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IRGC Events

Upcoming Events

- Presentation at the SRA-Europe 21st Annual Conference, 18-20 June 2012 at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. IRGC will present on the governance of slow-developing catastrophic risks.

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- IRGC symposium session at the SRA World Congress, 18-20 July 2012. IRGC is organising a session on "Risk emergence and emerging risks" in Sydney, Australia. Along with its network partners, it will present both an overview of and some insight on the issues related to emerging risk management and on contributing factors to risk emergence.

- Risk governance of hydraulic fracking - IRGC expert meeting, 5-6 November 2012, co-organised with the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue.

IRGC Recent Events

- IRGC 2011 Annual Event on Risk Governance, 3 November 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland

Roundtable 1: How can we improve the anticipation of and early response to emerging risks?

Rountable 2: How can we improve the provision of more consistent science and technology advice in support of risk governance and sustainable innovation?

Public Conference: Learning from large-scale industrial accidents. Co-organised with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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- Slow moving risks with potentially catastrophic consequences, 24-26 August 2011, organised in collaboration with the Istituto Veneto in Venice, Italy
Read the Workshop Report Summary [PDF]

- Third Governmental Forum on Risk Governance, 24-25 November 2010, held in partnership with the International Futures Programme, OECD. This event was hosted by the Prince Court of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

- Governance of (scientific) Knowledge, 9 July 2010, workshop organised in Geneva
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- Stakeholder engagement, 8 July 2010, workshop organised in Geneva, Switzerland
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- Second Governmental Forum on Risk Governance, 30 November-1 December 2009, co-organised with the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue

- Dealing with Surprises and Unconventional Crises , 1 July 2009, workshop organised in Washington DC
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- Regulation and the enabling and constraint of technological innovation – two sides of the same coin, 30 June 2009, workshop organised in Washington DC
Read the Workshop Report [PDF]

Please also see our section on "Projects" for information about project-specific events.