Why Attend

Benefits of Attending

Here's what you will learn at the Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit:

  • Be Prepared!
  • How to raise C-level management's awareness of, and investment in, Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) initiatives
  • How to build an effective BCM program
  • How BCM can become a cornerstone of an IT risk management program
  • Trends and best practices which can maintain your company's resiliency during and after a disaster
  • Why 100% availability is an imperative, and how IT organizations justify the investments to achieve it
  • The architectures and best practices to achieve 24/7 availability and disaster protection
  • Strategies, programs, technologies and best practices that should be implemented to ensure your IT infrastructure and applications are recoverable
  • Products and services that support BCM and DRM initiatives
  • Criteria used to evaluate third-party BCM and DRM service providers
The end result:
A more robust organization, capable of sustaining operations continuity following any type of disruptive event or disaster.
 

Who Should Attend
 

IT professionals and decision-makers with responsibility for their company's:
  • Business Continuity & Resiliency
  • Continuity of Operations
  • Crisis/Emergency Management
  • Disaster Recovery
  • IT Infrastructure, Network and Operations
  • Application Development
  • Systems Analysis, Architecture, Administration & Integration
  • Electronic Messaging/Communications
  • Strategic Planning

Industries:
All industry sectors, including: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail/Distribution, Healthcare, Service Industry, Energy, Government, secondary Education and colleges/universities.

Product/Business Functions:

  • Customer service
  • Sales
  • Human Resources
  • Legal
  • Operations
  • IT
  • Information Security
  • Risk Management
  • CFO

 

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