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Sunday Workshop Sessions Sunday - March 6, 2005- 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Sunday Workshop Session 1
Novice/Intermediate

BCP–101
Ed Devlin, CBCP
ES Devlin & Assc.

Norm Harris, CBCP,CRP
Harris Recovery Solutions

Session Limited to 100 participants

This must-attend workshop has been developed to provide practitioners with the basics of business continuity planning. It is taught by two industry pioneers and is designed to set the stage for attendees to better understand the lessons they will learn during the DRJ conference.
This session will explain the changes in the scope of the planning required by the many incidents that have occurred during the last 30 years. It will review what is expected of the disaster recovery/business continuity planner in today’s fast pace, ever changing, business world we all live in.
You will be exposed to questionnaires and plan development documentation requirements that every DR/BCP needs in order to do their job. The information you will receive during this session will save you time and help guide you through your own plan development cycle.

Ed Devlin is a consultant, author, instructor and speaker in the field of business continuity. Devlin is a Certified Business Continuity Planner, a member of the Disaster Recovery Journal Executive Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Association of Contingency Planners. From 1973, when he co-founded Devlin Associates, to the present time, Devlin has assisted over 400 companies throughout the world in the development or enhancement of their business continuity and business resumption programs.

Norm Harris, Certified Recovery Planner, chairman, president and CEO of Harris Recovery Solutions is recognized as a leader in information technology management and disaster recovery. Harris co-founded CRISIS Magazine, one of the first disaster recovery publications and HSH, Inc., which became the largest disaster recovery consulting company in the US. For the last 25 years, Harris has consulted with thousands of business clients in every major industry

Sunday Workshop Session 2
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Channel 7 is in the Lobby!
Industrial Strength Crisis Communications Workshop
Steve Goldman
Judy Hirsch
SBG & Assoc.

Many disasters have shown that even with a great technical response, if you have a poor communications response, your overall actions will be judged as poor. Thus, an integral part of any disaster response is the communications plan.
During this hands-on workshop, you will understand what to expect during your crisis and have the essentials to write or upgrade your own crisis communications plan. Students will master the aspects of effective crisis communications planning and response, including:

§ Why poor crisis communications will hurt your otherwise excellent plans
§ Why the media act that way
§ What the media will do to you
§ Essential elements of your crisis communications plan
§ Organizing your communications response team
§ Who should and should not be your spokesperson
§ Notification strategies – who’s on first?
§ How a terrorism incident may change everything
§ Channel 7 is here – now what?
§ How to conduct a press conference
§ Taming the PR and media beasts

Students will also participate in an interactive disaster walk-through and press conference.

Steve Goldman is a leading crisis communications, business continuity, and crisis management consultant.

Judy Hirsch is a former reporter/journalist with more than 12 years experience in commercial broadcast and print media.

Sunday Workshop Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

BIA Workshop
Business Impact Analysis Beginning to End
Barney Pelant, MBCP
Barney Pelant and Assoc.

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) project is the logical first step in the development of a business continuity program.
The project provides the business rationale for disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
A BIA can help an organization to learn their current capability to recover from a disastrous event. Also, the BIA can help validate that the plan in place is really meeting the organization’s business needs.
During this workshop we will examine the successful methods for achieving timely desired results.

We will cover asking the right questions to learn:

• What is most important? Why?
This workshop will be interactive, so bring your questions and come share your experiences!
• This speaker will also present a detailed workshop on Tuesday.

Barney Pelant, MBCP, is owner and managing director of Barney F. Pelant & Associates, a consulting practice dedicated to business continuity planning since 1991.
He holds the certification of Master Business Continuity Professional from DRI International. Pelant’s technical experience ranges from the design and development of domestic and international business centers, to the development of contingency plans to ensure their ongoing viability.
In 1991, he launched his own practice dedicated to business continuity planning and development.

Sunday Workshop Session 4
Novice/Intermediate

Exercising and Maintaining the DRP
Harlan Dolgin, CBCP
Reuters

This workshop consists of an interactive presentation followed by a tabletop simulation, with participation expected by all attendees. The presentation will review the methodology of exercising your disaster recovery plans and identify key components of what the disaster recovery plan should contain.
There will also be a discussion of some general principles on how to keep the plans maintained and up-to-date in between exercises, and a discussion of some general terms that are important to DR.
Following the presentation materials, there will be an active simulation for all participants. Participants will be divided into groups of 10 or less, and they will be given a scenario that will damage a fictitious building operated by the group.
They will then analyze the facts presented and develop a plan to react to the situation. As the scenario unfolds with new facts every few minutes, participants will be able to apply some of the techniques that were identified in the prior discussion.

Harlan Dolgin is BCP/DR manager for the operations and technology department at Reuters. He began working in the business continuity field in 1997 at Mercantile Bank (now a part of U.S. Bancorp) as a network administrator with disaster recovery responsibilities for the NT and Novell environments.
After working in NT/Novell administration for several years, he was promoted to vice-president and manager of corporate contingency planning, which he held for another year and a half.
Dolgin joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri (now a part of WellPoint Health Networks) in March 2001, with responsibility for revitalizing their business continuity and disaster recovery program. Dolgin became a Certified Business Continuity Planner in March 2001. Prior to his technology career, Dolgin practiced civil and trial law for eight years with the Dolgin, Dolgin and Watts law firm in St. Louis, Mo. He has maintained his law license with the State of Missouri.

Sunday Workshop Session 5
Novice/Intermediate

Matching Cost-Effective DR Strategies to Continuity Requirements
David Edborg
Corigelan LLC

In today’s rapidly expanding computing environments it has become increasingly difficult to both cost effectively provide continuity solutions for business processes and to quickly react to new requirements. This workshop will include a worksheet based methodology to help continuity practitioners rapidly assess an application’s needs and quickly develop a strategy for providing cost-effective continuity coverage.
In this workshop, learn how to dissect an application’s recovery requirements into fundamental building blocks of data protection schemes, equipment provisioning, and hosting options. Once dissected, you will apply appropriate techniques to solve for each of the building blocks. And then once assembled, a checklist set of tests can be applied to your developed model to check for adequate coverage.
In this workshop you will be provided with the methodology, worksheets, and checklists that you can take home and apply to your continuity practice.

David Edborg is the director of high availability solutions for Corigelan LLC. Prior to his work at Corigelan, Edborg was the solution design manager for Comdisco’s Advanced Recovery & Storage Solutions Division.
Edborg has implemented high availability and internal recovery solutions for many of Fortune’s top 500 Companies, including companies in the following verticals: manufacturing, financial services, retail, application/internet hosting, insurance and banking.
Before joining Comdisco, Edborg held various positions at Computer Associates where he gained significant commercial software development experience in the areas of NCSC approved computer security software and enterprise management software.

Sunday Workshop Session 6
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Mock Disaster Simulation – Facing Today’s Challenges

Sponsored by
Session Limited to 200 participants

As the potential threats to organizations and the cost of major disruptions spiral upward, many business continuity professionals are faced with the responsibility of validating business continuity and emergency response plans and developing effective response teams. They must often accomplish this with limited budgets and lack of experience in using one of the most effective validation and training tools – the exercise.
Take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to protect your company and its assets by participating in this exacting simulation. Participants will leave this session with the necessary tools and knowledge to conduct cost effective and meaningful exercises within their own organizations. This event is limited to the first 200 registrants. Register early!
This disaster exercise will be an interactive hands-on experience designed to instruct while challenging critical thinking skills and encourage decision making under pressure. This event will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to apply the full range of their experience and expertise as they participate in a realistic multi-hour simulation and debriefing.

Workshop and Exercise Leadership Team:

Larry Kalmis, FBCI, Virtual Corporation project executive, Margaret Langsett, executive vice president, Virtual Corporation, Phyllis Rendino, account manager, Virtual Corporation and other members of the Virtual Corporation team.