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2020 CALL FOR PAPERS
INTRODUCTION
Continuity & Resilience Today (CRT) - International Business Continuity Management Conference will be held in Toronto on October 7-8, 2020. CRT is the premier event addressing continuity management, providing a global perspective on current and emerging issues for Canadian practitioners. The 2020 program will include an outstanding roster of speakers providing an excellent opportunity for training and networking. Presentations will cover practice, research, and innovation in business continuity, crisis communications and risk management.
CRT 2020 will include 24 presentations over 2-days. The program will be of interest to practitioners, researchers and decision makers from sectors including energy/utilities, finance/insurance, government, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, transportation and wholesale/retail.
Up to two submissions per individual will be accepted. Submissions will be reviewed by senior business continuity professionals selected by CRT's Education Partners who plan and develop the Program; the Business Continuity Institute, Disaster Recovery Information Exchange-Toronto, and Disaster Recovery Institute Canada. If you have knowledge you would like to share at CRT, or know of someone who may be interested in presenting, please share this Call for Papers
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
The 2020 CRT conference provides a two-day forum for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery practitioners to learn from speakers with diverse backgrounds and expertise, sharing their experiences on best practices and ideas to improve organizational resilience. The conference is also an excellent opportunity for practitioners to collaborate and network with other professionals in the industry.
PROGRAM GOALS
Submissions should align with one or more of the goals listed below. All sessions should offer value for conference delegates by providing content derived from real event experience, proven best practices, innovative approaches for nurturing resilience, or validated research. 2020 goals include, but are not limited to:
- Building resilient organizations
- Achieving optimum results while dealing with resource constraints
- Demonstrating effective techniques for managing incidents and crises
- Using collaboration as a strategy for improvement – this may include internal or external relationship-building, developing public–private partnerships
- Addressing todays risk landscape, with particular focus on threats such as:
- Adverse Weather
- Cyber Security
- Human Resources
- Infrastructure
- Regulations
- Supply Chain
- Unplanned Outages
- and other prominent issues
TRENDS, LESSONS IDENTIFIED and recommended SOLUTIONS
ALL submissions must be:
- PRACTICAL in scope
- MUST include case-based lessons learned, trends and solutions to problems for conference delegates
- Designed for the ADVANCED senior practitioner
CONCURRENT SESSION FORMAT
Taking the above Goals into consideration, presentation submissions must fit into a 40-minute live presentation followed by 10 minutes of Q&A
WORKSHOPS
Taking the above Goals into consideration, workshop submissions must fit within at minimum 1.5-hours, to a maximum of 3.5-hours duration. Takeaways for attendees should include templates, processes or procedures that they can implement back at work.
Click here for details on Submission Deadline Dates, Review Process, Selection Criteria, Conditions of Acceptance and Compensation Policy
For questions and support email
info@CRTCON.ca, or call
289-789-2229 or toll free 1-888-443-6786 ext. 2229
Thank you for your submissions!
REVIEW PROCESS
- Submission deadline is January 31, 2020.
- Submitters will be notified by email by February 21, 2020.
- Those selected must confirm their acceptance of their invitation to present by March 6, 2020.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Please ensure your submission meets the criteria as the selection process may disqualify your presentation if it does not meet ALL criteria as stated below:
- ADVANCED PRESENTATION designed for the senior BC manager
- PRACTICAL in scope delivering case-based lessons learned and solutions
- TAKE HOME NUGGET: include a concise one-sentence PRACTICAL LEARNING NUGGET that participants can ‘take home’ to utilize tomorrow
- PROGRAM GOALS: The presentation must align with one or more listed Goals
- Include emerging TRENDS, LESSONS LEARNED and recommended SOLUTIONS
- Advice for continuity practitioners on how to effectively manage RISK
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Three key benefits the presentation will provide to continuity practitioners
- PRESENTATION SKILLS: Speaker Evaluations from major conferences such as CRT; webinars; video and/or references that show the speaker is experienced with excellent presentation skills
- RESEARCH findings balanced with PRACTICAL information
- Absence of commercial sales
CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE
The following deadline dates must be observed by accepted Submitters
- By February 21, 2020: Submitters selected will be notified by email
- By March 6, 2020: Submitters must confirm their acceptance to present
- By September 4, 2020: Submitters must send their presentation for review
Please note that a submitters failure to meet these deadline dates will mean another submitter will be selected to take their place.
COMPENSATION POLICY*
Speakers will be provided with:
- Complimentary registration to the full conference, including admission to all sessions, the exhibit area, and sponsored events such as breakfasts, lunches, dinners and receptions where applicable.
- Reasonable travel expenses including economy class air travel, mileage, parking and taxi
- Hotel accommodation:
- 1-night hotel accommodation if traveling by air, or more than 150km, to the conference.
- 2-nights hotel accommodation if traveling by air more than 2,500 km to the conference
- 3-nights hotel accommodation if traveling from overseas
Concurrent Session Speakers are responsible for all other expenses including non-sponsored meals and sundries.
Workshop Speakers may request an honorarium however are responsible for all other expenses including non-sponsored meals and sundries.
Co-Presenters must pay the full conference registration fee and are responsible for all other expenses including travel, non-sponsored meals and sundries.
* Speakers from for-profit companies are not reimbursed their travel expenses however full complimentary registration is provided
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