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The Scottish Continuity Resilient Scotland Conference is Scotland’s leading conference for Business Continuity, Emergency Planning and Resilience professionals. It provides a welcome opportunity to gain valuable knowledge, training, and awareness of best practice to assist, organise, prepare, respond and recover from emergencies, crises and business disruptions.

A massive thank you again to all our speakers: Robbie MacDonald (Scotish Environment Protection Agency), George Lowder MBE (Transport for Edinburgh), Jim Preen (Jim Preen Media), Professor Linda Bauld, Rich Cooper (Fusion Risk Management), Dr Aarti Anhal (before nine), Chris Butler (Databarracks) and James Houston (PwC Partner UK with Fusion).

And thank you to our wonderful Sponsors: Fusion Risk Management, Alert Cascade, Riskonnect, Inverroy Crisis Management, Databarracks and CyberScotland.

What happens when the lights go out - will you be left in the dark?

The Scottish Continuity Group (SCG) was delighted to host its recent event, ‘SCG Webinar - Power Outages and Preparation' on Wednesday 7th December. This event was part of the SCG’s Learning and Education Programme for 2022/3 and was delivered as part of the ‘Your resilience is our resilience’ theme.

Thanks to our great speakers:

• Amanda Coleman – Crisis Communication Consultant

• John Beresford – Senior Resilience Co-Ordinator, East of Scotland RRP

• Mark Freeburn – BCM & Civil Resilience Specialist, Networks

• Eric Leavy – SP Energy Networks

See the slides used here - NPO Slides and Communicating in the Darkness

These video links may also be of interest to attendees:

Amanda Coleman Communications ‘10 minutes with Canadian crisis management expert Shawna Bruce’

and

Amanda Coleman Communcations ‘10 minutes with Aamir Abbasi’ on communicating blackouts when working for an energy company in Pakistan

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