Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Best Practices
Chicago, IL | June 27, 2007
 Are you and your staff up to speed on best practices for Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity? Join us as senior IT executives from some of the area's top companies discuss the practical realities of preparing for the worst while maintaining continuity in the business. Following is what you will learn at this seminar:
- Join an interactive panel of top area IT executives from ABN AMRO/LaSalle Bank, GE Healthcare and IIT as they discuss their approaches to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
- Learn successful approaches to planning, discussing and selling DR & Business Continuity plans to your Business Leaders
- Learn the latest in online back up trends
- Understand the best techniques to protect your data during a disaster
- Learn about the linking between disaster recovery to business and compliance requirements
- Business continuity and corporate governance synergies
- The convergence of business continuity, security and emergency management trend
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Agenda |
Event Logistics |
| 1:00 |
Welcome & Introductions |
 $125 Members
$150 Nonmembers
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
1:00–5:45 PM
Union League Club
Main Lounge
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Attire Required |
| 1:30–1:55 |
Talking Continuity Strategy with Your Business Leaders
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Biff L. Myre, Information Availability Architect, SunGard Availability Services
Biff Myre has been educating the Information Availability marketplace (Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Business Continuity) for over a decade. He has numerous articles and speaking engagements around the world to his credit on the topics of Disaster Recovery, IT Consolidation, Risk Assessment and Business Continuity. His perspectives and recommendations on availability have been published in at least twelve countries spanning seven different languages.
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| 1:55–2:20 |
Building the Next Generation of Storage Technology
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Julie Bellanca, Director - Product Marketing, Cleversafe
Julie has extensive experience in developing successful new technology products and services for start ups and fortune 100 companies. She previously was a principal/national director at Lante Corporation, a publicly held
software and technology consultancy. Julie also co-founded ingenious inc., an award-winning Internet design and development firm with multiple Fortune 100 clients, which was acquired by Lante Corporation.
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| 2:20-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–3:10 |
Ensuring Business Continuity & Streamlining Backup and Recovery of Critical Data Systems
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Tom Rydz, Executive Vice President, Princeton Softech
Tom has been in this industry for 20+ years, holds a BS in Computer Science and has, prior to his sales career, managed a development team that designed and implemented online as well as batch processing systems. |
| 3:10–3:35 |
Reliable & Sustainable Communications Technologies for Disaster Response & Continuity of Operations
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Dave Beering, Managing Director - Advanced Networks, MorganFranklin
David Beering oversees MorganFranklin's Technical capabilities within the Chicago area. His responsibilities involve the design, integration and deployment of large-scale, high-performance satellite networks for clients including NASA, the U.S. Navy, the Missile Defense Agency and the City of Chicago. Beering has worked extensively with the US Department of Homeland Security and National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) to develop continuity of operations plans.
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| 3:35-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–4:50 |
Keynote Panel
Topic: Best Practices for Disaster Recovery
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Moderator:
Jack Pressman, CTO, Cyber Development Group
Mr. Pressman has been designing and building mission critical IT facilities and networks for over 17 years. He currently is designing and developing over 1 million sf of Tier 3 / Tier 3+ data center and collocation facilities in conjunction with deploying 10 / 40 GbE optical networks throughout the world. Mr. Pressman was Technology Architect for the new Chicago Police Headquarters, Chicago Police Wide Area Network, Ford Supplier Campus (Chicago), Burlington Northern Sante Fe Intermodel (Joliet) and DuPage National Technology Park (West Chicago). |
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Andrew London, CTO Team, GE Healthcare
Andrew has a 20 year IT career, including CTO with GE. In Andrew's four year tenure with GE, he earned awards for TIP Integration excellence, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance excellence, Achieving Customer Excellence award and GE worldwide's most coveted technology award of "IT Excellence". Andrew has worked in all technological aspects and architectural disciplines for many companies in both consulting and corporate. |
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Ray Trygstad, Director of Information Technology - Center for Professional Development, Illinois
Institute of Technology
Ray is
responsible for technology planning and computer system management and
administration. He instructs disaster recovery, business continuity
and
information security management in the Information Technology and
Management
program and serves as curriculum coordinator for IIT's Information
Technology & Management (ITM) degrees. He has taught Computer Science
and
Business at IIT, and also taught at the University of Chicago. |
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Vince DeCicco, First Vice
President, Business Continuity Management, ABN AMRO/ LaSalle Bank
Vince DeCicco holds the position of First Vice President, Business Continuity Management, responsible for ABN Amro’s North America Technology Recovery Planning.
He has been with ABN Amro for 7 years and most recently was manager of Open Systems Midrange Infrastructure providing application hosting, storage management, and database management services for the bank’s client server and web based applications. |
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Rob Klusman, Director Midwest Practice-U.S. Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems
Rob manages a regional team focused on pre-sales technical evangelism, technical architecture, and mapping Sun's technologies into customer business solutions. Previously, he managed System Engineering in four Midwest states and was responsible for the technical delivery and support of pre-sales discipline solutions. |
| 5:00-5:10 |
Closing Remarks |
| 5:10–5:45 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception
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