Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, FL
BCIN participated in the Supporting Local and Regional Business Recovery Roundtable which was attended by a variety of staff from Florida County Emergency Management, Florida Regional Planning Council, Florida Small Business Development Center, Public Safety, and State Health Dept. A range of topics were discussed such as ESF-18 building, tools to facilitate information sharing with the community, developing partnerships with Economic Development Organizations, assess county capacity, mutual aide agreements, business continuity planning motivation and outreach, recovery data management privacy and security, and standards for continuity planning.

US Chamber of Commerce/ Business Civic Leadership Committee Annual Disaster Forum was held at Office Depot Headquarters, Boca Raton, FL. Featured presentation "Business Continuity Information Network". The forum brought together nationally acclaimed public and private sector disaster experts who shared best practices and provided input to the new Federal administration. See also "Local Private-Public Initiatives for Building a Disaster-Resilient Community", in On the Brink: Re-engineering the Nation's Disaster Response Processes.

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 Provide a unique and first-of-its-kind forum for business and government agencies to discuss cooperation, collaboration and information sharing.

Gulf of Mexico Alliance Coastal Community Resilience Meeting Jan. 6th-8th, 2009 Apalachicola, FL. Invited speaker "Business Continuity Information Network". The mission of GOMA is to "Coordinate and enhance efforts of local, state, federal, business, and non-profit partners to assist coastal communities and ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico region in becoming more resilient in structure and function". Participating Governor Offices and state agencies from Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida.

"Connecting through the eye of a storm" describes the Business Continuity Information Network (BCIN) project and the needs of the communities it is serving. BCIN was piloted by 100 South Florida businesses in the 2008 hurricane season. This "clearinghouse of information" allows businesses to obtain answers to critical questions, allowing them to make decisions about how and when they can resume operations.

Business Continuity Information Network", The Twelfth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications SEA 2008, Nov. 16-18th, 2008. Yi Deng's Keynote

"Storm Warning" (Part 1, Part 2) discusses the motivation and approach for the Business Continuity Information Network (BCIN) system. BCIN is being developed by the School of Computer and Information Sciences at FIU to provide small and medium businesses with the information they need to recover quickly from a storm.