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Upcoming events

    • May 21, 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • webinar
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    Speaker: John Liuzzi, How to Get Executive Support and Buy-In for BCM

    • June 18, 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Webinar
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    From Theory to Practice: Risk, Continuity, and Emergency Management in Higher Education

    This presentation explores how risk, business continuity, and emergency management are taught across higher education, and how those concepts are actually implemented within university operations. It examines the gap between traditional, structured approaches like ICS and NIMS and more adaptive, capability-based models that better reflect the realities of complex, decentralized institutions. Attendees will gain insight into how academic programs are evolving, how universities organize and manage these functions, and practical considerations for strengthening resilience in real-world settings.

    Bio

    Brandon Robbins is a Senior Program Manager for the WashU Continuity Program at Washington University in St. Louis, where he works with departments across the institution to strengthen organizational resilience through business continuity and emergency management. In addition to his role at WashU, Brandon serves as an instructor at Saint Louis University, where he teaches courses in emergency management, business continuity, and risk planning. He also serves as the Board Chair for AmeriCorps St. Louis and is a member of the Adaptive Advisory Group for Adaptive Business Continuity. With a background in emergency management and as a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Brandon brings both operational experience and strategic perspective to his work.


    • July 16, 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Webinar
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    Panel Discussion:

    Robbie Atabaigi, CBCP, MBCP, DRII instructor 

    Sherry Apel, Senior Manager, Global Sustainability & Business Continuity, Worldwide Technology

    Rachel Lucken, Business Continuity Analyst, Stifel Financial Corp



    • August 20, 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Webinar
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    Speaker: 

    Mark Carroll is a risk, crisis, and recovery professional with over 25 years of experience in the field of business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery.  Mark launched the very first business continuity and disaster recovery programs for BIOGEN; built out the global Gillette crisis and continuity program to 150 locations worldwide, led Business Continuity globally for Fidelity Enterprise Operations and introduced risk, emergency management and recovery management at Income Research and Management.  An Information Technology (IT) professional by education and training, Mark started his IT career with the US Department of Defense (DOD) in Boston, MA with responsibility for Third-party Contractor Compliance and Application upgrade support.

    Mark leveraged his IT, Operations and Risk experience to build out the IT Audit program at Gillette, integrating IT control assessment into operational audit activities.

    Prior to these roles Mark was the head of IT for Rexam Graphics and JPS Elastomerics. 

    Mark holds an MBA in Finance from Babson College as well as dual Bachelor’s Degrees from Boston College in Economics and Political Science. 

    He is Certified in Risk Management (RIMS-CRMP), Production and Inventory Control (CPIM), Business Continuity (MBCP and FBCI), Project Management (PMP), IT Security (CISSP), IT Audit (CISA), IT Governance (CGEIT), Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRCP, GRCA), and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB).

    Mark is Founder of the graduate degree in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) at Boston University and functions as adjunct faculty at the University, having taught risk and crisis management to over 3500 graduate students worldwide.

    Mark is a frequent speaker at ISACA, Continuity Insights, MIT, DHS, ACP, and Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) conferences.

Past events

April 16, 2026 The Imperative for Risk Quantification and Cyber Resilience Metrics in Modern IT Risk Management
March 19, 2026 BCM in Manufacturing Organizations - It's All About the Recovery Strategy
February 19, 2026 Trends in the Business Resiliency Field
January 15, 2026 Cyber Resilience in Action: Smart Exercise Design
November 20, 2025 MCPF Networking Extravaganza
October 16, 2025 Building a Comprehensive Testing Program for True Resilience
September 18, 2025 Business Continuity & AI
August 21, 2025 Color Me Resilient®️: The ABCs of Bouncing Forward
July 17, 2025 Shaping the Future to Achieve World-Class Resiliency
June 19, 2025 Lessons Learned - Getty Villa - Palisades Fire
May 15, 2025 Cyber Resilience Through a Business Lens: Leveraging Business Impact Analysis for Strategic Advantage
April 17, 2025 Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Fundamentals
March 20, 2025 One RTO to Rule Them All: Does the All-Hazard Approach Still Work?
February 20, 2025 Joy of Metrics - Part 2
January 16, 2025 Align your BCMS to ISO 22301:2019
November 21, 2024 Business Impact Analysis: Don’t Skimp on the Analysis
October 17, 2024 What To Do When The Crisis Manager Is Having Their Own Crisis
September 19, 2024 Exercise Pitfalls - How "Not To" Conduct an Exercise
August 15, 2024 Transforming Tabletop Exercises In Support Of Operational Resilience
July 18, 2024 Implementing Tools: How We Did It & DR Roadmap
June 20, 2024 Case Study: The Whataburger Way
May 16, 2024 East Palestine Train Disaster - Overview & Current Response Status
April 18, 2024 Panel Discussion - Build Out Your BCP Team
March 21, 2024 The Joy of Metrics
February 15, 2024 Business Resiliency BIA – Assessments that produce meaningful data
January 18, 2024 Using Artificial Intelligence as a Force Multiplier for Your Resilience Program
December 07, 2023 MCPF Holiday Extravaganza
November 16, 2023 Rules & Regulations in Business Continuity
October 19, 2023 Pick Up Your Business Continuity Program Where Someone Else Left Off
September 21, 2023 Business Continuity Awareness: Panel Discussion
August 17, 2023 Lessons Learned - Hurricane Ian
July 20, 2023 Business Continuity Management is Dead; Long Live Operational Resilience!
June 15, 2023 Balancing Business Continuity and Explosive Growth at Tech Companies – Then and Now (2008 to 2023)
May 18, 2023 How to Maintain a High, Productive Standard for Your Growing Company Team
April 20, 2023 What to Expect When the Auditor Arrives
March 16, 2023 New Risk Tool for Business Resiliency and ERM planning
February 16, 2023 Waffle House Index
January 19, 2023 Level Up & Gamify Your Tabletop Exercises
December 15, 2022 MCPF - Holiday Event
November 17, 2022 Lessons Learned: 7/26 STL Flash Flood
October 20, 2022 The Do's and Dont's of a Business Continuity Job Search: Panel Discussion
September 15, 2022 2020-22: A Pressure Test for Crisis Planning & Communications
August 18, 2022 Business Continuity: Panel Discussion - Where does it belong?
July 21, 2022 MCPF In-Person Networking Session
June 16, 2022 Parsing Through Life With a Continuity and Resilience Twist
May 19, 2022 Leadership through Multiple Simultaneous Crises
April 21, 2022 A Re-Examination of BCM Plans & E911 Compliance Roadmap
March 17, 2022 The Frozen Star State: Responding to an Extreme Winter Weather Incident and Rapidly Bouncing back to Normal Operations
February 17, 2022 Lessons Learned from Hurricane Irma and Other Disasters
January 20, 2022 Certification & Your Career
December 17, 2021 Test Event
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