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Programme Schedule
Learn from experts who turn risk intelligence into resourced, funded resilience and adaptation systems. Understand how to align top management behind resilience programmes to mitigate risks and leverage opportunities.
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08:45
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Assembly Hall
08:55
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Assembly Hall
09:05
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Assembly Hall
09:15
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Assembly HallIn the past 30 years, resilience has evolved from a technical function within an organisation, to an essential cornerstone of any functioning organisation. Increasingly integrated within strategic execution, resilience today is not just about protecting people, assets, operations - but an essential and embedded element in the development of an organisation’s reputation and bottom line. How did this transformation happen? And what developments are happening today and the near future as the importance of resilience is recognised by investors, customers and the wider community?
10:15
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallAritifical Intelligence (AI) has revolutionised workplace efficiency at an astonishing speed, and continues to evolve at an exponential rate. As regulation struggles to keep pace with progress, and many roles and processes are replaced with AI, this session looks at the risks that organisations are exposing themselves to, both from the immediate adoption of these technologies, as well as the longer term sleeping risks of the future. -
- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallAt the heart of the Sendai framework is the need to protect people and communities from disaster. Across the globe, the frequency and severity of major catastrophes is increasing - and yet mortality is going down with innovation and collaboration at the centre of success. A decade into the Sendai framework - how is progress is being made, and how can other communities learn? -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteResilience has evolved from a technical approach to reduce property damage and business interruption, into an all-emcompassing culture that forms a critical layer of corporate defence. The most ephemeral strategic asset is your reputation, which needs decades to build, but seconds to destroy. This session looks at the techniques to predict, detect, monitor and prevent matters which can ultimately impact your reputation and ESG performance.Moderator
11:15
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Council RoomOrganisational resilience is often defined through structures, processes, plans and technology. Yet in a crisis, these are only as effective as the people who use them. When familiar assumptions no longer apply and proven answers stop working, resilience becomes a matter of how we think.
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- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallRecent years have seen an exponential rise in technological capability supported resilience, from information and digital tools, energy and materials science, risk assessment and anticipation instruments, to detection and communication capabilities. As the global risk environment and organisational expectation intensifies, it is vital that the latest tools and technologies are responsibly leveraged to stay ahead of the curve. This session looks at how to invest and adapt in a world of rapidly evolving technology to align resilience to the delivery of strategic goals with maximum efficiency. -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteCan you truthfully answer these questions: 1) How good - from one to ten -is my business resilience? 2) How good does it need to be? 3) What are the priority gaps that I need to address to ensure that I have in place effective and proportionate resilience. The answers should be different for every organisation, and we are joined by experts to explore practical methods to assess resilience maturity, and communcate it in a way that drives action.
12:15
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Assembly Hall
12:30
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Assembly Hall
13:30
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- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallFrom individual communities to the greatest urban projects in human history, resilience must be engineered in from the very first stage of design. Population growth and intensifying climate risks demand strategic planning at every scale. Increasingly accurate climatic models and sophisticated construction materials offer a unique opportunity to embed resilience by design, through sound risk assessment methodologies, adaptation planning, and economic frameworks that ensure our built environment can withstand the real-world challenges ahead.Speakers -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteIn recent decades, the resilience function has risen like a phoenix from its birthplace as a small subsidiary function in the organisational system. From humble beginnings as a bit part player in the IT department, resilience is now one the key boardroom agenda topics in any responsible organisation. Yet still there is no common agreement on where its home should be - from Corporate Security, Health and Safety, Legal, Sustainability and even Finance - this session looks at how to build a resilience department with real impact, and most importantly, where to avoid positioning it.
14:30
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Council RoomMeaningful reporting of resilience implementation requires the selection of metrics that provide real performance data. In this masterclass, we will examine how to select, measure and report data that provides assurance that plans, people and systems will perform under crisis conditions.
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallIn a future dominated by demographic, resource and ideological conflict, people and organisations can sometimes feel that they are at the whim of geopolitical circumstances beyond their control. This session looks at why geopolitical uncertainty is relevant for your organisation, and what you can do to ensure that you evolve for success within the wider global context.Moderator -
- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallIt is hard to think of any incident response that was not improved by earlier warnings, whether through using increasingly powerful techniques to understand and interpret risk, or the tools and communication processes that turn observation into preparation. The extra days, hours or even seconds that effective early warnings provide are the single greatest differentiator between success and failure, and yet often the systems that could be in place are simply absent, ineffective or poorly designed. This session looks at the latest techniques available to make early warnings affordable, relevant and democratic. -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteGood risk and impact analysis is critical to informing proportionate resilience and adapatation planning, and this is especially the case for long term physical risks planning associated with climate change. With risk projection tools becoming ever more sophisticated, how should this data inform your assessments of your vulnerabilities, and the adaptation controls that should be put in place to ensure the long term resilience of your assets?
15:30
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Council RoomThe climate is changing and it will affect us all, with a likelihood of more extreme weather to come. So what are the new realities?
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallPowered by AI, mass investment, education, and government support, information technology is moving at an unprecendented pace of progress. From real world quantum capability, to seeding socio-political agendas, and advanced new cyber exploitation approaches - there are two common themes. It is coming faster than you think, and the world is not ready. In this session we look at the short to medium term of new and evolving threats, and look in practical terms at what you should be doing today to prepare. -
- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallThe business of insurance is quality risk data, using powerful analytics to ensure that whilst the financial burden of an incident is transferred, it is within careful calculated margins of profitability. But good insurance companies will only partner with organisations that take their resilience seriously and leverage good risk data to identify and fix vulnerabilities. The democratisation of insurance data to clients provides a range of synergistic benefits, lower premiums, lower claims, less harm to people and shorter business interruption. The theory is simple, the reality less so - our experts look at how this mutually beneficial approach could be better orchestrated. -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteThe KPIs that are typically used to assess the quality of resilience tend to focus on the easy to measure, and historical performance - typically at the number of incidents, alignment of plans to management standards, training metrics and exercises conducted. In reality, these lagging indicators probably an audit picture of past performance, but not the key metric: "How well will this organisation respond to the next crisis?". To answer this question, you need to drop the lagging indicators, and think about the leading indicators that actually inform this answer, not just the things that are easy to measure. This session looks at ways to audit and assure real world performance quality.
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Council RoomFrom a murky past of blackmail and abductions for cash, extortion is fast becoming a reality for many organisations both in the digital and real world. As organised criminals find more sophisticated ways leverage you and your data, this session explores what you can do to fight back. Lead by one of the world’s leading experts, this session will examine the anatomy of extortion, from how to successfully resolve old school Kidnap for Ransom incidents to modern AI generated deep fakes and ways that you can prepare and respond.an do to ensure that you evolve for success within the wider global context.Moderator
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallFrom quantum fuelled data analysis tools, to high resolution earth observation and instantaneous tokenised transactions, the next generation of technology will empower a revolution in risk understanding and disaster reduction. As these tools move from research to real world deployment - what can you do to get ahead of the curve and exploit these tools to protect people, property and profits?
17:15
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Assembly HallAll customers are juggling the competing requirements of supply chain cost, resilience and sustainability. As many organisations have found out, any fragility in the supply chain is most likely to be exposed during the stress of a crisis manifestation. This plenary focuses on work conducted to look at how this trilemma can be resolved to ensure that resilience is not compromised by an over focus on cost, and sustainable practices are in place to balance these competing needs.
18:00
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Assembly Hall
09:00
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Assembly HallIn the past 30 years, resilience has evolved from a technical function within an organisation, to an essential cornerstone of any functioning organisation. Increasingly integrated within strategic execution, resilience today is not just about protecting people, assets, operations - but an essential and embedded element in the development of an organisation’s reputation and bottom line. How did this transformation happen? And what developments are happening today and the near future as the importance of resilience is recognised by investors, customers and the wider community?
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Council RoomEffective decision-making during a crisis requires more than technical expertise or well-developed plans. Under conditions of uncertainty, time pressure, and incomplete information, leaders must be able to interpret rapidly evolving situations, maintain perspective, and make timely decisions that enable an effective organizational response. This workshop explores the cognitive, behavioural, and human factors that influence decision-making in high-pressure environments, providing participants with the methodologies and foundations needed to empower teams, strengthen judgement, and enhance performance when it matters most.
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallThe increase in physical risk due to ever more volatile weather events is a generational challenge. But effective resilience and adaptation planning requires accurate risk projections, and the ability to quantify impact, vulnerability, efficacy of current controls, and the risk reduction value of any further control measures. As transitional and regulatory pressure steps up, it is ever more vital for organisations to have a strong, auditable approach to demonstrate that they have programmes in place that accurately understand the risk and provide a framework for proportionate mitigation.Speakers -
- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallWhen it comes to resilience, the public sector is from Mars and private organisations are from Venus. This presents a serious problem when your are trying to solve problems on planet Earth. The benefits of collaboration between the public and private sectors are manifest, from personal safety, to community continuity and protection of the national infrastructure. Yet real life examples of effective cooperation are still rare - this session looks not just at case studies of the good, the bad and ugly , but the underlying factors that determine the ultimate outcome. -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteIf the CFO doesn’t value your organisational resilience programme, then you don’t have one. Selling resilience to the money men requires more than reporting operational performance, it requires quantitative measurement of metrics that have genuine P&L meaning. There are many examples of this: Protection of share price, attracting investment, improving ESG performance, supporting the strategic narrative, tangible strengthening of brand equity, executing a programme that translate into marketing and sales. But what does the CFO really care about, and how can the language of resilience be translated into dollar figure metrics that excite and engage?Speakers
11:15
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Council RoomIn a context of multiple, simultaneous, and increasingly destabilizing crises, organizations can no longer aim to protect everything, maintain everything, or activate everything. This workshop offers a pragmatic and strategic approach based on the concept of the MVF – Minimum Viable Firm, aimed at identifying the essentials of the company: the functions, capabilities, decisions, people, and flows without which the organization can neither hold, nor decide, nor plan ahead.
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Harvey Goodwin SuiteIf the CFO doesn't value your organisational resilience programme, then you don't have one. Selling resilience to the moneymen requires more thai reporting operational performance; it requires quantitative measurement of metrics that have genuine P&L meaning. There are many examples of this: Protection of share price, attracting investment, improving ESG performance, supporting the strategic narrative, tangible strengthening of brand equity, executing a programme that translates into marketing and sales. But what does the CFO really care about, and how can the language of resilience be translated into dollar figure metrics that excite and engage?
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- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallInvestment in personal resilience both in the workplace and communities has one of the highest returns on investment: it saves lives, reduces the impact of disasters on property and assets, and assists the return to normality. This session looks at some of the coaching and methods that have been shown to help people be better prepared and ready to make better decisions in a crisis situation.
12:15
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Assembly Hall
12:30
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Assembly Hall
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Council RoomAn organisation is its people. Over the last decade the frequency and impact of global events and emerging technologies have placed unprecedented stress on the workforce, with greater uncertainty resulting in workforce insecurity and lost productivity. The end of life-careers, loss of opportunities for younger people entering the job market, hesitancy to invest in talent and the erosion of employer/employee loyalty has shifted the professional working landscape in recent years – this session looks at how to navigate this.
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- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallConflict stress-tests societies like no other crisis. From communities preparing for the outbreak of hostilities, to populations enduring active conflict, to nations rebuilding in its aftermath, each phase carries insightful lessons for societal resilience. This session examines what we can learn from these experiences - ,the behaviours, structures, and bonds that allow societies to absorb, adapt, and ultimately recover - and how those lessons can inform resilience-building far beyond the battlefield.
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Council RoomTreating resilience as a mere cost of doing business is a missed opportunity. By harnessing advanced risk science, organizations can proactively reduce future liabilities while unlocking significant commercial value. In this session, key leaders will reveal how to bridge the gap between scientific risk modelling and executive strategy, turning uncertainty and disruption into a tangible competitive advantage.
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
What does a Good Resilience Organisation Really Look Like, Balancing Skills and Functional ExpertiseAssembly HallEvery organisation has unique objectives, risks, values, operations and geographical scope that require an equally unique resilience function. There is no one size fits all, and even within the resilience function, several different skills are likely to be required - creatives, leaders, analysts resource investigators. This session looks at how to design a resilience function from the bottom up, building expertise and business capabilities together to ensure a rounded and complete team. Good teams bring good results, but are rarely the result of random selection of people. Looking at case studies of different organisations, this session will provide guidance on how to build better resilience through optimising human capital. -
- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallWhether you are seeking to attract funding from public or private bodies, the challenge remains the same. Investors do not want to risk their money on organisations that don’t take resilience and continuity seriously. The net result of this is either failure to attract investment, or unfavourable repayment terms. Good risk management and resilience provides reassurance to investors that you take the protection of your operations, supply chain, intellectual property and reputation seriously. This session looks specifically at what investors are interested in, and more importantly, how to demonstrate to them that the risk management programmes you have in place are going to meet their quality standards. -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteWhatever legislative and regulatory environment you operate in, there are two common requirements - firstly that you understand your risks, and secondly that you have in place effective systems for risk management. Ultimately it is a board level responsibility to ensure that these systems are in place, and to ensure that stakeholders are provided with adequate disclosures to assure that these requirements are being met. With a new swathe of International standards, European Directives and Financial disclosure requirements for resilience professionals to tackle - how best to ensure an efficient and impactful approach to meeting and reporting these requirements?
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Council RoomAn organisation’s reputation is both the most powerful and fragile asset. Years of work and millions of dollars can be spent on building stakeholder trust, which can be destroyed in minutes. With even greater scrutiny of corporate behaviour, ESG ratings and regulatory compliance – how can organisations ensure that they are identifying, preparing for and preventing reputational impact?
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallIn recent years conflict, Covid, tariffs and climate change have repeatedly exposed the fragility of apparently efficient supply chains. Achieving the balance between value, sustainability and resilience means employing deep science to understand which suppliers are essential to your business activities, and how likely they are to meet service levels under crisis situations. With practical approaches from world experts in supplier assurance, this session is an increasing vital primer for organisations of all sizes. -
- Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
Hoare Memorial HallWhether you are developing resilience solutions for the private or public sector, there is a harsh reality that all programmes face resource and budget realities. This is even more pronounced in challenging operating environments where the risk may be higher, but the availability of the time, expertise and money is especailly low. Good resilience planners are able to work around these constraints to ensure that effective measures are implemented through creativity and innovation; this session explores the out-of-the-box resilience thinking that every organisation can learn from. -
- Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
Harvey Goodwin SuiteSince man first stared at the skies and marvelled at the clockwork of infinite physics, humans have been fascinated with our relationship outside the immediate surface of the planet. In the last hundred years, speculation on the potential of the skies has transformed from science fiction to very hard, science fact. Space technology is going through a revolution, with increasingly powerful Earth Observation and (tele) communications powered by computing power and ever more advanced battery and competent performance. Today, our lives are improved by space technology. Tomorrow they will rely on it. This session looks into the final frontier to explore how this potential can be exploited in a very practical was to improve resilience.
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- Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Assembly HallRecent years have seen a significant change in Business Resilience (BR) as a organisational function - as the function has grown exponentially, generating a human capital to meet the skills gap. Business Resilience used to be run by generalists, or people who had moved sideways from associated fields. Today, thousands of career resilience professionals are passing out through universities, and the abundance of professional qualifications outside tertiary/quaternary education is huge. So far so good. But how do professional qualifications really translate into something that makes your CV stand out, and what do BR professionals really need to be able to do the job effectively? Whether you are recruiting or trying to get recruited, this session looks behind the kimono of which qualifications are really the hallmarks in quality, and how these can help organisations manage the resource skills gap.
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Assembly Hall
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Assembly Hall