"Building Resilient Systems"

The aim of the evening is to enable creative collisions of researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, with the hope of fostering a community of interest that can take some of the ideas discussed on the night further, remembering that the DIP team are eager to hear of collaborative ideas and projects that we can help to develop.

Drink vouchers distributed on arrival, food provided during the session.

"THE CONVERGENCE SERIES"

The Defence Innovation Partnership’s Convergence Series aims to stimulate convergent thought and conversations to tackle complex defence and national security challenges.

Each session in the Series will be themed around a complex problem/grand challenge with defence and national security implications. A panel of experts from diverse disciplines will speak to the theme of the session from the viewpoint of their disciplines, and will provoke questions and discussions amongst an equally diverse group of experts in the audience.

The sessions will be chaired by a problem “owner” or “champion” who will keep the conversation flowing by outlining ideas and scenarios, posing problems and facilitating the formal parts of the evening. Refreshments will be available at each session, and participants are encouraged to continue their conversations over dinner and drinks after the session is over.

The Convergence Series will start conversations that we hope will develop into convergent collaborations in the future.

"BUILDING RESILIENT SYSTEMS"

What does resilience look like, and how can we build systems that are able to avoid, withstand, recover from, adapt to, and evolve through adversity?

This Convergence Series session will kickstart conversations about resilience as an enabler for prosperity and productivity. A panel and an audience of experts from diverse fields will discuss the latest developments and thinking on how to enable, encourage, and design resilient individual, organisational, national, and global systems – in particular, where they have defence and national security implications.

As with all our Convergence Series sessions, our goal is to broaden and build the research community engaging with complex defence and national security problems. We encourage attendance by experts in health and wellbeing, counter terrorism, disaster recovery, cyber security, environmental protection, climate change, occupational health and safety, management and organisational science, engineering, design, architecture, and urban planning.