Association of Continuity Professionals upcoming events

Arkansas Chapter Meeting (21 Oct 2026)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Guest Speaker, Ben Whooten, VP of Emergency Management and Safety at Memorial Health

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Meeting ID: 263 454 143 641 84

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ACP DC Lunch & Learn - Third Party Risk (21 Oct 2026)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT

ACP DC Lunch and Learn

Mark Your Calendar for October 21 - Third Party Risk with Mark Carroll

Your vendors have vendors. When one of them fails, your operations feel it. Join ACP DC for their October Lunch and Learn with Mark Carroll, a risk, crisis, and recovery leader with 25+ years of experience at Biogen, Gillette, and Fidelity. He founded Boston University's graduate Enterprise Risk Management program and will break down third party risk: where it hides, how to assess it, and what to do when a supplier goes down. Bring your questions.

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

Arkansas Chapter Meeting (18 Nov 2026)

Wed, 18 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Guest Speaker: Chapter member Cameron Wells - Business Continuity from an ITDR Perspective

Teams Meeting Information for all meetings:

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/26345414364184?p=o99D7utKRFWgIabFh7

Meeting ID: 263 454 143 641 84

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Healthcare SIG SIG: The Value of AI to Assist with Emergency Planning, Training, and Exercising: From the Classroom to the Simulation Lab (18 Nov 2026)

Wed, 18 Nov 2026 18:00:00 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

Arkansas Chapter Meeting (16 Dec 2026)

Wed, 16 Dec 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Teams Meeting Information for all meetings:

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/26345414364184?p=o99D7utKRFWgIabFh7

Meeting ID: 263 454 143 641 84

Passcode: 59zg2uW9

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

DRJ Spring 2027 Conference (21 Mar 2027)

Sun, 21 Mar 2027 05:00:00 GMT

DRJ Spring 2027 Conference

Join business continuity, disaster recovery, and resilience professionals from across the country at DRJ Spring 2027, one of the industry's premier conferences for education, collaboration, and networking.

Hosted by Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ), this conference brings together industry experts, thought leaders, and practitioners to explore emerging trends, innovative strategies, and best practices in business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and organizational resilience.

Attendees will have opportunities to participate in educational sessions, discover new solutions, exchange ideas, and build valuable professional connections.

The Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP) looks forward to connecting with members, chapter leaders, and industry colleagues throughout the conference!

Learn More & Register for DRJ Spring 2027