MIR3 Webinars

H1N1 (Swine Flu) Pandemic: How to Mitigate the Impact of Influenza and other Mass Absenteeism Events.

PART 1
Influenza: Business Continuity Threat, Impact and Response.

October 19, 2009

The threat of a global flu epidemic looms larger than ever. Most U.S. companies acknowledge that influenza could disrupt their operations and pose a serious health risk to employees. Yet most companies are still unprepared to deal with this, and other events that would similarly cause mass absenteeism.

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PART 2
H1N1 Pandemic from a medical standpoint:
What you need to know now.

November 16, 2009

As you create and implement your plan for ensuring business continuity, it's important to understand the potential health impact of the H1N1 virus on your organization and the local, national and global community; as well as the worldwide medical response to this threat.

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PART 3
H1N1 Pandemic: Legal/Compliance Issues for your Organization.

December 7, 2009

No doubt about it: we live in a litigious society. Even with the best of intentions, your responses to an epidemic or other crisis will be second-guessed and held to legal scrutiny after the fact. This webinar will help you be prepared by educating you about current legal precedents, statutes and regulations; likely future regulations relating to business continuity and human resources, and how to incorporate all of this to best care for your people and your organization as well as mitigate after-the-fact legal challenges to your actions.

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Testing your Notification System

May, 2009

Presentation Abstract

This Webinar will last about 10 minutes and discuss the importance of periodically testing your notification system as well as how to read the report statistics and what to watch for. A sample test notification will be created and report statistics will be pulled to show system performance with instruction on how to calculate delivery times off of report details.

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How to plan for business continuity
in the event of a pathogen outbreak threat

May, 2009

The current concerns about the global spread of Swine Flu underscore the need to be prepared in the event of a significant pathogen outbreak. As a supplier of urgent mass notification solutions designed specifically to respond to such situations, MIR3 has assembled two risk management / business continuity experts to give a webinar about what an outbreak could mean for your organization and the steps to take to protect the health and safety of your organization’s members while ensuring the smooth continuity of your operations.

Join us online for a free webinar this Tuesday, May 5 as experts Greg Livingston and Richard Cooper discuss strategies for developing a Mass Absentee Plan in the event of a pathogen outbreak or similar major event which results in the loss of access to employees, suppliers and/or customers, and successfully implementing such a plan to ensure minimal impact to your daily operations. Areas to be addressed include:

• Human resources
• Business resources
• Supply and delivery chain
• Legal and regulatory requirements
• Customer service

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Client Case Study Three:
MIR3 and COOP Systems

March, 2009

Presentation Abstract

Notification systems are of vital importance for organizations during large emergencies. Business continuity planning software provides the means for these organizations to plan for such contingencies and respond quickly and effectively. MIR3 and COOP Systems, Inc. bring these two technologies together which allows organizations to plan and prepare for such incidents and, should they happen, be able to access powerful notification technologies to quickly communicate to an audience of thousands.

In this webinar, COOP Systems, Inc. will demonstrate the notification capabilities provided by MIR3 from within the myCOOP software system. The myCOOP internet application exposes specific MIR3 functions to users, where they can easily find and execute notification system requests.

COOP Systems is a leading provider of Business Continuity software for the global enterprise and empowers some of the world's largest organizations by unifying all the Professional Practices, including BIA/Risk, Planning, Incident Command and Notification processes, in one instance that covers the enterprise.

About the Presenter

Colin Elster, Chief Technology Officer of COOP Systems, Inc. is responsible for product engineering, research and development initiatives for COOP Systems award-winning products in the business continuity planning software markets. Previously, Mr. Elster has led and managed multiple software teams developing a variety of products in diverse fields such as business process workflow systems and video surveillance systems. He holds a M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the prestigious United States Naval Academy.

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What is inConnect?

February, 2009

Presentation Abstract

Are you tired of manually uploading your data into the MIR3 system? Do you find yourself spending more and more time updating and maintaining your current data in MIR3?

If you answered “Yes” to either of these questions, you may want to consider inConnect. You have probably heard the term inConnect used by your support staff or sales personnel but not exactly clear on what it is and how it works.

Listen to a short 5 minute webinar and educate yourself on the straight facts of inConnect. What is it, how does it work, how it will make your life EASY!

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Client Case Study Two:
MIR3 and ImpactWeather

February, 2009

Presentation Abstract

MIR3's valued client, ImpactWeather, provides the best weather monitoring and notification system available for hundreds of organizations nationwide.

Through this presentation, Paul Hastings of ImpactWeather will review how they have integrated MIR3's inEnterprise into their own service offerings; automating notifications of the latest weather developments to better inform and provide clients with important data that could highly impact one's business.

ImpactWeather will also provide examples from real-life client experiences in climate weather situations. Together with MIR3, they have helped businesses across the nation prepare and manage severe weather threats that could impact daily business.

About the Presenter

Paul Hastings, is a 20-year veteran of the private meteorology industry, Paul Hastings graduated from Florida’s Stetson University in 1987 with a BS in Physics and a minor in Applied Mathematics. His career began as a high school physics teacher in Delray Beach, FL and he later went on to help start a medical services firm in Delray Beach. In 1995, Paul and his wife moved to Minnesota to start their family. While in Minnesota, he joined Kavouras, Inc., a Doppler radar manufacturer, as a business development manager. Several years later, he joined ImpactWeather, Inc. in Houston as their Vice President.

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Best Practices Webinar

January, 2009

Presentation Abstract

This Webinar will last about 10 minutes and cover a shortened version of our current Best Practices Slide Deck. The presenter will discuss simple steps to help improve recipient response ratio and tailor the system to fit your needs and meet your expectations.

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Q4 Maintenance Release

December, 2008

This 5 minute Webinar will cover the new product enhancements released Friday December 19, 2008. This release had minimal impact to all MIR3 inEnterprise hosted solutions and included the following updates: Recipient Search by Time Zone, Performance Enhancement, and Set Name/Code and Display Name for Divisions.

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Forecast Alerts in Business and Organizations
in Weather Sensitive Environments

December, 2008

Presentation Abstract

MIR3 is delighted to have WDT present their interactive alerting service that provides alerts of lightning and many weather warnings to cell phones, mobile devices and e-mail plus a voice message option built on MIR3 technology. WDT's solution, called iMap Weather NOTUSTM is an Interactive and Personalized Weather Alerting Engine which can be used by a wide array of businesses and organizations as well as consumers in weather-sensitive environments.

Through this webinar, WDT will demonstrate how users can get a 24 hour, 3 or 7 day forecasts on their mobile device or by e-mail up to 5 times a day. This forecast can be also be branded by sponsors, providing an excellent revenue stream to cover the low investment. Additionally, WDT will showcase how this system can help provide useful information to make better business and planning decisions.

Product Background

iMap NOTUS alerts you of lightning and many other weather warning types (tornadoes, flash floods, severe storms) via cell phones, mobile devices and e-mail. A unique feature of  iMap NOTUS is its interactive capability to manage your weather alerting on the Internet via an intuitive interactive Google Map interface allowing you to move the location for alerting and choose between a variety of alerting and forecast options. The key differentiator with the iMap Weather NOTUS service is that consumers do not receive "false alarms" as iMap NOTUS is site-specific to your location, right down to the nearest 6 miles, for example, not a standard reflection of county-wide weather warnings.

WDT's "Weather Alert Engine" is presently being used by over 10,000 commercial customers to bring these same capabilities to a much broader consumer market place. It is the only interactive weather alerting engine on the web that combines an intuitive Google mapping tool to easily move your location and set the alerts based on that automatic move. The alerts themselves are unique in that the user can select which alerts they want, including lightning alerts, and how those alerts are sent to them.

The WDT alert engine is robust and can be tailored to provide alerting for non-weather events such as the full Suite of Emergency Alerting Services (EAS) alerts and can also be customized to provide a great tie into a wide variety of contextual advertising models.

About the Presenter

Mike Gauthier - VP of North American business development has 20 years experience in emergency management alerting and Business continuity strategies. Mike has worked closely with MIR3 for many years and has deployed MIR3 technology it in real time severe weather situations.

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Symantec's Incident Response Program:
May 2008 Anthrax Threat

November, 2008

Presentation Abstract

This presentation will provide a brief overview of Symantec’s Incident Response program and focus on MIR3’s inEnterprise notification service as implemented and used as a critical tool within Symantec’s incident response methodology.   Coverage will include the use of template notifications, tactics used to keep recipients updated within the MIR3 tool, standard members of base recipient groups, global incident commander notifications using recipient schedules, and training practices. Additional details will be reviewed on how inEnterprise was critical to Symantec’s incident response of an actual anthrax threat in May 2008 at one of its critical facilities that is home to over 1,000 employees.

About the Presenter

John A. Dalisky has more than 20 years of experience in the field of business continuity planning, disaster response, and recovery. His former employers include First Interstate Bank, Delta Dental, and SunGard Recovery Services (formerly Comdisco), where he was the Business Continuity Vice President and Director for the Western US and Canadian Region. In this position, he was responsible for overseeing three major information technology centers and thirteen end-user facilities located from Chicago to San Francisco, and throughout all of Canada.

While at Delta Dental John implemented their recovery capability for distributed systems and coordinated many disaster recovery exercises, all successful.

John joined Symantec in 2004, managing the Americas Business Continuity Practice for two years, and then moving to work on Symantec internal programs following the VERITAS acquisition.

John has supported over forty IT/business recoveries throughout his career, providing direct support and management oversight following events that include earthquakes, tornados, terrorism, civil disorder, network, power and facility failures. He is currently a Senior Manager of Symantec's Global BC/DR group.

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