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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:

  • The Vital Role of SLAs in Business Continuity
  • Cloud Architecture: DR in the Cloud, DC Failover in Near Real Time
  • Cyber Security & BC/DR: Recovering from Ransomware & Breaches
  • Organizational Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
  • 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 – 10:00am:  Fireside Chat with CIOs: Organizational Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Allah Rakha Sheikh, Director of Information Technology/CIO, Madison Mutual

Val Mushinskiy, Principal and Vice President of Cloud Services, ZS

Nicos Digrindakis, Disaster Recovery Manager, University of Chicago

Sheikh                        Mushinskiy             Digrindakis

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

10:30am – 11:30am:  Cloud Architecture: DR in the Cloud, DC Failover in Near Real Time

Benjamin Fuller, Field CTO, Nasuni

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

Fuller

 

11:30am – 12:30pm: The Vital Role of SLAs in Business Continuity

Randy Lee, Senior Systems Engineer and AANG, Veeam Software

Join us as we discuss the following:

  1. Understanding SLAs in Business Continuity
  2. Defining the role of SLAs in Risk Mitigation
  3. Measuring and Monitoring SLA Compliance

Lee

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

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Modernizing Your DR Strategy

Scott Hetrick, Pre-Sales SE Manager, Quest Software

In this session, we’ll discuss the best practices around Data Protection including data immutability on prem and cloud.

Hetrick

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Designing Cloud Disaster Recovery to Empower Cloud Migrations

Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Unity

Sumar

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

Moderated by: Dan Horwich, President & Executive Director, CAMP IT Conferences

Panelists will include:

  • Tyrone Clark, Director, Business Continuity Management, William Blair
  • Dmitry Shub, CISSP, Chief Information Security Officer, City of Evanston
  • Jay Venkatesh, Director, Cloud Migrations, Datametica Solutions
  • Travis Stevens, Director of IT, Infrastructure and Security, Physicians Health Plan
  • David Ruzicka, Cybersecurity Program Delivery Director, Clarios
  • Kirby McCord, Senior Manager Infrastructure Architecture, U.S. Cellular
  • And other BC/DR executives sharing experiences and lessons learned

 

Horwich                     Clark                 Shub                  Venkatesh              Stevens             Ruzicka               McCord

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