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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.

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Next Meeting:

We hope you received valuable insight from our 8/12 Event about "What Business Continuity Planners Need to Know About Quantum Computing Risk and Opportunity"

20 Years Later - Hurricane Katrina and the Houston Megashelter Success

Date: Tuesday, September 9th, 11:30AM CDT

Location: Virtual via Zoom

The Virtual Option deadline is Tuesday 9/9 at 1130AM CDT. Zoom will automatically email connection details.

Register for Virtual Option: Here!

Synopsis: The Houston Katrina Megashelter Operations was a huge success and set standards for all other MegaShelters to date. Houston’s volunteerism was a large part of the success and the Lessons Learned are still applicable today. Stephen will share the what and why of its success and why it is still the model today.

About our Speaker:
Stephen Kastensmidt, CEM, CGEMC  is the President and Senior Consultant of K10 Consulting, LLC and a crisis and emergency manager, US Coast Guard Emergency Manager Credential, Business Continuity and COOP professional and Risk Manager who has served in the private and public sectors. Stephen joined ACP around 2008 and has been a member and served on the Board of the Greater Houston Chapter.

Critically for our topic, Stephen served as Unified Area Deputy Incident Commander and Planning deputy for the Reliant Park Hurricane Katrina Relief Operation and later become Emergency Management Coordinator for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

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Register for Virtual Option: Here!

2024 Sponsors If interested in sponsoring ACP Greater Houston, please contact us by email.


Past Events:

If you missed our recent in-person events, click on each photo below to open the photo album in new tab:

Happy Hour at Ducky McShweeney’s Pub - June 12, 2025! (Sorry, no photo album for this event.)

2024 ACP Greater Houston Member Appreciation Holiday Luncheon - December 10, 2024! (Click on photo to open the photo album in new tab)

Happy Hour at Ducky McShweeney’s Pub - November 14, 2024! (Click on photo to open the photo album in new tab)

Field Trip to Harris County's Emergency Operations Center - April 16, 2024 (Click on photo to open the photo album in new tab)

Happy Hour at The Rustic (Post Oak) - March 28, 2024 (Click on photo to open the photo album in new tab)

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