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Events:

11 August 2011, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD:  “EMP: Threat and Opportunity”

8 June 2011, The Tower Club, Tyson's Corner, VA:  “It doesn’t do you any good if you’re open for business and your customers and suppliers aren’t”

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“It doesn’t do you any good if you’re open for business and your customers and suppliers aren’t.”

Come and help build an alliance of businesses aimed at strengthening Regional Economic Resilience

Organizing meeting

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

 Skyline Room – The Tower Club, Tyson’s Corner

8000 Towers Crescent Drive, 17^th Floor

Vienna, VA 22182

571.335.1377

 8:00 AM registration

8:30 – 10:30  working meeting

Agenda: 

1) Clarify the concept of economic resilience, with emphasis on identifying the critical components/sectors that need to be involved

2) Formulate a set of goals (how we define success) and a top-level strategy for achieving those goals

3) Determine how best to organize our group, including whether we should form an independent organization or apply to become a subgroup under an existing organization.

4) Discuss sponsorship sources and approaches.

Breakfast will be provided.  Reservations required (contact Art Murray: amurray@aksciences.com; 540-837-2969)

Background: 

In our complex massively-interconnected economy, one or more threats (bio-terror, cyber-attack, etc.) could result in a prolonged disruption in the flow of goods and services throughout the DC region and beyond.  While many businesses have disaster recovery plans in-place, we are hard-pressed to find anyone addressing the broader issue of economic resilience*.  The continuing disruptions resulting from the recent events in Japan bear this out.

*Economic Resilience: The ability of an economy to absorb a catastrophic event and quickly return to a new state of stability that is stronger than the previous state.  Resilient enterprises and economic regions are naturally dynamic and more competitive under all circumstances of doing business in a complex, fast-changing global market.

This means stitching together a supply network to an extent never before attempted.  Bio-science, energy, logistics, command and control, cyber-security, communications, transportation, hospitality, education, even agriculture, are just a few of the industries that need to work together if we are to withstand a Japan-like crisis or worse.

We are forming a business working group aimed at developing and selling resilience-based products and services.  The private sector must take the lead.  In the current budget climate, we can no longer depend solely on government to fund large-scale initiatives such as this.

Our overall mission is to form business alliances to develop products and services for strengthening economic resilience.

Many DC-area firms already have basic capabilities in-place, developed for defense, homeland security and other government customers.  These products and services can be re-purposed for delivering enhanced operational resilience across a variety of industries, and can be tailored and marketed to metropolitan regions throughout the world.  

We hope you’ll join our rapidly-growing group of business leaders and help pave the way for keeping business and commerce up and running when disaster strikes.

For additional information please contact Art Murray: amurray@aksciences.com; 540-837-2969)

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