Impression 2022 | Risk and Resilience Festival

With 350 visitors divided over 28 sessions, the Risk & Resilience Festival was a success! More than 50 speakers shared his or her knowledge in the field of risk management, divided under various sub-themes such as cybersecurity, climate change & resilience, integral safety and risk leadership. Watch the aftermovie for an impression of the 2022 risk event!

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Winner Caroline award

Joost Kampen won the award for the best session of the festival. His session, titled 'Destructive Leadership' received the most votes from the audience.

Joost Kampen PhD

Consultant, lecturer, researcher, author at LIVO Change Management

Summary Destructive Leadership: theory and practice

Joost Kampen PhD delivered a lecture on 'destructive leadership as a root cause of social insecurity'. He is a change expert and researches the origins and recovery of neglected organisations. To this end, he uses knowledge from orthopaedagogy such as the parallel between parenting and leadership. And the clever self-enforcement behaviour of young people.

With these glasses, the phenomenon of social (in)safety in neglected organisations can be interpreted more carefully. Social insecurity arises from lack of leadership: there is no focus on people and no structure in tasks and roles. People, like children, start to think they don't matter. Part of the difference between children and adults is that they then sort it out themselves; they grab the space and do it their way. Which does not always take into account clients, students and colleagues. In the context of neglect, the law of the jungle applies. Research shows that there is more bullying when leadership is lacking. This is one side of social insecurity.

The other side is: the neglected employees and also managers become incompetent survivors. Their functioning falls short and they have also never been guided in their functioning: in neglected organisations, people have sometimes never had a serious performance and appraisal interview. They learn smart survivor behaviour and evade responsibility. When called to account for their (dis)functioning or undesirable behaviour by their manager, they play the trump card of social safety. They know how to find their way to the works council, trade union who in turn voice their 'concerns' to senior management. When that highest management is responsible for the neglect, it will either keep its distance or say to the immediate managers 'are you being careful'?

GvRM study award

Much research is being done in the broad field of risk management. To encourage research and reward exceptional people and achievements within the field, the GvRM presents this award annually during the Risk & Resilience Festival.

The GvRM Risk Management Study Award has existed since 1995. It rewards students who have conducted research and/or produced a paper in the field of risk management with a clear added value to the field. All papers created for study purposes (individual or group work) are eligible for the award.

This year, by way of high exception, two awards were presented for a master's thesis. Each of the winners, with their own topic and in their own way, has been able to contribute well to the development of RM's field of study. Jan Sinke explores a relevant but often ignored topic and his thesis lays solid statistical foundations under the discipline where they are often lacking. Jan Meijers uses an experimental approach in his thesis to show how new techniques (can) also play a role in risk management.

Jan Sinke (Nyenrode, Accountancy)

People and Enterprise Risk Management in perspective; A quantitative study on the influence of four people-related factors on ERM maturity within Dutch organizations.

The 'people' factor plays a crucial role in ERM functioning at a mature level. Jan Sinke examined the relationship between decision influence, organisational culture flexibility, corporate social responsibility and organisational commitment on the one hand and ERM maturity on the other. This research was conducted by administering a questionnaire. The relationships were found to be expected and positive, except (unexpectedly) for organisational culture-flexibility.

Jan Meijers (Haagse Hogeschool, Cyber Security Engineering)

Risk analysis based on Unsupervised Natural Language Processing (UNLP) Topic Modelling.

The large and increasing amount of unstructured data on which the Inspectorate of Justice and Security conducts risk analyses is taking up more and more capacity. It is expected that UNLP, an Artificial Intelligence-based approach, can support this. Based on experimental research, Jan Meijers developed a prototype, conducted experiments and had intended users assess the results. The prototype is not yet satisfactory, but it is a first step and gives a grip on the research direction.