Welcome to 2025!

The Northern California Chapter of the Association of Continuity Professionals welcomes you!

A message from our chapter president:

Dear Members and Potential Members,

Welcome to Summer! Are you enjoying the longer days of summer? Hopefully, you are taking time for yourself and enjoying a little break this season.

The chapter has undergone a little change, the name transitioned from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter to the Northern California Chapter, which was changed voted in by our current board in the April 2025 chapter board meeting and approved by the National ACP Chair, Mike Gifford. The chapter board believes this new chapter name is more fitting and representative of the current active chapter members. We hope you embrace the change as we did.

As mentioned in the spring welcome message, we launched an Exercise theme, and had some great lessons and discussions among our members. The chapter planned two - three virtual chapter gatherings and one in-person meeting over this summer. Please review below for our up coming chapter meetings.

Thank you for your continued membership to our local chapter.

The chapter board looks forward to seeing you online or in-person this year!

Connect with us via Slack or LinkedIn!

Best wishes,

Lissette Carrillo
Chapter President

Upcoming chapter meetings

Aug 2025 Wednesday, 08/27/2025 - Partnership with California Earthquake Alliance
In-person meeting in Hayward, CA (by invitation)

Oct 2025 Wednesday, 10/8/2025 Health Walk & Networking in San Francisco
Salesforce Park

Chapter Resources

Provided by Cal OES a PDF resource for Southern California Wildfires Resources for Californians impacted by Los Angeles Fires

Earning Continuing Education Units

There are a number of ways to earn continuing education units (CEUs) through ACP, which help you maintain your certifications. Some of the common ones include:

Being a member of an organization dedicated to business continuity.
Attending formal meetings.
Speak or present at a conference, workshop, or seminar.
Hold an elected or appointed leadership position in an organization.

Please refer to your certifying organizations for specific details about what counts as CEUs and how they should be counted.

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ACP National Resources

In addition to benefits from being part of the Northern California ACP Chapter, members also have access to resources at the national level.

Traveling outside the Bay Area? See if there is a chapter where you are headed: ACP Chapters

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Online Articles & Reports

Articles Submitted by Our Membership

Emerging Risks (published by AIRMIC & Marsh): This guide has a focus on emerging risks with an objective of providing support to the risk professional. The guide addresses the changing external and internal business context and the impact this has on business transformation and the speed of decision making and agility.

Rise of the Machines: Transforming Cybersecurity Strategy for the Age of IoT (published by Forescout): In this report, smart building is used as a case study of a network where legacy OT assets (such as programmable logic controllers), IT systems (such as workstations) and IoT devices (such as IP cameras and smart lights) share the same network

Industry Resources

The Northern California ACP Chapter serves the continuity professionals of the greater Bay Area. Our members come from both the private and public sectors and are involved with disciplines such as business continuity, emergency management, cybersecurity, physical security, and supply chain resiliency.

Our Chapter's Vision Statement: Northern California ACP Chapter - Leading Northern California organization providing opportunities for professionals to connect and grow through an innovative knowledge network to meet the resiliency demands of today and tomorrow.