Disaster recovery roundtable: Pre-conference workshop at MeritMember Conference

[Andy Rosenzweig]

You may be interested in attending a disaster recovery roundtable, 
offered as a pre-conference workshop of the Merit Member Conference on 
June 11 from 9 a.m. until noon. Gretchen Grey, academic continuity and 
disaster readiness director, University of Michigan, will lead the 
roundtable. Registration is $60.

Registration and full information are available at:

  http://www.merit.edu/events/mmc/workshops.php

This workshop is an opportunity for open an discussion among people who 
are responsible for developing disaster recovery plans for their 
organizations. Disaster recovery planning can be a difficult task, 
requiring significant inter-departmental cooperation and collaboration, 
consideration of specialized needs, and management of conflicting 
goals. Meanwhile, resources can be hard to come by and organizational 
urgency can flag over time. Disaster planning coordinators can benefit 
greatly by sharing their experiences and insights with others who do 
the same work. In this workshop, participants will work with the 
instructor to select discussion topics of greatest interest, with 
supplemental materials used to share knowledge and spur discussion.

Gretchen Grey has eighteen years of professional IS experience in a 
wide range of sectors and industries, including thirteen years of 
project management practice and five years in disaster preparedness. 
Her current position at the University of Michigan is director of 
academic continuity and disaster readiness in the Provost's office. She 
earned the award of Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) 
by Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and spent two years 
on the Disaster Recovery Journal's Editorial Advisory Board's Generally 
Accepted Business Continuity Practices Committee.

Gretchen will also appear as a speaker at the Merit Member Conference, 
with a presentation and follow-up roundtable on mass notification 
systems. Complete information about the conference is available at:

  http://www.merit.edu/mmc

For more information, please contact events@merit.edu.

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Andy Rosenzweig
Manager, Professional Events and Communities
Merit Network, Inc.
734-764-7146
www.merit.edu/events