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Welcome
Welcome to the Greater Houston Chapter of the Association of Continuity Professionals - the nation's leading non-profit association, comprised of professionals who are responsible for or have an interest in business continuity, preventing disasters, providing disaster recovery information and facilitating the resumption of normal business activities following a major disaster.
Members of ACP nationwide represent business, industry and government organizations at all levels. Included are executives, administrators, managers, directors, writers, legal staffs, accountants, engineers, sales-persons, records managers, archivists and many more professionals.
We generally meet on the second Tuesday of each month either at the Weatherford International (2000 Saint James Place, Houston, TX 77056) or virtually via Zoom, but the actual date, time and location will vary for each event.
Please see each event's details for more information.
Next Meeting:
Trends and Approaches to Building an Enterprise-wide Resilience Program
Michelle Uwasomba, Principal, Consulting Enterprise Risk, Ernst & Young LLP
Date: Tuesday, September 10th, 11:30AM CDT
Location:Hybrid: In-person at Weatherford International (2000 Saint James Place, Houston, TX 77056) and Virtual via Zoom
The in-person option will include lunch, and the registration deadline is Wednesday 9/4 at 5pm. Register for In-person Option: Here!
The virtual deadline is Tuesday 9/10 at 11:30am. Register for Virtual Option: Here!
Synopsis: Michelle Uwasomba will facilitatate an interactive dialogue that will cover: 1) why the move to the resilience? 2) examine some common attributes of enterprise resilience programs, common observations or top issues/challenges 3)Exchange examples and share ideas as on a group on how resilience capabilities across teams are moving toward a common enterprise resilience approach and framework
About our Speaker:Michelle Uwasomba is a Principal in the Risk Consulting, Enterprise practice and has served as Ernst & Young’s Americas Enterprise Risk and Resiliency Leader. She currently leads the US Enterprise Risk Management team and has over 21 years’ experience in business process benchmarking, set-up of risk governance and decision-frameworks, and design and implementation of risk and resilience transformation programs across healthcare, manufacturing, energy, financial services, transportation, and public sectors. She has supported organizations in thinking through and solving challenges related to of enterprise frameworks to drive strategic and operational resilience, wargaming and crisis simulation testing, ERM, operational risk program transformation and design, and quantitative risk and scenario modelling.
If interested in sponsoring ACP Greater Houston, please contact us by email.
If you missed our last two in-person events, click on each photo below to open the photo album in new tab:
Happy Hour at The Rustic (Post Oak) - March 28
Field Trip to Harris County's Emergency Operations Center - April 16
Our Purpose
To promote a professional, educational association to continually increase the awareness and the importance of business continuity, contingency planning, disaster mitigation and disaster recovery throughout the public and private sectors.
Our Objectives
To promote greater awareness and understanding of disaster recovery and contingency planning.
To provide opportunities and forums for member growth through training, information exchange, certification programs, career opportunities awareness and conferences.
To contribute to the advancement of contingency and business recovery planning.
To promote increased cooperation and participation in contingency planning between the public and private sectors.
Please visit our Membership page for more details on how to become an ACP member.
DRJ Fall 2024: Building Tomorrow's Resilience Today – Sept 8-11, 2024 @ Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, Dallas, TX.
ACP Members save $100 off the current registration rate. Select the All Access Discounted Pass during registration to claim your discount and enter ACP when prompted Click for more information and to register.
Check back for future industry events!
Chapter Programs
2024 Program Schedule
Date
Speaker/Event
January 9
Identify Threats and Communicate Faster During Critical Events
Alex Pinder, AlertMedia
February 13
Using Artificial Intelligence as a force multiplier
for your Resilience Program
Shane Mathew, Stone Risk Consulting
March 12
No Chapter Meeting to allow members
to attend industry conferences
March 28
Members-Only Happy Hour at The Rustic
April 16
Field trip to Harris County Emergency Operations Center
May 14
2024 Atlantic Season Outlook & Tabletop Exercise
Derek Ortt, StormGeo
June 11
Protecting Critical Infrastructure Organizations: “Political Polarization & Emerging Security Risks After the 2024 Elections in the US and Other Nations”
Scott McHugh, Program Executive for the Institute for Homeland Security at Sam Houston State University
July 9
Cancelled due to Hurricane Beryl
August 13
TBD
September 10
TBD
October 8
TBD
November 12
TBD
December 10
Annual Member Appreciation Holiday Luncheon (tentative date)
2023 Program Schedule
Date
Speaker/Event
January 10
Hacking Your Brain for Better Cybersecurity
Dr. George Finney
February 7
Paying It Forward…Or Backward?
The give and take of successful mentorship
James Mitchell
March 14
No Chapter Meeting to allow members
to attend DRJ Spring Conference
April 11
Educators Making a Difference –
Higher Learning for Business Continuity and Emergency Management Professionals
May 9
StormGeo 2023 Hurricane Season Outlook and
The Climate Has Changed: Are You Prepared For The New Reality?
Derek Ortt & Shannon Copeland, StormGeo
June 13
Event Weather Safety
Dr. Kevin Kloesel, University Of Oklahoma
July 11
Creating and Delivering Effective Tabletop Exercises
Robert Burton, PreparedEx
August 8
Exercise Pitfalls or How “NOT TO” Conduct an Exercise
Mark Carroll
September 12
Future Proofing America: A New Model for Disaster and Risk Mitigation
Richard Seline, Resilience Innovation Hub
October 10
Building Enterprise Resilience:
How Threat and Risk Detection Balance a Duty of Care Program
Brian Toolan, Everbridge
October 19
ACP Greater Houston Happy Hour!
The Rustic
November 14
Field Trip to Kenyon International Facilities
Spring, Texas
December 12
Annual Member Appreciation Holiday Luncheon
Career Opportunities
Welcome to the Career Opportunities area of the ACP Greater Houston Chapter Web site. Here, you can view descriptions of positions available in the field of business continuity planning, emergency management, and risk management in the Greater Houston area. This is a value-added service to the chapter members, guests and chapter affiliates in the local resilience community.
Employers and recruiters are invited to post positions available in Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Risilience, Emergency Response, Risk Management and Corporate Crisis Management. Positions will be posted for up to 90 days at no cost.
To submit a listing, you must provide position title, position location, sector/industry, recruiter contact information, link to the job posting, and close date by email to the Education Director.
Emergency Management Program Manager (Public Information) - Partially Grant Funded
Employer: City of Houston
Position Location: Houston, TX
Sector: Government Click For More Information:
Emergency Management Specialist III (Emergency Public Information Systems) - Grant Funded
Employer: City of Houston
Position Location: Houston, TX
Sector: Government Click For More Information:
Emergency Management Specialist III (Crisis Information Systems) - Grant Funded
Employer: City of Houston
Position Location: Houston, TX
Sector: Government Click For More Information:
***The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) provides a comprehensive training registration and transcript service for FEMA, TDEM, TEEX, and other government approved emergency management and continuity courses. You can register and search courses across Texas at Preparing Texas.***
If anyone has an article/white paper/document they would like to share with the chapter, please send Information Director a copy to include on the website.
MS Cybersecurity degree with a technology specialization - The School of Computer Science
MS Cybersecurity degree with a cyber-physical and energy systems specialization - The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
MS Cybersecurity degree with a policy specialization - The School of Public Policy (PUBP)
Computer Information Systems degree with Cyber Security Programming specialization (Bachelor of Science - online or on-campus) - DeVry University (Vendor requested listing)
Membership Information
Thank you for your interest in the Greater Houston Chapter of the Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP).
ACP is a national organization of 2,000+ members with experience, expertise and a willingness to share unique perspectives. ACP provides a forum for members to network with peers in similar job roles across a wide variety of for profit businesses, non-profits, government, higher education, and NGO organizations.
In addition, benefits from becoming an ACP member are:
eligibility for discounts to conferences and trade publications,
quality webinars for members only,
CEU credits towards retaining your certification,
leadership opportunities in your local chapter and so much more
We believe you'll enjoy the networking opportunities and camaraderie available through ACP.
To become a member, simply click here to access the Association's national website. Once there, select the option to "Join Now!" at the top of the page.
Visit our chapter website for information on upcoming chapter meetings, events to help you get involved, resources for training, education, and job openings, and connect with us on Facebook,Twitter, and LinkedIn!
Don’t hesitate to reach out to our Membership Director at ACPSouthTexas@gmail.com should you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you at our next chapter meeting and/or event!
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Trends and Approaches to Building an Enterprise-wide Resilience Program
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