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The Manager’s Guide to Business Continuity Exercises: Testing Your Plan

Your challenge is to maintain a good and effective plan in the face of changing circumstances and limited budgets. If your situation is like that in most companies, you really cannot depend on the results of last year’s test or exercise of the plan. People tend to forget, lose confidence, ... Read more

What to Do When… The Lights Go Out

As a business owner or disaster recovery planner, you probably have provisions in your disaster recovery plan for natural disasters or the loss of your data infrastructure because you expect those types of interruptions to cost you a lot of money. But what about when the power goes out? According ... Read more

Monday, April 23, 2018, Conference Agenda

7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Registration Open Symphony Ballroom Registration Desk 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.  BREAKFAST Symphony Ballroom Pre-Function Area 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.  Plenary Session Symphony Ballroom IV 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.  Break Symphony Ballroom Pre-Function Area 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  Breakout Sessions Breakout #1 (title/speaker/description) Breakout #2 (title/speaker/description) ... Read more

Case Studies Track to Present Proven Ideas, Challenges, Lessons Learned

Nine sessions and workshops have been scheduled for the featured Case Studies track at the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference. The exchange of practical ideas that can help solve critical problems or improve the efficiency or effectiveness of an overall BCM program will be on full display as practitioners share ... Read more

Sponsor Spotlight: BC in the Cloud

The BC in the Cloud team provides industry knowledge and expertise to help architect, implement, and execute an efficient business continuity program for its clients. Its focus is aligning the BC in the Cloud platform with the clients’ existing terminology, framework, and methodology in order to minimize the implementation and ... Read more

Sponsor Spotlight: Southwest Airlines®

Southwest Airlines is the Official Airline and Sponsor for the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference. Southwest is a proud supporter of the 15th annual event and has supplied 10 $500 gift cards to be awarded to lucky conference attendees. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is in its 46th year of service and ... Read more

Business Resiliency Health Index Implementation

Jeremy Adkins and Neeta Adkar, Lockheed Martin Evaluating business resiliency posture, highlighting areas of progress or regression, and objectively comparing results across business areas are some of the keys to identifying opportunities to improve preparedness. Lockheed Martin has developed and implemented a model that provides the ability for each of ... Read more

Howard Mannella: Key Messages for Executives on BC/DR and Operational Resiliency

Howard Mannella of Alternative Resiliency Services Corp discusses the five key messages business continuity practitioners should communicate to executive management, including how business continuity and insurance are different.

Innovations in Business Continuity Planning

Mark Armour, Brinks, Inc. Business Continuity should be considered more than just a series of sequential steps. There are ways of better preparing organizations for disruption that don’t follow the traditional, linear path. From exercising first to building ground support, your colleagues are blazing trails you may not even be ... 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 ... Read more

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