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3rd Annual CIR Summit:
Global Business, Global Risks

14 November 2007
The IoD Hub
New Broad Street, London
(next to Liverpool Street Station)

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Globalisation has been part of the progress of mankind from the earliest times, but in recent years it has become more than just the trading of goods and finance, it has created an integrated world in which no threat can really be considered local, and the ability for a threat to spread has been amplified through fast transport and communication links. Any event can have an effect throughout the world, and whether we consider a pandemic or regulation, terrorism or finance, the world has become both a bigger, perhaps more dangerous, place.

If you are a UK-based company, or a company with UK interests, what happens on the other side of the world matters, and pity the poor business continuity manager who faces the increased threat. All organisations are now chained together by events and the regulations of countries that are major trading partners, and with each link there is the potential for failure.

The leaders of tomorrow have to forge new strategies in business continuity to create models that take into account the global nature of change. At the heart of this is the need to have accurate information and a professional overview of the challenges to be faced.

Confirmed speakers

Gerald Ratner took over the family jewellery chain in the mid 80s, becoming one of Britain's best known businessmen. He transformed it from 130 stores with sales of £13m, to a public company with 2,500 stores and sales of over £1.2bn. By 1990, Ratner’s was the world's largest jewellery retailer with profits in excess of £120m.

Following a high profile gaffe in which he described some of the products sold in the stores as ‘total crap’, he was forced to sell the business.

After clawing his way back to the top, Gerald talks with typical candour and a great deal of dry humour about the rollercoaster journey and the valuable lessons learned.

‘A fascinating display of resilience, self-deprecating humour and lessons in what not to do - he surpassed all our expectations’ - KPMG

Superintendent Malcolm Baker, Metropolitan Police Service Counter Terrorism Command (SO15)
Michael Cassidy CBE, the City of London Corporation
Michael Faber, Vice Chairman of the Institute of Operational Risk.
Dr Robert Khan, Co-ordinator of Avian Flu Action
John Milne, Head of Business Continuity, Financial Services Authority
Mike Osborne, Managing Director, ICM Business Continuity Services
Bill Rann, Head of Global Governance Practice, BT
Mike Rooney, Chief Operating Officer, London First
Elizabeth Stevens, Political Risk Analyst, Credit, Political & Terrorism Risk, JLT Risk Solutions
Julian Thrussell, Product manager for BS25999, BSI Management Systems UK
Steve Yates, Chair of the BCI London Forum

The event is being chaired by Steve Mellish, ex-chairman of the BCI.

Under the theme of Global Business, Global Risks, the 3rd Annual CIR Summit will provide a complete view of the modern world of threat. Sessions will consider the topics of regulation and standards, political risk, psychology, Homeland Security (and the Olympic effect), pandemic risk and climate change. There will also be a session on terrorism and the lessons that can be learnt from 9/11. Delegates will find out how the government and regulators are thinking, and be given information to inform effective planning against some of the most high profile threats to their businesses.

Who Should Attend:

CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CIOs, COOs, CTOs, Chairmen, Company Secretaries, MDs, FDs, Business Continuity Directors/Managers, Crisis Managers, Heads of Risk, Directors of Risk, Senior Executives involved in Operations and Logistics, Insurance Directors/Managers, IT Directors/Managers, HR Directors/Managers, Board Directors, Information Security Specialists, Insurance, Brokers/Underwriters

Companies that have previously attended include: