Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Chicago, IL | September 27, 2006
 Natural and man-made disasters like SARS, 9/11, the Tsunami, the London bombings, Katrina, and the threat of bird flu have elevated national and international awareness and disaster preparedness. Executives and operational managers need to be ready to respond to the next disaster as well as building greater resilience across the enterprise, while managing costs.
This event will discuss the increasing demands facing CIOs, business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency management professionals, exchanging insights on key issues such as:
- Business resumption following a major incident
- Practical steps in preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
- Building resiliency and managing the expectation of continuity versus recovery
- Extending business continuity beyond the infrastructure and across the enterprise
- Trends in convergence of business continuity, security and emergency management.
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Event Logistics |
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Welcome & Introductions |
$125 Members
$150 Nonmembers
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
1:00–5:15 PM
410 Club
410 N Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL
(located in the Wrigley Bldg) |
| 1:30–2:00 |
Best Practices for Disaster Recovery
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Ed Harnish, Vice President of Marketing, Acronis, Inc.
Ed directs worldwide growth for consumer and corporate markets and oversees corporate marketing, which includes multimedia marketing activities, web site management and product marketing. Prior to Acronis, he led marketing efforts at Imceda, the makers of LightSpeed which was sold in May 2005 to Quest software. He has spent the past 20 plus years leading the marketing growth of IT centric software companies like Banyan, Switchboard, RAScom, and Aptus Technologies. |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Bridging the Disaster Recovery Expectations Gap
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Jim Damoulakis, CTO, GlassHouse Technologies (sponsored by CA)
Jim brings 20 years of experience in systems, storage, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery (DR), with a strong focus on architecting and implementing highly available enterprise storage solutions. Jim has spoken on storage, data protection and security issues in a number of venues and is a frequent contributor to key IT and storage publications. |
| 2:30–3:00 |
Disaster Recovery From a Database Point of View
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Marshall Presser, Chief Architect, Oracle
Marshall specializes in IT Infrastructure High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Oracle's Enterprise Technology Center. His projects include designing and implementing highly available databases and midtiers for Oracle customers in both the public and private sector. Prior to joining Oracle, Marshall worked in HA efforts for both hardware vendors as well consulting for a number of firms on issues of Disaster Recovery and Replication.
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| 3:00–3:30 |
Business Continuity & Corporate Governance
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Phillip Hewes, Partner,
Fitzgerald & Hewes
Phil Hewes is an experienced business lawyer/executive and former chief legal counsel of global organizations within the telecommunication-manufacturing sector, and the technology services/leasing industry and is currently a partner of Fitzgerald & Hewes LLP. His law firm advises venture-financing, multi-media, leasing/financial services, technology-consulting, telecommunications, and other emerging and established technology organizations. |
| 3:30–3:45 |
Break |
| 3:45–4:15 |
Top 8 Trends in Business Continuity
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John Jackson, Executive Vice President, Fusion Risk Managment John Jackson has over 30 years of IT Risk Management experience and is widely regarded as one of early and current visionaries and leaders in the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity industry. Prior to Fusion, John was general manager of IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services. John also spent 18 years with Comdisco, launching their continuity consulting business in 1984 and running their entire services division, including Comdisco Continuity Services up until 2001. John also held management positions with HP and SunGard. |
| 4:15–5:15 |
Keynote Panel
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Moderator: John Jackson, Executive Vice President, Fusion Risk Managment |
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Andrew London, CTO Team, GE Healthcare
Andrew has a 20 year IT career, including CTO with GE. In Andrew's four year tenure with GE, he earned awards for TIP Integration excellence, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance excellence, Achieving Customer Excellence award and GE worldwide's most coveted technology award of "IT Excellence". Andrew has worked in all technological aspects and architectural disciplines for many companies in both consulting and corporate. |
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Robert Allmer,
First VP &
North America Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning Manager,
ABN AMRO Inc.
Robert Allmer has been with ABN AMRO for 6 years and most recently was the
Americas Business Continuity Coordinator for the Wholesale Clients business
unit where he provided BCP and Crisis Management services ,as well as
technology interface with IT and EDS for North and South America. Previously, Robert worked for ING Barings where he was a Business Analyst
and Program Office Assistant Manager involved in Business Continuity and
technology projects, including Y2K. |
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Susan Nuccio, Vice President / Director, Business Continuity
Jones Lang LaSalle Global Information Technology
Susan Nuccio manages global and regional technology programs, including the firm’s technology disaster recovery and business continuity programs. She is responsible for creating and documenting crisis management, incident response, and business continuity plans. She also oversees testing and steady state management of the Global Business Continuity Program across all regional business lines and corporate office locations. |
| 5:15–5:45 |
Networking Reception
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