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Masterclass: Stress Testing for Building Infrastructure Resilience
10 December 2021, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
This masterclass, run jointly by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and The Resilience Shift, brings together academics and a professionals in the public and private sector.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- Invitation Only
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Gianluca Pescaroli (IRDR), Ms Yuri Sakai (UNDRR) and Ms Savina Carluccio (The Resilience Shift)
We are pleased to announce the first Masterclass on Stress Testing for Building Infrastructure Resilience, to be held online from 9am to 4pm GMT on the 10th of December 2021. The masterclass will be organised jointly by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), University College London’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, and The Resilience Shift.
The Masterclass will cover topics such as:
- Challenges to implementation of infrastructure resilience
- Exploring pathways for infrastructure resilience
- Introducing principles for infrastructure resilience
- Addressing business continuity and service delivery
- Introducing stress testing critical infrastructure
The lectures will be delivered by both academics and practitioners, including an exercise to facilitate discussion on the topics. A joint certification of attendance will be provided to recognise the participation to the events.
Programme
Time (GMT) | Speakers | Topic |
9:00–9:15 | Prof. Peter Sammonds, Director, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Mr. Abhilash Panda, Deputy Chief, Intergovernmental processes, Interagency cooperation and Partnerships Branch, UNDRR | Welcome remarks and introduction to the masterclass |
9:15–9:40 | Dr. Georgios Marios Karagiannis, Deputy Secretary General for Civil Protection, Ministry for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Greece | An overview of challenges to infrastructure resilience |
9:40–10:05 | Mr. Piero Pelizzaro, Chief Resilience Officer, Milan, Italy | Infrastructure resilience opportunities and solutions from an urban perspective (TBC) |
10:05–10:15 | Q&A | |
10:15–10:30 | Break | |
10:30–11:00 | Prof. Liz Varga, Professor of Complex Systems, Head of UCL’s Infrastructure Systems Institute | Principles for Resilient Infrastructure
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11:00–11:15 | Q&A | |
11:15–11:45 | Mr. Seth Schultz, CEO Resilience Shift and Ms. Savina Carluccio, Head of Guidance and Standards, Resilience Shift / Associate Director, Arup | Infrastructure Pathways – Navigating towards climate resilient infrastructure systems
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11:45–12:00 | Q&A | |
12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break | |
13:00–13:30 | Mr. Rob Bell, Head of Business Continuity, Dyson | Interconnected global infrastructure and business impacts
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13:30–13:40 | Q&A | |
13:40–14:15 | Dr. Igor Linkov, Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, and Senior Scientific and Technical Manager, US Army Corps of Engineers | Introduction to Stress Testing Critical Infrastructure Resilience
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14:15–14:30 | Q&A | |
14:30–14:45 | Break | |
14:45–15:30 | Stress testing scenario exercise in breakout Dr. Igor Linkov and Dr. Benjamin D. Trump, The University of Michigan |
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15:30–15:50 | Discussion | |
15:50–16:00 | Resilience Shift | Feedback and closing remarks |
The event is by invitation only for a selected target of colleagues of the public and private sectors, as well as for the students of the IRDR's Master’s programmes.
This Masterclass will be a pilot for future collaborative events.
For additional information or to register your interest, please contact:
- Dr Gianluca Pescaroli, UCL: g.pescaroli@ucl.ac.uk
- Ms Yuri Sakai, UNDRR: yuri.sakai@un.org
- Ms Savina Carluccio, The Resilience Shift: savina.carluccio@resilienceshift.org
