In conjunction with the summer conference (Aug. 11-16), SHARE would like to
put on a 1 day symposium on managing business continuance during natural
emergencies or disasters.  All of us are involved in planning for disasters and
other emergencies.  All that planning and testing is done with the hopes that
it never actually has to be put into action.  So, what happens when the real
thing occurs?

During the past year, the north east part of the US has experienced a "super
storm", and a blizzard that affected many major corporations as well as small
businesses.  Other parts of the country have also experienced major weather
events as well as earthquakes, etc.

The focus of the symposium will be application of disaster and business
continuance plans during a real emergency.  We are especially looking for
experiences from different types of industries, i.e. health, education,
financial, etc.  It does not have to be limited to mainframe technology.

Please pass this message on to anyone in your organization who might be
interested in taking part in this symposium.  Presentation proposals can be
submitted through the normal SHARE CFP process at http://www.share.org/ under
either General Submissions or Enterprise Data Center.

Martha McConaghy
Deputy Director of Operations
SHARE, Inc.