Monday, July 22, 2024 4:05pm – 4:35pm
Reality Check: Resilience Planning Challenges and Opportunities for Critical Infrastructure Owners and Operations
Now more than ever, owners and operators of critical infrastructure are required to plan for risks and are being challenged by the impacts and consequences of complex and/or concurrent disruptive events and hazards.A more integrated and deliberate approach to our planning for, response to and recovery from such events and hazards is required – by not doing so, we continue to see community exposures to significant outages and profound service interruptions.
As a leader in the resilience and critical infrastructure community, Brett will talk about the challenges and opportunities faced by and open to owners and operators and discuss ways in which we can optimise plans and arrangements and ultimately our organisational resilience.
About the Speaker
Brett Aimers
Brett Aimers is a well-recognised and accomplished business resilience and emergency management leader and influencer in Australia and throughout Asia. He thrives on opportunities to develop and implement organisational resilience ecosystems, including satisfying legislative obligations, planning for major disruptive events, maintaining an enterprise resilience improvement programs and supporting and assuring the integration of emergency management arrangements for complex critical infrastructure projects.
Beyond this and in his capacity as an Adjunct Associate Professor, Brett provides expert advice relating to disaster risk reduction, resilience and emergency planning – including contributions to the World Health Organisation and overseas governments.
Professor Aimers is the Chair of the Transport Sector Trusted Information Sharing Network, Member of the Australian Government Critical Infrastructure Advisory Council and the Business Resilience Manager for Metro Trains Melbourne.