Why This Summit, Why Now
The world is facing a convergence of threats — from cyber and climate to geopolitical instability and societal divides. Leaders need a space for honest dialogue about the risks we too often leave unaddressed.
The Unaddressed Issues
About the Summit
Global leaders. Critical conversations. Practical resilience.
Programme underway
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The Conversations We Avoid
“The conversations we avoid. The solutions we need.” — The Paris Resilience Summit is built around this principle. We create room for the discussions that matter most, without political theatre or empty rhetoric.
The Outcomes We Need
Participants will leave with actionable frameworks, new connections, and a clearer view of how to build resilience across their organisations and communities.
Who should attend
A curated executive gathering for leaders navigating the geopolitical, economic, social, and technological forces reshaping business resilience.
In the tradition of cross-sector executive dialogue — at an intimate scale — the Summit brings together senior decision-makers from business, government, academia, and civil society for one day of actionable dialogue on the issues others avoid.
Business leadership
- CEOs, CFOs, and C-suite executives
- Board members and non-executive directors
- Managing directors and regional presidents
Functional & operational leaders
- Heads of Risk, Resilience, and Business Continuity
- Chief Information Officers and Chief Security Officers
- Procurement, supply chain, and infrastructure directors
- Insurance buyers, risk managers, and captive managers
- Audit, compliance, and third-party risk leaders
Public & civic leadership
- Government ministers, policymakers, and regulators
- International organisation and civil society leaders
- Investors and resilience-focused financiers
- Academics, researchers, and think-tank experts
- 150 curated guests — senior profiles, not mass attendance
- Leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society
- One day of debate, roundtables, and executive networking in Paris
Five domains of disruption
Geopolitical, economic, social, technological, and operational forces reshaping business — explored through one integrated executive programme.
Resilience is not a single function. It is how organisations perform across the environments that now define competitive survival.
Geopolitical
Fragmenting alliances, contested norms, resource nationalism, and geoeconomic rivalry — and what they mean for strategy, sourcing, and institutional trust.
Economic & Financial
Growth under uncertainty, capital allocation, risk financing, insurance gaps, and the economics of adaptation — when markets and models no longer hold.
Social & Organisational
Workforce resilience, leadership under pressure, declining trust, social cohesion, and the human systems that determine whether organisations endure.
Technological & Digital
AI, cyber risk, digital autonomy, cognitive dependency, and the speed of innovation — including the guardrails leaders need before scale outpaces understanding.
Infrastructure & Supply Chain
Critical infrastructure, end-to-end supply visibility, third-party exposure, SME fragility, and the operational systems where disruption becomes material fast.
Three defining questions
Practical questions for leaders navigating geopolitical, economic, and technological transformation — the way leading global forums frame the decade ahead.
Question 01
How can we respond to risks that are already materialising?
Move from abstract risk registers to decisive action — across geopolitical shock, operational failure, cyber events, and financial exposure.
Question 02
How can we build frameworks that work across silos?
Combine strategic, economic, social, and technological lenses — because fragmentation is now the greater threat than any single risk category.
Question 03
How can we prepare for the next wave of disruption?
Anticipate how geoeconomic rivalry, AI adoption, supply chain stress, and institutional fragility will reshape business over the decade ahead.
Event Principles
- Intelligent, evidence-based dialogue
- Urgent focus on unaddressed risks
- Collaborative, cross-sector participation
- Human-centred, inclusive approach
- Solution-oriented outcomes
Organisers
Presented by
The Paris Resilience Summit is presented by the Global Council for Business Resilience (GCBR).
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