Sunday, March 15, 2026 
Time: TBC

Kick off your DRJ Spring experience with a Pre-Event BCI Overview Class, designed to help attendees:

• Identify the right BCI certification for their career goals 
• Understand the competencies behind BCI’s flagship credentials 
• Learn how BCI-certified professionals drive organizational resilience 

Whether you're exploring certification for the first time or evaluating training options for your team, this session offers essential clarity into the global standards that define professional excellence in resilience. 

Six BCI-Powered Sessions on the DRJ Agenda: 

BCI will deliver six exclusive sessions co-developed with DRJ, each designed to address the most pressing challenges facing resilience professionals today: 

• Resilience Beyond Regulation 
• Breaking Down Silos: Culture and Structure 
• Cyber Resilience + Business Continuity 
• AI-Ready Resilience 
• Risk + Resilience Convergence 
• People-Centric Resilience: Building Teams That Work 

Led by globally respected subject matter experts, these sessions will offer real-world insights, practical frameworks, and actionable takeaways for professionals at every stage of their resilience journey. 

Elevating Resilience to the C-Suite: What 2030 Leadership Will Demand 
As boards and executives face increasing scrutiny over continuity, cybersecurity, and systemic risk, resilience is moving to the center of strategic governance. What does this mean for today’s leaders - and for the organizations that depend on them? 

In this keynote, we look ahead to 2030, drawing on BCI research to explore how the leadership and structure of resilience are expected to evolve. This isn’t speculation; it captures how your peers foresee the next stage of maturity - shifting from operational planning to strategic direction, and from compliance to true organizational advantage. 

If your organization wants to stay ahead and unlock the many advantages that resilience offers, this session will provide a practical roadmap to follow. And for those already leading in this space, it will highlight priority areas for professional growth to ensure your career advances alongside the discipline itself. 

How to move beyond checkbox compliance to build mature, adaptive, and strategically resilient organizations. This session will explore how regulation can act as a starting point, not the destination, for resilience programs - and how to shift from a compliance mindset to one that sees regulation as a catalyst for broader organizational maturity. 

Silos - operational, cultural, and functional - remain one of the greatest barriers to enterprise-wide resilience. This session will present proven strategies to embed resilience across functions by aligning risk, continuity, IT, and crisis teams under shared goals, playbooks, and metrics. 

Cybersecurity alone isn’t enough. This session will show why integrating business continuity and recovery strategies into cyber programs is essential for operational survival. Explore how BC fills gaps in incident response, recovery, and customer trust, turning reactive cyber strategies into resilient ones. 

AI is already reshaping the scope, speed, and accuracy of the risk and resilience landscape — but we’re only at the beginning. This session will explore both the opportunities and risks of AI, from generative tools to future agentic systems, and how organizations can navigate this new technology. 

Actionable Takeaway: Insights for a roadmap for AI adoption in the Risk and Resilience space; including use cases, controls, and policy recommendations tailored for resilience functions. Tools to future agentic systems, and how organizations can prepare for what’s next. 

A growing number of organizations are merging enterprise risk, business continuity, and operational resilience into a single discipline. This session will explore the drivers, benefits, and practical models for convergence - along with the emerging GRRC (Governance, Risk, Resilience & Compliance) mindset. 

Resilient organizations begin with resilient people. This session focuses on the human side of resilience. 

Resilience is more than a professional skill – it’s a personal journey. We all face moments that test us: career shifts, loss, failure, or uncertainty. Resilience can be cultivated and applied across every part of life and work; when we strengthen it personally, we also grow our ability to lead, innovate, and thrive professionally. 

This session explores how personal experience shapes resilience in leadership, collaboration, and sustainable success. You’ll also be introduced to the Planning P – a simple, cyclical framework originally designed for emergency response but equally effective for everyday operations. It helps resources and conditions, set objectives, allocate resources, and adapt to change through regular briefings – fostering communication, continuous improvement, and genuine resilience.