11 March 2026
The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall PlaceLondon, UK11 March 2026
The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place,
London, UK
The Royal Horseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place,
London, UK
Crisis Minds
Optimise your crisis management strategies for effective preparation, mitigation, response to and recovery from crises.
Leading cross-industry crisis management conference designed exclusively by and for the in-house community.
Hear senior in-house specialists and expert advisors sharing real-world insights, including:
Leading in-house professionals and advisors shared insights on the hottest topics in crisis management, including:
Horizon Scanning: The Crisis Outlook for 2026
- Where are the emerging and developing risks for 2026?
- Increasing focus on societal preparedness, NATO Article 3
- The role of societal preparedness for crisis; importance of whole-of-society approach
- How to carry out meaningful and translatable horizon scanning in a rapidly changing risk and crisis landscape
- The importance of institutional memory; how to learn from the past, and avoid repeating mistakes; how much knowledge are we retaining?
- How are insurers’ risk tolerances and policies evolving? Are more key risks becoming uninsurable? How should businesses respond?
Responding to Geopolitical Tensions, Crises, and their Impact on Business
- Updates on key geopolitical developments impacting businesses globally
- Israel-Gaza/Iran/Syria; China/Taiwan
- Impact of US-China relations, and tariffs, on trade and supply chains
- How should geopolitical tensions be considered within crisis management programmes? What should we be preparing for?
- What are the ‘triggers’ for when to start planning a proactive response, and developing a playbook for a particular situation?
- Practical approaches to geopolitical crises; best practice approaches to operational continuity, business interruption; proactive safeguarding
- How to prepare for physical threats to people and premises
Preparing for and Mitigating the Impact of Cyber Attacks
- Overview of current cyber security trends, and evolving risk exposure
- Lessons learned from recent high-profile cyber attacks, and their impacts on businesses; business interruption, reputation, share price
- How is AI being employed in cyber attacks?
- Case studies: how companies have approached cyber incidents, and communications in a cyber crisis
- Use of insurance; are companies currently under-insured against cyber-related risks and business interruption? Where are claims coming from? What is insurance capacity like today?
- What else needs to be done, beyond insurance? How can companies be more resilient?
- What are the required tools and capabilities in today’s cyber landscape?
Evolving regulatory developments and their impact on businesses
- Latest regulatory developments and their impact on businesses; how are companies adapting?
- The UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
- The UK's Critical Third Parties (CTP) regime
- How businesses are demonstrating their resilience and ability to respond to crises; how resiliency should be planned, tested, verified, and evidenced
- Increasing ties between crisis management, risk management, and regulatory compliance
- To what extent are regulatory changes potentially driving poor crisis management response, by driving companies to focus on reporting rather than response
The Information Maze: Navigating Information, Misinformation and Disinformation in a Crisis
- Navigating today’s over-abundance of information, misinformation and disinformation
- Tackling the use of bots and AI to spread disinformation and drive crises
- Interpreting mainstream and social media during a crisis; media framing, opinions intertwined with facts
- Practical strategies to mitigate the impact of misinformation and disinformation
- How to process and validate information to find actionable insights during a crisis
- Use of AI to monitor, clean, and process data from multiple sources
- Use of AI to monitor, clean, and process data from multiple sources
- How to process and validate information to find actionable insights during a crisis
Navigating 3rd & 4th Party Risks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
- The rise of risks and crises across 3rd, 4th and nth parties in your supply chain
- How to gain visibility over your extended supply chain ecosystem; supply chain network mapping
- How to assess 3rd party risk; understanding your dependencies on 3rd parties
- Preparing for and mitigating the impact of crises along your supply chain
- Importance of change management; developing a robust change management procedure when procuring and onboarding a new 3rd party
- How companies can meaningfully engage with key suppliers/third parties; how are businesses bringing suppliers in to exercising/testing in a meaningful way
Who will you meet at Crisis Minds?
Connect with and learn from 170+ senior in-house crisis management leaders across a range of industries, including:
Roles
Heads of Crisis Management, C-level Executives, Managing Directors, Heads of Corporate and Public Affairs, Communications, Senior Counsel, Risk Managers, Compliance Officers, Business Continuity Specialists
Industry
Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media, Consumer Goods, Energy, Construction, Publishing, IT Services and more
Geos
Countries including the UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Bermuda
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