Capital Markets
D: Cyber security – protecting the enterprise in the digital age
Roger Gate, Associate Partner, UKI Security and Privacy Services Leader, IBM
Luke Scanlon, Out-Law Consultant, Pinsent Masons LLP
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:10 Afternoon chair’s opening remarks
Tim Armit, Managing Director, Clifton Risk Management
15:15 The financial authorities and business continuity
Heather Kempton, Head of Financial Sector Resiliency, HM Treasury
John Milne, Head of Resilience, Bank of England
Jagesh Thakkar, Senior Associate, Resilience Team, FCA
15:50 Senior management are in the firing line – How does business continuity get their attention?
Curtis Baron, Group Head of Business Resilience, HSBC Global Banking and Markets
Chris McBrayne, Business Executive, Business Contingency and Resiliency Services, IBM
Lee Webb, Global Head of Recovery Solutioning and Provisioning, Barclays plc
16:30 Case study: Business continuity in a financial media organisation
Vicki Gavin, Global Head of Business Continuity, The Economist Group
17:00 Close of conference; Drinks Reception hosted by IBM
Book online at www.cityandfinancial.com/CPDR13.
