Cityforum: Managing Critical Events

The fourth introductory webclave to the forthcoming Cityforum ‘Reimagining Security and Resilience’ programme is scheduled for September 2023, entitled 'Managing Critical Events'. Chaired by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli of Z/Yen with whom Cityforum is working on this series, the excellent panel of discussants comprises Professor Sir David Omand, former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator; Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom Chairman of the Advisory Panel of Thales (UK); and Zhanna L. Malekos Smith Visiting Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs & Senior Associate Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). The panel has much experience on what to do in response to managing critical events. One of the themes Michael Mainelli wishes to include is problems in the space domain and in particular with how debris could wreck both movement and communication, a subject for which Zhanna has particular expertise. The whole thrust of this Cityforum project, which extends until Christmas, is how to deliver improved security and resilient recovery in a period of global stress, fragmentation and polycrisis.