UK Resilience: Delivering Resilience is the title of a RUSI conference at the institute’s Whitehall home on September 19 and 20.
Organisers say that ‘Delivering Resilience’ will provide the opportunity to survey the diversity of the resilience landscape, while examining the mechanisms and organisations that contribute to delivering such capabilities, and exploring future directions that such planning and preparation could, and should, take.
This fourth RUSI annual resilience conference will reflect the need for a holistic, consistent and enduring approach, which incorporates the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Keynote
Terry Waite will provide a keynote presentation on "The Human Aspects of Resilience".
Issues
Assessing the current and future objectives and priorities of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat set against a consideration of resilience and contingency in modern society
Examining the different mechanisms and organizations that deliver resilience from the central, regional, and local perspectives, with the varied government agencies
Scrutiniding examples and case studies of emergencies to consider the successes and problems in preparation, response and recovery to include issues of collaboration, coordination and inter-operability
Analysing the role of the private sector and business in resilience. This will include a specific analysis of the role of the insurance industry in the context of resilience
Considering the roles of the voluntary sector in resilience activities
Reflecting on how cohesive communities can potentially enhance resilience within societies
Exploring the attempts to embed and construct resilience into the fabric of society through building and infrastructure construction design and implementation
Invited speakers
Bruce Mann, Director of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
Lord Levene, Chairman, Lloyd’s of London
Professor Mick Dillon, Department of Politics & International Relations, Lancaster University
Susan Schofield, Department of Communities and Local Government
Debbie Reynolds, Government’s Chief Vet, DEFRA
Nigel Lightfoot, Health Protection Agency
Kathy Settle, Head of Regional Resilience, Government Office for the North West
Linden Rowley, Institute of Community Cohesion
Andrew Huddart, Emergency Planning Officer, London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority
Dr Lee Bosher, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, University of Manchester
Counter-Terrorism and UK Operations, Ministry of Defence
Moya Wood- Heath, Emergency Planning Advisor, British Red Cross
For sponsorship opportunities please contact Neil Ellis, Head of Resilience, on 020 7747 2608.
