Outreach Program
The MAS ETH SPCM provides a global learning, networking, outreach and community-building platform for security policy, crisis management, business continuity, compliance, resilience and corporate security professionals. This platform covers the full spectrum of strategic-political and operational dimensions. It includes major international conferences, such as the MAS ETH SPCM Forum, fire-side talks with leading thinkers and practitioners, and Chatham House rule events held by invitation. Previous events have included the following:
MAS ETH SPCM Forum “Enterprise Resilience: Managing Core Assets”
This Forum dealt with resilience in companies and the protection of their core assets. The forum offered an opportunity for over 50 participants to exchange views on corporate resilience with representatives of academia, business, politics, and the public administration. Noted international speakers presented their thinking on four key issue areas: What role should resilience play within an overall corporate strategy? How can core physical, technological, and human assets be made more resilient and resistant? How can safety and resilience be integrated into the public and private sectors? Within the first panel, special attention was devoted to the challenges to networked societies and critical energy infrastructures and the response to disruptions of highly complex technological processes. The second panel dealt with trademark protection concepts, product traceability, security governance, and continuity concepts in the service sector.
MAS ETH SPCM Forum “Preparing for and Mitigating Against Crises”
This Forum addressed crisis preparation and response in public and corporate environments. Over 100 participants benefitted from practical insights and lessons learned on risk identification, assessment and validation tools and strategies, crisis and risk communications approaches, crisis management exercise planning and implementation. Specific industry aspects focused on energy transport networks, oil and gas sectors, financial services, central government coordination, civil contingency planning, and federal civil protection.
MAS ETH SPCM Forum “Protecting Critical Infrastructures in Asymmetric Threat and Risk Environments”
This inaugural high-level Forum examined a broad array of industry and service risk management and protection challenges and instruments. A first panel identified risk mitigation instruments for critical infrastructures from a reinsurance perspective, protection and control systems of critical energy infrastructures, information technology risks in the electricity sector, supply chain and port security. A second panel presented public-private partnership approaches in supply chain security, competency conversions, the challenge of sensitive information management and software industry views of public-private partnerships on critical infrastructures
