The Future of Resilience: What every professional needs to know by 2030
Join us for the exclusive launch of the BCI Resilience: Vision 2030 Report sponsored by F24 – your essential roadmap to the changing landscape of business continuity.
In this forward-looking session, we'll unpack:
- How your role as a resilience professional will transform over the next decade
- Practical strategies to build long-term resilience in a changing world
- The evolving perception of business continuity and its strategic importance
- Must-have skills that will separate successful resilience managers from the rest
- Game-changing tools to strengthen your planning approach and secure your organization's future.
Don't miss this opportunity to get ahead of the curve and prepare yourself and your organization for what's next in resilience management.
Speakers:
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Maria Florencia Lombardero Garcia
Thought Leadership Manager, The BCI
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Kelly Blakeley MBCI
Founder, Flex Story
Kelly Blakeley is a crisis management and organisational resilience specialist with extensive experience working across sectors and internationally to strengthen preparedness, response and resilience capability.
Her career spans local emergency response and multi-agency coordination through to government and national capability-building programmes, critical infrastructure, executive crisis preparedness and strategic advisory work. She has worked with organisations across the UK, Middle East and internationally, supporting the development of practical capabilities to prepare for and respond to disruption in complex and high-pressure environments.
Kelly is the Founder of Flex Story, a UAE-based consultancy focused on crisis management, business continuity, organisational resilience and leadership capability. She is a twice-elected Global Board Director of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), a BCI Approved Instructor, and an expert committee member contributing to ISO and BSI work on security and resilience standards. She also serves on the advisory panels of Crisis Response Journal and International Security Journal.
Alongside her practical work, Kelly is a future-focused voice on the evolving resilience landscape, exploring how emerging risks, technology and AI are reshaping preparedness, leadership and crisis capability. Her work connects these future challenges with the enduring human realities of response - helping organisations build the judgement, relationships and adaptability needed when disruption becomes real.
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Matthew Davies
Senior Account Manager, F24
Matthew Davies is the Account, Service and Migration Manager of F-24 UK and has worked with the company for over 10 years. He consults organisations of all sizes on how to optimise their Emergency Notification and Crisis Management processes through effective use of technology.
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Christian Thygesen
Head of Enterprise Risk Management, USTC
