| Home > Events > Bulls, Bears, and Birds Symposium Sponsors The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC is a leading think tank devoted to reducing the public health threat posed by catastrophic disease outbreaks, whether naturally occurring or manmade. The Center's many accomplishments include the design and moderation of groundbreaking bioterrorism scenarios, such as Dark Winter, an exercise held in 2001 that simulated a covert smallpox attack on the U.S., and the Atlantic Storm exercise, held in January 2005, which simulated an international terrorist attack with smallpox. Following Atlantic Storm, in March 2005, former Chairman of the house Homeland Security Committee, Christopher Cox, requested that the Center conduct a tabletop exercise with the Committee to allow members to understand the realities and implications of a bioterrorist attack. In collaboration with the World Health Organization, the Center also recently convened an international meeting of experts in Lyon, France to discuss the biosecurity and biosafety challenges of avian influenza, SARS, and other major epidemic threats.
Deutsche Bank is one of the world's leading international financial service providers. With roughly 63,000 employees, the bank serves customers in 74 countries worldwide and with EURO 964 billion in assets. As a lean, dynamic, focused universal bank, Deutsche Bank ranks among the global leaders in Corporate Banking and Securities, Transaction Banking, Asset Management & Private Wealth Management, and has a significant Retail Banking franchise in Germany and other selected countries in Continental Europe. Deutsch Bank is a European global powerhouse dedicated to excellence, constantly challenging the status quo to deliver solutions to its clients.
The Contingency Planning Exchange, Inc. (CPE), is the largest independent group of disaster recovery and business continuity planners in the world; it is dedicated to providing an open exchange of information. What began in 1985 as a small group of contingency planning experts has grown into a professional organization of more than 350 individual members, more than 35 vendor members, and an added regional chapter, as it celebrates 20 years of excellence. As a premier professional association, the CPE provides unsurpassed education and career growth to its members. Through quarterly meetings, regional events, workshops, and exciting speakers covering in depth the focus of current issues, the CPE provides the professional resources to enhance its members' careers and to identify networking opportunities. The sponsors are grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its generous support of this conference. |
