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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09:15
  1. Assembly Hall
    In 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 exe …
10:15
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    Aritifical 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 ma …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    The future will bring greater physcial risks to our built environment, but increasingly accurate long term climatic models and sophisticated construction materials provide an unique oppotunity to engi …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Resilience 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 epheme …
11:15
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    Effective Business Resilience requires strong administrative controls on processes, and the ability to identify weaknesses, errors and external factors that can impact efficency. From industrial proce …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    Investment 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 assist …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Can 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 tha …
12:00
  1. Assembly Hall
13:00
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    Powered 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-politica …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    Population growth, at both a global and local level, requires strategic residential and infrastructure planning on the grandest scale. Good resilience ensures that exposure to natural hazards, transpo …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    The past decade has seen a wave of regulatory and legislative requirements around risk, resilience and adaptation planning  - forcing organisations to adopt measureable practices that stand up to exte …
14:00
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    Innovation is accelerating at breakneck speed, as computing power, connectivity,  power efficiency and smaller mechanical parts allow for unprecented intelligence, motility and durability in new inven …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    Whether 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 chall …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Good 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 …
15:00
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    There are three types of failure that lead to significant resilience failures. Failure of information, failure of process, and failure of imagination. Failures of information and process can be fixed …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    The 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 profitabil …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    The 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 man …
16:00
  1. Assembly Hall
    All 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 …
16:45
  1. Assembly Hall
09:15
  1. Assembly Hall
    In 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 exe …
10:15
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    It 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 commu …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    When 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 benefi …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    If 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 quant …
11:00
11:15
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    One of the great criticism of the Sendai framework is that its grand scale does not really translate to resilience and better disaster risk reduction on the ground. But is this really fair? As the his …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    When resources and budget are constrained,  it generates innovative thinking to solve problems. In emerging nations, this can take the form of creative usage of existing materials, or by embracing new …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Great leaders plant acorns knowing that they will sit in the shade of the oak tree. So it is with adaptation, where long term risks are assessed and mitigation initiated years, or even decades, before …
12:00
13:00
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    The 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 …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    Organisations are generally good at monitoring and preparing for a gradual descent into conflict situations; reducing headcount, mothballing operations, redefining supply chains and investment. Giner …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Any effective resilience programme is sandwiched between strong governance, and an audit program that gives reliable, objective assurance that key KPIs are being met. This can be a laborous and incons …
14:00
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    Recent 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. Bus …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    Whether 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 cont …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Whatever 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 ri …
15:00
  1. Convocation Hall
    • Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
    Assembly Hall
    Since 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 hundr …
    • Track 2: Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies
    Hoare Memorial Hall
    Every 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 resil …
    • Track 3: Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory
    Harvey Goodwin Suite
    Broadly speaking, there are two drivers for better resilience and adaptation  - the carrot and stick. The carrot looks at the positives that resilience can bring to your people, environment, operation …
16:45
  1. Assembly Hall