2018 Meeting Schedule
The ACP-OC Chapter meets from 12:00pm to 3:00pm on the second Wednesday of odd numbered months (January, March, May, July, September, November) and ending the year with the Annual Holiday Luncheon in December.
Meetings are held at the American Red Cross, 600 Park Center Drive, Santa Ana, CA 92705 and include lunch, networking and two educational presentations.
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Past Meetings
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Documents |
| 07/13/16 | Active Shooters in Your Workplace | Orange County Sheriff Department |
Presentation 1 |
| 09/09/15 | Making BIA Data a High Value Strategic Advantage for Your Organization | Barry Cardoza | |
| 07/08/15 | Reducing the Effects of the "Big One"
History's Overlooked Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them |
Keith Porter, Reseach Professor, University of Colorado, boulder
Molly Latham, BCP/DR Consultant and ACP National Board Member |
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| 05/13/15 | Active Shooter Response & Post Incident Strategies
Agility Presentation: History & Recovery Services |
Manny Tau, Psy.D., Threat Management Specialist, Clinical & Forensic Psychologist PSY14892
Mr. Newman |
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| 01/14/15 | The Year in Review: BCP Lessons Learned | Phil Lambert, Ripcord | |
| 12/10/14 | Annual Holiday Luncheon | Pictures | |
| 11/12/14 |
Leveraging BCP Awareness Week Annual Chapter Business |
Susan Zeilan | |
| 09/10/14 | Back to Basics: BC 101 | Barry Gorelick, Union Bank | |
| 07/09/14 | Joint Regional Intelligence Center 101 | Andrew Carlson | |
| 05/14/14 | EOC Operations & Red Cross Tour | Katrina Faulker | |
| 03/13/14 |
ERT Program AED Program Management |
Todd Rovner, Raytheon J Burke Mucho, Zee Medical |
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| 01/08/14 | 2013 Lessons Learned | Susan Zeilan - CoreLogic Inc.
Rebecca Christy – Karl Storz |
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| 12/11/13 | Annual Holiday Luncheon | Pictures | |
| 11/13/13 | Exercise Best Practices
Annual Chapter Business |
DeBorah Lozada, Director, Fox Entertainment Group
Bill Wostenberg, Consultant - IT, Pacific Life Insurance Company |
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| 09/11/13 | Recognizing the 12th Anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
GETs/WPS/TSP - What are they? |
Wayne Merrick - Project Manager; Automobile Club of Southern California
Becky Christy - BCP Manager; Karl Storz Endoscopy America |
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| 07/10/13 | Managing Mobility AND Business Resiliency
Working Together Before, During and After an Emergency |
Jennifer Dunn McCrea, Sales Director, Continuity Solutions, xMatters Elizabeth Daoust, Senior Emergency Management Coordinator, Orange County Sheriffs Department |
Flyer |
| 05/08/13 | Targeted Violence & Active Shooter Survival Strategies | Manny Tau, Psy.D., Clinical & Forensic Psychologist, Threat Management Specialist | |
| 03/13/13 | Alert the Masses – How to Deliver Effective Emergency Communications
Hurricane Sandy Red Cross Overview |
Ann Pickren, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, MIR3 Barb Casserly, Fund Development, American Red Cross |
Flyer |
| 01/09/13 |
F24 Sponsor Presentation 2012 Lessons Learned Panel Discussion |
Robert Mattes – Managing Director Christopher Riccardi – Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Susan Zielan – CoreLogic Inc. Philip Bigge – The Center for Continuity Leadership |
Flyer |
| 12/12/12 | Annual Holiday Luncheon | ||
| 11/14/12 |
Real Life Lesson: Auditing Your Supply Chain Assessing your BCP Program |
Suzanna Ryan Hall, Manager Business Continuity, Qualcomm Cheyene Marling, BC Management, Inc. |
Flyer |
| 09/12/12 | Nuclear Preparedness: How Has the Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Event Affected Local Planning? | Sara Kaminske, Assistant Emergency Manager, OC Sheriff’s - Emergency Management Bureau and Dan Cleavenger, Offsite Emergency Planner, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) | Flyer |
| 07/11/12 | Critical Communications Recovery
When Mobile Phones Go Bad |
Jerry Montella, Vice President, Mail-Gard Lance Charnes |
Flyer |
| 05/09/12 | Does Your Thinking Limit Your Success?
21st Century Networking – A Powerful Way to Gain Career Insurance and Generate New Business |
Lindon A. Crow, CEO/President, Productive Learning & Leisure, LLC. Rick Itzkowich |
Flyer |
| 03/14/12 | BCP Metrics - Using Metrics to Measure Your Program's Compliance and Recovery Capability
ACP National News |
Michael Herrera, CEO/President, MHA Consulting Inc Mike Gifford, Senior Manager of Disaster Recovery & Risk, Capital Group Companies |
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| 01/11/12 | 2011 Lessons Learned Panel Discussion | Gerald (Jerry) Shamburg, Manager, West Coast Operations - Global Crisis Management, The Walt Disney Company
Monica Ruzich, Manager, Preparedness & Community Education - The American Red Cross Becky Christy, BCP Manager KARL STORZ |
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| 12/14/11 | Annual Holiday Luncheon | ||
| 11/09/11 | How to Conduct Powerful Exercises Every Time and Live Mock Exercise | Phil Lambert, President - The Center for Continuity Leadership. | |
| 10/12/11 |
Elevating Disaster Recovery to Strategic Business Initiatives Doing more with less? Project Management to the rescue |
Rebecca Levesque, COO, EVP - 21st Century Software DeBorah J. Lozada, CBCP, CBRA Director, Business Continuity Management Fox Entertainment Group |
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| 09/14/11 | Extraordinary Responses to Unprecedented Events - Toyota Motor Sales, USA's response to customers during recall crisis of 2010. | Nancy Fein, Vice President, Supply Chain Strategy | |
| 08/10/11 | How the Private Sector has enhanced the Public Health Response | Keith Olenslager, HCA Program Manager, Alison Kellman-Lewis, Cities Readiness Initiative Coordinator, Joe Byrne, Program Consultant Orange County Health Care Agency | |
| 06/15/11 | Managing a Business Continuity Program - A Special Presentation and Group Discussion | Randall Till, MBCP, Founder & Lead Consultant - Till Continuity Group | |
| 05/11/11 | Neighborhood Preparation Plan | Larry Bufton, Advisory Panel for Irvine CERT | |
| 04/13/11 | Taking the Unpredictability Out of Power | Jim Neumann, Vice President, Power Analytics Corporation | |
| 03/09/11 | Employee Emergency Training - Growing Your Teams | Gerald (Jerry) Shamburg, Manager, West Coast Operations - Global Crisis Management, The Walt Disney Company | |
| 02/09/11 | The Failure of Risk Management - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Zacharias J. Beckman, President & CEO, Hyrax International LLC | |
| 01/12/11 |
Ten BCP Professional Practices Solar Flares & WikiLeaks OH MY! - Unconventional Threats in 2011 |
Barry Gorelick, Union Bank's SVP Bill Wostenberg, Manager BC Planning, Auto Club of Southern California |
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| 12/08/10 | Annual Holiday Luncheon | ||
| 11/10/10 |
A Resilient Nation Ready OC - Emergency Preparedness Campaign |
Steve Jordan, Principal, Traiden Global Solutions Rick Miltenberger, Senior VP, Westbound Communications. |
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| 10/13/10 |
Who's watching your computer? Preparedness Toolbox |
Michael Lattimore MCP DTM IT Specialist/Engineer, Southern California Edison Susan Jacobo, ACP-OC Vice President |
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| 09/08/10 | Workplace Violence as it relates to Business Continuity Planning | Tony Adame, Sr VP, Marsh Risk Consulting | |
| 08/11/10 |
Auditors Are Knocking on Your Door, Is Your BC Program Ready? Living on Shaky Ground: 2010 earthquakes and ShakeOut Drill Updates |
DeBorah J. Lozada Margaret Vinci, Manager, Office of Earthquake Programs, Caltech |
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| 06/09/10 | How to Get Your Point Across Without Killing the Other Person | Cynthia Heller Alt, PhD, Alt Consulting | |
| 05/12/10 | How to View Business Continuity from an Executive Perspective | Mary Carrido, founder and CEO of MLC & Associates, Inc | |
| 04/14/19 |
Why Flu is Still an Important Emergency Preparedness Issue Pandemic H1N1 in Orange County: An H1N1 Retrospective and Business Snapshots |
Sadina Reynaldo, Assistant Program Director, Pandemic Influenza Unit, L.A. County Deptartment of Public Health Orange County Health Care Agency Keith Olenslager, MPH, Health Disaster Management Division Michele Cheung, MD MPH, Deputy Medical Director, Epidemiology |
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| 03/10/10 | ACP-OC 2010 Spring Conference
Preparedness GPS - Directions for Resilient Positioning |
Key note speakers:
Judy Bell, Disaster Survival Planning Network "Table Top Exercise - scenario: "What if?" Phil Lambert, The Center for Continuity Leadership |
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| 02/10/10 |
Prepare OC: Web-Enabling County of Orange Incident Preparedness, Response and Recovery to Achieve True Organizational Collaboration Meeting the Challenges of Business Preparedness |
Lynne Halverson, Business Continuity Manager, County of Orange Orange County chapter of the American Red Cross Monica Ruzich - Disaster Preparedness SpecialistCorporate Education Marsha McNamara - Workplace Safety Consultant |
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| 01/13/10 |
BCM Program Awareness Trends and the Maturity of your BCM Workshop - How to Measure an Organization's State of Readiness |
Cheyene Haase, President, BC Management Phil Lambert, President & Founder, Center for Continuity Leadership |
