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NFPA 1600 — Business Continuity and Emergency Management: Partners in Preparedness and Response
Track(s): E mergency Preparedness/Business Continuity

Kelley Okolita, DRII

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Business Continuity and Emergency Management have similar goals in preparing for events. They each want to make sure they and their staff are properly trained and prepared to stabilize an incident, manage resources effectively and respond quickly and appropriately when an emergency occurs. This session will demonstrate the value of building that partnership and joining efforts to be ready, no matter what.

Kelley Okolita - Recognized as a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery expert with more than 20 years experience, Kelley successfully recovered business operations in New York impacted by the events of September 11, 2001 and in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She is frequently sought after as a speaker and subject matter expert and has published numerous articles in professional magazines and journals. Selected by ISC(2) to be the expert to re-write the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Domain chapter for their CISSP study guide and ISSAP study guide which was published in December 2009. Kelley has spoken at conferences from the United States to Singapore and she has recently completed a book on Enterprise Wide Business Continuity Planning for Taylor and Francis publishing that was published in August of 2009.