Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Trends
Chicago, IL | October 23, 2008
 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. Join us and gain insights to:
- Top IT executives' approaches to disaster recovery and business continuity planning: Keynote Panel
- Successful strategies for planning, discussing and selling Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans to your firm's leaders
- The latest in online back up trends
- The best techniques for protect your data during a disaster
- How the link between disaster recovery and busines compliance requirements can work for you
- Business continuity and corporate governance synergies
- The convergence of business continuity, security and emergency management trends
All attendees received a Certificate of Completion for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.
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Agenda |
Event Logistics |
| 1:00 |
Welcome & Introductions |
$150 Members
$175 Nonmembers
October 23, 2008
1:00–5:15 PM
Union League Club
Main Lounge
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required |
| 1:30–1:55 |
GETTING REAL about...Your Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Capabilities
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Biff L. Myre, Director Availability Solutions, 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. |
| 1:55–2:20 |
The Top 5 Questions – Before Implementing an HA or DR Solution
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Michael O’Neil, Senior Systems Engineer, Marathon Technologies
Michael has more than 15 years experience in technical sales working with systems
solutions and high availability designs. During his career he has held various roles in
consulting, presales engineering, and professional services including 8 years with
Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. Michael has a strong technical background and an
extensive understanding of availability and business continuity issues and solutions.
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| 2:20-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–3:10 |
Disaster Recovery and the
Expanding Legal Compliance Landscape
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Michael Stoker, Attorney, Baker & McKenzie
Mr. Stoker's practice concentrates on information technology, licensing, sourcing, intellectual property, data protection, privacy, and electronic commerce. He regularly advises information technology and e commerce companies on various aspects of their domestic and foreign operations, including intellectual property protection, data protection, and privacy issues, and compliance by U.S. organizations with federal and state privacy and data security laws, and U.S. state restrictions on data collection, movement, and disposal.
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| 3:10–3:35 |
Best Practices for Workload Protection and Recovery Plans with Virtualization
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John Stetic, Director of Product Management - Sytems and Resource Management, Novell
John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for both the Novell ZENworks and PlateSpin product lines. Additionally, John works to set the strategic vision and future roadmap for both product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. |
| 3:35-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–4:50 |
Keynote Panel
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Moderator: Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus Technologies
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Steve has more than 20 years of engineering and marketing experience in the telecommunications and IT industries. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager for UTStarcom's fixed/mobile convergence product line, and has also held various sales, marketing and engineering roles at Tellabs and AT&T. His speaking experience includes technology conferences around the world on such topics as IT & business strategy, optical networking, compliance and identity management and mobile communications. |
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Susan Brown,
Director, Business Continuity,
Nuveen
Susan Brown has more than 20 years of strategic and tactical leadership in the building of Business Continuity Programs. As an accomplished corporate developer of BCP, her vision and expertise in leading the initiative to develop, recommend, support and implement enterprise-wide business continuity, disaster recovery, and risk management efforts have driven successful risk mitigation processes and procedures within the financial services arena. |
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Larry J. Kallembach, SVP & CIO, MB Financial Bank
Larry J. Kallembach, is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of MB Financial Bank. Prior to the MB-Mid City merger, Mr. Kallembach served as Senior Vice President of Mid City Financial Corp. and CEO of MidCity Information Services since 1998. Prior to coming to MidCity Financial Corp., he was Executive Vice President of BankIllinois and served in various management positions with its predecessor organization Champaign National Bank since 1978. |
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Larry Chase, Director of Enterprise Resiliency,
Motorola
Larry Chase has 20 years of experience of global infrastructure engineering, including 15 years of operational Business Continuity &
Disaster Recovery leadership in the Pharmaceutical, Banking and
Technology Industries. In Dec. 2007, Larry joined Motorola as the Director of Enterprise
Resiliency. Prior to his current position, Larry lead the development
of the Pfizer Worldwide Business Continuity Management Office. He is an
elected officer to the Strohl/SunGard International User Group AdvisoryBoard and an accredited business continuity planner.
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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
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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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| 4:50-5:00 |
Closing Remarks |
| 5:00–5:45 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception
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