Founding Fathers & Firsts
This publication is widely regarded as the first publication dedicated to disaster recovery.
What is Disaster Recovery Journal?
Originally disaster recovery planning focused primarily on restoring this type of infrastructure.
What is Information Technology, IT or data centers?
What is one of the hottest emerging topics in resilience today focusing on this rapidly evolving technology.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
This type of cyberattack continues to dominate resilience planning by encrypting systems and demanding payment for recovery.
What is ransomware?
DRJ hosts two major conferences annually commonly known as DRJ Spring and this other event.
What is DRJ Fall?
This DRJ Gold Sponsor is known for helping organizations prepare for, recover from, and remain resilient during disruptions.
Who is RECOVERY POINT?
DRJ was founded as organizations began recognizing the importance of disaster recovery planning in this year.
What is 1987?
This discipline expanded planning beyond IT recovery to include people, processes, and operations.
What is business continuity planning?
This resilience topic focused on integrating cyber recovery with business continuity.
What is cyber resilience?
This global infectious disease outbreak transformed business continuity planning more than any event in modern history.
What is COVID-19?
This city has hosted the most DRJ conferences since their initial one.
What is Orlando, Florida?
This DRJ Gold Sponsor provides risk management, crisis response, intelligence, and protective services around the globe.
Who is CRISIS24?
This disaster recovery pioneer founded the industry's first dedicated publication.
Who is Richard L. Arnold?
Many organizations are shifting to this broader concept of integrating risk, crisis management and continuity.
What is operational resilience?
This speaker is known for her training and speaking expertise over the past four decades.
Who is Regina Phelps?
This category of naturally occurring incidents creates record insurance losses and operational disruptions globally.
What are severe weather events, or climate disasters?
While attendees come for the educational content, this is often cited as the number one reason professionals return to DRJ conferences year after year.
What is networking and knowledge sharing?
This DRJ Gold Sponsor provides software and services designed to support business continuity and operational resilience programs.
Who is CONTINUITY2?
DRJ maintains a strategic partnership with this globally recognized resilience organization headquartered in the United Kingdom.
What is the Business Continuity Institute (BCI)?
This concept focuses on identifying what is most important and must be maintained during disruption.
What are critical business services?
Recent conference sessions emphasized that resilience begins with this organizational asset rather than technology alone.
What are people (employees/teams)?
This type of issue became a major operational risk following the pandemic and affects the way we make and deliver products.
What are supply chain disruptions?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, DRJ expanded conferences to include this format so professionals could still participate globally.
What are virtual or hybrid conferences?
This Platinum Sponsor helps organizations manage critical events, communicate during emergencies, and protect people during disruptions.
Who is EVERBRIDGE?
The first issue of this publication was 22 pages long.
What is Disaster Recovery Journal?
The level within an organization that should take responsibility for operational resilience.
Who are the Board of Directors and senior leadership?
The keynote presentation "Creating a Thriving Life" at DRJ Spring 2026 was delivered by this speaker.
Who is Charles Clark?
This workplace trend has forced organizations to rethink continuity planning, cybersecurity, and crisis communications strategies.
What is remote or hybrid work?
These two newer specialized DRJ sessions focus on in depth learning on popular topics and group problem solving. Name at least one of them.
What are Masterclasses or Idea Labs?
This Platinum Sponsor provides a platform that helps organizations manage risk, continuity, resilience, and crisis response activities.
Who is FUSION RISK MANAGEMENT?
This was the year of a record breaking 15 hurricanes – 4 reaching category 5 status, including Katrina.
What is 2005?