Program

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Day by Day Program Overview

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Plenary Sessions

Opening session: Breakthroughs in Research

In this session some experienced scientists will tell us about breakthroughs in their research – how did it happen? What was the problem, and what were the novel features and ideas? Where did the new insights come from? How important were discussions with other scientists?

Speakers: Terje Aven, Gudela Grote, Enrico Zio

Monday 16 June 09:00 – 10:15

The Role of Risk Science in the New Geopolitical Security Landscape: Geopolitical tensions, Hybrid threats, Artificial Intelligence, and Beyond

We are living in an era defined by rapid technological advancement, shifting power dynamics, and heightened global tensions. The convergence of artificial intelligence, terrorism, hybrid threats, and geopolitical tensions has created unprecedented challenges, and opportunities, for practitioners, decision-makers and researchers alike.

This panel will discuss how these risks reshape the new era of risk and security and will investigate the role of risk science in this new era. Topics to be addressed include: Will security as a new framework condition for risk and safety challenge existing tools and frameworks to anticipate, evaluate, and mitigate emerging risks? How can risk science illuminate pathways to resilience and stability in this new era?

Panelists: Sissel Haugdal Jore (Chair/moderator), Rasmus Dahlberg, Susanne Therese Hansen, Genserik Reniers

Monday 16 June 13.00 – 14:15

After lunch session

Risk assessment for the future: challenges and directions for the research

The aim of risk assessment is to improve our understanding of risk and, in this way, support related decision-making. The panel will discuss to what extent current frameworks, thinking and methods are suitable for meeting the challenges of the future, characterized by many and rapid changes, large uncertainties, digitalization, increased level of system complexities, access to ‘big data’, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. We question: Are the traditional risk assessment approaches obsolete? What topics should risk assessment research and development now give priority to?

Panelists: Seth Guikema (Chair/moderator). Enrique López Droguett, Roger Flage, Floris Goerlandt, Myrto Konstantinidou and Lesley Walls

Tuesday 17 June 09:00 – 10:15

Morning session

Communicating risk and uncertainty: How can risk science help?

Communicating risk is not a simple task in practice. A balance has to be made between concentration on policy implementation for the sake of obtaining efficient risk handling, and scientifically and truthfully representing and conveying what the current knowledge is. The panel will discuss how risk science can support the risk communication. Topics to be addressed include: how to deal with uncertainties, the challenge of misinformation, and the interrelationship between science and politics.

Panelists: Frederic Bouder (Chair/moderator), Terje Aven, Ragnar Löfstedt, Magda Osman, Henrik Tehler and Robyn Wilson

Tuesday 17 June 13.00 – 14:15

After lunch session

Reliability analysis in the future: challenges and directions for the research

The panel will address current issues of reliability analysis and its projection to the future, ranging from high-level reflections on reliability as a scientific field and its practice, to specific topics related to new models and innovative methods for studying the highly integrated and complex systems of today’s industry, in light of digitalization, IoT, Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Questions that naturally arise regard: what are the development trends seen and needed to meet current and future challenges? What are the most important research questions to ask and what type of methodologies and tools need to be developed to enhance the field and provide adequate decision support?

Panelists: Enrico Zio (Chair/moderator), Piero Baraldi, Olga Fink, Rui Kang, Pierre-Etienne Labeau

Wednesday 18 June 09:00 – 10:15

Morning session

Challenges related to the gap between theory and practice in the risk and safety field

It can be argued that there is a considerable gap between theory and practice in the risk and safety field. For example, practitioners still use traditional risk matrices despite strong theoretical knowledge expressing that it could seriously misrepresent risk and misguide decision-makers. Another example is that safety culture is often in practice treated as a property of individuals, and seen as separate from the organizations’ other functions, even though studies show the importance of understanding it as an organizational level phenomenon and in relation to various organizational functions. Yet another example is the common practice of separation between the management of safety and security risks, despite theoretical knowledge showing strong necessities and benefits of an integrated perspective. The panel will discuss why we have this gap, why it is important to seek to close it, and how this can be achieved. Is the gap mainly a knowledge transfer problem, or is the issue more about fundamental differences in mindsets and sensemaking, and generic factors that resist change? The perspectives discussed include academia, regulators and industry.

Panelists: Marja Ylönen (Chair/moderator), Kenneth Gould Pettersen, Jan Hayes, Luca Podofillini, Teemu Reiman

Wednesday 18 June 13.00 – 14:15

After lunch session

What have we learned? The future of risk & safety science

In this session the speakers will provide some reflections about current topics of the risk and safety field, highlighting both theory and practice, in view of the conference presentations and discussions. What have we learned about concepts, theories and methods, and the use of these to enhance our understanding and make better decisions? The speakers will point to specific issues and insights that they consider important for the future of the risk and safety field.

Speakers: Marja Ylönen, Valerio Cozzani

Thursday 19 June 14.30-16.00

Closing session

Plenary Speakers

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Enrico Zio

Enrico Zio received the MSc degree in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1991 and in mechanical engineering from […]
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Gudela Grote

Gudela Grote is a Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at ETH Zürich. She received her doctorate at the Georgia […]
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Terje Aven

Terje Aven has been a Professor in Risk Science at the University of Stavanger, Norway since 1992. Previously he was […]
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Robyn Wilson

Robyn Wilson, Ph.D., professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Dr. Wilson is […]
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Ragnar Lofstedt

Ragnar Lofstedt PhD is a Professor of Risk Management at King’s College London, a position that he has held since […]
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Magda Osman

Magda Osman is Head of Research and Analysis, Centre for Science and Policy. She is a cognitive psychologist by training, and […]
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Enrique López Droguett

Enrique López Droguett is Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Reliability Science […]
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Rui Kang

Rui Kang received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1987 and 1990 from Beihang University. Now he […]
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Henrik Tehler

Since 2015, Henrik Tehler has been serving as a Professor at the Division for Risk Management and Societal Safety at […]
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Seth Guikema

Seth Guikema is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering […]
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Floris Goerlandt

Floris Goerlandt is Associate Professor in Dalhousie University, Canada, where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Risk […]
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Pierre-Etienne Labeau

Pierre-Etienne Labeau is Full Professor of nuclear engineering and reliability engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Université libre de […]
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Piero Baraldi

Piero Baraldi received the MSc and the PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2002 and 2006, […]
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Olga Fink

Olga Fink is an assistant professor leading the Laboratory of Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems at EPFL since March 2022. […]
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Valerio Cozzani

Valerio Cozzani is Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Bologna, Italy, where he leads the Laboratory of Industrial Safety […]
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Jan Hayes

Jan Hayes PhD is a Professor of Organizational Accident Prevention at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a sociologist with […]
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Myrto Konstantinidou

Myrto Konstantinidou is a Chemical Engineer with a double degree from National Technical University of Athens and Politecnico di Milano, […]
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Lesley Walls

Lesley Walls Ph.D., Professor, Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland – Lesley is a Professor and Chartered […]
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Marja Ylönen

Marja Ylönen is Doctor of Social Sciences and working currently as Associate Professor in Risk Management and Societal Safety at […]
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Luca Podofillini

Luca Podofillini is a senior scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute of Switzerland. He has a Nuclear Engineering degree and […]
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Genserik Reniers

Genserik Reniers, a Master of Science in chemical engineering and PhD in Applied Economic Sciences, is Full Professor at the Safety […]
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Sissel Haugdal Jore

Sissel Haugdal Jore is a Professor in Risk Management and Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. Her […]
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Susanne Therese Hansen

Susanne Therese Hansen is a Senior Researcher at the research institute NTNU Social Research in Trondheim, Norway. She holds a […]
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Rasmus Dahlberg

Rasmus Dahlberg is currently on leave from his position as Associate Professor at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies […]
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Panels, Roundtables, Special Sessions & Workshops

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PANEL: The Future of Risk Research: Early Career Researcher perspectives

Organizer: George Warren and Sarah Duckett

Contact: George Warren [email protected]

Program

Conference Week Overview

Day by Day Program Overview

Plenary Sessions

Opening session: Breakthroughs in Research

Monday 16 June 09:00 – 10:15

The Role of Risk Science in the New Geopolitical Security Landscape: Geopolitical tensions, Hybrid threats, Artificial Intelligence, and Beyond

Monday 16 June 13.00 – 14:15

Risk assessment for the future: challenges and directions for the research

Tuesday 17 June 09:00 – 10:15

Communicating risk and uncertainty: How can risk science help?

Tuesday 17 June 13.00 – 14:15

Reliability analysis in the future: challenges and directions for the research

Wednesday 18 June 09:00 – 10:15

Challenges related to the gap between theory and practice in the risk and safety field

Wednesday 18 June 13.00 – 14:15

What have we learned? The future of risk & safety science

Thursday 19 June 14.30-16.00

Plenary Speakers

Enrico Zio

Gudela Grote

Terje Aven

Robyn Wilson

Ragnar Lofstedt

Magda Osman

Enrique López Droguett

Rui Kang

Henrik Tehler

Seth Guikema

Floris Goerlandt

Pierre-Etienne Labeau

Piero Baraldi

Olga Fink

Valerio Cozzani

Jan Hayes

Myrto Konstantinidou

Lesley Walls

Marja Ylönen

Luca Podofillini

Genserik Reniers

Sissel Haugdal Jore

Susanne Therese Hansen

Rasmus Dahlberg

Panels, Roundtables, Special Sessions & Workshops

PANEL: The Future of Risk Research: Early Career Researcher perspectives

PANEL: Risk and responsibility: What can we learn from managing COVID-19?

PANEL: Safety, Reliability, and Security(SRS) of Autonomous Systems

ROUNDTABLE: The Ethics of Strategic Risk Communication

ROUNDTABLE: PHM in Transportation: comparison between air and ground transportation. Possible synergies?

ROUNDTABLE: Linking Risk and Sustainability through Decision Science

ROUNDTABLE: Communicating Risk to Raise Risk Know-How

ROUNDTABLE: The Social Amplification of Risk Framework: Contemporary significance and Needs for the Future

ROUNDTABLE: Revisiting the foundations of safety science in a world of change – interdisciplinary, basic and applied all at once?

SPECIAL SESSION: Reliability, Risk and Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems

SPECIAL SESSION: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Impacts on Critical Infrastructure Risk and Resilience

SPECIAL SESSION: Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) to security attacks

SPECIAL SESSION: Artificial Intelligence, Meta-Modelling, and Advanced Simulation for the Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems

SPECIAL SESSION: Data-driven Predictive Maintenance- – from sensor measurements to diagnostics/prognostics to maintenance planning

SPECIAL SESSION: Human- Machine Interaction in Industry 4.0: Ergonomics, Security, and Regulatory Challenges

SPECIAL SESSION: Challenges and Advancements Towards Trustful Digital Twins: Uncertainty, Automation, and AI

SPECIAL SESSION: Recent Advancements in Expert Judgment

SPECIAL SESSION: Safety, Reliability, and Security (SRS) of Autonomous Systems

SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Test Planning and Design for Lifetime Testing in Reliability Engineering

SPECIAL SESSION: Climate Risk Governance in the Arctic

SPECIAL SESSION: Safety and Health in the Offshore Wind Industry

SPECIAL SESSION: Incremental Rollout of New Technologies in Railway Systems Engineering

SPECIAL SESSION: Balancing Complexity and Efficiency: Optimal Model Resolution and Network Granularity in Risk Analysis

SPECIAL SESSION: Bayesian Networks Modelling for Reliability and Risk Assessment

SPECIAL SESSION: Domain Adaptation Methods for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) and Predictive Maintenance

SPECIAL SESSION: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for RAMS

SPECIAL SESSION: Anticipatory Behavior for Safety in Human-Autonomous Agent Interactions

SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Well Engineering Reliability, Integrity and Risk Management

SPECIAL SESSION: Risk Analysis and Safety in Machinery

SPECIAL SESSION: Methodology, tools, and software for dealing with imprecision in risk analysis

SPECIAL SESSION: Natural Language Processing for RAMS applications

SPECIAL SESSION: Infrastructure and Community Resilience: Preparation, Absorption, Response, and Recovery

SPECIAL SESSION: Reinforcement learning for RAMS

SPECIAL SESSION: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAM) Application

SPECIAL SESSION: Professional Practice for Improved Safety Decision Making

SPECIAL SESSION: Impact Assessment in Resilience Analysis of Energy Systems