Disaster Preparedness and Recovery

August 18th, 2010 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The world of business continuity and disaster preparedness is constantly evolving. Are you prepared? Recent natural disasters, accidents, and attacks have directly disrupted business operations and shown that an organization's resilience to a disaster and ability to resume business is directly related to its preparedness to respond to unforeseen events. Having a definitive response plan is essential to remain viable, and required by the NCUA.
 
Through this session, you will:
  • Get a hands-on look at the effectiveness of business continuity plans
  • Learn how to mitigate your potential disaster risk
  • Understand the basic ground rules for working with the media following a disastrous event
  • Hear from four of your credit union peers
  • Discuss how to leverage your existing risk assessment
  • Learn how to define strategies, plans, resources, and discuss how to develop a workable approach to meeting your credit union's recovery needs
 
Session agenda
 
Compliance Update
Recent disasters have put credit union’s contingency plans to the test; many credit unions are realizing how well their disaster plans are working first hand. This session will provide an update on what regulators are focusing on when it comes to disaster planning.
 
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Workshop
With the unfortunate happenings over the past few years, many credit unions now already have a disaster plan in place. This plan won’t prevent a disaster from taking place but it will prepare your credit union and speed up the recovery process following the event. This workshop will call participants to network with other credit union executives on different aspects of the business continuity plan.   
 
Highlights include:
  • Identifying your credit union’s vulnerabilities
  • Developing a communications plan that takes everything into account
  • Identifying weak links in your BCP
  • Communication to ALL members
  • Developing HR policies to ensure safety and future of employees and maintain secure vendor relationships
  • Physical and data security
 
Speaker
Attorney, blogger, podcast producer and nationally-recognized speaker, Rob Rutkowski is Managing Partner of the Credit Union department of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA, where he advises credit unions on compliance, contract negotiation and employment law as well as a vast array of collection and legal issues. He is a well-known lecturer nationwide on topics such as marketing and lending compliance, director and officer liability, disaster recovery, identity theft, credit union accounts and a variety of laws impacting credit unions, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and is a regular speaker for credit union leagues and CUNA, NAFCU and CUES.
 
A former member of the Board of Directors for the Lake County Educational Federal Credit Union, he remains very involved wih the legal issues that matter to the credit union movement. He is the Producer and Co-host of the monthly Current Issues in Credit Unions podcast (www.ciicu.com) and the author of That Credit Union Blog (www.thatcreditunionblog.com), which is dedicated to covering timely credit union legal news. He has been published in Credit Union Magazine, Credit Union Management Magazine, The Cleveland Bar Journal and The National List.

 

Who Should Attend?

Risk management and compliance professionals, IT specialists and management.     
 
Agenda
8:30 a.m. - Registration, networking
9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Training
Lunch is provided 

 

Location

MD & DC Credit Union Association
8975 Guilford Road
Suite 190
Columbia, MD 21046-2386
United States
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