Resilience World Nexus Summit 2026
6 October 2026 – 7 October 2026
Church House Westminster, London, United Kingdom
The Resilience World Nexus (RWN) Summit is a two-day C-suite summit on resilience, risk and security, held at Church House Westminster, London, on 6-7 October 2026 under the theme Engineering Resilience for Performance, Protection, and Growth. The programme combines keynotes, plenaries, panels and closed-door masterclasses across three tracks: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities; Resilient Living, Building Resilient Societies; and Adaptation, Governance and Regulatory Challenges. The summit is organised by Adaptive Resilience and guided by an Advisory Committee.
47 sessions · 122 speakers
Media Partners (7)
Crisis Response Journal · Petroleum Economist · Global Risk Community · Insurance Insider · Cyber Defense Magazine · Supplychainbrain · HighwaysToday
Sponsors (10)
Restrata · HIGHGATE · Enteles Search · PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited · Needhams 1834 · F24 · Group Resilience · Swiss Re · Herminius Holdings Limited · International Crisis Management Group
Association Partners (5)
International Association for Resilience Analysis (IARA) · European Corporate Security Association · Resilience Association · The Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM) · International Security Management Association
Knowledge Partners (2)
Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights (GCBHR) · McKinsey & Company
Supporting Partners (12)
Paris Resilience Summit · WPC Energy · Resilience First · Sendai Stakeholders Children and Youth Constituency (SSCYC) · UK Resilience Academy · International SOS · The Clarity Factory · The International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) · King's Trust · The London Interdisciplinary School · National Emergencies Trust · WOMENVAI
Speakers (122)
- Cedrick Moriggi Member - Corporate Chief Resilience Officers (CCRO) Network, Resilience World Nexus Summit
- Jonathan Rake CEO APAC, Swiss Re
- David Rubens Executive Director, The ISRM-Institute of Strategic Risk Management
- Botan Osman CEO, Restrata
- Dorothee Baumann-Pauly Director Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights, University of Geneva
- Xenia Wickett International Affairs Advisor, Wickett Advisory
- Jennifer Pack Vice President of Risk Management, Hyatt Hotels Corporation
- Robert Kernahan Vice President - Chief Architect for Cloud, Capgemini
- Antoine Minot Vice President, Global Security, Novo Nordisk
- Gordon Bedford Chief Safety, Security, Health & Environment Officer, Roche
- Guy Gryspeerdt CEO & Founder, Polaris Risk Management LLC
- Sanjay Sudarsan Global Crisis Designer Lead - Crisis Management Consultant - Europe & Africa, International SOS
- Jean-Philippe Verdier Founding Partner, Verdier & Co. Corporate Advisory ¦ B Corp certified
- Mathias Gaertner General Counsel and Company Secretary - Member of the Executive Committee, ABB
- Joshua Haecker Head of Enterprise AI, Dow Jones
- Rosehanna Chowdhury FBCI F.ISRM CEO, UK Resilience Academy, UK Resilience Academy
- Danny Ralph Professor, Cambridge Judge Business School
- Alexander Kamyshin Advisor to President Zelenskyy on Strategic Affairs, President's Office
- Ryan McGranaghan Senior Data Scientist and Aerospace Engineering Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Adrian Loader Executive Coach, ADRIAN LOADER LIMITED
- Charlie Denman Senior Crisis Management Lead, International SOS
- Catia Guimaraes Director Global Business Resilience, Hyatt
- Bobbie Ramsden-Knowles PwC UK Partner & Co-Lead Global Centre for Crisis and Resilience, PwC UK
- Glenn Wilkinson Ambassador, The Hacking Games
- Peter French MBE NED London City, LVE Charity Foundation
- Petra Velzeboer Host, The Petra Show, PVL
- Denisse Rudich Innovation & Accelerator Lead, Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii)
- Bertrand Monnet Professeur Edhec Business School. Chaire Management des Risques Criminels, EDHEC Business School
- Jay Oberai Founder & CEO, Synergy Asset Management
- Stephen O'Donnell CEO, Fort Nevis Digital
- Thomas Eymond-Laritaz Founder & CEO, HIGHGATE
- Ignasi Fontanals CCO | Growth & New Solutions, Link
- Rick Cudworth Founder and Partner, ResilienC
- Divakar Pandian Founder and CEO, Resilience Next
- Jean-Marc Rickli Head of Global and Emerging Risks, Geneva Centre For Security Policy
- Igor Linkov Senior Technical Manager, Scientific , Risk & Decision Science Team Lead (Sstm, Gs-16), US Army
- Sophie de Ferranti Partner (Global Cybersecurity, AI & Defence), True Search
- Savina Carluccio CEO, International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure
- Eric White Head of Climate Adaptation, World Economic Forum
- Laurent Alfonso Conseiller Défense Civile et Résilience / Senior Advisor on Civil Defense and Resilience, Sopra Steria
- Rachel Higham Chief Information Officer, WPP
- Mikael Balslev Rasmussen Member, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
- Orysia Lutsevych Deputy Director, Russia and Eurasia, Chatham House
- Lana Djurkin-Koenig Director, Trust & Security Advocacy Europe, Lenovo
- Rachel Briggs Co-Founder and CEO, RSMF
- Kevin Duncan Founder, Expert Advice / Sleeping Lion
- Yasmine Sabri Director of Education (UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction), UCL
- Yvan De Mesmaeker (M.Sc.Eng) Secretary General, ECSA
- Gianluca Pescaroli Professor of Continuity Management and Disaster Resilience, UCL
- Alison Howe Co-Founder & CEO, National Institute of Strategic Resilience
- Jerome Ryan Managing Director, GRM Solutions LLC
- Penny Flint Partner, PwC
- Caroline Field Co-Founder, Centre for Whole of Society Resilience
- Elizabeth Bullock Founder and CEO, PRAMMAVOX Ltd.
- Dom del Re Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Emmanuel Fragnière Director of the CAS Hes-so in Treasury Management, HES-SO Valais-Wallis
- Andrew Tollinton CEO & Co-Founder | SIRV, SIRV
- Timothy Less Head of Geopolitical Risk, Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies
- Dawson Law Founder, Conseil Global Advisors
- Narmada Guruswamy Director, EY
- Marco Mille Chief Security Officer (CSO) | Vice President Security, Siemens
- Christophe Barben Head of Group Security & Safety - Executive Vice President, Lombard Odier Group
- Simon Morris Vice President, Analytics, Argus Media
- Abhilash Panda Deputy Chief of Branch, Financing Prevention, De-risking Investment & Infrastructure Resilience, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Gunvor Ellingsen General Manager Business Development & Digital (AD&NBD), Shell
- Richard FitzHugh Head of Operational Resilience, Haleon
- Saqib Alam Partner, Morrison Foerster
- Mark Pelling Science Director, Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London
- Laurent Giezendanner Head of Corporate Security, Head of Legal Operations and Legal Change and Transformation Lead, Syngenta Group
- Bob Sawers Managing Director, Audere Group
- Christopher Wright Member of the Advisory Committee, McGregor Wright
- Karen Penman Partner, PwC UK
- Chris Medhurst-Cocksworth Founder & Director, Insight Resilience Limited
- David Cannings Director, PwC UK
- Mark Wolsey Enterprise Security Leader, CRH plc
- Aleksander Petrov Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Benjamin D. Trump Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
- Becky Heginbotham-Blount Chief Resilience Officer, Suffolk Resilience Forum
- David Wall Global Director, Cargo & Safety Solutions, International Air Transport Association (IATA)
- Jason Swettenham Head of Industries, Catering, Retail and PE, Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)
- Markus Epner Vice President Customer Success & Academy, F24
- Alexander Scheld Head of Logistics - Cement Excellence, Holcim
- Iman Chaudhry Programme Liaison, Resilience World Nexus Summit
- Julius Cavendish Partner, Herminius
- Stephanie Maurel Chief Executive Officer, The Corporation of Church House
- George Bowman Deputy Director, Cabinet Office
- Afaf Almheiri Director of Strategy - Dubai Civil Defense, Dubai Civil Defence H.Q.
- Anna McConnell Head of Operations, National Emergencies Trust
- Jerry Hart Global Head of Corporate Security, SGS
- Chris Needham-Bennett Managing Director, Needhams 1834 Ltd
- Gregoire Dugueyt Partnership Director, Resilience World Nexus Summit
- Aleksandar Jovanovic Director, Steinbeis European Risk and Resilience Institute
- Alistair Wood Founder and Principal Advisor, Cadmar Ltd
- Viviana Bastidas Melo Assistant Research Professor, University of Cambridge
- Nick Busvine OBE Partner, Herminius
- Konstantinos Stergiopoulos Head of Group Security, Nestlé
- Roxana Ciurean Geohazard Scientist, British Geological Survey
- Emma Price Former Deloitte Partner, BRAVE
- Ajay Gambhir Director of Systemic Risk Assessment, ASRA
- Justin Crump CEO, Sibylline
- Erick Gonzales Rocha Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
- John Chase Partner, Alisca
- Rachel Taylor Partner, UK Government and Health Industries Leader, PwC UK
- Abbie Rose Walton Young Ambassador, King's Trust
- Ajay Saldanha Partner, Rediff LLP
- Alessandro Bulgarelli University of Genoa (Italy)
- Andreas Raggl Executive Committee Member, Risk Dynamics, McKinsey & Company
- Ashley Kalyn Head of Business Development, Peacock Tariff Consulting
- Clemmie Parker Senior Head of National Delivery, King's Trust
- Duncan Manning VP Corporate Security, Shell
- Elliot James University of Bristol
- Hannah Dixon University of Birmingham (UK)
- Irene Nygaard Senior Manager, Crisis, Risk & Resilience, PwC UK
- Jason Matthew University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
- Johanna Peterson Senior Manager, PwC UK
- Karl Lawless VP Sales, FintechOS
- Mhari Gordon University College London (UK)
- Stergios Aristoteles Mitoulis Founder and Head, The Centre for Global Infrastructure Resilience [giros], The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction UCL
- Tejas Makarand Vaishnav Sciences Po Paris (France)
- Tom Nash Director, Cyber Security, PwC UK
- Marc Vink Head of HSE & Security, ABB
- Thierry Meyer Professor of Risk Management, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Agenda
- Opening Remarks 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Opening Keynote 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Keynote Address 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Opening Plenary: The Rise of Resilience 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Artificial Intelligence: Friend, Foe, Frenemy or Something else? 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Is ESG the Real Driver for Better Resilience? 6 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Masterclass: Workforce, Personal and Youth Resilience 6 October 2026 · Council Room
- How Emerging Technology is Empowering Resilience? 6 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Masterclass: An Operating Model for Effective AI Adoption in Security & Resilience 6 October 2026 · Council Room
- From Intelligence-led Horizon Scanning to Early Warnings for All: the Power of Foresight 6 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- How to Be Sure You Are Good Enough at Resilience? 6 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Keynote Speech: Navigating AI complexity - the risk view 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Business Resilience: Where Should it Sit in the Organisation for Maximum Impact? 6 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Sustained Resilience for Inventing the Cities of the Future: A Perspective to Safeguard Urban Environments from Breakdowns 6 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Masterclass: Measuring Business Resilience 6 October 2026 · Council Room
- Climate Events: Leveraging Insights to Manage Future Risks 6 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Sendai Update: How Communities are Driving Resilience? 6 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Geopolitics and You, Understanding the Big Impact Picture 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- How Organisations can Work Together with Insurance to Improve Resilience and still Own the Risk? 6 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- NextGen Cyberthreats: From Quantum Unlocking State Nexus and Vishing: Are We Ready? 6 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Future Proofing your Organisation, the Next Generation of Risk & Resilience Tools 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Masterclass: The Many Faces of Extortion 6 October 2026 · Council Room
- Closing Plenary: Resilient Supplier Networks: Raising the Game 6 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Opening Keynote 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Keynote Address: Launch of Ready Together - UK Community Resilience Toolkit 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Opening Plenary: Geopolitical Review - Ensuring Readiness for Geopolitical Uncertainty Today and Tomorrow 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Masterclass: Human Factor, Crisis Impact - Key Principles to Support Decision-Makers (Crisis Management Workshop – Session 1) 7 October 2026 · Council Room
- How to Attract Better Financing through Resilience? 7 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Modelling Long-term Weather Trends: Practical Approaches to Preparing for Disasters 7 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Practical Methodologies to Develop and Grow Public Sector Resilience 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- People and Communities: Strengthening Societal Resilience as a Sum of the Resilience of Its People 7 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Masterclass: MVF – Minimum Viable Firm: Understand & Identify What You Have To Protect At All Costs To Build Your Resilience (Crisis Management Workshop – Session 2) 7 October 2026 · Council Room
- Future Resilience Leaders: Ideas Innovation and Contributions to Resilience 7 October 2026 · Harvey Goodwin Suite
- Masterclass: Building Enterprise Resilience to protect what matters most - the organisation’s strategic core 7 October 2026 · Abbey Room
- Keynote Speech: The Great Sovereign Conundrum 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Masterclass: Apocalypse Now? Climate Change and the New Reality 7 October 2026 · Council Room
- Societal Resilience Before, During, and After Conflict 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Meeting and Reporting Resilience Regulations: How to Supercharge Your Stakeholder Assurance? 7 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Vulnerable Frontiers: Innovative Ideas for Cost Effective Resilience in Challenging Environments 7 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Masterclass: ROI of Resilience: Transforming Risk Intelligence into Commercial Value 7 October 2026 · Council Room
- What does a Good Resilience Organisation Really Look Like, Balancing Skills and Functional Expertise 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- How do we Manage the Skills Gap in Business Resilience? 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Masterclass: Controversies, Brand Equity, Share Price 7 October 2026 · Council Room
- Practical Methodologies for Identifying and Assuring Resilience of Critical Suppliers 7 October 2026 · Hoare Memorial Hall
- Keynote Speech - King's Trust 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Closing Plenary: Resilience Outlook: Threats of Tomorrow - Action Today 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall
- Closing Remarks 7 October 2026 · Assembly Hall