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Join the Risk and Resilience HUB Team at DRJ Fall 2025 September 7-10
The Disaster Resource GUIDE, Continuity eGUIDE and now the Risk and Resilience HUB have partnered and exhibited at DRJ conferences for over 35 years. The people we have met are now life-long friends, associates and collaborators.
This year’s theme is “Building Resiliency Through Innovation”. For three decades, DRJ has set the standard for in-depth education and practical solutions that help organizations address disruptions of all kinds. This year’s fall conference features industry leaders of programs at major companies and institutions – Amazon, Lowes, American Express, MIT, Ohio State University and more. I hope you’ll join us this year at the Gaylord in Dallas. And, don’t forget to stop by our booth and say hello!
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Lessons from the Texas Hill Country Flooding for Resilience Professionals
The Texas Hill Country floods left a path of destruction and heartbreak. It also brought immense challenges. Practitioners know well the weight of public expectation during a disaster. National attention transitions to social media for “hot takes”. Resilience professionals have an opportunity here to learn from the public’s reactions and offer action steps to mitigate future disasters.
In the week following the floods, Carrie Speranza, president of the IAEM USA Council, experimented with her social media accounts targeting messages with lessons learned and preparedness recommendations. The posts quickly gained steam across multiple platforms. In this article she shares 7 messages that can change behavior and protect us in the next disaster.
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In the Know...
Risk Management Magazine Spotlight “Securely Deploying Agentic AI”
While not technically new, agentic AI is currently one of the most buzzed-about developments in artificial intelligence, with Gartner recently naming it one of 2025’s top technology trends. Unlike generative AI, which merely creates output in response to a prompt, agentic AI can act on the user’s behalf to fulfill multi-step requests. Agentic AI can autonomously execute tasks, employ “thinking” decision making and engage third-party applications to facilitate task completion. Agentic AI presents an additional layer of governance challenges and unique security risks.
Read the RM article >>Cyber Security: Perceived resilience vs. the realities of preparedness
Beazly report explores significant shift in cyber risk perception.
Read MorePredicting Disaster: Exploring AI’s potential in disaster resource management
A study breaks down AI’s potential to predict natural disasters.
Read MoreEmergency Management: Lessons from the eye of the storm
Sarasota emergency management experts reflect on Hurricane Helene.
Read MoreCombating Misinformation: How AI can help during natural disasters
A study finds AI has potential to combat the spread of misinformation during disasters.
Read MoreCrisis Communication: Leaders on how to prevent a PR crisis
Twenty industry leaders share their top tips.
Read MorePlanning for Resilience: Reimagining water infrastructure in Japan
Ambitious environmental plans aim to combat aging water infrastructure.
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2025 Data Breach Investigations Report
Today’s threat landscape is shifting. Verizon Business’s annual DBIR shares the latest updates on real-world breaches. Explore eye-opening stats and critical findings from this year's report.
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SAVE THE DATE April 27-29, 2026
Continuity Insights “The Masterclass in Operational Resilience." Want to speak? Submit a proposal by September 5th. Or register by the same date and get a Summer Savings Rate.
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Industry Pulse
2025 Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends
Gartner carefully selected these 10 trends based on their potential to disrupt traditional business models, enable new forms of innovation and address the most pressing challenges facing enterprises today. They represent strategic imperatives that require thoughtful consideration and decisive action.
The 2025 Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends serve as a vital star map for this journey, and the trends fall into three buckets:
- AI imperatives and risks
- New frontiers of computing
- Human-machine Synergy
The Refreshed Organizational Resilience HealthCheck Tool
The Organizational Resilience HealthCheck Tool (HealthCheck Tool) is an Australian government initiative developed with the Trusted Information Sharing Network’s Resilience Expert Advisory Group (REAG).
This is a free self-assessment tool to help your organization evaluate its resilience capabilities. The HealthCheck Tool invites participants to assess and rate their organization across 13 resilience indicators:
- Leadership
- Decision Making
- Situational Awareness
- Creativity and Innovation
- Employee Engagement
- Collaboration
- Resource Management
- Knowledge Management
- Silo Mentality
- Exercise Management
- Foresight
- Unity of Purpose
- Proactive Posture
These resilience indicators are the foundation for business-as-usual effectiveness. They contribute to robust and agile response and recovery capabilities.
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