Infrastructure Resilience International Conference

Event Date: 13 Feb 2018 04:00 PM - 15 Feb 2018 04:00 PM

Event Venue: ETH Zurich, Switzerland

The first International Conference on Infrastructure Resilience is a meeting place for scientists, policy makers, and infrastructure professionals to share the latest knowledge on infrastructure resilience.

 Resilience is still an emerging concept, and together, the Future Resilient Systems and the ETH Risk Center aim to further develop it through this inaugural conference. The conference brings together distinguished speakers in the field of resilience, including:

• Prof Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• Prof Barry W. Boehm, Chief Scientist, DoD Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
• Dr Brian Walker, Honorary Fellow, CSIRO & Visiting Professor, Fenner School, Australian National University

 The ETH Risk Center Forum will feature:

• Prof Dr Bozidar Stojadinovic, Professor of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, ETH Zurich
• Prof Dr David N. Bresch, Professor for Weather and Climate Risks, Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich/ MeteoSwiss/ Risk Center
• Prof Dr Giovanni Sansavini, Professor of Reliability and Risk Engineering, Institute of Energy Technology, ETH Zurich
• Prof Dr Bruno Sudret, Professor of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification, ETH Zurich

 Through technical sessions and poster exhibition we will explore key topics on resilience:

• Organisational Resilience
• Resilience Assessment
• Resilience Improvement
• Robustness and Vulnerability
• Concepts of Resilience