The Festival is centred around the theme “Risk meets Resilience for a Sustainable Future”. Together with participants, lecturers and speakers will take part in discussion sessions on the way in which the two approaches can reinforce one another and contribute to an uncertain and unpredictable future in which people, planet and prosperity will be harmoniously balanced.
The challenges from the Global Risk Report 2019 by the World Economic Forum constitute a challenging framework to get to work together.
What is the impact of these challenges, and how can Risk Management and Resilience form a response to uncertainties that threaten a sustainable future or perhaps even strengthen:
- Political and economic tensions between countries: what are the consequences for challenges related to sustainability?
- How can we arm ourselves against cyberattacks and cybercrime that can disrupt – or even paralyse – organisations and our society?
- What is the impact of populism and polarisation on our political system, and on international cooperation and coordination for the environment and security?
- How can we deal with climatological changes, pollution of air and sea, and rising CO2 emissions?