Masterclass: Stress Testing for Building Infrastructure Resilience

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.

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
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 Presentation of the Infrastructure Pathways resource Reflections on existing guidance and standards across the infrastructure lifecycle
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
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 Presentation of the stress testing need and tiered approach Application methodology and examples
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	Tier1 and or 2 analysis group exercise
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: