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Members of DRI's Future Vision Committee present the major findings from the 2024 DRI Trends Report and the 2025 DRI Predictions Report. Lyndon Bird provides an overview of the reports' findings, while key issues are discussed by individual members: - Eric McNulty focuses on the the current global risk situation and how priorities might change in the near and medium term. The change in U.S. administration is likely to modify many aspects of U.S. policy (domestically and globally). The presenter will assess how this may affect resilience management issues such as climate change, ESG, and global supply chains. - Richard Knowlton discusses why once again "cyber events” have topped our list of importance in terms of threats to resilience. He will provide an overview of how he sees the main cyber threats and how well governments and companies are in dealing with them. - Steven Lei explains that natural disasters are a constant theme in our resilience surveys. He will cover the lessons learned in the LA fires, together with a wider perspective about what needs to done to better protect citizens and companies from increasing temperature extremes and other climate changes.

Scientific analysis of past and current knowledge will give some indication of what might happen in the future, but it is no guarantee of specific outcomes. Met with this challenge annually, the DRI International Future Vision Committee (FVC) considers myriad potential outcomes from a vast number of everchanging variables. For those who enjoy the excitement and challenge of rapidly adapting to new circumstances, 2025 will be your year. Those wishing for a period of calm likely will be disappointed.

The DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is now in its tenth year. It provides a comprehensive view of risk and resilience trends. Written by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), it delivers an independent analysis of current and emerging risks as perceived by professionals directly involved in managing resilience.

What risks are you most concerned about? How well prepared are you to manage them? How do you think our profession will change over the next few years? How does corporate ESG demands change your priorities? These are just a few of the questions the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC) seeks to answer in its annual survey and reports. The Trends and Predictions Reports this year benefited from a record number of survey participants, which resulted in more informative analysis and wider insights for the future of our profession. This will all be shared in an interactive session led by FVC members opened up for comment and debate with attending conference delegates.

DRI International's Ninth Annual Predictions Report offers resilience predictions for the profession by the profession, focusing on topics ranging from geopolitics to technology to the environment, and more. Providing a roadmap of the issues resilience professionals may face in the coming year, the report was developed by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), a group of international thought leaders in the field. It was based in part on more than 500 survey responses from across all industries and sectors, the largest in the report’s history.

DRI International has published its Ninth Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report. The report provides an independent analysis of current and emerging risks as viewed by those directly involved in resilience management. Supported by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), a group of international thought leaders in the field, it is based on a survey of more than 500 professionals across all industries and sectors, the largest response in the report’s history.

What are the top risks that worry resilience professionals as we emerge into a post-pandemic world? This session will open the event with an overview of how we, as members of this exciting and evolving profession, prioritize and respond to some of our biggest challenges. Based on DRI’s annual survey of nearly 500 professionals across all industries and sectors, our research shows a variety of major issues such as cyberattacks, natural disasters and economic uncertainty. With so many risks at play, DRI’s President and CEO Chloe Demrovsky will provide guidance on how we can build a more resilient future together.

What risks are you most concerned about? How well prepared are you to manage them? How do you think our profession will change over the next few years? How does corporate ESG demands change your priorities? These are just a few of the questions the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC) seeks to answer in its annual survey and reports. The Trends and Predictions Reports this year benefited from a record number of survey participants, which resulted in more informative analysis and wider insights for the future of our profession. This will all be shared in an interactive session led by FVC members opened up for comment and debate with attending conference delegates. An issue which emerged as of current and future concern was the relationship between the role of traditional business continuity and the ever increasing demands for corporate sustainability, whether that be climate resilience or the wider ESG agenda. In a discussion between DRI and NPLI (National Preparedness Leadership Initiative) this topic will be explored with the help of strong audience participation. A conference app will allow attendees to provide their further thoughts and opinions during and after the session.

DRI International's Eighth Annual Predictions Report offers resilience predictions for the profession by the profession. Providing a roadmap of the issues resilience professionals may face in the coming year, the report was developed by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), a group of international thought leaders in the field. It was based in part on nearly 500 survey responses from across all industries and sectors, the largest in the report’s history.

The DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is now in its eighth year and continues to provide a global view of resilience trends. Written by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), it gives an independent analysis of current and emerging risks as perceived by professionals directly involved in managing resilience. The FVC consists of international thought leaders and experts in all aspects of resilience management. The key input is the annual survey of certified resilience professionals which provides much of the base data for the conclusions,

What risks are you most concerned about? How well prepared are you to manage them? How do you think our profession will change over the next few years? In this highly-interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to vote on a number of the key issues which have emerged from the DRI Future Vision Committee regular reports (Trends, Predictions and Careers). The presenter will respond to voting as it happens, providing instant feedback and opinion. Please come to this session ready to participate, debate, and even argue if you wish. Challenging and controversial opinions are welcome. Your input and the conclusions we reach as a group will be included in future FVC reports and will influence DRI thought leadership perspectives.

What does 2022 hold for the resilience community? Find out with the DRI Future Vision Committee's 7th Annual Predictions Report - resilience predictions for the profession by the profession. This report looks at what to expect in the coming year, including the continuing pandemic response, climate change, global inflation, power grid attacks and much more.

The DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is now in its 7th year and continues to provide a global view of resilience trends. Supported by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), it gives an independent analysis of current and emerging risks as perceived by professionals directly involved in managing resilience.

What does the future hold for the resilience community? Find out with the DRI Future Vision Committee's 6th Annual Predictions Report - resilience predictions for the profession by the profession. This report looks at what to expect in 2021, including the COVID-19 vaccine rollout financial challenges, extreme weather, global unrest, and much more.

Supported by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), the annual Risk and Resilience Trends Report gives an independent analysis of both external issues (current and emerging risks) and internal concerns (resilience management as a profession). The FVC consists of international thought leaders and experts in all aspects of resilience management.

What risks are you most concerned about? How well prepared are you to manage them? How do you think our profession will change over the next few years? In this highly-interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to vote on a number of the key issues which have emerged from the DRI Future Vision Committee regular reports (Trends, Predictions and Careers). The presenter will respond to voting as it happens, providing instant feedback and opinion. Please come to this session ready to participate, debate, and even argue if you wish. Challenging and controversial opinions are welcome. Your input and the conclusions we reach as a group will be included in future FVC reports and will influence DRI thought leadership perspectives.

Future Vision Committee members including Lyndon Bird, David Porter, and Boris Issavi will discuss highlights from the Fifth Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends and Predictions reports. Discover how your job will be impacted by world events – including cyber threats, natural disasters, and much more – and what you can do about them.

Since 2015, the DRI International Future Vision Committee (FVC) has produced an annual set of predictions. These predictions are drawn from a wide range of subject areas, including political, economic, and social issues as well as environmental and technological developments.

The DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is now in its fifth year. It continues to provide a global perspective and comprehensive trends analysis of the resilience profession from both an internal and external perspective. It provides expert opinion on the key trends and changes that have happened in the past year.

With a look back and one ahead, the chair of the Future Vision Committee, will take attendees through trends observed in 2018 and provide predictions for what to expect in the year to come. Based on the Fourth Annual Trends and Predictions reports, this year’s content features a first-ever geographic breakdown of threats and preparedness worldwide.

Join Future Vision Committee members Lyndon Bird, Richard Knowlton, and Patrick Alcantara, along with DRI President Chloe Demrovsky, for highlights from the Fourth Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends and Predictions reports. Discover how your job will be impacted by world events - including sustainability, cyberthreats, and more - and what you can do about them.

One way of promoting our relevance to the wider business community is to look at what might happen and evaluate how well we can deal with it to minimize impact. Most professionals will have developed tests and exercises based on scenarios – these give realism, focus, and interest to our resilience programs. Predictions are really an extension of that – a look at the wider world and how such trends and possible events might threaten our ability to respond.

The DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report provides a global perspective and comprehensive trends analysis of how resilience professionals view their industry and the external factors that are shaping it. It provides insight into the key trends and changes that have been observed since the last report, and has been extended this year to give an even more detailed picture of the state of the profession.

Part of the 2018 Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report, a worldwide survey of business continuity professionals revealed the following top 10 risks depicted in this infographic.

Lou Drapeau, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for DRI International, presents on enterprise risk management and business continuity. How do we define resilience? Why is resilience important? What makes a system resilient? What does resilience mean for an organization? The answers to these questions will be revealed through a discussion of the roles of business continuity and risk management as well as where these functions reside in organizations. You’ll learn about the terminology of resilience, relevant trends identified by DRI’s Future Vision Committee, as well as cyber resilience and developing strategies for resilience.

With a look back and one ahead, the chair of the Future Vision Committee, will take attendees through trends observed in 2017 and provide predictions for what to expect in the year to come. Based on the third annual trends and predictions reports, this year’s content features results from a first-ever FVC survey of DRI certified professionals worldwide.

Lyndon Bird, Chairman of DRI International’s Future Vision Committee, and Chloe Demrovsky, DRI President and CEO, discuss the findings of the Third Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends and Predictions reports (also available in the resource library). Discover how your job will be impacted by world events — including supply chain disruption, extreme weather events, data protection, and more — and what you can do about them.

It’s never easy to predict the future. With the pace of change rapidly increasing, accurate predictions are ever more difficult to make solely based upon extrapolation of past events. In this report, we have tried to make reasonable predictions given our current knowledge, and the DRI Future Vision Committee has limited its predictions to those issues most likely to impact resilience professionals.

Published each November, the DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is essential reading for resilience professionals. It provides a summary of key trends that emerged over the course of the year as well as insight into the current state of the profession.

The FVC is tasked by DRI to look a business trends and issues that might affect the resilience community. As well as webinars, blogs, and white papers, they also deliver an annual Trends and Forecast Report — from which the Committee Chair Lyndon Bird will briefly present the main conclusions for 2017. In a Q&A format, the chair and other attending FVC members will take questions from the audience on any subject that delegates feel important to our future security and prosperity. These can range from political uncertainty across the globe (civil wars, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, economic downturn) to the practical issues of cyber criminality, societal security, and law enforcement in local communities. Whatever your concerns, the FVC will have a strong opinion, and we want to hear your opinions too.

Lyndon Bird, Chairman of DRI International’s Future Vision Committee, discusses the findings of two recent reports (also available in the Resource Library): Trends in 2016 and Predictions for 2017. Discover how your job will be impacted by world events – including cyber threats, supply chain, and the environment – and what you can do about them.

From politics to technology to the environment, the DRI Future Vision Committee examines the current global landscape to learn what we can expect and prepare for in 2017.

The Future Vision Committee 2017 Trends Report looks at how accurate the committee's predictions were for 2016, what significant changes have occurred since it made those predictions, and how the committee sees the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal landscape from a risk and resilience perspective.

Members of DRI's prestigious Future Vision Committee discuss major resilience trends expected in 2016. Topics include risk management and business continuity, cyber security, supply chain, and global recovery.

The State of Business Resilience: 2016 Forecasts and Predictions - A White Paper by the DRI International Future Vision Committee