Vancouver Professional Development

Vancouver, British Columbia

As we launch DRI Canada’s Year of the Exercise, we are pleased to announce our first national professional-development offering of the year—a comprehensive 3-day intensive designed for experienced continuity, resilience, and emergency-management professionals who are responsible for designing, evaluating, and defending exercises and programs.

This flagship event brings together exercise design, performance measurement, and executive insight in a single, integrated learning experience.


DRI Canada Exercise & Metrics Intensive

3 Days | 24 CEAP Points | $1,200

What’s Included

  • Exercise Design Course
    Build credible, outcome-focused tabletop and simulation exercises aligned to real organizational risk, leadership expectations, and professional practice standards.

  • BCP Metrics Course
    Learn how to define, collect, analyze, and communicate meaningful business-continuity and resilience metrics that demonstrate value, maturity, and readiness.

  • Guest Speaker Session
    A senior practitioner perspective on what executives, boards, and regulators expect from exercises—and how to translate exercise outcomes into strategic action.

Why This Matters
Organizations are increasingly asking not just whether exercises are conducted, but whether they are well-designed, measurable, and decision-relevant. This intensive is designed to help you:

  • Elevate the quality and credibility of your exercises

  • Strengthen post-exercise analysis and reporting

  • Defend investments in preparedness with data and outcomes

  • Align exercises with leadership and governance expectations

Who Should Attend

  • Business continuity and resilience leaders

  • Emergency-management professionals

  • Risk, compliance, and operational-readiness practitioners

  • Consultants and advisors responsible for exercise design and evaluation

Space will be limited to support meaningful interaction and applied learning.


Register for All Three Days ($1200)

Register for Exercise Design ($995)

Register for BCP Metrics and Luncheon Event ($795)

Register for Luncheon Event (free of charge)

Details

Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, BC

Exercise Design

February 10-11, 2026
Taught by Tara Tobler, CBCP


Learn how to assess the efficacy of your resilience plans using a blended exercise/test assessment approach that incorporates proven models, including DRI's Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, IT Disaster Recovery best practices, Cyber Resilience and explores public sector models. The training is designed to be flexible, scalable, and adaptable for all sizes and types of organizations, so you can choose to use what will work best in your environment.

Business Continuity Metrics

February 12, 2026
Taught by Lisa Benini, MBCP


Sound metrics help business continuity professionals communicate the true capabilities of their continuity management programs by defining program milestones, expected results, and other much needed data. This course will show you not only how to calculate that data, but also how to effectively communicate your findings and strategies with the right audience.

Integrating Complexity into Exercise Design
Luncheon Event
February 12, 2026
Presented by Cynthia Wenn, CBCP
Doctoral Student, Royal Roads University

Over the last thirty years, researchers have studied how system behaviours change as they become more complex.  If crises or disasters are seen as complex environments, then to prepare our teams to respond to them, it would follow that simulation exercises must also be designed as or designed to mimic the behavior of a complex environment. This presentation will share how exercise design practitioners are leveraging complexity thinking and provide insight on when, why and how you can modify the complexity of your exercise environment.