The Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit puts you on the path of developing and implementing a comprehensive BCM plan with industry-specific best practices, strategies, tactics and actionable recommendations.

Agenda Tracks

Track A: Program Management

A critical success factor for sustainable recovery is program management that is focused on the people, process and technology improvements that are needed to continuously reduce the business impact of disruptive events. The program management track objectives are to increase awareness of the critical role that program management plays in the recovery lifecycle, present proven techniques for both sustaining and evolving a recovery management program in tough economic times, and discuss the ways in which the Summit attendees and Gartner can and have worked together in both successfully implementing and evolving recovery management programs.

Topics include: establishing, baselining and improving recovery programs, using the risk-based BIA as a key program sustainability enabler, innovative usage of private and public partnerships for improving program effectiveness while reducing program cost, and leading edge methodologies for improving recovery test management scope and scale.


Track B: Recovery and Availability Technology

This track presents the key technologies identified by Gartner Research as having the greatest impact on recovery service effectiveness and cost. These include next generation data centers, server virtualization, storage replication high-availability infrastructure design, dependency mapping and cloud computing. You'll hear first-hand from Gartner's front line experts the changes that are occurring in each of these areas, the recovery-specific impact of these changes and their short and long term relevance to recovery and continuity management cost, as well as their impact on the longer term implementation of business operations resiliency.

Topics include: The new generation of disaster recovery services and providers, the impact of cloud computing on corporate data center evolution, what's new in Storage Replication & Recovery technologies, improving recovery testing effectiveness through the use of Application Dependency Management and the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and the impact of server virtualization on the reduction of recovery data center and test costs.


Track C: Business Resiliency

Business resiliency for the 21st century enterprise requires an integrated business operations management program where all parts of the business - strategic and operational, business and IT - are aligned based on sound recovery and continuity decisions made through a formal risk management process. Business resiliency does not emerge from one department and not another. It requires a tightly woven fabric of leadership, information exploitation, workplace design and infrastructure flexibility. Whereas disaster recovery kicks in after catastrophe, business resiliency is a continuous commitment to designing information access, knowledge systems, communication mechanisms, workplaces and infrastructure in a way that enables individuals, teams, projects, business plans and value chains to resume peak performance quickly after shock or upset. Business resiliency will be the hallmark of successful businesses, transforming their culture, their governance and their departmental, organizational and business interactions.

Topics include: what are the characteristics of a resilient organization, crisis management and communications, supply chain recovery, public/private sector partnership, teleworking as a continuity strategy, legal issues related to recovery, vital records, and continuous availability architecture.

Special Mock Disaster Keynote Workshop

You'll have an opportunity to participate in an exciting two-hour exercise that will take you through a simulated disaster - the next best thing to being there. All conference participants will take part in this crisis management workshop, and each participant will play a role in helping a fictitious company respond to the disaster. This is a highly interactive learning and practice session, and you will be part of a team that is challenged to make quick, viable decisions as senior managers. Oh - You'll have fun too!

Continuing Professional Education

As an attendee to this event, any sessions you participate in that advance your knowledge within that discipline may earn you Continuing Professional Education credits from the following organizations:

DRII Certification
This conference qualifies for DRI International Schedule II Continuing Education Activity Points (CEAPs). As such, you may be eligible to receive up to 26 Group A Points (as outlined in Section 6.3 and 8.1). For more information, please contact: www.drii.org or submit a question to the recertification box found on the DRI home page.

ISC²/CISSP
Gartner is an Official (ISC)²® CPE Submitter and can submit 24 group "A" credits toward CISSP® recertification requirement, based on the content in the Gartner Risk Management & Compliance Summit. You will be required to provide your name, certification number or (ISC)²® number and your email address when onsite at the Summit.

ISACA CPE hours (CISA, CISM, and CGEIT) may be available as follows as outlined in their Continuing Education Policy: (www.isaca.org/cisacpepolicy, www.isaca.org/cismcpepolicy, www.isaca.org/cgeitcpepolicy)

• CISM - if such courses advance the CISM's information security or managerial knowledge or skills.
• CISA - if such courses advance the CISA's IS audit, control and security or audit-related managerial knowledge or skills.
• CGEIT - if such courses advance the CGEIT's IT governance knowledge or skills.

For more information and to submit your course work, please contact: certification@isaca.org.

Hot Topics

• Supply chain recovery
• Risk management
• Virtualization
• Emergency notification
• Crisis management
• Workforce continuity
• Recovery regulations and standards
• Recovery assurance
• Recovery plan management
• Recovery sourcing
• Vital records
• Delivering continuous availability
• Telecommuting as continuity strategy

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