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BreakPoint Conference 2026

BreakPoint 2026, June 22-26, is a practitioner-led resilience online conference built for business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, cybersecurity, and risk professionals. Hosted virtually, it brings together real-world operators, not just vendors, to share lessons learned, hard truths, and practical strategies that actually work.

Sessions focus on operational resilience, leadership under pressure, emerging threats, career growth, and honest industry dialogue. The final day is dedicated to connecting hiring organizations directly with practitioners. No vendor pitches. No badge scanning. Just real conversations between employers and real operators.

Meet the Expert

If I Had One Day to Set Up Crisis Management, This Is How I’d Spend It

Standards, frameworks, and templates provide a shared language for crisis management. They align expectations and create consistency across organizations. The risk is not in using them, but in optimizing the document instead of the work that should come first.

A crisis plan only becomes valuable once professionals have aligned on how they think, decide and act under pressure. The crisis plan must capture that thinking and should never replace it.

Patrick Lechner lays a foundation for managing those events that are often unclear and evolving.