Annual Conference: new speakers announced as registrations head for new record
Airmic's annual Conference - already by far the biggest risk management gathering in the UK - is on course for another record attendance. By the end of the third week of March 465 people had enrolled - well above all previous years.
Meanwhile Alex Steele - business consultant and academic by day but also a professional jazz pianist by night - has been booked to give what is being billed as a plenary session with a difference. He will be using a jazz quartet to explore a range of cutting-edge approaches to collaboration and innovation.
Through a series of experiments with the audience and with the jazz musicians, the session will give the audience the opportunity to play with a brand-new toolkit of skills and techniques to enhance collaboration, and to stimulate new thinking and innovation. We are promised that we will leave inspired and able to see things differently.
Another big speaker is the BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, who survived being shot at six times at short-range in Saudi Arabia in 2004 and went on to write the best-selling book Blood and Sand.
The Conference, the Future is Now, stakes place at the Liverpool ICC June 11-13. It includes three days of plenary sessions, workshops and social occasions and is free to most Airmic members. Register for the Conference here.
Alex Steele will be presenting the opening keynote 'Four experiments in the art of collaboration & innovation'
Frank Gardner will present the closing keynote on the Middle East and his personal story of survival
Airmic once again returns to the ACC. 2015 was the last time the Conference was held there