Spring World 2011

PRE-CONFERENCE COURSE 1

From Response to Recovery: Everything You Need to Know to Design a Successful Exercise

Sat., March 26, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sun., March 27, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

$1295 per person

Presenter: Regina Phelps

Learn from the exercise master, Regina Phelps, who conducts more than 100 exercises a year. If you have a documented emergency plan but have not tested it, you might discover that your document is less than sufficient. There are really only two ways to find that out. One is to have an actual disaster; the other is to do an exercise. The latter is usually a better learning experience and is certainly a lot less stressful. This workshop details everything you need to do to design a successful exercise from the ground up. You will walk out of this workshop with a draft of your next exercise planned and a copy of Phelp's new book.

The workshop will cover:

• Six types of exercises.
• Exercise design team.
• The exercise plan.
• Creating exercise injects.
• Developing A-V tools.
• Selecting and training a simulation team.
• Rules of exercise facilitation.
• Writing the after-action report.

You will:

• Participate in an advanced tabletop exercise.
• Develop the outline for your own tabletop exercise.
• Receive feedback on your exercise design.

Receive a copy of Regina's new book, From Response to Recovery – Everything You Need to Know to Create A Great Exercise.

Regina Phelps is an internationally recognized thought leader in the field of emergency management, pandemic, and contingency planning. Since 1982, she has provided consultation, training, and speaking services to clients in four continents. She is founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions, a consulting and training firm. Phelps' niche includes incident management team development, pandemic planning, emergency operations center (EOC) design, and the development of emergency exercises for large global companies.

PRE-CONFERENCE COURSE 2

IT/DRP/Certified Business: Resilience IT Professional

Sat., March 26, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sun., March 27, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

$1650 per person

Presenter: Rick Wellman

Today's businesses rely heavily on a robust and resilient information technology (IT) and telecommunication infrastructure to deliver essential business services in order to meet company mission, objectives, and key targets.  This dependence on information technology stems from several requirements and demands.

This CBRITP course teaches students how to develop, test, and maintain an IT disaster recovery plan for recovering IT and telecommunications systems and infrastructure in the event of a disaster or business disruption.

The workshop provides a comprehensive step-by-step IT disaster recovery plan development methodology, and presents key IT availability planning concepts and principles including continuous and high availability

Students will learn various recovery techniques, strategies, and practical methods that will help them to build a robust and resilient technology support infrastructure and critical process recovery capability to ensure a fast and efficient recovery of business operations and mission-critical IT systems, applications, and data.

Students will receive a workbook and take-home disaster recovery plan templates.

Students may also take the optional multiple-choice CBRITP (Certified Business Resilience IT Professional) certification exam.

For more information on this course and outline, please visit www.sentryx.com or call 1-800-869-8460.

Rick Wellman, a senior business continuity and resilience trainer and consultant for Sentryx, is a highly skilled subject matter expert with more than 25 years of training and consulting experience.

PRE CONFERENCE COURSE 3:

A Guide to Business Continuity Management: How to Develop, Test and Maintain Effective BC Plans

Sat., March 26, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sun., March 27, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

$1295 per person

Presenter: Randall Till, MBCP

Join this session to learn how to develop and implement strong business continuity practices. You will learn the key components associated with a BC Program:

• Governance
• Response
• Requirements
• Recovery/Resiliency
• Management

The class will provide proven planning techniques and strategies to help guide BC practices within your organization. Participants will have time to actively explore the key concepts, strategies and tools that go into building good BC plans. The class will:

• Review examples of proven techniques, processes and tools
• Review lessons learned and potential roadblocks to success
• Discuss specific issues, concerns and challenges
• Provide examples of BC practices, templates and plans

Participate in an interactive learning environment and take away a comprehensive review of leading business continuity practices and concepts guiding the industry today. Both experienced planners and newcomers to the field will benefit from sharing experiences while gaining valuable insights and knowledge during this session.

Randall Till, MBCP, has more that 20 years' experience as a BC planner and has learned to navigate the hardships and roadblocks associated with implementing BC strategies and practices within organizations. He will share lessons learned and present effective techniques to integrate business continuity practices into your day-to-day business operations.

PRE CONFERENCE COURSE 4

Essentials Of DR/BC Planning Made Simple

Sat., March 26, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sun., March 27, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

$1095 per person

Presenter: Norm Harris

For anyone who is involved with any of the components of a disaster recovery/business continuity program this class is a must. This highly effective class covers all the essential components of a DR/BC program in a concise and understandable way.

It includes the seven major questions any DR/BC program must answer, What needs to be done, Why it needs to be done, When it needs to be done, Who is to do it, Where is it to be done, How is it to be done, and the resources needed to do it.

You receive all forms, questionnaires, tutorials, samples, Power Point presentations, software and more, all on a USB flash drive.

Following is a partial list of subjects that will be covered:

• Making the organization mission statement work for you,
• How to conduct a factual risk assessment
• Step by step development of a BIA
• Effective data collection and interviewing techniques
• Reports and presentations designed to receive maximum senior management support and budget approval
• Selecting recovery and resumption strategies
• Designing a backup and recovery plan that meets your organizations requirements
• Developing the essential content of a plan (FREE SOFTWARE provided); and Proven plan Testing, maintenance, enhancement and training techniques, (free DR/BC coordinator handbook)

The class is taught by Norm Harris, president, Harris Recovery Solutions, Inc. Harris has more than 35 years of experience and has presented over 500 classes on the subject of DR/BCP.

PRE CONFERENCE COURSE 5

Learning Tree - Recovery Planning for SMB to Global Giant

Sat., March 26, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Sun., March 27, 8:30 am - 11:30 am

$995.00 per person

Presenter: Arnold Villeneuve

For the first time, Learning Tree is coming to Disaster Recovery Journal's Spring World! Virtually every major company and government agency has relied on Learning Tree to provide its managers and employees with the skills they need to increase their job effectiveness. Now it's time for Learning Tree to bring their education excellence in recovery planning to DRJ and the conference attendees! This class will be a hands-on education session based on Learning Tree's highly regarded existing recovery planning course. Be part of the exclusive group who gets to say they were at the first Learning Tree class offered at DRJ.

Course Benefits

A major disaster could cripple your organization, suspending mission-critical processes and disrupting service to your customers. In this course, you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats to your mission-critical processes. You learn techniques for creating a business continuity plan (BCP) and the methodology for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.

You Will Learn How To:

• Create, document and test continuity arrangements for your organization
• Perform a risk assessment and Business Impact Assessment (BIA) to identify vulnerabilities
• Select and deploy an alternate site for continuity of mission-critical activities
• Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and processes
• Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment

Course Participation Bonus!

Three months of free unrestricted access to Phoenix for SharePoint SaaS online service for documenting your disaster recovery, business continuity, and pandemic plan.

For further course information or questions: www.disasterrecovery.com/seminars