National disasters like hurricanes, tornados, winter storms and fires have demonstrated repeatedly that too many companies do not have an effective plan in place to ensure business continuity. However, it’s the smaller calamities, such as power outages, fire, or local floods that are far more common and affect ill-prepared businesses every single day. Other factors like HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory concerns also come into play.

Fortunately today’s technologies allow organizations to plan and implement solutions that are safe, solid, and affordable to ensure continuity of business in the case of a disaster of any size. These solutions also have linked benefits such as meeting compliance rules and improving day-to-day operations. This workshop will host a selection of very experienced panelists to address the most important issues for any enterprise – how to avoid a serious interruption of business operations.

Agenda:

How SaaS fulfills business continuity and compliance regulations.
IP Communications and converged solutions provide great productivity enhancing tools that could help any business remain competitive. However, there are some things that must be considered concerning business continuity and compliance planning.
How hosted centers meet the needs of business continuity and disaster preparedness.

Presenters:

Max Schroeder

SVP, FaxCore, Inc. (Moderator)

Max Schroeder is the SVP of FaxCore Inc. (www.faxcore.com) and a member of the Enterprise Communications Board of Directors. As chair of the ECA Media Communications Committee, he is also the liaison for TMC. Max has more than 20 years of experience in the messaging and communications industry and has been an active member in several industry associations related to messaging and converged communications. He has been a speaker at industry conferences around the globe and stretching from Melbourne, Australia to Moscow, Russia.

Don Gant

VP, Channel Marketing and Business Development
Iwatsu Voice Networks

Don Gant is currently VP Channel Marketing and Business Development for Iwatsu Voice Networks and is responsible for positioning Iwatsu’s communications products for sale to the channel and developing relationships with other technology companies for solutions that add value to Iwatsu’s core IP competencies. He has been with Iwatsu for 19 years and was recently named one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications”. Don spent 12 years with Xerox in sales and product marketing before joining Iwatsu in major accounts sales. He holds a BS in marketing management from Fordham University.

Wendell Black

Vice President, Oracle Contact Center Anywhere

Wendell is currently serving as Vice President, Oracle Contact Center Anywhere. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of Telephony@Work, Inc in 2006, Wendell was President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing. Wendell has over 25 years of experience in the communications industry, encompassing all areas of sales, marketing and operations management. Mr. Black has overseen the selection, roll out, and ongoing management of multinational financial, CRM, and customer services infrastructure with companies such as Harris Corporation, Aspect Communications, Periphonics, and Nortel Networks prior to joining Telephony@Work in 2002. He is a recognized industry speaker, with recent engagements at the Internet Telephony Conference, Speechworld, ITPX and regional user groups.

Howard Lubert

Ph.D, Managing Partner and Senior Analyst
SafeHatch, LLC

In 2001 Howard Lubert founded SafeHatch LLC, a technical and business consultancy that provides technical due diligence services to the VC and investment community as well as providing business acceleration services to emerging technology companies. He brings more than 26 years of consulting, financial, and technical experience to the company. An accredited investor, Mr. Lubert is currently serving as the President & CEO of DirectorForce, a secure, hosted SaaS (Software as a Service) communication and collaboration suite for Boards of Directors. He also serves on a number of technology and community boards.

Prior to starting SafeHatch Mr. Lubert served in technology and leadership roles in the following companies;

Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE) – Formalized the firm’s investment methodology and performed technical due diligence
Instrumental in the Creation of the eBusiness Consulting Services practice At Deloitte & Touche
HEL INC (Integration Networking and Connectivity) LAN/WAN VAR
IBM-GSD (General Systems Division) Systems Engineer & Marketing Rep.

He was one of the first certified network engineers and instructors in the world and served as National Chairman of LANDA (The Local Area Network Dealers Association).

Mr. Lubert was the Entrepreneur in Residence at The Fox School of Business, Temple University and teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate Entrepreneurship courses. He has served as a fellow of the Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute at The Fox School for the last four years.