Program
Conference Week 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). Francesco Di Maio, 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), John Andrews, Piero Baraldi, Olga Fink and Christophe Berenguer
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, Enrico Zio and Sandra Alday
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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Teemu Reiman
Teemu Reiman has a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Helsinki, and a title of Associate Professor from […]
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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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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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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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Roger Flage
Roger Flage is a Professor of Risk Analysis at the University of Stavanger, with several years of prior experience as […]
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Francesco Di Maio
Francesco Di Maio received the M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering in 2006 from Politecnico di Milano and a Double EU-China PhD […]
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John Andrews
Professor John Andrews: is in the Resilience Engineering Research Group, at the University of Nottingham where he was appointed to a […]
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Frederic Bouder
Frederic Bouder is Professor in Risk Management at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He is a recognised expert in risk […]
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Sandra Alday
Sandra Alday is Program Manager of the Master of Management at the University of Sydney Business School. Extending her experience […]
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Christophe Berenguer
Christophe Berenguer is Full Professor in Reliability and Maintenance, Systems Monitoring and Control Systems at GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, […]
Panels, Roundtables, Special Sessions & Workshops
PANEL: Sustainability risk management: How can CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive be integrated in “business as usual” risk management? (Proactima)
Panelists: Sandra Seno-Alday. Hermann Steen Wiencke. Lars Bjarne Røvang, Konstantina Karatzoudi
Chair: Richard Heyerdahl
PANEL: The Future of Risk Research: Early Career Researcher perspectives
Organizer: George Warren and Sarah Duckett
Contact: George Warren [email protected]
PANEL: Risk and responsibility: What can we learn from managing COVID-19?
Organizer: RESECTOR project group
Contact: Rasmus Dahlberg [email protected]
PANEL: Safety, Reliability, and Security(SRS) of Autonomous Systems
Organizer: The International Workshop on Autonomous System Safety (IWASS)
Contact: Grimstad, Joachim [email protected]
ROUNDTABLE: The Ethics of Strategic Risk Communication
Panelists: Dominic Balog-Way, Ann Bostrom, Frederic Bouder, Rui Gaspar, Katherine McComas and Magda Osman
Chair: Ragnar Löfstedt
ROUNDTABLE: PHM in Transportation: comparison between air and ground transportation. Possible synergies?
Organizers: Pierre Dersin & Olga Fink
Contact: Pierre Dersin [email protected]
ROUNDTABLE: Linking Risk and Sustainability through Decision Science
Organizers: Sandra Alday and Anca Hanea
Contact: Anca Hanea [email protected]
ROUNDTABLE: Joining Forces for Risk Communication
Organizers: Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR), National University of Singapore (Singapore), the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (Cambridge, UK) and Sense About Science (London, UK).
Olivia Jensen, Lara Mani, and Tracey Brown
Contact: Olivia Jensen [email protected]
ROUNDTABLE: The Social Amplification of Risk Framework: Contemporary significance and Needs for the Future
Organizers: Lisbet Fjæran and Angela Bearth
Contact: Lisbet Fjæran, [email protected]
ROUNDTABLE: Revisiting the foundations of safety science in a world of change – interdisciplinary, basic and applied all at once?
Participants: Jan Hayes, Jean Cristophe LeCoze, Nick Pidgeon and Teemu Reiman
Chair: Kenneth Pettersen Gould [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Reliability, Risk and Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems
Organizers: Francesco Di Maio, Yiping Fang and Enrico Zio
Contact: Francesco Di Maio [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Impacts on Critical Infrastructure Risk and Resilience
Organizers: Francesco Di Maio, Masoud Naseri and Enrico ZIo
Contact: Masoud Naseri [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) to security attacks
Organizers: Francesco Di Maio, Greta Nasi, Wei Wang and Enrico Zio
Contact: Francesco Di Maio [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Artificial Intelligence, Meta-Modelling, and Advanced Simulation for the Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems
Organizers: Ibrahim Ahmed, Francesco Di Maio, Nicola Pedroni and Enrico Zio
Contact: Ibrahim Ahmed [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Data-driven Predictive Maintenance- – from sensor measurements to diagnostics/prognostics to maintenance planning
Organizers: Zhiguo Zeng, David Coit, and Mihaela Mitici
Contact: Mitici, M.A. (Mihaela) [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Human- Machine Interaction in Industry 4.0: Ergonomics, Security, and Regulatory Challenges
Organizers: Mario Di Nardo, Maria Chiara Leva and Luigi Monica
Contact: Mario Di Nardo [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Challenges and Advancements Towards Trustful Digital Twins: Uncertainty, Automation, and AI
Organizers: Edoardo Patelli, Massimiliano Vasile, Marco de Angelis, Scott Ferson and Yu Chen
Contact: Yu Chen [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Recent Advancements in Expert Judgment
Organizers: Tina Nane and Anca Hanea
Contact: Tina Nane [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Safety, Reliability, and Security (SRS) of Autonomous Systems
Organizer: The International Workshop on Autonomous System Safety (IWASS)
Contact: Joachim Grimstad [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Test Planning and Design for Lifetime Testing in Reliability Engineering
Contact: Martin Dazer [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Safety and Health in the Offshore Wind Industry
Contact: Tone Njølstad Slotsvik [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Incremental Rollout of New Technologies in Railway Systems Engineering
Organizers: Arne Lamm, Astrid Rakow and Eike Moehlmann
Contact: Arne Lamm [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Balancing Complexity and Efficiency: Optimal Model Resolution and Network Granularity in Risk Analysis
Organizers: Alessandro Contento, Paolo Gardoni
Contact: Alessandro Contento [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Bayesian Networks Modelling for Reliability and Risk Assessment
Organizers: Michael Beer, Matteo Broggi, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio
Contact: Francesco Di Maio [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Domain Adaptation Methods for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) and Predictive Maintenance
Organizers: Ibrahim Ahmed, Piero Baraldi, Olga Fink and Enrico Zio
Contact: Ibrahim Ahmed [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for RAMS
Organizers: Ibrahim Ahmed, Piero Baraldi and Enrico Zio
Contact: Ibrahim Ahmed [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Anticipatory Behavior for Safety in Human-Autonomous Agent Interactions
Contact: Prosper Ameh Kwei-Narh [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Well Engineering Reliability, Integrity and Risk Management
Organizers: Márcio das Chagas Moura, Isis Didier Lins, Manoel Feliciano Silva, Danilo Colombo
Contact: Marcio Jose Das Chagas Moura [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Risk Analysis and Safety in Machinery
Organizer: Luca Landi, Roberto Gabbrielli, Heinrich Moedden, Fabio Pera
Contact: Luca Landi [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Methodology, tools, and software for dealing with imprecision in risk analysis
Organizers: Matthias Faes, Marcos Valdebenito, Jingwen Song, Pengfei Wei, Steffen Freitag, Edoardo Patelli, Michael Beer, Matteo Broggi, Yu Chen
Contact: Edoardo Patelli [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Natural Language Processing for RAMS applications
Organizers: Piero Baraldi, July Bias Macedo, Marcio Jose das Chagas Moura, Dario Valcamonico and Enrico Zio
Contact: Dario Valcamonico [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Infrastructure and Community Resilience: Preparation, Absorption, Response, and Recovery
Organizers: Omar Kammouh, Nazli Aydin
Contact: Omar Kammouh [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Reinforcement learning for RAMS
Organizers: Adam Abdin, Piero Baraldi, Michele Compare, Luca Pinciroli and Enrico ZIo
Contact: Luca Pinciroli [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAM) Application
Organizers: Joaquín Figueroa, Piero Baraldi and Enrico Zio
Contact: Joaquín Eduardo Figueroa Barraza [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Professional Practice for Improved Safety Decision Making
Organizers: Jan Hayes and Kenneth Pettersen Gould
Contact: Jan Hayes [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Impact Assessment in Resilience Analysis of Energy Systems
Organizers: Luca Podofillini and Matteo Spada
Contact: Spada Matteo (spaa) [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Adapting to Extreme Risks: Safety Strategies for Space and Aviation
Organizers: Mario P. Brito and Stanislav Bukhman
Contact: Mario Brito [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Quantum Methods in Risk and Reliability
Organizers: Enrique López Droguett, Márcio Moura and Isis Didier Lins
Contact: Isis Didier Lins [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Underground hydrogen storage: Understanding risks and ensuring safe and sustainable operations
Organizers: Nadezhda Gotcheva and Hanna Koskinen
Contact: Gotcheva Nadezhda [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Case Studies on Predictive Reliability: an Industrial Perspective
Organizers: Marco Bonato, Alexander Mueller and François Masse
Contact: Marco BONATO [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Hybrid Threats and Risk Governance Between Safety and Security
Organizers: NTNU Social Research, University of Stavanger and SINTEF Digital
Contact: Susanne Therese Hansen [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Collaborative Intelligence and Safety Critical Systems Applications
Organizers: Maria Chiara Leva, Ammar Abbas, Hector Diego Estrada Lugo, John D. Kelleher, Micaela Demichela, Anders Madsen Hugin, Gabriele Giannini, Philip Long and Marko Djapan
Contact: Maria Chiara Leva [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: Exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI in managing Major Accident Hazards in high-risk environments
Organizers: Petter Johnsen, Sahar Snell and Navin Isaiah
Contact: Sahar Snell [email protected]
SPECIAL SESSION: The NASA and DNV Challenge on Optimization Under Uncertainty
Organizers: DNV Group Research and Development: Christian Agrell, Vegard Flovik, Erik Vanem
NASA Langley Research Center: Luis G. Crespo, Sean Kenny
Contact: Christian Agrell [email protected]
WORKSHOP: International Workshop on Energy Transition to Net Zero: Reliability, Risk, and Resilience (ETZE R3)
Organizer: The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contact: Tarannom Parhizkar [email protected]
Social Program
Conference dinner at Sola Beach Hotel
Wednesday 18th June 18:30 – 23:30
Includes 3 course dinner, 3 units of wine/beer, entertainment
Organized trip to Preikestolen
Sunday 15th June 7:45 AM – 4:00 PM
Join us on a hike to one of Norway’s most iconic landmarks, Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock). The marked trail will take us through diverse nature and landscapes, and includes several sections of natural stone stairways. The hike covers 4 km with a 330-meter elevation gain, leading up to the breathtaking viewpoint of Lysefjorden and its surrounding mountains 604 meters above the fjord. The hike typically takes between 2 and 3 hours, excluding breaks.
Departure from the University of Stavanger at 08:00. Return to the University at 4 PM.
Transportation details:
The bus will depart from the University of Stavanger (UiS) at 08:00. To ensure a timely departure, we kindly ask all participants to arrive at the meeting point (parking space north of Arne Rettedals Hus) no later than 07:45. The meeting point is marked on the map below.
Travel time to the starting point of the hike is approximately 1 hour. The hike itself is estimated to take about 4 hours round trip, excluding breaks.
Departure from Preikestolen is scheduled for 15:00, with an expected return to UiS by 16:00.
To ensure a safe and enjoyable hike, please take note of the following:
For any questions, please contact [email protected]