Resilience Under Fire: Lessons from Current Events
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This fireside chat will explore how organizations and response teams maintain stability, adapt, and recover in the face of real-time disruptions. Drawing on recent incidents and current events, the discussion will highlight practical lessons in crisis response, decision-making under pressure, communication, and operational continuity.
Participants will examine what worked, what failed, and how resilience strategies can evolve from static plans into dynamic, adaptive capabilities. The session aims to strengthen awareness, encourage shared learning, and equip attendees with actionable insights to better anticipate and recover from future incidents.
Additionally, the discussion will cover major current events in 2026 that are actively impacting resilience management worldwide. These events will be grouped by category, showcasing real-world developments that are shaping how organizations, governments, and industries think about resilience today.
- Geopolitical & Energy Security Crises
- Climate Change & Extreme Weather Events
- Urban Resilience & Infrastructure Stress
- Humanitarian & Food Security Crisis Climate
- Systemic Global Risk Landscape - Global Risk Outlook 2026
- Key Takeaways for Resilience
Speakers:
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Michael Davies Hon. FBCI
Managing Director, PAX Resilience
Michael is passionate about providing effective risk, resilience and recovery solutions for organisations and has been involved in the resilience & business continuity industry for 20 years after having spent several years in the IT Industry. Michael has assisted clients across various industries not only during disruptions caused by extreme weather conditions, political protest, social unrest and cyber ransomware and breaches, but also has been integral to bolstering their resilience capabilities. Furthermore, Michael has had the privilege to speak about resilience and business continuity management (BCM) at various conferences in Africa and been the author of many articles on leading edge concepts in risk, resilience and recovery.
Michael was CEO of ContinuitySA, the leading BCM service provider in Africa, and left the company in March 2021, having spent 18 years with the company. Whilst at the helm of the company it won numerous prestigious awards including being inducted into the Business Continuity Institute Hall of Fame. This was after winning the Continuity and Resilience Provider award for Africa for 3 consecutive years. Michael’s current focus is to help organisations integrate strategy, risk and resilience for them to remain effective and sustainable in times of great uncertainty and accelerating change.
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Chene Maartens
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