Paris Resilience Summit 2026 — The Unaddressed Issues We Need to Solve

Agenda

Keynotes, panel debates, executive roundtables, and networking — one day at Leonard, Paris.

03 November 2026

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·30 min·Networking

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Arrival, badge collection, and informal networking.

·25 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.

·50 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.

·50 min·Panel debate

Cyber Resilience · "Agentic Wars in Full Autonomy"

When autonomous agents attack, defend and escalate faster than humans can intervene, who stays in command?

·25 min

Coffee Break & Networking

·50 min·Panel debate

Supply Chain · "The Visibility Illusion"

Tier-1 visibility has improved; Tiers 2-4 remain opaque.

·50 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?

·40 min

Lunch & Networking

·60 min·Executive roundtable

Infrastructure resilience

Critical systems, cities, transport, and built environment under compound stress.

·60 min·Executive roundtable

Food security

Fertiliser dependency, monoculture fragility and water-intensive agriculture converge into a one-disruption-from-cascade system.

·60 min·Executive roundtable

SME resilience as economic backbone

Helping smaller enterprises anticipate disruption, protect continuity, and recover faster.

·65 min·Panel debate

Climate Investment Ratio · "$5 Trillion on Tech. $63 Billion on Adaptation."

The tech-vs-adaptation investment ratio is roughly 80:1.

·25 min·Keynote

People Resilience · "We're Burning People Out and Calling It a Wellbeing Programme"

Organisations design conditions that predictably destroy cognitive function, then offer apps as the solution.

·20 min

Coffee Break

·50 min·Panel debate

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

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

·25 min·Panel debate

Trust Erosion · "Is Every Resilience Plan Built on a Social Contract That No Longer Exists?"

The trust deficit is now the primary systemic risk, ahead of climate, cyber or geopolitics.

·25 min·Keynote

Five Decisions You Will Regret Not Making Today

Closing synthesis of the day: a call to action across digital sovereignty, cyber, supply chain, geopolitics, climate and people resilience.

·55 min·Networking

Executive Reception & Networking

Closing reception and informal networking with fellow delegates.

Backup debate pool

Reserve sessions · not currently scheduled on the published timetable.

  • Panel debate

    Governance Vacuum · "Who Actually Governs Global Risk?"

    Existing international governance frameworks are no longer fit to manage 21st-century systemic risk.

  • Panel

    Food System Collapse · "The Systemic Risk No Corporate Plan Addresses"

    Fertiliser dependency, monoculture fragility and water-intensive agriculture converge into a one-disruption-from-cascade system.

  • Panel debate

    Critical Infrastructure · Private Ownership of National Assets

    Critical national infrastructure should not be in private hands.

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