FLICC Meeting Announcement 2003-5

REMINDER! Seats are available for

FLICC/CENDI Joint Seminar

Business Continuation and Disaster Recovery: What We Learned From 9/11

See Draft of Agenda Below

In the of shadow September 11, 2001, many federal offices are
reevaluating disaster recovery plans and concerning themselves with the
broader issues of business continuity. This seminar will focus on
preparedness, recovery, and service continuity in digital environments
for federal staff members who write disaster recovery plans or those who
provide input into such plans. The program will include general
overviews of the topic from the private and government sectors and
real-world scenarios from federal information centers and libraries that
have survived physical disasters and electronic interruptions.

Date
Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Time
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. There is no
entry to the Library of Congress prior to 8:30 a.m.)

Place
Mumford Room, 6th floor, Madison Building, The Library of Congress--Use
the Main Entrance at 1st Street and Independence Avenue, S.E.,
Washington, D.C.

Metro
Capitol South (Orange and Blue Lines)

Sponsors
FLICC Content Management Working Group
CENDI IT Security and Privacy Working Group
CENDI Education and Training Working Group


Registration
$80.00--Visit the FLICC Educational Programs Web site at
http://www.loc.gov/flicc/feveform.html to register online or call the
FLICC Office at (202) 707-4800.

Note that non-U.S. federal organizations will need to pay by check made
out to Information International Associates, Inc. No credit cards
accepted.

Request ADA Accommodations five business days in advance at (202)
707-6362 TTY or [log in to unmask]

Information
Call FLICC (202) 707-4800; TTY (202) 707-4995

Cancellations
Cancellations must be called into the FLICC office (202-707-4800) 48
hours prior to the start of an educational program or the full fee will
be charged.

DRAFT AGENDA

8:30am
Registration

9:00am
Welcome and the Federal Library Perspective
*(Susan M. Tarr, Executive Director, FLICC)
Welcome and the CENDI Perspective
*(Kent Smith, CENDI Chair/Deputy Director, National Library of
Medicine)

9:30am
An Introduction to Business Continuation and Disaster Recovery
*(Allen Carey, International Data Corporation)

10:00am
Continuing the Business of Government
*(Ronald Miller, Transition Planning Office, Office of Homeland
Security)

10:30am
Break

10:45am
What Have We Learned from 9/11: The Private Sector Perspective
*(Barbara Allen, SunGard Professional Services)

11:15am
Recovery from the World Trade Center Disaster
*(Susan Mitchell, U.S. Customs Service, NY Field Office)

12:00noon
Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm
Real World Scenarios: Lessons Learned for Federal Agency Disaster
Planning

Physical Disasters
*National Agricultural Library (Gary McCone)
*Department of the Treasury Library (Michael Conklin)

Electronic Interruptions
*U.S. Geological Survey/Department of Interior (Ellen Findley)
*Environmental Protection Agency (George Bonina)

2:30pm
Planning for Continuity
*(Steve Kaisler, U.S. Senate)

3:00pm
Break

3:15pm
Q&A and General Discussion
(with a panel of federal real-world scenario speakers)

4:00pm
Developing Online Resources to Support Disaster Planning
*(Barry Wheeler, Library of Congress)

4:30pm
Wrap Up and Adjourn

FLICC plans to build an active community service for sharing disaster
recovery plans and locating experts who can help others develop plans.
As part of the seminar, FLICC will present a proposal to start a small
set of Web-based services designed to support the federal community as
we work on disaster planning for our mission critical infrastructure and
information services. Plan to be in on the ground floor of this exciting
new resource.