Nashville Technology Council

Dr. Laura Myers is a community disaster resiliency professional. Her work has produced a regional resiliency disaster response planning model for disaster response planning stakeholders, including police, fire, emergency management, civilians, and the private sector. Dr. Myers is a disaster preparedness research professor with Mississippi State University and a senior scholar and lecturer with Clemson University. Dr. Myers has published books and articles on disaster preparedness, emergency management, disaster recovery, criminal justice education, organizational ethics, cultural diversity in professions, and the administration of public agencies. She is a residential and online educator and also is a trainer for criminal justice and emergency response professionals. She serves as a consultant to both the public and private sectors on disaster preparedness, business continuity, organizational administration, and criminal justice topics.

Randall Till (MBCP) has over 20 years experience creating and implementing business continuity practices for organizations to help manage operational risks. His expertise spans marketing, management, and application of business continuity practices following a holistic approach to protect company assets and build resilient services.

Throughout his career, Mr. Till has been responsible for creating business continuity programs from inception to maturity, and has successfully established “best-in-class” practices. He has extensive experience working with senior management to promote business continuity within their organizations, and to foster the appropriate oversight for the BC Program.

Mr. Till serves as a member of the Executive Council for the Disaster Recovery Journal. He is recognized as an industry expert and is a regular speaker at industry events, trade shows and webinars. Mr. Till has also taught business continuity classes for the past 12 years. He started as a certified instructor for Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and has developed and taught his own classes to share best practices in Business Continuity Management.

Nashville Tech Story (11/9/09)

With over 1,000 attendees, this five day conference is the largest educational conference for data center management professionals worldwide.  Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Data Center World hits the Nashville community, March 7th – 11th, at Gaylord Opryland Resort, bringing together a wide spectrum of attendees including CIOs, MIS Directors, Network and Communications managers, Systems Software managers, Facility managers, Disaster Recovery specialists, Security managers, and Operations managers.  

Not only is there the opportunity to network with peers and potential clients from businesses across the nation, there are a number of chances to educate from these individuals as well.  Conference case studies will take you through a real-life data center crisis and teach you the ins and outs of working through the problem.  Choose from 7 different roundtable discussions, which will give you the chance to ask questions to a panel if industry experts.  In addition, you can sign up for a data center tour at Nashville’s very own Dolphini Networks or Vanderbilt University’s ITS Facility.  This event also has optional tutorials, facilities/greening tracks, product information sessions, and industry leading keynote addresses.  

To find out more information on this event, visit http://www.datacenterworld.com/index.html.