Renewable Resilience: Transitioning through Uncertainty

£99 TICKET PRICE for Thursday 12th June 2025

The Resilience Association https://resilienceassociation.org/ is a not-for-profit organisation, and we would want to thank City St George's, University of London, Databarracks and London Internet Exchange (LINX) for being the main sponsors for this year's Annual Summit, as well as Resilience Forward our media collaboration partner, and Lord Toby Harris of the National Preparedness Commission as a key note speaker and collaboration partner.

Our summit follows the key 4 strategic themes: 1) Renewable; 2) Resilience; 3) Transitioning, and 4) Uncertainty, taking into account "transitioning from what an organisation has traditionally done, through to managing uncertainty", realising that whatever waymarks and geopolitical frameworks might be ideal to have, may have changed in ways that fundamentally challenge the desire of preferred certainties!

This event will be delivered through short presentations, workshops and interactive audience discussions, supported by a panel of subject matter experts (SMEs), all of whom are working within Organisational & Operational Resilience; Risk Management, Business Continuity Management (BCM), Operational Risk, ICT Infrastructure Resilience, ICT Disaster Recovery (DR), Cyber Resilience, Crisis Management & Crisis Communications, and Audit.

The Annual Summit agenda, is as follows:

• Outline agenda:
  
  • 08:15 hrs – Register & Refreshments;
  • 09:00 hrs – Welcome and Structure of the Summit; Chaired by Steve Yates, Resilience Association Chairman;
  • 09:10 hrs – Introduction by Dr Sionade Robinson, CMgr, FCMI, FRGS, SFHEA, Vice President Enterprise, Engagement and Employability, The President’s Office, City St George’s, University of London on "Personal resilience experiences, the inspiration that it provides and uniqueness"; 
  • 09:25 hrs – Opening key note speaker on "Lessons from the Past: Ideas for the Future" led by Peter Power, Resilience Association Vice-Chairman – Setting out the key 4 strategic themes, "Renewable, Resilience, Transitioning & Uncertainty" that underpin the day; 
  • 09:40 hrs – 1st Workshop: Led by Dr Aaron Gracey, Transport Sector Resilience Professional, Visiting Lecturer, Managing Director of Squared Apples, and Resilience Association Vice-Chairman, supported by Chris Butler, Director Resilience for Databarracks – Identifying the concepts of "(1) Renewable & (2) Resilience" in the light of evolving geopolitical disruptions and crises etc.;
  • 10:45 hrs – Break for Refreshments;
  • 11:15 hrs – 1st Workshop Feedback: Led by Dr Aaron Gracey and Panel – Interactive audience discussion to identify; Outcomes, Challenges, Enablers, Benefits; 
  • 12:15 hrs – Key note speaker on "Vital thoughts to ponder over lunch" , by Lord Toby Harris of National Preparedness Commission asking “If our lights go out, will we know what to do?";
  • 12:45 hrs – Lunch  / Networking / Sponsor Stands;
  • 13:30 hrs – Post-lunch speaker on "Why is Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), Critical?" led by Terry Carr, Advisor for London Internet Exchange (LINX);
  • 14:00 hrs – 2nd Workshop: Led by Dr Aaron Gracey, supported by Chris Butler – Identifying the concepts of "(3) Transitioning & (4) Uncertainty", in an increasingly unstable / unfamiliar world;
  • 15:00 hrs – Break for Refreshments;
  • 15:30 hrs – 2nd Workshop Feedback: Led by Dr Aaron Gracey and Panel – Interactive audience discussion to identify; Outcomes, Challenges, Enablers, Benefits;
  • 16:30 hrs – Panel Session: Chaired by Peter Power and our subject matter experts; Twm Palmer, Head of Organisational Resilience, Enterprise for Saga plc; Rolf von Roessing, Partner & CEO for FORFA, and Andy Tomkinson, Director of Adtapt – Reviewing key take-aways from today's interactive summit, and how to identify the key 4 strategic themes "to enable realistic guidance at policy levels and attainable actions at operational levels"?;
  •  17:00 hrs – Close of Annual Summit; Chaired by Steve Yates, followed by a Networking Session at a nearby "Resilience Establishment" where the first refreshment will be free!  

The content, times and speakers shown above for the Annual Summit, may be subject to change