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Executive Roundtables
- Date
- Tuesday, 3 November 2026
- Time
- 14:00 – 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Related Topic
- The Infrastructure Adaptation Challenge
- Format
- roundtable
- Room
- Main Auditorium
- Venue
- École des Ponts Business School, Paris 12e
Summary
Three general tables. Chatham House-style dialogue.
Description
Senior leaders join three general tables in Chatham House-style dialogue: infrastructure adaptation, food system resilience, and SME resilience.
Executive roundtables
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.
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