Artificial Intelligence (AI), Resilience & Risk

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Resilience & Risk

Join us on June 4, 2025, to explore smarter planning, dynamic exercises about AI, resilience, and risk, as well as an update on pandemics!

By bci@thebci.org

Date and time

Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:00 - 13:00 GMT+1

Location

ACCA

110 Queen Street Glasgow G1 3BX United Kingdom

Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Registration

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Meet and Greet

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Dennis Flynn OBE - AI in the Resilience Workflow


This session will demonstrate how AI can support the entire continuity planning process - from identifying vulnerabilities and assessing potential impacts, through shaping response strategies and com...

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

David Hutcheson MAAT, MBCI - Using AI in Exercising


How you can use fairly basic AI tools to add some interest (and excitement!) to an exercise. And how, as a BC specialist, you can warn others of the risks AI can pose for security.

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

David Hutcheson MAAT, MBCI – Not the Pandemic Again!


As the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic passes, there is much in the news about the risks of bird flu as well as other diseases. This session will give an update of where we are with t...

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Networking Lunch

About this event

  • Event lasts 3 hours

Uncertainty abounds everywhere, even more so with the emergence of AI. But despite some concerns associated with this new technology, for example, its ability to make cyber-attacks more realistic (posing a greater risk to firms and individuals), AI is also stepping up as the ultimate resilience sidekick, or assistant, as you will hear our first speaker, Dennis Flynn OBE, describing it.

Dennis will help you to discover how AI can transform continuity planning—from spotting vulnerabilities to responding in real-time and learning crucial lessons for the future. Dennis will also explore how AI-driven assistants can be of value to your workflow, making planning smarter, testing more dynamic, and crisis response faster.

Want to make your next exercise more engaging (and maybe even a little thrilling?) Our second speaker, David Hutcheson MAAT MBCI will show you how AI can inject energy into simulations while also highlighting the security risks it brings to the table.

And to mark five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, David will lead us into the final part, taking stock of where we are today and what risks might be on the horizon, with bird flu and other threats looming.

Whether you’re an AI sceptic or enthusiast, this event is designed to help delegates see what is possible and why it matters.

Key takeaways:

· Discover how AI can make your planning and exercises more dynamic

· Gain invaluable insights from two expert speakers on AI and pandemic preparedness

· Deepen understanding of two important topics in the resilience world

· Network with fellow resilience professionals and share best practices


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