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Full Program Available for Continuity Insights’ 2017 New York Conference
Two-day educational event will take place October 23-24, 2017 at the TKP New York Conference Center: Continuity Insights has announced the full conference program, including keynotes, speakers, and sessions, for the 2017 Continuity Insights New York Conference, taking place October 23-24, at the TKP Conference Center in the heart of New York City. The opening keynote, Corporate Smokejumper: Crisis Management Tools, Tales, and Techniques, will be presented by Gil Meyer, a crisis management expert who inspires creative change in how organizations approach crisis management, in addition to being the author of Corporate Smokejumper. He is a sought-after speaker who shares his experiences from the front lines of crises in the corporate world. Day two will kick off with “Everything You’re Doing Is Wrong? (Helpful Hints from the Adaptive BC Manifesto).” David Lindstedt, founder of Readiness Analytics, an organization focused on providing meaningful metrics for preparedness practitioners, and the creator of the RPC Model of Organizational Recoverability, will keynote this session, discussing the emergence of a new “Lean” alternative to traditional preparedness planning practices. In addition, conference sessions devoted to Case Studies, Trending Topics, Program Development & Advancement, Measurement, Metrics, and Maturity, Emerging Technology, and Professional Development. One of this year’s highlights will be the FEMA Region II Shelter-in-Place Workshop, which will give participants the chance to exchange best practices and evaluate potential solutions to major disasters requiring shelter-in-place. >>> VIEW THE FULL CONFERENCE AGENDA “This is the most diverse conference program we’ve ever had for New York,” said Robert Nakao, Executive ... Read more
Sponsor Spotlight: Rentsys Recovery Services
Rentsys Recovery Services provides comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. The company offers professional planning services along with fully customizable and testable solutions, which include communications recovery, mobile recovery, quickship technology, colocation, managed data and cloud services, and business recovery centers. These solutions can be combined to provide organizations with the ability to fully maintain regular business functions during a disaster. If one of your servers fails or employees aren’t able to access their primary environment, you need the ability to access your critical data and applications. As a part of the BlackVault Managed Recovery Platform, Rentsys Recovery Services offers BlackCloud® Recovery, an affordable off-site backup and recovery service for critical servers using private cloud platform and/or a local appliance. BlackCloud Recovery reduces the risk of data loss and, more importantly, minimizes downtime through rapid recovery of business applications onto our cloud servers or a local BlackVault appliance. It can be added on to our IaaS and backup and archival solutions. Learn more about Rentsys Recovery Services and its BlackCloud Recovery in booth #211 at the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference.
Southwest Airlines® Early Bird Contest Winners Announced
Continuity Insights is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference Early Bird Registration drawing. Each of the five individual winners will receive a $500 Southwest Airlines gift card. We would like to congratulate the following registered attendees, the lucky winners: Andy Lapierre, SVP/Director of Business Continuity, Frost Bank; Ellen Dantin, Manager, Business Continuity, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana; Jennifer Pasko, Business Continuity Analyst, Harley-Davidson; Doreen Lopez, Risk Manager, Amgen; and, Mary Wagner, Business Continuity Plan Manager, County of Maui, State of Hawaii.
Sharing the Best Resiliency Strategies and Advice
Well-respected industry leaders providing unique insights on the business continuity landscape will lead a series of “Ask the Expert” panels at the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference scheduled for April 24-26 in Denver. The moderators are current business continuity and resiliency professionals with first-hand experience in dealing with many of today’s most compelling resilience issues. Training and awareness, exercise facilitation, organizational resiliency, business resiliency tools are at the forefront of business continuity and resiliency professionals’ most important infrastructure issues. The expert panelists share a passion for helping practitioners build more resilient organizations by providing valuable and insightful information on these issues.
Welcome to Denver – Mile High Resiliency
How can you achieve new heights of resiliency within your organization? The 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference scheduled for April 24-26 in Denver, Colorado, offers an inside track. More than 60 featured sessions and seven individual educational tracks highlight the 15th annual meeting. The conference educational tracks are devoted to Case Studies, Trending Topics, Program Development & Advancement, Measurement, Metrics, and Maturity, Emerging Technology, and Professional Development, as well as the highly-anticipated “Ask the Experts” panels. The full conference program, including speakers, sessions, plenaries, and panel discussions, is now available here.
British Prime Minister to Pledge Investment in R&D
British Prime Minister Theresa May offered business leaders a trade-off Monday, pledging more investment in science and technology while insisting that the benefits of private enterprise must be more evenly spread around the country. May warned those attending the Confederation of British Industry conference that business has been undermined by a limited few who have damaged the reputation of many. Whether fair or not, she said things had to change. “When a small minority of businesses and business figures appear to game the system and work to a different set of rules, we have to recognize that the social contract between business and society fails – and the reputation of business as a whole is undermined,” she said.
Italy’s Premier Vows Help for 15,000+ Displaced by Quakes
Italy’s premier pledged Monday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation’s strongest temblor in 36 years pushed those needing assistance to more than 15,000. Sunday morning’s quake with a magnitude 6.6 caused no deaths or serious injuries, largely because most fragile city centers had already been closed because of previous damage and many homes had been vacated.
Amazon S3 outage spotlights disaster recovery tradeoffs
Tuesday’s Amazon S3 outage reverberated around the Internet, but cost and complexity will likely keep many users from scrambling to change their redundancy practices. One of the largest service disruptions to hit AWS in years would have had far less impact if customers added more redundancy safeguards, but many cloud customers are only willing to go so far to keep their workloads running seamlessly. Companies can implement myriad contingencies to safeguard against massive cloud outages. AWS added Cross-Region Replication in 2015; IT shops also can rely on a range of disaster recovery as a service tools on the market. There also are techniques to spread workloads across regions and to back them up in other public clouds or on-premises. Netflix, which as recently as last year said it used U.S. East-1, champions several of these techniques and reported no issues Tuesday.
