Achieving Data Continuity
At the heart of IT recovery is data continuity. Put simply, this is the principle of making your company’s data available where you need it, when you need it. This session will explore options available for achieving data continuity, including the range of techniques for data replication to an alternate site. These techniques include data replication via applications, software utilities, storage devices, remote tape devices, and storage virtualization engines. Investigate the pros and cons of each technique independent of manufacturer and their associated marketing statements.
Peter Sjoberg, CNT

Advanced Custom Reports
Have you been using Crystal to create your custom reports, but want to know more? This session teaches attendees how to maximize Crystal Reports’ features. Learn about building sub-reports, special formulas, graphing, and cross tab reports. This session is for the more advanced Crystal user.
Jean Benning, Strohl Systems

BCP Preparation and Response (Case Study)
This session discusses how a CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield responded to multiple disasters, including the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the lessons they learned. The session will also discuss how the use of tactical exercises can help demonstrate the viability of your business continuity plans and communicate to personnel their roles in the recovery process.
Robin Fishman, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Dennis Oldham, Strohl Systems

BIA Reports and Graphs
Is it your job to provide management with your BIA findings? If so, let us show you how best to create the professional reports and graphs you’ll need before you meet with the boss. Attend this session and see how to utilize the Report Wizard in BIA Professional, and learn how to create a professional looking Table of Contents to present to management.
Al Sawchak, Strohl Systems

BIA Strategies and Solutions (Case Study)
You must conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to effectively assess the potential impacts of disasters and their associated costs. But where do you begin? This session provides an in-depth overview of Baltimore Gas & Electric's BIA process, how it was designed, and the results.
Joellen Callahan, Baltimore Gas and Electric

BIA Professional Web Server
Conducting a Business Impact Analysis is now easier than ever! With BIA Professional’s new Web Survey tool, you can design and distribute surveys via the Internet. Attend this session to learn all the ins and outs of BIA Web Server, get the answers you need about installing and configuring your Web server, learn how easy it is to manage published surveys and how to efficiently distribute and collect your recipients answers.
Alex Wildes, Strohl Systems

Building Your Company’s BCP Web Site (Case Study)
Thinking about creating a business continuity intranet site? If not, you should. There’s no better way to get the word out to the entire enterprise that BCP exists and its important. Attend this session to learn how to create the web site, where the site should reside, and what information needs to be included to turn your site into a must click.
Mike Di Domizio, Prudential Financial
Dennis Weiscopf, DW Consulting, and Mike Jennings, Strohl Systems

Creating Great Custom Reports
Design and customize reports for LDRPS. Attend this session and you’ll earn how to create subtotals and User Groupss effectively, as well as the basics for linking and base tables.
Karen Donoughe, Strohl Systems

Inside LDRPS Web Server
To best use LDRPS Web Server, it is helpful to understand the architecture on which it is based. This session explains the web server environment and details how LDRPS works within it. A must-attend for all LDRPS Web Server administrators.
Robert Orta, Strohl Systems

Introducing LDRPS 9.1
From powerful plan templates to security made simple, attendees learn what’s new in LDRPS 9.1. Many time-saving enhancements include scheduled imports, scheduled printing, automatic Plan Assistant notifications, specified plan approval, specified plan ownership, the new plan name edit screen, and our language modules.
Kevin Sherman, Strohl Systems

Introducing Notifind: Strohl’s New Emergency Notification System
Want to simplify and amplify your planning power? Attend this session and learn about a versatile new addition to the Strohl software suite. Our new emergency notification system enables users to quickly and effectively contact key personnel in a time of crisis, deliver critical messages, and receive important data. What’s more, NotiFind works seamlessly with LDRPS and Incident Manager.
J.R. Benning, Strohl Systems

Introduction to Business Continuity Planning I and II
New to continuity planning? If so, BCP can seem like a confusing maze of responsibilities. This workshop provides an overview of the entire BCP process. Topics include how to conduct a business impact analysis (BIA), building and testing a comprehensive recovery plan, and how to utilize LDRPS effectively. (Due to the amount of material to be covered, this session is offered in two parts.)
Dennis Oldham, Strohl Systems

LDRPS 9.1 Security
This advanced LDRPS session educates you on the radical redesign of the security module in LDRPS 9.1. LDRPS administrators will learn the new way LDRPS handles security, from the consolidation of all security functions and the ability to place users in multiple security groups, to the replacement of the Plan Dictionary concept. Also covered: sending emails, migrating from 9.0 to 9.1, security packages, and much more.
Amy Dugan, Strohl Systems

LDRPS and Beyond (Case Study)
This session shows you how two companies went beyond the standard LDRPS interface to take advantage of the information captured in LDRPS in order to benefit their continuity program as well as the company at large. Learn about endless reporting possibilities, publishing data outside of LDRPS interface, managing data customization to fit your organization’s requirements, and motivating a wider participation within the firm. You'll see what tools were used, how the data was organized, what assumptions were made, as well as what expertise and safeguard are required.
Karen Ehrlich, Prudential Financial, and Stephane Mortier, Goldman Sachs

LDRPS Maintenance Tools
LDRPS is more than just great plan building software – it’s designed to help you maximize plan maintenance. Attend this session to learn about LDRPS tools – such as Plan Assistant e-mail notification, automated import, and scheduled printing – you can use to keep your plans up-to-date and ready for action.
Terrance Carew, Strohl Systems

LDRPS Web Hosting, Nestle’s BCP Solution (Case Study)
With more than 50 different facilities across the country, Nestle USA is always looking for ways to simplify and streamline the BCP process. That’s why they recently added LDRPS Web Hosting to their LDRPS Web Server solution. LDRPS Web Hosting is the newest hassle-free way to store, back up, and access your plans. See how this LDRPS Web Hosting delivers many convenient benefits and features, airtight security measures, daily back-up procedures, and maximum planning power.
Michael Mayhall, Nestlé USA, and Mark Mahar, Strohl Systems

LDRPS Web Server in Action (Case Study)
You’ve heard the buzz – LDRPS Web Server is the best thing since sliced bread. Attend this session and you’ll see how MNBA uses LDRPS Web Server’s plan building, maintenance, and security features to create top-notch continuity plans on the web.
Michelle Jones, Discover Financial

Managing Your Recovery
This interactive, hands-on workshop will cover what team leaders, company managers, and executives need to know in order to manage recovery operations. We will also talk about what strategies, methodologies, and tools available to help manage the situation, communicate with team leaders, and keep things organized. If you are a business continuity planner who trains members of the EOC, recovery team leaders or executives responsible for the operations of a recovery team, this workshop is for you.
Phil Lambert, Option One Mortgage Corporation

Negotiating Your Hot Site Contract
Need to negotiate a hot site agreement? This session is aimed at providing insight into working a contract that best fits your needs. Learn what the vendors think. Get negotiating tips – like the red flags to watch for and when you should concede. Agenda items include the following: Vendor choice vs. hot site negotiation, negotiating terms and conditions, length of contract, costs, and more.
Ted Brown, Strohl Systems

The New Incident Manager 2.0
With Incident Manager 2.0, you’ll be able to perform all product functions online. You can even transfer critical plan data, including teams and tasks, to and from LDRPS. Learn about all of Incident Manager’s phenomenal new features, including LDRPS integration, scenario building for plan testing, and electronic messaging at this information packed session.
Elizabeth Schirmer, Strohl Systems

Proven Strategies for Event Management (Case Study)
Developing a business continuity or disaster recovery plan is not enough to get your organization through an emergency. Almost as critical to the plan itself is how you manage the event. During a crisis, do you have someone responsible for calling vendors and employees? Are the facts being communicated to your staff and stakeholders instead of rumor? Do the proper employees know how to proceed, and who is notifying them? During this session, learn how Fidelity Investments developed its event management strategy and get tools and techniques that you can take back to your organization and implement.
Don Bailey and Fran Zinke, Fidelity Investments

Wells Fargo’s BCP Evolution (Case Study)
Learn how Wells Fargo developed and structured its BCP program to integrate incident management, emergency management, and business and technology planning. The presentation will describe the 11-step - process used to identify, develop, and maintain continuity plans. Additionally, see how Well Fargo’s plan structure integrates the incident management team with site-based plans as well as business and technology unit plans. Finally, discover how the program has standardized the BCP process in order to gain efficiencies through a centralized repository and planning templates.
Rex Engstrand and Aaron Meckler, Wells Fargo & Company