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CONNECT WITH BRUCE AT UPCOMING 2025 events
Bruce is always looking to stay on top of industry trends. As a speaker or participant, he regularly attends industry events to connect with other experts and colleagues and share his insights. If you're looking to stay ahead of the game in risk management, attending some of these events is a must.
- July 21-23, Denver | ATTENDEE | GBTA CONVENTION
- July 29, NYC | ATTENDEE | SECURITY CYBER INTELLIGENCE & FINANCE SUMMIT
- Sep 29-Oct 1, New Orleans, LA | SPEAKER | GSX 2025
- Nov 2-6, Venice, Italy | SPEAKER | ITIC GLOBAL 2025
- Dec 11-13, New Delhi | SPEAKER | IFSEC 2025
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION GUIDE
BRUCE IN Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety
BRUCE IN Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety
TRAVEL RISK MANAGEMENT
Travel Risk Academy's latest guide, created in association with TRA mentor Bruce McIndoe, offers invaluable insights into enhancing travel efficiency and safety. This comprehensive resource covers everything from risk management strategies to practical tips for optimizing travel arrangements, whether you're a travel manager or a frequent traveler.
Key Topics addressed:
- Travel Risk Management Policies: Establishing comprehensive policies to manage and mitigate travel risks effectively.
- Safer Accommodation Programs: Implementing strategies to ensure travelers have safe and secure lodging options.
- Digital Tools: Leveraging technology to monitor and manage travel risks in real-time.
- Emergency Response Plans: Preparing for potential emergencies with clear and actionable response plans.
- Traveler Education: Educating travelers on best practices for safety and risk avoidance.
BRUCE IN Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety
BRUCE IN Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety
BRUCE IN Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety
PRESS RELEASE BY LIFE SAFETY ALLIANCE | JUNE 28, 2024
The Life Safety Alliance (LSA), a non-profit organization, has announced its inaugural list of Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety. The list, which includes professionals from various fields such as life safety, physical security, cybersecurity, risk management, and more, aims to recognize influential figures in the industry.
The LSA reached out to nearly 200 candidates identified as active thought leaders in the industry and offered them the opportunity to provide evidence of their activities. The selection process was rigorous and transparent, with scores calculated using a proprietary algorithm that considered various criteria such as conference presentations, LinkedIn reach, and leadership positions held. The period of consideration was from January 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024.
The inaugural group includes 41 honorees. An honorary award was granted to Andrii Lukashenko in Ukraine, who demonstrated extraordinary dedication to thought leadership while also serving in Ukraine’s armed forces in its war against Russia.
APPOINTMENTS
ARTICLE - THE NEXT THING : CHATGPT & GENERATIVE AI | NOV 2023
ARTICLE - THE NEXT THING : CHATGPT & GENERATIVE AI | NOV 2023
APPOINTMENTS
Bruce advises TAC’s Strategic Board, helping bridge small businesses and researchers with U.S. Cyber Command to boost national cybersecurity.
Bruce has been appointed senior advisor on resilience technology, to propel Restrata forward in their mission to provide organizations with a unified platform for safeguarding people and assets.
Bruce serves as an SME on Effortlo's Executive Resource Council as a resource for its customers' most challenging needs.
Bruce serves on the Board of Directors alongside top Mid-Atlantic leaders from globally connected companies, nonprofits, academia, and government, helping strengthen the organization’s impact and network.
American Society of Industrial Security
Bruce is a Steering Committee member of the ASIS Travel Risk Management Community, promoting travel safety through ISO-aligned best practices.
Bruce serves as Senior Advisor to MitKat, which is a global provider of integrated - platform & app-based, tech-enabled, intel-led, security risk mitigation solutions and services.
ARTICLE - THE NEXT THING : CHATGPT & GENERATIVE AI | NOV 2023
ARTICLE - THE NEXT THING : CHATGPT & GENERATIVE AI | NOV 2023
ARTICLE - THE NEXT THING : CHATGPT & GENERATIVE AI | NOV 2023
BY ELIZABETH WEST WITH BRUCE
Bruce McIndoe, joined by Unlock Advisors founder Cara Whitehill, American Express Global Business Travel EVP of product and strategy Evan Konwiser, Cornerstone Systems CEO and co-founder Mat Orrego and Grapevine founder and CEO Jack Dow, analyzed some of the go-forward propositions for AI and managed travel during the Innovate session.
This article captures highlights of the discussion and addresses how a new generation of tech will rewrite the rules of travel management innovation, and what buyers can do to prepare.
The development of generative AI has been a lengthy process, with experts, including Bruce McIndoe, founder and CEO of McIndoe Risk Advisory, considering it to be in its early stages. Bruce McIndoe emphasizes that generative AI, like ChatGPT, relies on mathematical computations and tokenization of words or characters to generate human-like responses; the process may seem simple, the scale at which machines perform these tasks is significant, making it appear almost magical, but without human prompts, the technology would collapse on itself. “We’re literally just stepping off very simple machine learning using neural networks,” he said, referring to those technologies that give weight to strong and weak information associations.
There are serious concerns within systems, with issues of factuality, bias, quality, plagiarism and IP. Questions of intellectual property, privacy and data ownership are real for every industry. Yet, so are the possibilities.
Despite the challenges, there are significant possibilities for generative AI in various industries including Travel and Risk.
WE HELP YOU PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE, ASSETS and OPerations
expertise and Business knowledge to craft global risk management solutions
Backed by 30 years of experience in the security industry, a plethora of knowledge and a prestigious network of industry experts, we founded McIndoe Risk Advisory to help organizations adapt and thrive in an ever-changing global landscape. McIndoe Risk Advisory is led by Bruce McIndoe, a leader in risk management, technology innovation and intelligence with high-profile and deep ties into the private and public sectors, supporting more than 1,000 global companies with tens of millions of connected personnel. Our elite team of experts has decades of experience engineering and deploying the processes, protocols and SOPs to meet legal and legislative regulations that influence a spectrum of industries.
360 degree View of RISK
Our network constantly monitors global economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological risks that organizations face so that you can stay alert, prepared, and a step ahead. We establish systems to systematically understand the risks to the achievement of your organizational objectives, mitigate them, and leverage enterprise-wide sensing programs stay on top of the changing threat landscape. We like to say that we are in the Certainty Management business in the achievement of your value generating objectives.
Governance, risk management, emergency management, crisis management and business continuity, with a keen focus on people risk management, are at the heart of our effort to break down these silos and create a Joint Operations Force of multidisciplinary Protectors.
Our modus operandi is to help organizations embrace an integrated team approach with continuous risk management processes that enhance the resiliency of People, Locations, Supply and Information assets along with the underlying processes that make their magic happen.
better, safer, smarter with Agile Operational Resiliency
As a one of its kind, bespoke risk advisory partner, McIndoe Risk Advisory offers Agile solutions to organizations to determine and manage their top risk management priorities. We help enterprise leaders achieve Agile Operational Resiliency (AOR) to maintain productivity and grow through the most difficult challenges with the least disruptions. We work with Global 2000 to SME clients helping them adopt a predictive, proactive posture to threats by leveraging our proprietary Continuous Risk Management Model and harnessing leading-edge technologies.
Our AOR program encapsulates our Agile Business Continuity program which builds on the Adaptive Business Continuity Principles developed by David Lindstadt and Mark Armour. This lightweight, system-of-systems program engages all in enhancing the organization's capability to recover from disruptions.
FROM THE DESK OF BRUCE Mcindoe
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
UNLOCKING MANAGED TRAVEL ROI In today's dynamic business environment, managed travel programs are pivotal in enhancing return on investment (ROI) for organizations. By implementing optimized travel policies, leveraging data analytics, and streamlining operational processes, companies can achieve substantial cost savings and improve efficiency.
This article explores the key components of a successful managed travel program, including policy compliance, supplier negotiations, and traveler satisfaction. It also highlights the importance of data-driven decision-making in identifying trends, minimizing risks, and maximizing cost-effectiveness.
AGILE OPERATIONAL RESILIENCY MODEL
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
AGILE OPERATIONAL RESILIENCY (AOR) is an organization's ability to adapt and thrive during times of stress, disruption and uncertainty. AOR is a holistic strategy that protects organizational objectives, assets, operations and reputations by empowering multi-disciplinary stakeholders to execute a 360-degree view of risk.
As a sustainable solution, AOR enables organizations to maintain productivity and grow through the most difficult challenges. It fosters a risk awareness culture, readies enterprises and promotes the real-time situational awareness necessary to move forward into threats more proactively such as enabling employees to identify and report potential risks.
DUTY OF CARE and beyond
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
Who is a "UNIFIED PROTECTOR" ?
DUTY OF CARE spells out the responsibilities an organization has for its people. This includes making the workplace safe, preventing risks to health and ensuring safe working practices are set up and followed. There is a lot to deal with between these areas and the onus is on a variety of managers to ensure nothing falls between those cracks. But who, or how, can a diverse team accomplish this effectively and efficiently?
Before COVID-19, most organizations tasked a patchwork of groups with largely stove-piped activities to meet Duty of Care responsibilities. The pandemic has put a focus on the entire organization taking care of all of its people every hour of every day.
Who is a "UNIFIED PROTECTOR" ?
TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION is a team sport
Who is a "UNIFIED PROTECTOR" ?
The UNIFIED PROTECTOR
Who is a Unified Protector? A utopia, a universal soldier, or a controversy in the making for the security and risk management industry.
During discussions over the last few security and risk management conferences, a new term has come up. The UNIFIED PROTECTOR. Who is a Unified Protector? It’s an interesting concept that certainly gets people’s attention. A utopian concept, a universal soldier, or a mere controversy in the making for the security and risk management industry.
Discover how proactive risk management can safeguard your organization in today's complex environment.