[Singapore, 23 October 2009] BCM Institute had once again organized another of its successful Meet-The-Expert (MTE) event which drew the support of more than 120 Information Technology, Information Security and senior management.   These professionals comes from the varied industries to gather at the Holiday Inn Atrium for an afternoon of informative sharing and technology updating session.  The theme is “Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies.”  This is the second time that the institute had organized an IT disaster recovery theme talk of which, 75% of the participants who had registered are attending our MTE for the first time and they are not our certified members.  This seminar is to bring the real life experiences and practicalities of implementing disaster recovery strategies that is taught as part of the institute's DRP-5000 course.

The seminar was led by Mr. Yong Foo Onn, Director of UBS Bank who shared about the "Cost-Effective Identification and Selection of the BC & DR Strategies". This was followed by Mr. Paul Kangro from Novell Australia who touched on "Disaster Recovery and Platform Management". Mr. Roland Teo from the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), emphasizing on the “how to” apply for the grant from National BCM Programme and how it could benefit their organisation during this times of economy crisis.