Al Riyam Park, Muscat Harbor, Oman

Muscat (IINA) : The Seventh Business Continuity and Emergency Response Middle East Forum kicked off Tuesday in the Omani capital of Muscat.

The two-day event, supported by Oman’s Information Technology Authority (ITA), aims to identify, examine and integrate the diverse emergency management, crisis management, contingency planning and business continuity issues facing a private sector organization in its internal operations and interface with the government agencies and emergency management communities.

The forum brings together top business continuity and emergency response management leaders, who will shed light on skills, knowledge elements and concepts applied in the context of the protecting and continuing the organizational life cycle in the face of unforeseen disruptions.

The event will feature several panel discussions, group tasks, round table discussions and insightful case studies on cyber security, emergency response and recovery, enterprise risk management and integration of health, safety and environment with business continuity.

The Forum is being organized by Fleming, and supported by ITA (a public authority responsible for establishing and running the e-governance services in Oman), with the London-based multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young as Gold Partner, the Dubai-based Marjason Consulting as the Knowledge Partner and F-24 UK – Europe’s leading SaaS (software as a service) provider for alerting and crisis management – as the Networking Partner.