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Conferences and Symposia Links
Business Continuity InstituteThe Business Continuity Institute (BCI) provides recognition and professional qualifications for business continuity practitioners. Represented in 14 countries, membership brings significant benefits to professionals world-wide, providing recognition, networking, education and knowledge.
Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP)CCEP's mandate is to assist communities, governments and private business to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from man-made or natural disasters. CCEP does not directly compete with existing training providers or business continuity /disaster recovery consultants. It also produces the World Conference on Disaster Management.
Emergency Information Infrastructure PartnershipEmergency Information Infrastructure Partnership ... A voluntary association of organizations and individuals, seeking to enhance their effectiveness in coping with disasters and emergency situations, by exploring the opportunity for sharing information and ideas made possible by electronic technology.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND TRAINING: Hazards and DisastersUPCOMING CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND TRAINING Dealing with Hazards and Disasters from the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder
World Conference on Disaster Management (Canada)The annual World Conference on Disaster Management is unique in that it brings professionals from the fields of Emergency Response, Emergency Management, Emergency Health Care, Business Continuity Planning, Risk Management, and Security together under one roof.
Business Continuity ExpoBusiness Continuity Expo and Compliance Expo, provide organisations with a dedicated event to source the products and services that will keep them resilient, compliant and operational. It delivers a winning formula of education, practical workshops and the UK's largest dedicated exhibition.
Business Continuity Planning and Emergency PreparednessBusiness Continuity Planning & Emergency Preparedness: Best Strategies for Emergency Planning to Optimize Response and Recovery Success Nov 13-15,2006 Hear case studies that illustrate how industries are preparing for pandemic and natural disasters. Speaker Faculty Microsoft KeySpan Energy ComcastCorporation T-Mobile, USA PNC Financial BellSouth Union Bank of California
CPM Conference and ExhibitionThe CPM Group produces two annual conferences dedicated to business continuity, security and emergency management. CPM 2005 WEST will take place May 24-26 in Las Vegas and CPM 2005 EAST will take place November 2-4 in Orlando, FL.
IAEM Annual Conference, Nov. 3-6, 2001, CaliforniaThe 49th IAEM Annual Conference & Exhibit "Emergency Management: Interfacing With Our Partners" November 3-6, 2001 Riverside, California
IIR's Service Level AgreementsThis event will equip you with the tactical knowledge, technical understanding and practical application to ensure that your Service Level Agreements perform the following key business functions: -Drive Down Costs -Maintain Continuous Improvements -Ensure Performance Excellence
ILM SummitThe Information Lifecycle Management Summit is intended for CIOs, computer managers, IT/IS managers, database administrators, storage analysts and integrators. The program will provide practical information on ILM-related issues such as multi-level file systems, content management, archiving, network and storage security, hierarchical storage systems and regulatory compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley).
International Disaster Recovery Association"IDRA is a group originally comprised of those having a special interest in the voice, data, image, and sensory telecommunications aspects of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Contingency Planning and Business Continuation. This is in its 11th year. "A second IDRA special interest group (SIG) has developed due to members interests and concentrates on security, terrorism, employee safety and workplace violence." IDRA Also offers annual conferences. next in Spring, 2002.
MISTI Business Recovery Managers SymposiumThe Business Recovery Managers Symposium October 30 - November 1, 2001 San Diego October 29, November 1, 2001 Optional Workshops This symposium offers round table discussions, three full tracks of concurrent sessions, multiple exercises, and a panel of internationally known experts in the field of contingency planning and disaster recovery.
NEDRIX: Northern New England Disaster Recovery Information Exchange GroupThe Northern New England Disaster Recovery Information Exchange Group (NEDRIX) offers regular meetings and an annual conference.
Social ResearchDisasters: Recipes and Remedies A Social Research conference at The New School in New York November 1-2, 2007 I. Definitions: What We Talk about When We Talk about Disasters II. Acquiring Vulnerabilities that Potentiate Disasters III. Keynote by Nicholas Scoppetta, NYC Fire Commissioner IV. What Really Happens: Preparations and Responses V. The Impact of Disasters on Human Development
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| #1 | Service Level Agreement and SLA Guide - Directory of service level agreement template, guidebook, training, and audit resources. | |
| #2 | Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose? - When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions. | |
| #3 | A Design Language for Emergency Operations Center Facilities - "Most EOC layouts can be described in terms of a few basic models, each of which has unique implications for the organizational dynamics it supports. These basic layouts are combined and hybridized to yield almost all real-world EOC floorplans." | |
| #4 | IBM's Web Service Level Agreements (WSLA) Project - The Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) project, developed by IBM, addresses service level management issues within a Web services environment. Issues addressed include SLA specification, creation and monitoring. The project provides: Explicit specifications of servlce level agreements that can be monitored by the service provider, customer and even by a third-party; Ease of SLA creation using template-based authoring tools; and, Distributed monitoring framework for deployment in a single site or across multiple sites by translating SLA data in configuration information for the individual service provider components and third party services to perform the measurement and supervision activities. The WSLA creation and monitoring framework complements various other projects addressing issues on proactive management of a service environment, e.g., provisioning resources, workload management, etc., according to the agreed upon service levels specified via WSLA. | |
| #5 | University of Miami Disaster Recovery Plan for Computer Servuces - | |
| #6 | MIT Business Continuity Plan - An external release of the MIT Business Continuity Plan. | |
