Thought Leadership

The implications of an influenza pandemic for businesses are far-reaching and potentially catastrophic. Traditional business risk mitigation, security and disaster response plans for naturally occurring and terrorism-related events are insufficient in preparing a business for pandemic influenza.

Business Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: Second National Summit will gather leaders in business, government and healthcare for a timely and practical discussion on how to effectively and efficiently prepare businesses for pandemic influenza.

What remains untested and unclear for executives responsible for private-sector pandemic preparedness is how other companies and organizations will respond. How stable will today’s public utilities be? Will companies that supply critical parts or services be able to deliver? How many employees will be able to come to work? These unknowns can be confounding enough to bring preparedness activities to a halt.

 

	1.	Discover risk-communication techniques to help combat “pandemic fatigue”
	2.	Learn how to run meaningful business preparedness tabletop scenario exercises
	3.	Gain access to the scientific and business facts necessary to gain "buy in" with internal and external constituents
	4.	Benchmark your organization’s pandemic preparedness to discover how your budget allocations and major decisions stack up against others'

Who should attend

Business leaders with responsibilities for corporate governance, operations, human resources, supply chain management, legal, risk assessment and mitigation, strategic and crisis planning, business continuity, security, communications, investor relations, employee safety and employee travel management. Government officials with responsibilities for pandemic influenza preparedness, private-sector infrastructure protection, international and national commerce, and transportation.
Business-related organization officials with responsibilities for providing leadership and consultation to private-sector efforts for pandemic influenza and business continuity planning and for working with government agencies to assure support for effective business continuity planning and stockpiling of products or raw materials critical to pandemic response.

Summit Objectives

• Identify the critical risk assessment and mitigation, public policy, legal, supply chain and human resource elements of comprehensive planning for business continuity in the event of an influenza pandemic
   
• Provide business leaders with practical information needed to develop effective and timely corporate pandemic influenza plans
   
• Identify the role that businesses should play in the development of federal, state, regional and local government pandemic influenza preparedness plans
   
• Stimulate cross-business sector discussion of pandemic-related issues, interrelationships and interdependencies of the business community
   
• Provide the business community with current and comprehensive scientific information needed for pandemic influenza business continuity planning