UPCOMING EVENTS

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

 

Strategies to help protect and recover your organization’s most critical data.

 

June 28, 2023

 

9:00am-5:00pm

 

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

 

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

  

     


Overview

 

Your system crashing is inevitable! Never mind the reason. The goal is to make sure you have an infrastructure that is as resilient as possible so that it can meet business needs in the event of a disaster. There are steps you can take to maximize your availability and prevent significant downtime.

 

The content of this one day conference will help you in determining the right level of availability protection, how to design, implement, test and get management buy-in for a highly reliable network infrastructure.

 

Who Should Attend:

  • CIOs/VPs/Directors
  • DR Managers
  • Infrastructure & Security Managers

What You Will Learn

 

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Avoiding the “All or Nothing” Fail-Over Approach
  • Cloud Security & BC/DR: Recovering from Ransomware & Breaches
  • Value of Investment – Balancing Data Corruption, Disaster Recovery, and Cost
  • Reducing the Cost of DR and Lowering your Risk Profile
  • Increasing Your Data Protection Posture: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Modernization
  • Business & IT: Planning with the End in Mind – How to Bake BC/DR Into Everything You Do (Panel Discussion)

Conference Price: $299.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.


CONFERENCE AGENDA


8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast


9:00am – 10:00am: Value of Investment – Balancing Data Corruption, Disaster Recovery, and Cost

 

For decades, enterprises have worked to get their Recovery Point from days, to hours, to seconds. Today, ransomware and data corruption are challenging and forcing enterprises to develop new but often counter-intuitive approaches to business continuity. This session will provide strategies for balancing these conflicts while still allowing for sub-second disaster recovery RPO.

 


10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment and Exhibit Break


10:30am – 11:30am: Increasing Your Data Protection Posture: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Modernization

 

Data Center modernization is a journey that begins with a clear vision and strong leadership.  Technology leaders of today are challenged with identifying and executing a strategy that reduces complexity and costs, while increasing InfoSec and Data Protection postures. Learn how to leverage a Service Portfolio in support of this vision and create a winning framework for success.

 


11:30am – 12:30pm: Reducing the Cost of DR and Lowering your Risk Profile

 

Learn modern strategies on how enterprises can make IT investments available for data replication. This session will present frameworks on how to reduce Recovery Time Objective (RTO) from days to hours, and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) from hours to minutes. This session will give you some ideas how to better build your infrastructure while improving your
Disaster Recovery posture.

 


12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break


1:30pm – 2:30pm: Avoiding the “All or Nothing” Fail-Over Approach

 

In this session, we will cover the following:

  • How organizations should intelligently plan for and execute failover of their environment
  • How to architect DR environments so they can be utilized for overflow / scale / elasticity instead of simply “lying in wait” for a DR event
  • This strategy enables investment in DR to be offset by supporting scale requirements, streamlining the approval process for critical DR environments

 

Throughout the session we welcome your questions and discussion as we look to provide actionable insights you can immediately apply in your organization.

 


2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment and Exhibit Break


3:00pm – 4:00pm: Cloud Security & BC/DR: Recovering from Ransomware & Breaches

 

Seasoned practitioners are aware that BC/DR practices can reduce the cost of cyber breaches.  But breaches will still occur and they will happen with greater frequency. How do you leverage all that DR/BC can offer to reduce the risk and mitigate the effects?

 

In this session attendees will learn:

  • How DR/BC teams can work together more effectively to plan for a breach
  • How you can improve recovery times from a breach
  • How to strengthen the resiliency of

 

 


4:00pm – 5:00pm: Business & IT: Planning with the End in Mind – How to Bake BC/DR Into Everything You Do (Panel Discussion) 

 

In this session attendees will learn how to better set expectations with the business by getting ahead of the curve with a BC/DR first mentality towards every initiative.

 

Areas that will be covered:

  • How to start with a BC/DR first mentality
  • How to review the plan with the business
  • Adjusting for new business application priorities
  • How the teams should respond together in the wake of a disaster

 

Moderator TBA!

 

Panelists include:

  • Brian Palmer, Director IT Security & Infrastructure, Ventas
  • Lalit Arora, Senior Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual
  • Mouncef Elalamy, Director, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, HUB International Limited
  • Other BC/DR practitioners sharing experiences and lessons learned

 

 

 

Palmer                       Arora                       Elalamy

 


Conference Price: $299.00 per person

 

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

 

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.


CONFERENCE SPONSORS