Business Continuity Information Network briefing – Business Continuity Information Network

Business Continuity Information Network Briefing took place in Houston, TX and was hosted by Harris County Emergency Management and FEMA’s Private Sector Office. The meeting was attended by local business community and government agencies including Chevron, Home Depot, Valero, HEB, Entergy, Hotel and Lodging Assoc., City of Houston, and many others. It provides a unique and first-of-its-kind forum for business and government agencies to discuss cooperation, collaboration, and information sharing.

Acknowledgements

The Business Continuity Information Network is funded by the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University as a public service to the community. We wish to acknowledge the generous support from the Department of Homeland Security via Grant # 2009-ST-062-000016 entitled “Information Delivery and Knowledge Discovery for Hurricane Disaster Management”, DHS Grant # 2010-ST-062-000039 entitled “A Research and Educational Framework to Advance Disaster Information Management in Computer Science PhD Programs,” the National Science Foundation via grant NSF HRD-0833093 entitled “CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering,”, and IBM through its Shared University Research Program.