Now in its sixteenth year, the CW International Conference 2025 will delve into the theme of Resilience with a strong focus on the technological aspects: exploring the resilience of business processes; strategic risk management; the robustness of underlying technologies, and the impact of technology failure. The event will examine how emerging technologies, and digital infrastructure can recover from disruptions and build safeguards for the future. Key factors driving the need for resilience will be explored, including geopolitical tensions, climate change, and the increasing interconnectedness and complexity of critical industries.

The conference will address challenges specific to technological resilience, such as balancing long system lifecycles with the risk of obsolescence, managing decentralised systems while ensuring a coordinated response to incidents, and leveraging advanced solutions to enhance preparedness.

Key topics include:

  • Security and Assurance: How can we design systems to prevent failures and recover effectively when they occur?
  • Learning Across Sectors: What can we learn from industries like energy, transportation, and telecommunications about technological resilience?
  • Drivers of Resilience: How will geopolitical, environmental, and infrastructural changes drive the need for more resilient systems?
  • Digital Twins and Infrastructure Resilience: Exploring how virtual replicas of physical systems can enhance the resilience of critical industries.
  • Policy and Regulation: The role of evolving tech policy and regulatory frameworks in shaping future resilience strategies.
  • Cyber Security: Addressing advanced persistent threats, cyber risks, and the technological measures needed to safeguard against them.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT): Tackling challenges like GPS spoofing and how secure PNT systems are critical for technological infrastructure. 
  • Trust, Reliability, and Sustainability: Building trusted and sustainable technology ecosystems for resilient operations. 
  • Problem-Solving Round Tables: Collaborative discussions on innovative technology solutions for resilience challenges. 

This year's conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform, engaging technologists, policymakers, and industry leaders to drive the conversation on strengthening technological resilience in a rapidly evolving world.

Please note free member tickets are subject to availability and the number of tickets available is linked to the size and type of membership.