Keynote Martin van Staveren
Organising resilience: from science to practice
What constitutes anno 2024 the state of the art for organising resilience in organisations? What does this demand from the structure, culture and individual within organisations? And perhaps the most important question: how do you concretely apply this current knowledge in your daily practice?
None of this to create false assurances - after all, that already happens enough in our 'compliance society'. But to make an impact, with more resilience in both public organisations and companies.
We explore such questions from a scientific perspective. We start with the concept of resilience, which seems to be becoming a panacea for contemporary risk management. What is it in relation to risk management and what does organising resilience require from whom?
Then we will talk about applications in practice: which concrete interventions are demonstrably successful for more resilience and resilience in organisations and why? What role do our mindset and behaviour play in this?
We will conclude with concrete tips for professionals, so that they can contribute to organising resilience themselves. Something that is so necessary, in our complex and unpredictable world...
Martin van Staveren
Consultant, lecturer, speaker & writer - VSRM
Dr Martin van Staveren MBA teaches, advises, speaks and writes about successfully dealing with uncertainties, risks and opportunities. During a career in the construction and infrastructure sector, he obtained his PhD on implementing risk management in organisations from the University of Twente. He then started his own consulting practice. In it, he developed contemporary approaches to risk management, such as risk-based working and risk leadership. In these, people are central and technology serves.
Martin is a core lecturer in the Master Risk Management at the University of Twente and supervises many studies in this role. He also lectures in various Nyenrode lecture series and is a frequent contributor to workshops, seminars and conferences.
Over the past 15 years, he has advised directors, executives, managers and content professionals in virtually all sectors on how to deal explicitly, realistically and structurally with uncertainties that may affect organisational goals. Martin wrote the books Risicogestuurd werken (2015), Risicoleiderschap (2018), Iedereen Risicoleider (2020) and Risicodialoog (2023) on this subject.
Keynote Arnoud Molenaar
Urban Resilience – The Rotterdam case
The world is changing rapidly. Sometimes resulting in certain stresses and shocks, that could be disruptive and cause a crisis. How do cities deal with these challenges? How can we increase the urban resilience? For the reason Rotterdam installed a resilience catalyst team, implementing the Resilient Rotterdam Strategy. The ambition is to increase the resilience of the city, the citizens ànd the municipality. During this keynote the overall approach, several resilience theme’s en project examples will be addressed. Finally, the international context, the Resilient Cities Network, will be touched upon as well.
Arnoud Molenaar
Chief Resilience Officer Rotterdam
After graduating in Physical Geography, Arnoud started his career with ambitious trainee posts and jobs abroad. As deputy head of the Rotterdam Water Management Department, he was responsible for the Waterplan2Rotterdam. In 2008, he was appointed manager of the Rotterdam Climate Proof program. Rotterdam’s first climate adaptation program. Arnoud is editor of the book “Resilient Cities and Climate Adaptation Strategies” (2014). As Rotterdam’s first Chief Resilience Officer, appointed in 2014, he was responsible for Rotterdam’s first Resilience Strategy (2016) and part time joined the Global Center on Adaptation as strategic advisor cities (2018). In 2019 he hosted the Global Urban Resilience Summit in Rotterdam and joined the Global Steering Committee at the Resilient Cities Network. In 2022 he coordinated the development of the ‘Resilient Rotterdam Strategy 2022-2027’, which now is being implemented.
