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Canadian Business Continuity Awareness Week

22 June 2009 - 26 June 2009

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has announced plans for the Canadian Business Continuity Awareness Week, June 22- 26, 2009. With an eye toward raising overall awareness of business continuity, disaster recovery and resiliency throughout Canada, the BCI has partnered with other globally‐recognized business continuity management leaders such as the British Standards Institution (BSI) and Gartner Inc. to produce and host a series of free webinars and virtual meetings which will include surveys, white papers, case studies and business impact analysis processes.

All activities and collateral resources and tools will be easily accessible via a standard internet connection. “The goal of Global Business Continuity Awareness Week is to raise understanding of business continuity management with opinion leaders in government and industry,” said Lyndon Bird, International Technical Director for the BCI. “In these uncertain times, we need to raise the profile of the discipline and to encourage corporate excellence in business continuity.”

Expanding his view further, Bird added, “As a global business community, we are faced with an unprecedented level of uncertainty and risk ‐ Business Continuity Awareness Week will play a vital role in reinforcing this message by getting people to think about the aftermath of the recent economic, cyber and natural disasters. We must provide the information in a way that will resonate with the business continuity management professional at the human level.”

Understanding the gravity of this initiative, Dave Arnott, President of the Canadian Chapter, said, “The expert presentations and white papers will go a long way in bringing to the forefront the escalating significance of business continuity management as a critical management tool for corporations and government groups of all sizes and sectors.”

Business continuity professionals around the world are invited to participate in the week by visiting the global Business Continuity Awareness Week website where they can view suggested activities and useful statistics as well as download the pocket‐sized “Good Practice Guidelines” for distribution to colleagues and clients.

For further information about this event, please contact Alex Arvanitidis at        +1.703.623.6984      or send an email to: Alex.Arvanitidis@theBCI.org.