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Pre-Conference Resilience Audit
Delegates complete 12 anonymous resilience questions before arrival. Results revealed live on stage — the audience becomes part of the evidence. You arrive informed. You leave exposed.
Presented by GCBR
Paris Resilience Summit 2026
The Unaddressed Issues
The truth we ignore today. The crises we can't afford tomorrow.
Programme focus
- Digital sovereignty
- Agentic cyber autonomy
- Food security
- People resilience
- Infrastructure resilience
- Supply chain resilience
- Critical materials, water & energy
- The geopolitical game
- Trust erosion
03 November 2026 · Leonard, Paris · 09:00 – 19:00
- 150+Leaders
- 40+Countries
- 30+Speakers
- 15+Industries
- 1Day of impact
About the Summit
One day. Unfiltered conversations. Actionable solutions.
The Paris Resilience Summit 2026 challenges the way we think about resilience. A single-day executive conference built around the conversations the resilience industry agreed not to have.
The world is facing a convergence of threats — from cyber and climate to geopolitical instability and societal divides. Paris 2026 brings together those who refuse to ignore the unaddressed.
Instead of discussing only the obvious risks, we explore the critical issues that leaders often avoid — declining trust, cognitive overload, AI dependency, geopolitical fragmentation, workforce burnout, climate adaptation gaps, and other emerging threats shaping the next decade.
A summit designed to address the questions nobody wants to ask — before they become the crises nobody can control.
- Organised by
- GCBR
- Co-organiser
- École des Ponts Business School
- Partner
- UNESCO Chair
The 10 unaddressed issues
The conversations the resilience industry agreed not to have
Each sits at the intersection of multiple sectors. None are sufficiently addressed by existing forums.
01
We Are Becoming Dependent on AI
We're handing over decisions we don't understand. Governance frameworks don't exist yet.
02
Trust Is Collapsing
Institutions. Data. Leaders. Each other. The foundational social contract is eroding.
03
Climate Adaptation Is Underfunded
We talk about targets. We don't fund survival. The $5T tech / $63B adaptation ratio is a values problem.
04
Insurance May Stop Working
Risk is rising faster than resilience. The model is broken. Who absorbs the loss when the safety net disappears?
05
We Are Burning People Out
Stress is the new normal. Burnout is the silent crisis. Offering apps and breathing exercises is not a strategy.
06
Critical Resources Are Weapons
Energy. Minerals. Data. Control is the new power. Most corporate resilience plans treat them as commodity problems.
07
SMEs Are Not Protected
The backbone of the global economy. The first to fail. The last to be saved.
08
Infrastructure Is Privatised Risk
We outsourced resilience. We lost control. Critical systems now run on commercial incentives with no public mandate.
09
Food Systems Are One Shock Away
Fragile. Concentrated. Vulnerable. Most organisations have no food security line in their business continuity plan.
10
Geopolitical Instability Defies Our Plans
Unpredictable. Escalating. Always one step ahead. We're always one step behind.
Format innovation
A different kind of summit
Paris 2026 is deliberately designed to break the standard conference format — because standard formats produce standard results.
02
Oxford-Style Debates
Five sessions with two speakers proposing, two opposing — on the most contested resilience questions. Audience votes before and after. The shift in votes is the result. No consensus theatre.
03
Live Crisis Simulation
Delegates manage a simultaneous ransomware attack, whistleblower leak, and extreme weather event — in real time, with incomplete information. Not a tabletop. Not a case study. Compressed into 90 minutes.
Programme
Full agenda — 03 November 2026
Registration from 08:30. Single-track day with parallel roundtables in the afternoon.
09:00
25 min
Keynote
Opening Keynote · “We Have Been Preparing for the Wrong Crisis”
The global resilience agenda is set by the last crisis, not the next.
09:25
50 min
Panel debate
Digital Sovereignty · “Who Controls the Systems We Depend On?”
Digital sovereignty spans AI, data, platforms and emerging technologies that reshape control and dependency.
10:15
50 min
Panel debate
Cyber Resilience · “Agentic Wars in Full Autonomy”
When autonomous agents attack, defend and escalate faster than humans can intervene, who stays in command?
11:05
25 min
Break
Coffee Break & Networking
11:30
50 min
Panel debate
Supply Chain · “The Visibility Illusion”
Tier-1 visibility has improved; Tiers 2–4 remain opaque.
12:20
50 min
Panel debate
Critical Materials, Water & Energy · “The Geopolitical Game Nobody Is Winning”
Lithium, cobalt, rare earths, aquifers, LNG routes: who controls the resources your organisation needs?
13:10
40 min
Break
Lunch & Networking
13:50
60 min
Executive roundtable
Infrastructure resilience
Critical systems, cities, transport, and built environment under compound stress.
13:50
60 min
Executive roundtable
Food security
Fertiliser dependency, monoculture fragility and water-intensive agriculture converge into a one-disruption-from-cascade system.
13:50
60 min
Executive roundtable
SME resilience as economic backbone
Helping smaller enterprises anticipate disruption, protect continuity, and recover faster.
14:50
65 min
Panel debate
Climate Investment Ratio · “$5 Trillion on Tech. $63 Billion on Adaptation.”
The tech-vs-adaptation investment ratio is roughly 80:1 — a priorities gap, not just a funding gap.
15:55
25 min
Keynote
People Resilience · “We're Burning People Out and Calling It a Wellbeing Programme”
Workforce resilience cannot be individual when the system is the problem.
16:20
50 min
Panel debate
Trust Erosion · “Is Every Resilience Plan Built on a Social Contract That No Longer Exists?”
The trust deficit is now the primary systemic risk, ahead of climate, cyber or geopolitics.
17:10
25 min
Break
Coffee Break & Networking
17:35
25 min
Closing keynote
Five Decisions You Will Regret Not Making Today
19:00
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Reception
Drinks & Networking Reception
Key topics
Where the dialogue goes deep
Digital sovereignty
AI, data, platforms and emerging technologies that reshape control, dependency, and who governs the systems we rely on.
Agentic cyber autonomy
When autonomous agents attack, defend and escalate faster than humans can intervene — who stays in command?
Food security
Fertiliser dependency, monoculture fragility, and food systems one disruption from cascade failure.
People resilience
Burnout, cognitive decline, and workforce resilience when the system itself is the problem.
Infrastructure resilience
Critical national infrastructure, privatised risk, and who absorbs loss when systems fail.
Supply chain resilience
The visibility illusion — Tier-1 clarity while Tiers 2–4 remain opaque and fragile.
Critical materials, water & energy
Lithium, cobalt, rare earths, aquifers, LNG routes — existential chokepoints, not procurement problems.
The geopolitical game
Power shifts, resource weaponisation, and strategic decisions in a fragmented world.
Trust erosion
When the social contract no longer holds — and every resilience plan fails at step one.
Why attend
Unique perspectives
Insights from global leaders and crisis veterans — experience tested under real pressure.
Actionable solutions
Leave with strategies you can implement on day one — not frameworks, but decisions.
Powerful networking
Connect with C-suite decision-makers, policymakers, and practitioners from 40+ countries.
Collective resilience
Contribute to a stronger future — and to the global resilience movement.
Who should come
- C-Suite executive delegates
- Government and institutional leaders
- Resilience practitioners and specialists
- Academic researchers and thinkers
- Journalists and media accreditation
Speaker categories include global leaders, industry visionaries, technology pioneers, academics & thinkers, crisis veterans. More speakers to be announced.
Interested in speaking? marina.peikova@gcbr-org.comPartners
Building the dialogue together
Core academic partner
École des Ponts Business School
LeadTech Global Executive MBA — leadership and innovation across Paris, Barcelona, Singapore, and Silicon Valley.
Communication partner
Professional community connecting ERM, security, insurance, and resilience practitioners.
Partner
UNESCO Chair
Institutional partnership supporting cross-sector dialogue on resilience and systemic risk.
GCBR welcomes academic institutions, professional associations, media organisations, and corporate sponsors who share our conviction that the most consequential resilience challenges require cross-sector solutions.
Partnership enquiriesBe part of the conversation that shapes our future
A curated, application-based event. Delegate places are limited to ensure quality of dialogue.