Business continuity in the Asia region is something that has largely been ignored and put on the back-burner. Financial institutions feel they have more pressing priorities for their tight budgets, rather than investing for situations that are likely to actually never happen. The recent high-profile events in Japan have led financial institutions across the region to carefully reevaluate their preparedness for any event threatening their operations.

In this hour-long teleconsultation session, you will learn from industry practitioners as they identity the key issues in establishing an effective business continuity plan as well as identifying some of the challenges to look out for. Drawing from the Japan Crisis, we will be looking at ways in which we can fine-tune our business continuity plans based on lessons learnt from past threatening events.

Key discussion points include but are not limited to the following:

• Establishing the crisis management team in operation
• What are some of the data management and IT challenges?
• How would a business continuity plan cooperate with the risk function?
• The Japan Case Study: Examining the challenges faced and lessons learnt
• Evaluation of the business continuity plan

Willem Hoekstra, Director, Business Continuity Management, Societe Generale
Jeremy Haworth, Head of BCM, Asia Pacific, Europe & America, ANZ Banking Group

Moderated by:

Aldo Joson, Senior Research Analyst, The Asian Banker

Who should attend:

Financial Institutions
Heads, Presidents, Managers and Directors responsible for:
Business Continuity, Contingency Planning, IT, Operations, Business Process Management,
Operational Risk, Security, Compliance, Audit.

Registration

This event is free to attend. To register for the session, please e-mail your particulars (name,
designation, contact information) to Jerome Ong at +65 6236 6175 by Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 5pm (Singapore time) at the latest. We will be sending you the dial-in instructions a day before the
session.