A2Y Chamber Event: Ask The Expert SBW, Building Cyber Resiliency

We are excited to offer educational workshops to help you in your business and professional development. Each session includes lunch, the opportunity to connect with like-minded business professionals, entrepreneurs, and small-large sized organizations, while learning about practical business applications and strategies to help your business grow.

Space is limited. Reserve your seats early.

Building Cyber Resiliency into your Everyday Practice:

How to Survive and Thrive in a World of Increasingly Sophisticated Threats

Claudia Rast

Shareholder

Chair of the IP, Cybersecurity & Emerging Technology Group
Butzel

Cybersecurity webinars are quick to advise on what to do when the cyber incident happens. While this advice is extremely helpful, the focus of this session is to describe the steps companies should implement in advance of the the cyber incident. Whether your entity is large or small and enjoys a multi-million-dollar IT budget or a budget of merely thousands, you face the same daily onslaught from threat actors and nation states. Their threats are constant and agnostic to size and dollars.

So, what should companies do to build cyber resiliency? Please join us to hear from Claudia at Butzel to find out. She will address the basic steps in building cyber resiliency and discuss how to:

create an Incident Response Plan
recruit an Incident Response Team
implement robust and comprehensive training

This program will benefit both the executive team and the internal or external IT staff, all of whom need to be aware of these risks.

About Claudia:

Claudia Rast has been at the forefront of data protection and emerging technologies throughout her career. Whether counseling clients on preparing for, or responding to, global cyber incidents, complying with the increasing number of new state consumer privacy laws, or implementing policies and procedures to effectively use generative AI tools, she maintains her position as a renowned leader among technology practitioners.

Throughout her career, each year she is sought for her knowledge and insight - in areas ranging from Technology, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data Breach, eDiscovery, and Social Media - locally and nationally as evidenced by the numerous presentations, publications, and speaking engagements. Claudia is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of of Detroit School of Law (cum laude), where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Detroit Law Review.

You may read more about Claudia here.

Please join us Tuesday, February 24!

A2Y Chamber Event: Ask The Expert SBW...

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Date and Time

Tuesday Feb 24, 2026
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EST

11:30 am ~ Lunch & Networking
11:55 pm ~ Speaker
1:00 ~ Session ends

Location

Washtenaw Community College
Morris Lawrence Building, Room ML 150
4800 E Huron River Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Fees/Admission

A2Y Chamber Members: $25 per session

Non-Chamber Members: $35 per session

Walk-Ins: $40

** Advance Registration is Required to have Lunch **

Website

http://www.a2ychamber.org

Contact Information

Rosalind Vaughn
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