Over the past year natural events in Australia have impacted on both large and small businesses. How would your company cope if a catastrophic event such as fire, flood, equipment failure, software issues, financial crisis or ill health struck your business? Big business has been planning for all sorts of contingencies, but most small businesses either believe it won’t happen to them or have not found the time to adequately plan.

GASAA, supported by Enterprise Connect, partnered with Printing Industries Australia and working with the Business Continuity Institute, is running free national Spotlight workshop and networking Q&A sessions to focus on the key subject of continuity planning in print, design and all business related to the printing and publishing industries. Sponsoring the Australia-wide events are Adobe, Canon, Fuji Xerox, Konica Minolta and Ricoh.

National panelists include Jenny Baile, Bowden Print; Peter Ceeney, Gippsland Trade Printers; Paul Freeman, E-Bisprint; Dan Gardam, Enterprise Connect; Raj Gopal, Enterprise Connect; Brian Haines, Printing Industries Association of Australia; Susan Heaney, Heaneys Performers in Print; Tim Janes, Business Continuity Institute; Garry Knespal, GASAA; David Leach, Look Print; Peter Mansfield, Printing Industries Association of Australia; Neil Mclary, Printing Industries Association of Australia; Stephen McRoberts, NSW Land and Property Management Authority; Fay Millington-Scott, Business Continuity Institute; Barry Neame, Printing Industries Association of Australia; Paul Nieuwhof, Printing Industries Association of Australia; Graham Nisbet, Business Continuity Institute; Ron Paterson, Printing Industries Association of Australia; Kenny Seow, Business Continuity Institute; Lea Smith, Bendi Mail; Leslie Whittet, Business Continuity Institute; and Neil Zaltsman, Worldwide Online Printing.