Corporate Security and Crisis Management Experts to Meet in New York Nov. 4-5
October 27 2003 - 12:28PM
PR Newswire (US)
Corporate Security and Crisis Management Experts to Meet in New
York Nov. 4-5 R. James Woolsey, Former CIA Director, to Keynote
Speech at Conference Board Meeting NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/
-- Top executives from leading companies will discuss handling
security crises at The Conference Board's 2003 Corporate Security
and Crisis Management Conference: Emerging Issues and Strategic
Imperatives. This meeting will be held November 4-5 at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York. It is presented with assistance from
Guardsmark LLC and in collaboration with ASIS, the International
Security Management Association, and Business Executives for
National Security. The luncheon keynote address, "The Long War of
the 21st Century: How We Must Fight It," will be given by The
Honorable R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Global Strategic
Security, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and Former Director, U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. The opening keynote address, "The
Evolving Mission and Objectives of Corporate Security," will be
delivered by Ira A. Lipman, Chairman and President, Guardsmark LLC.
Robert F. Littlejohn, Vice President, Global Security, Avon
Products, Inc. and President, International Security Management
Association, will serve as chair. Richard W. Wilmot, Chief
Executive Officer, The Steele Foundation and Former Commanding
General, U.S. Army Intelligence Center, will address "Managing the
Crisis: What Happens When Defenses Fail?" Wilmot is the author of
Terrorism, A Growth Industry. Serving as chair of this presentation
will be Steve D. Chupa, Director, Security, Worldwide Security
Group, Johnson & Johnson. "Homeland Security and the
Corporation: Prospects for Public-Private Partnerships,
Collaboration and Interdependence" will be addressed by Charles G.
Boyd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Executives
for National Security, General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) and Former
Deputy Commander- in-Chief, U.S. European Command; and Jan W.
Mares, Senior Business Analyst, Office of the Private Sector,
Department of Homeland Security and Former Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury and Energy. Serving as chair will be Stephen E. Flynn,
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Commander (Ret.),
United States Coast Guard and author of The Unguarded Homeland: A
Study in Malign Neglect. "Business Recovery and Continuity: The
Ultimate Objectives" will be addressed by Geary W. Sikich,
Principal, Logical Management Systems, Corp. and Author of
Integrated Business Continuity: Maintaining Resilience in Uncertain
Times. Jim Grogan, Vice President, SunGuard Availability Services,
SunGuard will chair the session. "Executive Crisis Communications:
The Crucial Link with Stakeholders" will be examined by Ron
Sconyers, Brigadier General, USAF (ret.), and Robert L.
Dilenschneider, Chairman, Dilenschneider Group and Former President
and Chief Executive Officer, Hill & Knowlton, Inc. The
concluding panel discussion, "The Cost of Security: Estimating and
Managing Economic Risk," will feature W. Scott Gould, President and
CEO, The O'Gara Company, LLC, Gregorie Bujac, Vice President,
Corporate Security, Altria Group, Inc., Randall Kroszner, Professor
of Economics, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
and Former Member, Council of Economic Advisors, The White House;
and Terri Butler Stivarius, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green,
P.C. Other sessions will include: * Cyberisk, Cyberterrorism and IT
Security: Key Issues * Employees and Security: Protecting Human
Capital * Protecting the Infrastructure: Physical Perimeter, Supply
and Distribution Chains and Portals * Critical Business and
Security Risks: Strategies for the Global Firm DATASOURCE:
Conference Board CONTACT: Frank Tortorici of The Conference Board,
+1-212-339-0231 Web site: http://www.conference-board.org/
http://www.tcb.org/
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