Association of Continuity Professionals upcoming events

AI for BC Teams: Three Tasks to Automate This Quarter and Two to Never Hand Over (22 Sep 2026)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

You’re are being asked to adopt AI. Some uses will help. Others will quietly produce polished, plausible, wrong answers that nobody will notice until an actual event. This session gives you a practical way to tell the difference. Fusion experts will share 3 business continuity tasks where AI can save time this quarter, and call out 2 areas to keep in human hands. Task complexity is the wrong dividing line. The key question is whether the underlying business data is current and governed. AI built on a reliable model of the business is an accelerator. AI built on stale assumptions produces output that reads as finished, then fails when it counts. You will leave with a short list you can act on and a one-question test for whether any given task is safe to automate, something you can take back to your team and defend.

Key Takeaways

Identify 3 BC tasks where AI saves real time this quarter
Recognize the 2 areas where automated output creates hidden risk
Apply a quick test for whether a task is safe to automate
Understand why automated output is only as good as the data beneath it
Bring a defensible AI-use position back to your own team.

Speakers:

Melanie Lucht, MBCP, MBCI, CIC, CCM, ARM

Sr VP, Customer Engagement, Fusion

Tim Hollingsworth

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Early Careerist SIG: Color Me Resilient: The ABC’s of Bouncing Forward (23 Sep 2026)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Resilient: a word that evokes strength. According to Merriam-Webster, there are two viable definitions: (1) “the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness,” and (2) “the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.” While I greatly respect this longstanding dictionary, I contend that there may be two different messages being communicated. The first sets the stage for strength in the face of challenge. The second, while noting the reference to elasticity, includes a word that may be a bit problematic in the overall definition: “back.” When recovering from difficulties, do we really want to revert to the same shape, or is the goal to expand past what we knew, to settle into an evolved understanding?

Speakers

Michele Turner

Marriott International

Michele L. Turner, MBCP, FBCI, CISA, CRISC, CCRP, CRMP, CHPCP, is an Amazon #1 bestselling author, keynote speaker, and resiliency leader with over 30 years’ experience in the areas of Governance, Risk, and Compliance. She is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International, and Head of Global Business Resilience and Program Services for Marriott International. This global role includes Above-Property Operational Resilience Planning, Risk Mitigation, Product Management, and Program Services for the Risk Management organization. Prior roles include Head of Global Business Resiliency for Amazon Corporate, as well as Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Business Continuity roles within Microsoft.

DRJ Fall Conference (27 Sep 2026)

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Learn more and register on DRJ's website here.

Resilience Reinvented: AI in Business Continuity and Emergency Management with the Colorado Rocky Mountain Chapter (16 Oct 2026)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Early Bird pricing closes on August 31st at 23:00!!

Monsters of Disruption: Taming Threats and Building Resilience with the Eastern Great Lakes ACP Chapter (22 Oct 2026)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Education SIG: The Value of AI to Assist with Emergency Planning, Training, and Exercising: From the Classroom to the Simulation Lab (22 Oct 2026)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how emergency managers plan for, train against, and exercise responses to an increasingly complex threat landscape. This 30-minute presentation explores the practical value of AI across the full preparedness cycle, examining how emerging tools can strengthen hazard and risk assessment, accelerate plan development and review, generate realistic exercise scenarios and injects, and enhance after-action analysis and continuous improvement.

Speakers

Dr. Bernard Jones, MBCP

St. John's University

Dr. Bernard Jones is an Associate Professor at St. John’s University in the Division of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security. He is a certified business continuity and disaster recovery professional with over 25 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-level business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management programs across both the public and private sectors.

Cybersecurity/IT SIG: Cybersecurity / IT SIG Roundtable Panel Discussion (19 Nov 2026)

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Banking & Finance SIG: Enterprise Risk Management: Topics in the Financial Industry: Focus on the Current Risk Landscape (17 Dec 2026)

Thu, 17 Dec 2026 18:00:00 GMT