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August:
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Chicago, IL, August 5-9.
HCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning for the Healthcare Industry, in Baltimore, MD, August 5-9.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Los Angeles, CA August 5-9.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Toronto, ON Canada, August 12-16.
BCLS 2000- Business Continuity Planning-Spanish, in Medellin, Colombia, August 12-16.
HCP 501-Business Continuity Planning for the Healthcare Industry, in Phoenix, AZ, August 12-14.
BCP 601W- Masters Case Study Review- Web-based Training, Web-based Course, August 19-20.
GCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning for the Public Sector, in Denver, CO, August 19-23.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in New Brunswick, NJ, August 19-23.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Accra, Ghana, August 19-23.
BCLS 2000-
Business Continuity Planning-Spanish, in Lima, Peru, August 19-23.
BCP 501- Business Continuity Planning Review, in Ottawa, ON Canada, August 21-23.
BCP 601- Masters Case Study, in Mexico City, Mexico, August 22-24.
BCP 501- Business Continuity Planning Review, in Hyderabad, India, August 23-25.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Kuwait, Kuwait, August 25-29.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Chennai, India, August 26-30.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, August 26-30.
BCLS 2000- Business Continuity Planning- Spanish, in Mexico City, Mexico, August 27-31.
September
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 2-6.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Cairo, Egypt, September 8-12.
BCLE AUD- Business Continuity Planning for Auditors, in Chicago, IL, September 9-13.
BCLE AUD- Business Continuity Planning for Auditors, in Ottawa, ON Canada, September 9-13.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Manama, Bahrain, September 15-19.
BCP 501W- Business Continuity Planning Review- Web-based Training, Web-based Course, September 16-17.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Houston, TX, September 16-20.
GCLE 2000- Business Continuity for the Public Sector, in Hanover, MD, September 16-20.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Toronto, ON Canda, September 16-20.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Falls Church, VA, September 23-27.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 23-27.
BCP EXRC- Business Continuity Planning, in Winnipeg, MB Canada, September 23-24.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Vancouver, BC Canada, September 23-27.
BCLS 2000- Business Continuity Planning-Spanish, in Bogota, Colombia, September 23-27
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CSC Wins Big! DRI Visits Headquarters
|  CSC was the big winner in the 2013 Awards of Excellence. The CSC team, led by Dan Mikulsky, was so excited that they asked Al Berman to visit their headquarters in Falls Church, Va., outside of Washington D.C., to present the Infrastructure award to CSC's Vice President and General Manager for Cybersecrity Sam Visner (pictured). Also in attendance at the ceremony were Award of Excellence winners, Pete Renneker and Dan Mikulsky, as well as Beth Musumeci, CSC's director of commercial & managed cybersecurity services and Chloe Demrovsky and Russell Wooldridge from DRI International. Prior to the presentation, Visner and Berman briefed each team on CSC's global cybersecurty effort and DRI's advocacy for preparedness in the cybersecurity space.
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Certification Application Now in Spanish!
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 We're pleased to announce that you will soon be able to apply for DRI International certification in Spanish.
"We think it is important for our professionals to have access to certification applications in the language of their choice. There has been great demand for a Spanish version and we are excited to be able to offer it," says Director of Certification Traci O'Neal.
The application is only the latest addition to our Spanish-language offerings. You can also access the Spanish Professional Practices and CEAP Guidelines on our website as well as our publication by Latin Americans for Latin Americans, Thrive Iberoamerica. To sign up for our Spanish mailing list and stay informed about DRI's activities in Latin America, click here. "The Latin American market has a strong forecast for the coming year and is an area of growth for DRI International." says Director of Global Operations Chloe Demrovsky. "This is why we've expanded our offerings in Spanish. And as always, we will continue to support events all over Latin America."
We are pleased to offer these tools to our Spanish-speaking professionals and hope it will make it easier for them to apply for certification. Stay tuned for the official launch.
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Meet Bruce Gillespie,
Service Provider of the Year
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Bruce Gillespie, a Contingency Services Manager of Business Continuity within CSC's Business Continuity Group, was named Service Provider of the Year at the DRI 2013 Awards of Excellence. Gillespie has implemented business continuity and disaster recovery programs within several commercial and non-profit organizations for the energy, defense, healthcare and other industry sectors. He has been a DRI-certified business continuity planner since 1995. He has more than 30 years of IT experience with over 18 years specifically applied to business continuity and disaster recovery, of which eight years are with CSC. He has prior experience as a data center operations manager at F. Schumacher & Co, disaster recovery coordinator at Christiana Care Health System, and as a contingency planner at Bank One.
He attributes much of his success as being able to take his experience as a data center manager and disaster recovery planner to integrate the business unit functions with information technology to create a unified and comprehensive business continuity program. The future has him continuing to balance customer requirements and technology capabilities. He holds an associate degree in business administration from St. Joseph's University.
The Service Provider of the Year award is designed to recognize the very best in service delivery amongst full service business continuity providers. The category is judged on both a company statement -- prepared by both the service provider and a customer -- as well as an online vote, targeted at business continuity managers across all industry sectors. The company statement demonstrates the company's commitment in promoting business continuity to its customer base and the wider audience, including staff awareness, training, and user-group activity, amongst other efforts. The judges will reward innovation and quality as well as customer service and satisfaction and an ability to respond to changing market demand.
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Join DRI at NEDRIX in October
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Attend NEDRIX and take DRI's BCP 501 course! The NEDRIX annual conference will be held October 28 through October 30, 2013, in Newport, RI. The DRI course, offered at a special discount to NEDRIX attendees, immediately follows the event, and will be held October 31 - November 1.
BCP 501 is a rapid business continuity planning refresher course covering the Professional Practices for Business Continuity Professionals in preparation for the DRI International Qualifying Exam. This two-day course features 16 hours of instruction followed by the Qualifying Exam that will be taken online. Instructors take a fast-paced approach to the Professional Practices with emphasis on BC planning and the knowledge, skills, and procedures needed to effectively implement each step of the planning process. For more information, click here.
NEDRIX offers an intimate three day conference with more than ten distinguished speakers, experts, and practitioners, presenting wide-ranging educational topics. The NEDRIX event will feature keynote speaker Billy Riggs, M. Div., MRE on "How to Achieve the Impossible." In this powerful presentation, magician Billy Riggs impresses leaders and managers with the core belief held by all remarkably successful leaders, and shatters the illusions that limit growth. Additional speakers include Bo Mitchell, Leighton Jones, John Difava, Doreen Nicastro, Ann Baldwin, and Howard Price. The event also features a simulation exercise facilitated by Dr. Steve Goldman. During this fast-paced and interactive exercise, you will learn and understand the principles of emergency response, business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis communications in action.
For more information, including the full program and registration, click here!
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