Preliminary Conference Program
Day One, Tuesday, March 18, 2008

1-2 pm – Session 1
Welcome and Opening Presentation.

• Alexander Tabb, Managing Director, The TABB Group, New York, NY

The overall theme this year is crisis management. How to anticipate the next event. How to stay in budget. How to respond when a situation occurs. What management tools are available. How to respond to your management and their budget and administrative guidelines. How to communicate to your team and the corporation’s operations team.

Crisis Management: Update - What you need to know in 2008.

Alexander Tabb will address issues on the program that will launch our full two-day conference featuring outstanding speakers and timely topics covering Crisis Management – How do businesses manage crisis. Messaging. Notification. Data storage. Back-up. Operations recovery. Staff relocation. Cyber attacks. Avian epidemics.

• John P. DiNuzzo, Vice President, Enterprise Business Continuity, Freddie Mac, Washington, DC

• Lisa Sciarrino, Managing Director, UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, New York, NY

John DiNuzzo is the current President of the Contingency Planning Exchange, the sponsor of the show. The Contingency Planning Exchange is a non-profit organization of business continuity and corporate security executives with chapters in New York, Long Island and Washington, DC.

John will be joined by Lisa Sciarrino on a panel of Wall Street professionals covering new information on Wall Street’s 24/7 preparedness.

• Jan Sysmans, Director of Business Continuity Solutions, WebEx Communications, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Mr. Sysmans is responsible for defining and delivering the overall strategy, positioning and go to market of the WebEx Solutions for Business Continuity. These include programs for telework, business continuity, COOP and virtual emergency operations centers. Mr. Sysmans served as Chairperson for the Marketing Communications committee on the SaaS executive council of the SIIA. WebEx is a Gold Sponsor at the 2008 event.

4-6:30 pm - Exhibit hall opens. Opening reception in the exhibit hall. An opportunity to meet exhibitors and examine solutions for business continuity, security and disaster recovery. See list of exhibitors in the show.

6:30 pm - Exhibits adjourn for Day One.

Conference Program
Day Two, Wednesday, March 19, 2008

8-9 am - Registration

• Alexander Tabb, Managing Director, The Tabb Group, New York, NY

• Michael Lesk, Professor, Rutgers University, and Chair, Department of Library and Information Science.

Prof. Lesk has written and spoken extensively on Cyber invasions to businesses and governments. The recent Cyber attack in the country of Estonia in 2007 created enormous financial turmoil with closing businesses, government agencies and financial institutions. This massive cyber attack is a real threat to American financial institutions. Find out how firms should recognize and cope with invasive Internet attacks. Prof. Lesk is a PhD in Chemical Physics, a Fellow of the ACM and has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is a published author on information sciences, and a recognized authority on Cyber issues.

10 am - 4 pm - Exhibits open

10-11 am - Beverage break in the exhibit hall. See, examine and compare business continuity solutions among leading vendors in the exhibit space adjacent to the conferences.

11-11:50 am - Session 12 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
Our New York Infrastructure: Crisis management at work at ConEd
and OEM.

• Peter D. Hofmann, General Manager, Manhattan Electric Operations, ConEdison, New York, NY

• Ira Tannenbaum, Coord. of Public/Private Initiatives, New York City Office of Emergency Management, Brooklyn, NY

11-11:50 am - Session 13 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
Putting Business Continuity to Work within your Organization. What you need to know to plan, budget, test and prepare for the next crisis.

• Thomas E. Martin, Managing Director, Eagle Rock Alliance Ltd.,
  West Orange, NJ

• Oscar Menendez, Assistant Vice President, Corporate Security and Business Continuity, Deutsche Bank

12-1 pm - Buffet service in the exhibit hall. Enjoy a delicious buffet luncheon and network with your colleagues and exhibitors in the exhibit hall. This is your opportunity to spend quality time discussing the morning program.

• John Linse, Director, Business Continuity Services, EMC, Chicago, IL

The risk of data loss in the event of a disaster, an equipment failure or even during a planned outage can be expensive and result in major business consequences. All organizations are concerned with information protection, business continuity, and disaster recovery with the goal of keeping critical data always available. In addition to these crucial requirements, the added challenge of containing costs while utilizing existing resources can be daunting.

In this presentation, John Linse will examine how to efficiently gauge crisis readiness in context of prevailing threats. He will discuss a proven methodology of building a strategy that employs best practices and effective resource utilization to protect your core business from disaster, achieve regulatory compliance, and ensure high availability.

Attendees will learn to:

  - Categorize, store and protect data depending on its changing business value

  - Minimize exposure and risks

  - Shorten backup and restore times

  - Protect remote locations

  - Provide continuous multi-site protection

• Bert Wolff, Vice President, Chubb & Son, Warren, NJ

• Frederick M. Spina, Corporate Vice President Business Continuity & Recovery, New York Life Insurance Company, New York, NY

• Mike Denapoli, Enterprise Systems Engineer, Double-Take Software

• Greg Saraydarian, Consultant

• Matt Statler, Associate Director, International Center for Enterprise Preparedness, New York University

• Michael Ritchken, Senior Vice President - Practice Principal, MTM Technologies, Inc., New York, NY

2:40-3:25 pm - Session 18
Wall Street’s Response to Crisis Management.

Panel discussion of Business Continuity Directors

• Patrick Alesi, VP, Business Continuity Management, Lehman Brothers, New York, NY

• Peter Murray, SVP Continuity Planning, Jefferies & Company, Jersey City, NJ

• Gregory J. Ferris, Executive Director Global BCP, Morgan Stanley, Morristown, NJ

3:25-4 pm - Final break in exhibit hall. Last opportunity to meet exhibitors on a person-to-person basis. Many exhibitors have free prize drawings and giveaways. This is your opportunity to win drawings and free software.