Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois
Strategies to help protect and recover your organization’s most critical data.
November 2, 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:
- Disaster Recovery is a Business Strategy – And It’s Not Optional
- Increasing Your Data Protection Posture: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Modernization
- Cloud Architecture: DR in the cloud, DC Failover in Near Real Time
- Cyber Security & BC/DR: Recovering from Ransomware & Breaches
- Reducing the Cost of DR and Lowering your Risk Profile
- 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 PROGRAM
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 9:50am: Fireside Chat with a CIO
Allah Rakha Sheikh, Director of Information Technology/CIO, Madison Mutual
Sheikh
9:50am – 10:20am: Refreshment & Exhibit Break
10:20am – 11:10am: Cyber 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 your infrastructure to reduce the risk if these incidents
11:10am – 12:00pm: Disaster Recovery is a Business Strategy – And It’s Not Optional
When it comes to disaster recovery, the tech doesn’t matter. It’s all about how you use it. It’s no secret that your organization’s profitability depends on both its IT infrastructure and business processes staying online. Since data loss and downtime have a direct impact on financial performance, disaster recovery is more than just an IT problem. It should reach across clouds, SaaS platforms, server cabinets and into boardroom discussions of strategic business goals.
An interactive discussion where we will:
- Define business continuity for the entire organization
- Discuss current trends, including why backup & recovery are taking over DRaaS
- Develop a simple model for calculating and communicating the risk of exposure for your organization
12:00pm – 12:40pm: Lunch & Exhibit Break
12:40pm – 1:30pm: Increasing Your Data Protection Posture: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Center Modernization
Data Center modernization and multi-cloud adoption are enabling organizations to quickly accelerate their IT initiatives. New data security challenges around ransomware protection and recovery are at the forefront of discussion but you need a modern approach to protecting everything that is important to your organization no matter where it lives. The walls between InfoSec, Apps, Data, and Protection are coming down and you need to think about how you can reduce complexity and costs and integrate it all into your business continuity plans.
We will discuss
- Two sides of data protection, from defense in depth to data recovery
- How data center modernization needs a new look at data recovery
- Learn industry best practices when it comes to protecting different workloads no matter where they live
- Ransomware recovery and how your data protection solution is your last line of defense
1:30pm – 2:20pm: Reducing the Cost of DR and Lowering your Risk Profile
Learn modern strategies on how enterprises can make IT investments available for data replication. We 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.
2:20pm – 2:50pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break
2:50pm – 3:40pm: Cloud Architecture: DR in the cloud, DC Failover in Near Real Time
Content that will be covered:
- New DR trends
- How to make DR easier
- How to encourage the business to pay for DR and what should be encompassed
- Moving DR into the cloud
3:40pm – 4:30pm: 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
Panelists will include BC/DR executives sharing experiences and lessons learned.
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
