Agenda

Keynotes, panel debates, executive roundtables, and networking — one day at École des Ponts Business School, Paris 12e.

03 November 2026

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Time	Duration	Format	Session
08:30	30 min	Networking	Registration & Welcome Coffee Arrival, badge collection, and informal networking.
09:00	20 min	Keynote	Opening Keynote · "We Have Been Preparing for the Wrong Crisis" SpeakerAlon RozenÉcole des Ponts Business School SpeakerMarina PeikovaGlobal Council for Business Resilience · Resilientic SpeakerMartin CalnanÉcole des Ponts Business School The global resilience agenda is set by the last crisis, not the next.
09:20	45 min	Panel debate	Digital Sovereignty · "Who Controls the Systems We Depend On?" SpeakerKatryna DowMeeco SpeakerJo CaudronScopernia Panel ChairSarah PauliSOC-e Group Digital sovereignty spans AI, data, platforms and emerging technologies that reshape control and dependency.
10:05	40 min	Interactive presentation	From Reactive Defense to Autonomous Security: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI SpeakerManuel BisseyIBM Consulting An interactive 40-minute session with Manuel Bissey and IBM clients — not a keynote alone.
10:45	30 min	Keynote	Regulated Everywhere. Governed Nowhere. · "The Hidden Resilience Gap Between Risk, Compliance and Security" SpeakerSylvie MalletDeloitte The hidden resilience gap between risk, compliance and security when organisations are regulated everywhere and governed nowhere.
11:15	30 min	Break	Coffee Break
11:45	30 min	Keynote	Trust Is Collapsing · "When corruption becomes normalised, what happens to trust?" SpeakerPhilippe LesoingEuroCompliance When corruption becomes normalised, what happens to trust — across digital sovereignty, cyber, supply chain, geopolitics, climate and people resilience.
12:15	45 min	Panel debate	Critical Materials, Water & Energy · "The Geopolitical Game Nobody Is Winning" SpeakerDavid RubensThe Institute of Strategic Risk Management SpeakerJames HermansonOECD SpeakerEmmanuel Arrey MbianyoUnited Nations · World Food Programme Panel ChairGiorgos DemetriouÉcole des Ponts Business School Lithium, cobalt, rare earths, aquifers, LNG routes: who controls the resources your organisation needs?
13:00	60 min	Break	Lunch & Networking
14:00 – 15:00·60 min·Chatham House-style dialogue Executive Roundtables Three general tables. Chatham House-style dialogue. General table The Infrastructure Adaptation Challenge From protecting assets to redesigning systems for future conditions. SpeakerIsabelle SpiegelVINCI SpeakerFlore PradèreJLL SpeakerEdward PackshawSmartResilience SpeakerMarios Stavrou, MBCIOperational Resilience & Critical Dependencies Professional Infrastructure adaptation recommendations Redesign systems for the conditions they will actually face — not only defend today’s assets. Update cities, transport, energy, water and digital networks still built for yesterday’s shocks. Plan when historical design standards no longer match future climate and operating conditions. Treat privately owned national infrastructure as a systemic risk under climate, cyber and geopolitical stress. Redesign interdependencies between physical sites, supply chains and digital control systems. General table Food System Resilience Climate, fertilisers and fragile food systems — one disruption away from cascade. SpeakerMarina PeikovaGlobal Council for Business Resilience · Resilientic SpeakerShivani KannabhiranSustainability, Communities, Nature \| Social impact; Board member, MBA SpeakerDr. Pierre-Marie AubertIDDRI SpeakerEmmanuel Arrey MbianyoUnited Nations · World Food Programme Food system resilience recommendations Map the real fragility: climate, fertilisers, farming models, pricing or governance. Prepare for climate shocks that already undermine production reliability. Address fertiliser costs that make resilience unaffordable for farmers and SMEs. Shift farming models from efficiency and yield towards resilience. Use regenerative and diversified production to reduce systemic food risk. General table SME resilience as economic backbone SMEs are the economic backbone most resilience frameworks still treat as an afterthought. SpeakerMaxence DemerléMouvement des Entreprises de France SpeakerThibault OrtizInternational Chamber of Commerce SpeakerJustyna SimmonsYour Friend in Paris Panel ChairAnnalie KillianCognoscenti SME resilience recommendations Put SMEs at the centre of national and corporate resilience design, not at the edge. Give smaller firms practical tools to anticipate disruption, protect continuity and recover faster. Close the gap between large-enterprise frameworks and what SMEs can actually use. Build support around finance, skills, continuity planning and peer networks. Keep an SME voice at the table when resilience policy and supply-chain rules are set.
15:00	45 min	Panel debate	Climate Risk on the Board Agenda · "What a changing risk landscape means for business strategy, continuity and long-term value" SpeakerMartin CalnanÉcole des Ponts Business School SpeakerCarlos UribeUNESCO SpeakerDaniel KullWorld Meteorological Organization Panel ChairCarole BrożynaSmartResilience · IMT Partners · BoardSuccess What a changing risk landscape means for business strategy, continuity and long-term value.
15:45	45 min	Panel debate	Human Resilience & New Technology · "Can people remain resilient when technology rewires how they think, work and decide?" SpeakerNarmadha KamalakannanHumIA5 SpeakerAlexia MichielsResilience Institute SpeakerRomina CavallucciGroupe Carrefour Panel ChairJaime BobbittErnst & Young Can people remain resilient when technology rewires how they think, work and decide?
16:30	30 min	Break	Coffee Break
17:00	40 min	Panel discussion	The Uninsurable World · "When the Safety Net Disappears, Who Bears the Risk?" SpeakerPascal A. PrevostIndependent Risk Management Advisor · Insurance & Reinsurance SpeakerMichel JossetForvia The private insurance model is structurally incompatible with 21st-century systemic risk.
17:40	15 min	Keynote	Closing SpeakerAlon RozenÉcole des Ponts Business School SpeakerMarina PeikovaGlobal Council for Business Resilience · Resilientic Closing remarks from Alon Rozen and Marina Peikova.
17:55	65 min	Networking	Closing + Wine Reception Closing remarks and wine reception with fellow delegates.

08:30·30 min·Networking

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Arrival, badge collection, and informal networking.

09:00·20 min·Keynote

Opening Keynote · "We Have Been Preparing for the Wrong Crisis"

The global resilience agenda is set by the last crisis, not the next.

09:20·45 min·Panel debate

Digital Sovereignty · "Who Controls the Systems We Depend On?"

Digital sovereignty spans AI, data, platforms and emerging technologies that reshape control and dependency.

10:05·40 min·Interactive presentation

From Reactive Defense to Autonomous Security: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI

SpeakerManuel BisseyIBM Consulting

An interactive 40-minute session with Manuel Bissey and IBM clients — not a keynote alone.

10:45·30 min·Keynote

Regulated Everywhere. Governed Nowhere. · "The Hidden Resilience Gap Between Risk, Compliance and Security"

SpeakerSylvie MalletDeloitte

The hidden resilience gap between risk, compliance and security when organisations are regulated everywhere and governed nowhere.

11:15·30 min

Coffee Break

11:45·30 min·Keynote

Trust Is Collapsing · "When corruption becomes normalised, what happens to trust?"

SpeakerPhilippe LesoingEuroCompliance

When corruption becomes normalised, what happens to trust — across digital sovereignty, cyber, supply chain, geopolitics, climate and people resilience.

12:15·45 min·Panel debate

Critical Materials, Water & Energy · "The Geopolitical Game Nobody Is Winning"

Lithium, cobalt, rare earths, aquifers, LNG routes: who controls the resources your organisation needs?

13:00·60 min

Lunch & Networking

14:00 – 15:00·60 min·Chatham House-style dialogue

Executive Roundtables

Three general tables. Chatham House-style dialogue.

General table

The Infrastructure Adaptation Challenge

From protecting assets to redesigning systems for future conditions.

Infrastructure adaptation recommendations

Redesign systems for the conditions they will actually face — not only defend today’s assets.
Update cities, transport, energy, water and digital networks still built for yesterday’s shocks.
Plan when historical design standards no longer match future climate and operating conditions.
Treat privately owned national infrastructure as a systemic risk under climate, cyber and geopolitical stress.
Redesign interdependencies between physical sites, supply chains and digital control systems.

General table

Food System Resilience

Climate, fertilisers and fragile food systems — one disruption away from cascade.

Food system resilience recommendations

Map the real fragility: climate, fertilisers, farming models, pricing or governance.
Prepare for climate shocks that already undermine production reliability.
Address fertiliser costs that make resilience unaffordable for farmers and SMEs.
Shift farming models from efficiency and yield towards resilience.
Use regenerative and diversified production to reduce systemic food risk.

General table

SME resilience as economic backbone

SMEs are the economic backbone most resilience frameworks still treat as an afterthought.

SME resilience recommendations

Put SMEs at the centre of national and corporate resilience design, not at the edge.
Give smaller firms practical tools to anticipate disruption, protect continuity and recover faster.
Close the gap between large-enterprise frameworks and what SMEs can actually use.
Build support around finance, skills, continuity planning and peer networks.
Keep an SME voice at the table when resilience policy and supply-chain rules are set.

15:00·45 min·Panel debate

Climate Risk on the Board Agenda · "What a changing risk landscape means for business strategy, continuity and long-term value"

What a changing risk landscape means for business strategy, continuity and long-term value.

15:45·45 min·Panel debate

Human Resilience & New Technology · "Can people remain resilient when technology rewires how they think, work and decide?"

Can people remain resilient when technology rewires how they think, work and decide?

16:30·30 min

Coffee Break

17:00·40 min·Panel discussion

The Uninsurable World · "When the Safety Net Disappears, Who Bears the Risk?"

The private insurance model is structurally incompatible with 21st-century systemic risk.

17:40·15 min·Keynote

Closing

Closing remarks from Alon Rozen and Marina Peikova.

17:55·65 min·Networking

Closing + Wine Reception

Closing remarks and wine reception with fellow delegates.