By Dr Robert Ghanea-Hercock, Chief Researcher, BT Security Research Practice
This year’s workshop on Adaptive and Resilient Complex Systems (ARCS) will take place on 19 June 2012 at the Royal Society, London. Here’s the lowdown on what will happen at ARCS 2012 and what you can get out of it.
What is ARCS 2012?
It’s an annual workshop that goes beyond cyber security to look at the analysis and study of adaptive and resilient behaviour in all network forms — economic, commercial, financial, defence and social systems.
It’ll bring together senior industrial researchers, policy makers and leading academics in these domains to examine how we can engineer or manage very large complex systems to improve resilience, control risk and secure their operation.
What’s on offer?
It’s an opportunity for like-minded thinkers to connect and gain a deeper understanding of the complex nature of networked business or social systems.
The event offers a range of top speakers who have been carefully selected for their deep knowledge and ability to communicate their ideas. The event is very informal and not a traditional academic forum. The speakers have a time slot to create a dialogue with the audience and if they’re boring they are simply not invited again!
This year’s theme is systemic risk and security in complex networks.
This year’s speakers include:
• Hamid Benbrahim, Vice President Applied Complexity Research, Fidelity Investments.
• Patricia Titus, VP and Chief Information Security Officer, Symantec Corporation.
• Michael Mainelli, Director, Z/Yen Group Limited.
Some feedback from the 2011 ARCS event:
“Great job yesterday. That was just about the most informative cyber conference I have attended.” Chris, Business Director at Northrop Grumman UK.
Find out more and register today
For more information about ARCS 2012 or to register please get in touch via email:robert.ghanea-hercock@bt.com
Slides from previous workshops are available at the workshop web site here.