Additional Training

Pre-Conference Training

Want to become a more valuable employee? Get certified! CPM offers you the ability to choose among multiple organizations for pre- and post-conference training. Increase your professional worth and earn additional continuing education credits with these classes offered at CPM 2008 WEST.

BCP-501 Business Continuity Planning Review with Exam

DRI International
This course is intended for those individuals experienced in business continuity or disaster recovery planning. Major topic areas identify most parts of a contingency or recovery plan, and also address areas included in the DRII examination.

Topics include:

  • Business interruption risk analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Selection of alternate recovery methods
  • Communications recovery planning for voice and data
  • Managing and developing recovery plans
  • Maintenance and testing of recovery plans

Date: Saturday, May 17 – Monday, May 19
Time: Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM and Monday from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Fee: $1405 for CPM conference attendees. $1495 for all others. Exam-only cost is $500.
Register: Click here or visit www.drii.org and click Search Courses.

Certified Crisis Communications Planner

International Consortium for Organizational Resilience
An organization in crisis faces many grave threats. Employees can be in physical danger. Buildings can fall. Customers can be lost. But the most serious threat is and always will be the threat to the organization’s most important asset – its reputation. To protect the organization from reputational threats requires careful, thoughtful, detailed planning and a methodology for inculcating a culture of organizational crisis preparedness. In this two-day seminar, you will learn how to prepare the organization for inevitable threats to reputation, execute the crisis communications plan, then, when the crisis has passed, assess and do what must be done before the next threats occur. Attendees will be certified as Crisis Communications Planners and earn 1.4 CEUs from ICOR and 16 CEA points from DRI International and BCI.

Date: Sunday, May 18 and Monday, May 19
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Fee: $895 for CPM attendees and members of ICOR, ACP, BRPA, BRPASW, DRIE, ASIS and IFMA. Use voucher #10108111. $995 for all others.
Register: www.theicor.org
Questions: lnelson@theicor.org

Certified Data Center Professional

International Consortium for Organizational Resilience
Join the elite group of Certified Data Center Professionals! This course is designed to expose IT, facilities, or data center operations professionals working in and around the data center to the key components of the center. It will address how to set up and improve key aspects such as power, cooling, security, cabling, safety, and more to ensure a high-availability data center.

This course concludes with a certification exam. Attendees who pass the exam will receive the official “Certified Data Center Professional” certificate accredited by ICOR and earn 1.4 CEUs from ICOR and 16 CEA points from DRI International and BCI.

Date: Sunday, May 18 and Monday, May 19
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Fee: $1395 for CPM attendees and members of ICOR, ACP, BRPA, BRPASW, DRIE, ASIS and IFMA. Use voucher #10108111. $1495 for all others
Register: www.theicor.org
Questions: lnelson@theicor.org

Hot Site Training Program

KETCHConsulting
Find out everything you wanted to know about hot sites but were afraid to ask. Join Ted Brown, CBCP, at the conclusion of CPM 2008 WEST for an afternoon dedicated to all things “hot site!” Earn 4 CEA points from DRI International for attending this training.

This post-conference training includes the following topics:

  • Negotiating a hot site contract
  • BCP recovery strategies: how to save on alternate site solutions while improving RTOs
  • Creating an RFP for hot/alternate site services
  • Human concerns of hot site operations

Case studies will be shared throughout this class. Sample RFPs will be available for your review and you will even go home with one!

Date: Thursday, May 22
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Fee: $395
Register: Add this program to your CPM 2008 WEST full conference registration!
Questions: tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com


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