Conference: Solutions to Emergency Management and Business Continuity Challenges
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
Building 6
333 Pfingsten Road
Northbrook, Illinois 60062-2002
Friday, November 9, 2007
Attend this Unique
Emergency Management and
Business Continuity Event!
Partners: Illinois Homeland Security Network
(Homeland Security Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Center, Northwestern
University; Homeland Security Market
Development, Illinois Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity;
Homeland Security Procurement
Technical Assistance Center, College of
DuPage; Homeland Security Research
Program, Western Illinois University);
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.; James
Lee Witt Associates/GlobalOptions
8:00 – 8:30 am
Sign-In, Continental Breakfast, Networking
Moderator: Patrick Crawford, Director of Marketing
& Business Development, Midwest
Region, James Lee Witt Associates,
Chicago, Illinois
8:35 – 8:45 am
Welcome to Underwriters Laboratories and
Homeland Security
Speaker: Chris Hasbrook, Vice President & General
Manager, Global Fire and Security Sector,
Underwritters Laboratories, Northbrook,
Illinois
8:50 – 10:15 am
Case Studies/Best Practices in Emergency
Management and Business Continuity
• Jack Smith, First VP, ABN AMRO, Global IT
Business Continuity Management, Chicago,
Illinois
• Demetria Giannisis, Executive Director
Chicago Manufacturing Center and Great
Lakes Partnership/Mahogany Eller, Director
of Government and Community Partnerships,
Target, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Prof. Dean Alexander, Director, Homeland
Security Research Program, Western Illinois
University, Macomb, Illinois
• Charlie Fisher, Senior VP, GlobalOptions,
Washington, DC
10:15 – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am – 11:55 am
Product- and Service- focused Solutions
to Emergency Management and Business
Continuity Challenges
• Todd Huseby, Principal, A.T. Kearney, Chicago,
Illinois
• Damian Walch, Director, Deloitte & Touche,
Chicago, Illinois
• Thomas Grey, Consulting Director, Property
Risk Control, CNA Insurance, Chicago, Illinois
• Ben Crown, Mutare Software, Schaumburg,
Illinois
Noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch/Networking
1:00 – 1:10 pm
Closing Remarks
• Michael Brody, Assistant Deputy Director,
Homeland Security Market Development
Bureau, Illinois Department of Commerce and
Economic Development, Chicago, Illinois
Pre-Paid Registration Required: $40.00
Check payable to Western Illinois University
Register online at
https://www.uluniversity.us/catalog/display.resource.aspx?resourceid=128361
Or Mail to
ILHSN, c/o Prof. Dean Alexander
Department of Law Enforcement and Justice
Administration, Stipes 403H
Western Illinois University
1 University Circle
Macomb, Illinois 61455
(309) 298-2120 Fax: (309) 298-2187
