Is your supply chain risk keeping you up at night? Maybe it’s time to learn how risk management can improve business performance? For that you may want to consider attending the Supply Chain Risk Management Forum in Toronto, Canada on March 29, 2011. The conference is a follow-up on last year’s successful Strategic Supply Chain Management Forum, and in response to the positive feedback and suggestions of attendees and sponsors, this year’s one-day event is focused specifically on a current critical supply chain issue: supply chain risk.
Serendipity
Conferences or seminars dedicated solely to Supply Chain Risk don’t happen too often, so for the benefit of my readers I usually post about those that I come across, such as the Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar in Barcelona, or the Contingency Planning and Management Conference in New York City. Today’s post came to me in a rather serendipitous way. This event in Canada was unknown to me, and I only found out because someone from the event organizer visited my website today looking for resilience and showed up on my visitor stats, which I check and analyze every day.
Disseminating Applied Research
The event is managed by the Conference Board of Canada, who according to themselves are the foremost independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada, creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance. Read more about the Conference Board of Canada.
Conference Program
Unfortunately the actual program, keynote speakers and individual sessions are still still a big secret, as the website so far only announces the event, and not much more. That said, the description of the supply chain risk management forum is quite ambitious:
Find out from leading supply chain professionals how to advance your company’s strategy throughout highly developed value chains, while still protecting against increased risk.
Hear how the innovators are using their supply chain risk management expertise to improve organizational performance by streamlining and refining existing business processes.
You’ll also learn about the best approaches to motivate your colleagues, suppliers, and customers to contribute to and help implement your risk management initiatives.
Read more about the program for the Supply Chain Risk Management Forum
Conference Topics
The conference covers many issues related to supply chain risk, and for those who attend, public and private sector supply chain innovators will share their insights and expertise as they examine a number pressing challenges, including how to:
- effectively assess risk and its potential business impact
- prioritize actions and investment to reduce risk
- improve efficiency and business performance while mitigating risk
- collaborate across functions like finance and supply chain operations and across your entire supplier-customer network
- capitalize on emerging risk management best practices
- communicate to get board and management support for the actions needed to build supply chain resilience
Read more about the benefits of attending the Supply Chain Risk Management Forum
Social media
This conference utilizes possibilities of social media to the full, welcoming open online discussion before, during, and after the after the conference. Use hashtag #SC2011 to tweet about topics, speakers, accommodations, or anything else you’d like to share with your own personal network. There is also a LinkedIn group for all attendees of this event. This optional group facilitates pre and post conference networking amongst delegates, speakers, sponsors. Read more about social media for the Supply Chain Risk Management Forum.
Link
For more information, rates, accommodation and special offers, please consult the conference website:
- conferenceboard.ca: Supply Chain Risk Management Forum 2011
