SRA-E Lisbon 2017

IRGC's approach to risk governance, for conventional or emerging risks (IRGC risk governance framework and IRGC guidelines for emerging risk governance) is used to structure and guide practitioners. It is useful to support processes that aim to provide and structure scientific evidence about a risk issue, in a societal context. It also helps decision-makers analyse the major ambiguities and controversies that may affect the management of the risk,

The symposium will present and discuss with participants several areas of IRGC recent work:

• Feedback from practitioners about their implementation of IRGC instruments, highlighting the challenges and successes of risk governance in large organisations;
• Resilience strategies for risks that develop in complex systems, providing guidance to organisations to deal with systemic risks;
• Value and examples of risk governance approaches to analyse new sectors, emerging technologies and risks, including precision medecine and applications of distributed ledger technologies (e.g. blockchain).