CPO 2026 Speaker Series - February session:
Ten Lessons in Organizational Resilience for BC/DR leaders

Speaker: Jason Buffington, CBCP
Principal Analyst & Founder, Data Protection Matters (DPM)

When: February 19, 2026 @ 1:00 p.m. ET

Continuity Professionals of Ohio (CPO) is pleased to announce the February session of the 2026 Monthly Speaker Series featuring Jason Buffington, CBCP.

Ten Lessons in Organizational Resilience for BC/DR leaders:

Over 500 leaders of their organizations' business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and cyber-preparedness teams were surveyed to understand organizational resilience.  They provided insights into collaboration across those initiatives and teams, organizational alignment, challenges, drivers, methods, metrics, and intended areas of improvement for 2026. The session will unpack these learnings and provide 10 actionable takeaways for participants to bring back to their colleagues across the resilience teams within their organizations and key third-party providers.

About the speaker:

Jason Buffington has 35+ years of experience in the IT Disaster Recovery space, CBCP since 2003, spoken at hundreds of DR and IT events over the years, and published in numerous periodicals and blog sites. He is the founder of Data Protection Matters, an independent research and analyst firm focused on data protection, cyber resilience, BaaS & DRaaS, and BC/DR. Jason is active in the BCI AI-SIG and the ACP. Outside of BC/DR, Jason is an executive coach and an active volunteer leader in Scouting America; "Be Prepared" is their motto too.

Check out DataProtectionMatters.com and please follow Jason and DPM on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataprotectionmatters/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbuffington/

Location: This is a Zoom web conference

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/PBHdBXoUTOCyGbVEvzhIfg