Programme

A programme you can shape

BCI World Hybrid 2026 gives you the flexibility to focus on what matters most.

Rather than following a fixed agenda, you can choose from a range of session formats – each designed to help you learn, connect, and apply ideas in a practical way.

What you’ll experience

Keynotes and conference sessions

Set the direction for the day with broad insights, fresh perspectives, and a clear view of where resilience is heading.

The Skill of Resilience

What changes when resilience is treated as an individual and organizational skill rather than as a trait to be elicited or an outcome to be achieved? Rachel Doern, author of The Resilient Entrepreneur: From Crisis to Enlightenment, explores why starting with people and culture provides the foundation for developing an effective resilience capability.

Case studies

Learn how organizations are putting resilience into practice – and the value it’s delivering.

Case Study: Tales from the front line

Drawing on more than 25 years’ experience in the health sector, Helen Salvini shares lessons from situations where business continuity and crisis management decisions can have high-stakes consequences. Helen also offers innovative ideas for light-touch BIAs, exercises, and resilience strategy development when working in and with small, highly-stretched, organizational teams. Drawing on more than 25 years’ experience in the health sector, Helen Salvini shares lessons from situations where business continuity and crisis management decisions can have high-stakes consequences. Helen also offers innovative ideas for light-touch BIAs, exercises, and resilience strategy development when working in and with small, highly-stretched, organizational teams.

Workshops

Practical, structured sessions where you work through real challenges and build tools you can take back to your role.

Bring Your BIA: A Collaborative Troubleshooting Workshop

Bring your current business impact analyses to this highly interactive workshop to troubleshoot real-world challenges alongside your peers. Facilitated by Candice Croydon, this session will also explore the topic of engaging people in the BIA process.

Addressing the Culture Challenge: Implementing GPG PP2

PP2 is an essential aspect of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines, but it is often one of the hardest areas for business continuity professionals to implement. What does it take to encourage and enable people to embrace business continuity and to build a culture of resilience? What do world-class organizations do differently to bring about change and to encourage the necessary mindset? This enjoyable and interactive workshop will help practitioners explore practical approaches to the culture challenge, taking away fresh ideas, solutions to common problems, and initiatives to sustain resilience.

Decision Making Under Extreme Pressure

Recognition Primed Decision Making (RPD) explains how decision makers identify a workable course of action under pressure, often with incomplete information and limited time. In this practical workshop, Stuart Lonie introduces the concept of RPD and shows how short form exercises, including tactical decision games, can help crisis teams build experience, recognise patterns, and improve decision making.

Resilience by Design: Building a Strategic Organisational Capability

Resilience by design is often considered at the level of individual processes, systems, or projects. In this workshop, Helen Lipscombe will help participants explore the bigger strategic picture: how to implement resilience by design across the whole organisation. Areas covered will include developing the ability to adapt, learning how to fail well, and building resilience as an organisational mindset. Helen will also introduce the 4A Resilience Framework – Anchor, Align, Activate, Adapt – which gives organisations a structured and repeatable model for embedding resilience across people, processes, and culture.

Simulations

Hands-on exercises that let you test decisions in realistic scenarios and learn by doing.

Anatomy of a Crisis: Inside a Real Cyber Incident

Step into the hot seat during a live-action cyber crisis, where your decisions dictate how a world-class company survives a catastrophic attack. The scenario is built from real events and reflects the scale, complexity, and pressure of a real incident. As events unfold, how will you face the challenges of limited information, competing priorities, and a recovery shaped by early decisions? This simulation exercise is AI powered and facilitated by experts from Databarracks. It will provide you with a genuine test of your personal crisis management skills and strong lessons to take back to your organization.

Cascade! A High-intensity, Decision-centric Exercise

Led by Marios Stavrou, Head of Operations, Business Continuity, at the Bank of Cyprus, this intense cascading domino effects and dependency mapping half-day tabletop exercise will stretch your decision-making skills by putting you into the middle of a high-pressure crisis. This interactive exercise challenges participants to identify critical dependencies, analyse potential domino effects, and make strategic decisions as a complex crisis scenario unfolds. Through a realistic, fast-evolving incident, participants will explore how dependency mapping supports effective business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience, while gaining practical insights into strengthening their organization’s ability to anticipate, respond to, and recover from interconnected disruptions.