Synergia Conclave 2013: Building Resilient Cities

With unforeseen disruptions in a volatile world today, it becomes increasingly difficult to predict what is around the curve. Leveraging on our capacity, our approach is to transform the way people react to these disruptions, and turn risks into opportunities. Over the past three years we organised many workshops around the world with Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT CTL) on building resilience in the chain of custody, especially with the pharmaceutical and aerospace industries. The move was fruitful in developing measures to mitigate critical concerns such as counterfeiting, product recalls, and loss of Intellectual Property (IP). The success of this venture inspired us to take capacity-building to the next level, and start the Building Resilience initiative.

This will bring together experts from academia, politics and industry onto a platform for an exchange of insight, ideas, tools and methodologies on gaining comprehensive solutions to very real risks that we face today. This, in turn will result in the development of leading edge practices that can be implemented, and technology and knowledge that can be incubated and disseminated.

Building Resilience initiative, we believe, is a progressive step towards a resilient and more sustainable future.