BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9286dafb3c67476fdf77391443c23ef1 DTSTAMP:20261006T215005Z SUMMARY:ISST Talks: Climate Resilience DESCRIPTION:Heatwaves in Europe and India. Record-breaking floods in Pakist an\, Australia\, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Extreme weather eve nts are only going to become more frequent\, more intense\, and more damag ing to human health and critical infrastructure as climate change progress es. \nClimate resilience is defined as the “capacity of social\, economi c and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance” . The key focus of increasing climate resilience is to reduce climate vuln erability at all scales of society.\nHow can societies\, particularly the UK\, become more climate resilient? By gathering speakers and audience mem bers from across academia\, industry\, government\, and grassroots organis ations for a panel discussion\, the Institute for Security Science and Tec hnology (ISST) aims to identify interdisciplinary solutions and actions th at we can recommend to funding bodies for further research and attention.\ n \nThe event will be chaired by Professor Jordan Giddings\, Non-Executiv e Director for the Met Office Board\, Chief Scientist at Improbable\, and ISST Honorary Principle Research Fellow. He has previously worked with the British government in a number of roles\, most recently as Head of Defenc e Capability Assessment\, leading on areas including digital\, innovation\ , transformation and cyber\, and previously as Deputy Chief Scientific Adv isor for both National Security and Transport.\nThe event will begin with short presentations from each speaker\, including Professor Samer Bagaeen\ , Dr Ronita Bardhan\, and Ellie Murtagh.\nThere will then be a panel discu ssion chaired by Professor Giddings\, during which there will be opportuni ties for engagement and discussion from in-person and online audience memb ers. \nThe panel discussion will then be followed by a catered lunch and n etworking.\n \nSpeaker biographies\nProfessor Samer Bagaeen is a Chartere d Town Planner and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor s. He is the Founding Professor of Planning at the University of Kent. Pri or to this\, he worked with 100 Resilient Cities\, an organization pioneer ed by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York\, as Associate Director with the City Relationships team. He established the planning school in Brighto n in 2008 and before that worked at the universities of Aberdeen and Strat hclyde. He served as Director of Urban Studies at the National Resources I nvestment and Development Cooperation (Mawared) in Jordan with responsibil ity for master planning former military sites. Samer was elected to Bright on and Hove City Council in May 2019\, serving on the COVID Outbreak Emerg ency Board\, the Health and Wellbeing Board\, the 2030 Net Zero Working Gr oup\, and the Circular Economy Working Group. He is a founding member of t he Sussex Hydrogen Group.\nDr Ronita Bardhan is an architectural engineer and urban studies educator\, with a PhD in urban engineering. Bardhan dir ects the research group Sustainable Design Group at the University of Camb ridge\, where she works on data-driven intelligence of built environments can effectively address sustainability goals and policies. Bardhan works o n climate heat stress & health in built environment. She has extensively w orked in Slum Rehabilitation (social) housing (in India\, Indonesia\, Ethi opia\, Kenya\, South Africa and Brazil). Bardhan uses data-driven methods that couples architectural engineering\, AI and machine learning with soci al sciences to provided built environment solutions for health in resource s constraint societies.\nEllie Murtagh is UK Climate Adaptation Lead for British Red Cross\, a new role established to assess the humanitarian clim ate related risks and impacts that individuals and communities face and wi ll face in the UK. Through this role\, Ellie identifies where the British Red Cross can add most value by supporting communities to anticipate\, pre pare for\, respond to\, and recover from the impacts of climate including developing partnership with key stakeholders.\nISST Talks are hosted by th e Institute for Security Science and Technology\, Imperial College London ’s hub for security research. These events convene thought leaders and r elevant stakeholders to discuss grand challenges in security\, with the aim of facilitating knowledge exchange.\n \nAbout the Institute for Secur ity Science and Technology (ISST) \nSecurity is often only viewed through the narrow lens of conflict and war. Our mission at the Institute for Secu rity Science and Technology is to challenge that perception and demonstrat e the breadth and depth of a topic that touches everyone in society\, wher ever they are in the world. URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/161802/isst-talks-climate-resilience- 2/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230718T130000 LOCATION:First floor\, 58 Prince's Gate\, South Kensington Campus\, Imperia l College London\, London\, SW7 2PR\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230718T110000 TZNAME:BST TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR