Staying In Business After Disaster
9:30am – 10:45am

Employees are the most important business continuity asset of any business. No amount of information technology-based back-up and recovery planning can substitute for knowledgeable employees and well practiced plans to manage the response and recovery process. A well written and well understood plan for response and recovery provides the basis for training employees, beginning with home and personal preparedness, and the development of multi-faceted workplace response capability, including training in the National Incident Management System’s (NIMS) Incident Command System (ICS) element to ensure rapid integration of business teams with local professional first responders. Use of remote work sites and other techniques to maintain core business services, customer relations and supply chain continuity will be included.

Expert panelists will address training and exercising your employees to ensure business continuity following natural, technological and human-caused disasters. The presentations will be built around real world experiences. Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina include the importance of home and personal preparedness for employees, role of employees in immediate emergency response, and training employees and their families as a business continuity investment. Lessons learned from homeland security activities include the role of employees in workplace security, surveillance and response, and the importance of regular training and exercises for the maintenance of readiness.

Panel Moderator:

Frances L. Edwards, PhD, CEM
Associate Professor, Political Science, San Jose State University
Former Director of the City of San Jose Office of Emergency Services

Panel Speakers:

Daniel C. Goodrich, MPA
Research Associate, Mineta Transportation Institute

Dr. John McLachlan
Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University

Chris Wimmer
Facilities Recovery and Safety Manager, Corporate Facility Services, Genentech, Inc.

Maintenance – Are You Compliant?
11:00am – 12:15pm

Without adequate maintenance procedures in place, product producers run the risk of equipment failures causing key pieces of machinery to be withdrawn from use. This one piece of equipment can in certain cases result in the closure of a complete production line. What’s worse, once a part or component burns out or breaks, if a replacement isn’t nearby, the company may be stuck with this closed production line until a new part can be delivered from the equipment manufacturer.

If companies don’t put the proper servicing techniques in place, their equipment is going to fail, or become inconsistent in its operation. In this state, maintenance and repair costs will be high, since it will mainly consist of recovering from catastrophic break downs. ”A good service management system helps a company’s engineering department plan and schedules their work. It also helps them manage spare parts, track who worked on a piece of equipment, and who signed off on it.”

Clearly, being able to track cleaning activities is important. There is now a lot more attention is paid to the whole level of servicing in and around a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Minor things like tracking filter changes and inspections on compressors to make sure they are not leaking oil. To the use of predictive analysis tools, used to anticipate possible equipment breakdowns, thus allowing engineering departments to put in place proactive action, which will inhibit the envisaged breakdown causes.

Panel Moderator:

Bob D’Elia
Vice President, DC Engineering Consulting, Inc.

Panel Speakers:

David O’Connell
President, DC Engineering Consulting, Inc.

James Bennett
Senior Facilities Coordinator, Genentech

John Zimmerman
Associate Director, Maintenance, Nektar Therapeutics

2006 Bay Area Biotechnology Real Estate Survey
1:45pm – 3:00pm

This session will present the results of BayBio’s 2006 Real Estate Survey which will build upon last year’s momentum. This survey will yield information on the cost of laboratory space throughout the Bay Area market; from its acquisition through lease or purchase, and the capital outlays needed to prepare it for operations. In addition, this survey will gather comprehensive information on how biotechnology companies rank their communities, sites and their existing facilities and how they project the industry’s future demand for space. This information will be correlated against company size and classification to provide specific data on individual market sectors.

Panel Speakers:

Brad Werner
Senior Vice President, CB Richard Ellis

Douglas Davis, AIA
Architect, Senior Project Manager, HiTech CMD