
DRJ | Where Risk Meets Resilience
For nearly four decades, Disaster Recovery Journal has been at the center of the business continuity and disaster recovery profession. Today, resilience reaches far beyond traditional boundaries.
Organizations face interconnected risks across cyber, AI, technology, supply chains, operations, third parties, and people. DRJ brings these disciplines together, connecting the professionals, ideas, strategies, and solutions needed to navigate disruption and build stronger organizations.
DRJ is where risk meets resilience.
Through conferences, education, research, thought leadership, and community, we help organizations strengthen resilience, help professionals grow as leaders, and continue moving the resilience profession forward.
Our Mission
DRJ advances resilience as a strategic business imperative by connecting the people, ideas, and disciplines that help organizations prepare for disruption, protect operations, and perform through change.
What We Do
DRJ provides a vendor-neutral platform that connects strategy, leadership, technology, and real-world practice across the resilience landscape.
Through live events, digital content, research, education, and community engagement, we deliver:
- World-class conferences connecting practitioners, executives, innovators, and solution providers
- Educational content and editorial insight focused on emerging risks, technologies, strategies, and best practices
- Webinars and virtual programming providing ongoing learning and timely perspectives
- Research and thought leadership helping organizations benchmark, modernize, and strengthen resilience programs
- A global professional community built around collaboration, knowledge sharing, and career growth
Where Risk Meets Resilience
Resilience can no longer operate in a silo. The risks organizations face are increasingly interconnected, requiring stronger alignment across business functions, technologies, and leadership teams.
DRJ brings together the disciplines shaping modern resilience, including:
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Operational resilience and enterprise risk
- Cyber resilience and IT recovery
- Crisis management and emergency response
- Artificial intelligence and emerging technology
- Third-party and supply chain resilience
- Governance, compliance, and organizational leadership
By connecting these disciplines, DRJ helps organizations break down silos, better understand risk, and build integrated resilience strategies that support the entire enterprise.
Our Approach
DRJ is built around a simple idea: real practitioners, real insights, real outcomes.
Our conferences, content, and programs are designed to move beyond theory. We focus on practical application, real-world experiences, peer collaboration, and ideas professionals can take back to their organizations and put into action.
As risks, technologies, and business expectations continue to change, DRJ helps professionals stay ahead of what is next while strengthening the fundamentals that keep organizations operating.
Our Community
At the heart of DRJ is a global community of professionals responsible for protecting organizations, operations, people, technology, and reputation.
From business continuity and disaster recovery professionals to risk leaders, CISOs, technology executives, crisis managers, and emerging resilience leaders, DRJ creates a place for disciplines to connect, ideas to be challenged, and careers to move forward.
Looking Ahead
Resilience is no longer simply a function or a compliance requirement. It is a strategic business imperative.
DRJ will continue expanding the conversation, connecting new disciplines, developing future leaders, and helping organizations turn risk into stronger, more adaptive resilience.
DRJ | Where Risk Meets Resilience.

Founder
Richard L. Arnold (1945–2024) was a pioneer in business continuity and disaster recovery. In 1985, he helped establish Missouri’s first hot- and cold-site, and in 1987 he launched Disaster Recovery Journal, the field’s first dedicated publication. He later co-founded DRI International, advancing professional standards and certification across the discipline.

President
Bob Arnold is the President and Executive Publisher of Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ), with more than 30 years of experience in business continuity and disaster recovery. He has channeled this knowledge, experience, and passion into strengthening DRJ’s market position as a leading information source in the BC/DR space, while building a strong digital presence through its website, webinars, social media, and virtual events.
He has also been instrumental in the growth of DRJ’s internationally recognized Spring and Fall conferences, which connect practitioners with real-world strategies and expertise.

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