Collaborative Partner Spotlight: Summer 2025

As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage our Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Resiliency Professionals of Wisconsin – On May 8, BRPW will host “An Introduction to Adaptive Business Continuity” with Mark Armour online; on June 13, it will host a Showcase Event at American Family Conference Center, focusing on managing third-party vendor risks. Business Continuity Planners Association – BCPA’s next event is an in-person meeting on May 8 in Edina, MN, on the topic of Organizational Resilience with Lynnda Nelson. Continuity Professionals of Ohio – CPO’s 2025 Summit will be held Sept. 19, with more information to come. MidAmerica Contingency Planning Forum – MCPF’s scheduled webinars are Cyber Resilience Through a Business Lens: Leveraging Business Impact Analysis for Strategic Advantage (May 15), Lessons Learned – Getty Villa – Palisades Fire (June 19), and Shaping the Future to Achieve World-Class Resiliency (July 17). The Resilience Association – The Resilience Association has announced the date for its upcoming summit – June 12, 2025. It is currently offering an early bird 25% discount code – Use 4, and input 190801. The theme this year is “shock-events,” those that test the “renewable resilience” of an organization against their current operational capabilities, and their “transitioning through uncertainty” when responding to a significant disruption.