BANG is a get together of Business Continuity management people who are entertained during the evening by a "controversial" guest speaker, in a social atmosphere. Sponsored and hosted by Barclay Simpson, it is FREE and held on the last Wednesday of each month, in Central London.

This month's guest speaker is Robin Gaddum of IBM and his talk will explore the question "Is Business Resilience too much of a good thing or the future for Business Continuity, and what is Resilience anyway?"  He will be challenging the existing definitions of resilience, asking how much resilience is enough and questioning what the future holds for business continuity managers.

About Robin Gaddum

Robin Gaddum is a senior managing consultant with IBM’s Business Continuity and Resiliency Services.  In addition to his normal role, Mr Gaddum has worked as part of an IBM crisis response team delivering services in support of customers at time of need.

Prior to his career with IBM, Mr Gaddum held positions as a business continuity managing consultant with SunGard Availability Services, Guardian iT and Safetynet, undertaking a large number of consulting engagements across a wide range of businesses. 

Mr Gaddum is a member of IBM’s worldwide Resilience Community of Practice and part of IBM’s Business Continuity technical advisory council and represents IBM at the UK Government Tripartite Group’s Recovery Site Providers’ Forum and helped write the Terms of Reference for this group and the Joint Provider’s Statement on Pandemic produced in 2006.

Mr Gaddum is a member of the British Standards Institution’s BCM/1 business continuity steering committee (since 2007) and the subcommittee responsible for drafting BS 25777.  

At BANG evenings, BC people have an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals. Numbers are limited to the first 70. 

(If you haven't already done so, there is a BANG group on LinkedIn which you are invited to join)