Gartner Compliance & Risk Management Summit, March 3-5
Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit, March 5-7

Sheraton, Chicago
Attend for one day, one Summit or the full week!

It's all about risk management and whether you and your enterprise are prepared.

No one wants to get blindsided by the unexpected...How prepared is your organization? Here are two summits where you'll find solutions, answers and best practices for managing whatever comes your way.

Gartner Compliance & Risk Management Summit
In today's business environment, there are a multitude of compliance requirements and risks coming at you from nearly every direction such as:

  • Sarbanes-Oxley and privacy regulations
  • Electronic discovery requirements
  • Strategic alliances and cross-border sourcing issues

Every company needs to have the tools, technologies, strategies and tactics to develop a risk management framework and governance system to achieve and maintain compliance, and to respond to the myriad of industry regulations, frameworks and standards.

Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit
How about regional, national, man-made disasters, or acts of God?

  • Does your business continuity management program square with reality?
  • Can it support the demands of 24/7 availability?
  • Is it robust enough to cover your technology, business processes and people assets?

Join us in Chicago, March 3 - 7 and walk away with the information you need to quickly and effectively respond to these external and internal interruptions and compliance issues.

The result? Learn how to minimize the impact these issues can have on your organization's competitive and financial position and overall reputation.

Why attend?

  • Get the tools, techniques and best practices to
    • Prepare for unexpected interruptions and disasters
    • Help achieve and maintain compliance
    • Facilitate response to industry regulations, frameworks and standards
  • Learn how and why to manage IT risk as a full-fledged business risk
  • Build the appropriate governance structures responsive to your enterprise's unique culture
  • Learn how to build and maintain a business continuity plan
  • Hear the latest trends and best practices in disaster recovery and business continuity management
  • Network with your peers across all disciplines

The Gartner Compliance & Risk Management Summit focuses on the tools, technologies, strategies and tactics needed to improve governance, assess risk and ensure compliance within your organization. Take a proactive stance with strategies and tactics that put you in the lead, presented across three tracks and more than 30 sessions.

The new 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 delivered across three tracks and more than 26 sessions, case studies and user panels.

*Register for both events from either event websites.


Who Should Attend?

IT professionals across all industries and decision-makers with responsibility for their company's:
  • Governance Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Privacy
  • Risk Management (Finance, Audit, Legal)
  • IT Audit Management
  • 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

Benefits of Attending

Minimize potential overall negative impact to your organization by:
  • Accurately predicting, isolating and responding to a variety of threats before they become crises.
  • Implementing a risk management strategy that best supports the needs of your business
Minimize any negative financial and productivity impact of an interruption of your 24/7 operations by:
  • Developing a program to recover mission-critical systems, data and internal processes
Overall
  • Minimize the impact on your organization's reputation and financial position
  • Maintain your organization's competitive position in the market place
  • Improve overall business resiliency
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