Alistair Smith is Chief Risk Officer at British Energy in the UK, where he is responsible for Risk Management and Business Continuity Planning. Alistair will reveal how the development of a risk management culture within the business can lead to effective risk management. He will highlight the importance of establishing a risk-aware enterprise, citing successful methods of creating that supply chain risk appetite. He will continue by discussing the facilitation role of the risk management function and how it can be applied to effectively manage supply chain risk.

Harsh Babarkar is Head of Regional Distribution for Johnson & Johnson Medical Asia Pacific. Harsh will discuss the paramount importance of product, and ultimately patient, safety, and how the threat of counterfeits and illegal entry into the healthcare supply chain is jeopardising this prime objective. Harsh will discuss the procedures that Johnson & Johnson have put in place to eradicate these threats, highlighting how they re-engineered enterprise design, and how market monitoring processes have been enhanced and enforced.

Mark Servidio is VP Logistics and Environmental Supply Chain Planning at Sharp Electronics Corporation in USA. With CSR issues coming to the top of the consumer agenda, a key driver in the coming months and years is how companies react to the environment beyond just the manufacturing process. Mark will explain how Environmental Supply Chain Planning plays a significant role in this area. Partnering with the US Environmental Protection Agency in their SmartWay program, he will show how shippers and carriers working together can make improvements in reducing greenhouse gases and how this fits into Sharp’s Corporate Social Responsibility charter.

Aidan Murphy is Supply Chain Director at Bulmers in Ireland. An integral part of supply chain risk management is ensuring your business is ready and prepared for any potential crisis, no matter how unthinkable and rare the risk might be. Aidan will emphasise here the significance of being prepared, revealing the preparatory measures that Bulmers has introduced as part of its risk management strategy. Discussing a series of hypothetical exercises executed recently, Aidan will highlight how important it is to continuously test and examine your business recovery procedure.

Bernard Lee is Chief Technical Support at the United Nations, based in Italy. With the United Nations needing to expand its presence whilst nevertheless minimising the risk of any major incident, Bernard will highlight recent UN experiences in Iraq, Liberia and Bosnia to illustrate the challenges of operating a successful supply chain in a hostile environment. As well as outlining the planning, organisation and operational aspects, he will highlight the issues involved in dealing with local authorities and security services. Bernard will then proceed to reveal the technical and procedural solutions that are available in mitigating the threats of an insurgency to operations.

Mike Gray is the Supply Chain Evangelist at Dell, Inc, based in Texas USA. As a recognised pioneer in lean Supply Chain Management, traditional theory proposes that DELL exposes itself to numerous vulnerabilities across its supply network. Mike will dispute such conventional wisdom, revealing how in fact its speed and flexibility allows DELL to foresee and correct potential problems in the chain. Highlighting low inventory as a key success story, Mike will reveal DELL’s `continuity of supply` process, as well as the vast scenario mapping and planning procedures in place to mitigate risk.

As Chair (Full Professor) in Supply Chain Risk Management at School of Management U.K, Richard Wilding works with European and International companies on logistics and supply chain projects in all sectors. When it comes to risk management, Richard views collaboration as a key factor in reducing risk across the supply chain, emphasising the importance of successfully managing relationships across the network. Richard will also identify ways you can create transparency within the chain, looking specifically at time-based process mapping as a key enabler of achieving transparency.

Max Henry is the Founder and Executive Director of the China Supply Chain Council. Max will reveal the challenges that companies face in China, highlighting a changing political and economic landscape as a key source of risk. Arguing that this changing landscape is actually a result of how companies are sourcing in China, Max will not only focus on the prevalence of IPR and counterfeiting, but more importantly the widening skills shortage across the supply chain and the impact of US and EU legislation.

Phil is Director – Resource Centres for Rolls-Royce plc. Those Centres, established by Phil and his team in January 2000 to provide the Company with a redeployment capability in the UK have been recognised as an example of national best practice in the UK by Her Majesty’s Government.<Br> Phil has worked in Manufacturing Engineering for the last 19 years; initially in commercial and then general management and latterly in HR.<Br> Extramurally Phil is Chair of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber’s Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology Forum and a Director and Trustee of the Open College Network for the East Midlands Region.

What is Risk Management? Why should we even care? These are just some of the questions that Michael Rasmussen, VP Governance, Risk and Compliance, will answer during his opening keynote address. Michael will focus on key trends in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) that he believes require strict attention, and how Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) fits into this context. Highlighting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a key strategic risk, Michael will proceed to reveal how this ties in with wider issues of SCRM and ERM.

Hesham Hamdy is Chief Risk Officer at the Bank of Alexandria in Egypt. Hesham will argue how risk management is a far more complex procedure in an emerging market. Unlike the developed world, emerging markets must overcome a number of obstacles. Hesham will highlight the risks of a manual, paper-heavy environment, as well as a lack of data, and will reveal how this all results in reduced risk awareness in the organisation. He will provide an insight into how such risks are overcome and, as a Member of the Board, how the Credit Bureau in Egypt has resolved to manage such uncertainties.

Mats Larsson is Development Strategist at the Customs Future Centre at Swedish Customs. With Europe preparing for the introduction of the forthcoming AEO procedure, Mats will reveal the specifics behind the programme, looking at requirements and specifications. He will then address uncertainty surrounding the immediate impact on the supply chain by arguing that companies will in fact experience only minor, if any such, impact in the short-term. Mats will provide a forecast of longer-term impact, in particular looking at the controls aspect of customs along with the changing relationship between company and customs .

Guy Dunkerley is Supply Chain Director at Bristan, based in the UK. Guy will turn the current perception of risk management on its head, arguing that risk is in fact a positive for any business and ought to be embraced. Putting forward the idea that risk is needed to create value and profit, Guy will take an entrepreneurial view of risk management within the supply chain, arguing that as a source of competitive advantage, risk is necessary to reap reward.

David is a management systems expert and is currently developing LRQA's assessment approach for Business Assurance, incorporating integration, risk and supply chain management. Previously, David was UK Training Development Manager with responsibility for designing, developing and delivering bespoke in-company training events to ensure that clients gain maximum value from their management systems.<Br> David has worked with a variety of public and private sector clients, particularly in the areas of professional, technical, financial and project management. He joined LRQA as a quality system assessor in 1991, is an IRCA registered QMS lead auditor, an EFQM Excellence Model assessor, and a member of the Chartered Management Institute.

Peter has over 24 years experience in the legal world of the global supply chain. He joined JPMorgan in June 2007 and is responsible for various EMEA Quality functions which include maintaining and expanding existing processes to ensure business needs are reflected in Quality Systems. Within Trade Compliance, Peter assists with the application of unique country import and export requirements to clients of Global Trade Managed Services. Peter started his career in Trade Compliance as a Dutch Customs Official, becoming a well known certified trainer in coaching businesses on customs, VAT and logistics liability.<Br> He is very active in Dutch and EU business trade associations, such as Dutch SEA and EICTA, playing important leading roles in both.

Gene Rider is President and Founder of Intertek Risk Assessment and Management. Mr. Rider has devoted his life to risk analysis and design safety, particularly for consumer products. Working closely with the medical community to develop innovative technologies for assessing the risks posed by consumer products, he has achieved influential status as the leading force in injury prevention with special focus on adolescent exposure. The technologies developed by his division have been shared with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and, even more importantly, have been applied to help clients effectively integrate safety into their product designs and business processes.