Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Financial Services 2012
Eleventh Annual Conference and Workshops
America Square Conference Centre, London EC3
Endorsed by the Business Continuity Institute

Ten years ago 9/11 forced the issue of business continuity and disaster recovery to forefront of public consciousness. As we go into 2012 the threat of terrorism remains both in its dramatic violent form and now in the insidious shape of the cyber attack. A one off event, the Olympics, located almost at the heart of Britain's financial world will stretch continuity resources even if it proceeds entirely as planned. But it is also a possible disaster magnet whose possible consequences must be somehow anticipated.

Meanwhile technology has moved on and one of its manifestations, cloud computing, has moved to the forefront of both security and business continuity concerns. The relevant concepts evolve too - the words 'resilience' and 'resiliency' now figure much more prominently in the vocabulary of bcm.

Above all and underlying all , it must be said, there is the financial crisis. The longer and deeper it goes on, the more will the resources being devoted to business continuity with the financial services industry be challenged by senior managements anxious to spread the load of retrenchment.

This year's conference, the eleventh in this series, offers a one day conference programme that will examine all these issues plus the normal concerns that arise from them like effects on people and firms' public profiles. In addition, day two of the event will feature consecutive optional workshops focusing on the Olympics delivered by Deloitte and cloud computing delivered by IBM.

The sessions at the conference will be as follows:

• Ten years after 9/11: US lessons for business continuity and the financial community
• Financial authorities panel
• Canary Wharf and the business continuity challenges of 2012
• The emerging discipline of resilience and bcm's part in that emergence
• Human issues
• Engaging senior management
• Cloud computing and business continuity panel
• The Utilities, the Olympics and London's resilience in 2012
• Managing the press vs managing the incident

This conference should be attended by all business continuity managers in financial institutions and their advisers