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Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit

27 April 2009 - 29 April 2009

Chicago, Illinois

The Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit in Chicago will focus on the key trends, best practices, technologies and services needed to develop and implement a risk-based strategy and framework for ensuring an organization's recovery from various types of business and IT disasters and interruptions. The Summit will give you the information you need to immediately improve operational resiliency, and guidance on the strategic and tactical components needed to build recovery, continuity, and continuous availability within the enterprise.

As current market and overall financial uncertainty grips the world the potential impact on BCM looms large. Acquisitions and capital purchases are frozen in many companies, and business initiatives that once seemed all important, are now on permanent hold. The current cost-conscious environment in which we live will surely impact the ability to test and improve a company's (and partner's) BCM plan, and as such, compromise their ability to respond to a crisis. It's more important than ever to make the right technology and business decisions.

You can build your personal agenda and select the sessions that are of the most value to you - Track A: Program Management, Track B: Recovery and Availability Technology, Track C: Business Resiliency.

Who Should Attend

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

Benefits of Attending

Here's what you will learn at the Summit:

• How to develop an effective IT disaster recovery test strategy
• How to make sure you are making the right technology purchase decisions
• How to design business resiliency into the organization
• The latest in the area of business certification
• The latest information on server, storage and management software-related topics

Special Mock Disaster Keynote Workshop

You'll have an opportunity to participate in a 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!

What's New This Year

• Crisis Management
• Military recovery operations for the civil infrastructure
• State government disaster recovery
• Clouding computing and disaster recovery
• Building resiliency into your enterprise architecture efforts
• Teleworking and BCM
• Legal issues in BCM
• Reputation and BCM

For further details and to register for this event, see Gartner Summit Events.