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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.
Duplicating Institutional Knowledge When It “Walks Out the Door”
Every day when a good employee leaves their job, they’re “walking out the door” with a very valuable asset. They leave with the valuable information they learned about their jobs, or what you trained them on. Whether it be only for a year or so, or if it was for more than 20 years, they leave with their institutional knowledge or memory. This is what happens to an organization loses its best, brightest, most experienced and knowledgeable employees. Dr. Andrew Pena, SPHR, MBA, Assistant Vice-President for Human Resources, New Mexico State University, will share his experience and insights on this increasingly crucial topic – Institutional Knowledge! When Good Employees Leave, What Do We Really Lose and How Do We Retain It? during the opening keynote to the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference.
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.
When Doing the Right Thing is the Right Thing to Do
Models of Good Contingency Management Leadership Plenary Session P1: Robert C. Chandler, Ph.D. – Professor of Communication, Lipscomb University Leadership is the most influential and critical element of successfully managing a contingency or crisis. Despite this seemingly obvious fact – many executives and managers remain ill prepared to function as good leaders during these urgent situations. This session calls our attention to those who choose to do the right things even at the most difficult times. The presentation briefly reviews the marks and traits of positive leadership which apply at the executive level down through localized managers. Several mini-case studies are reviewed that illustrate positive leadership by a focus on doing the right thing despite the challenges of the situation or crisis to be managed.
Subject Matter Experts and Thought Leaders – Meet Your Keynote Speakers
The 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference will have three featured keynotes sharing their experience and expertise on a range of topics that impact the resiliency and integrity of organizations large and small. These speakers will generate new ideas and discussion topics and challenge you to think about the resiliency of your business in a new light.
Biden to Host National Cancer Research Summit in Washington
Vice President Joe Biden will bring together scientists, oncologists, donors and patients for a national conference on cancer research in Washington, the White House said Tuesday. Dubbed the “National Cancer Moonshot Summit,” the daylong conference is intended to galvanize Biden’s final-year push to double the pace of research toward curing cancer. The summit is scheduled for June 29 at Howard University, and the White House said it planned to organize dozens of regional summits on the same day in communities far from the capital. Though there have been cancer conferences before, the White House said Biden’s summit will be the first to focus broadly on the more than 100 types of cancer, rather than on one specific form of the disease.
