DRAFT WORKING PAPER AS OF 15 March2017 - ALL SPEAKING PARTICIPANTS ARE PROPOSED NOT CONFIRMED
Shock, Stress & Innovation
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ReinventingGlobal Resilience for the Information and Knowledge Age
- Programme and Workshop Outline –
15-16 May, 2017
Hosted at the National Defense University
Washington, DC
Purpose:
The National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes (PfP-
C) and the Global Challenges Forum (GCF) Foundation are collaborating to organize in Washington, DC on 15-16 May 2017 an informal 40-50 person RoundtableWorkshop entitled “Shock, Stress & Innovation – Reinventing Global Resilience for the Information and Knowledge Age.”
This Roundtable Workshop will serve as the primary planning meeting for a300-person event to be held at the National Defense University on 2-3 November 2017 entitled, “The Global Resilience Readiness Symposium.” All participants of the interactive Roundtable Workshop in May will also be invited to participate in the fall Symposium.
Background:
- Humankind is moving quickly towards a knowledge-based Smart Society in which the networking and cross-fertilization of ideas through an innovative education and training development hub can foster smart collaboration. To this end the concept of Integrated Learning will play a major role.
- At a time when more people have access to knowledge and highly sophisticated technologies than ever, vulnerabilities and threats have grown, stress and shock have become permanent companions, resilience has become an on-going concern, thus requiring constant adaptation and innovation. Aiming at the ability to withstand natural and man-made stresses and shocks, creating conditions for resilience can foster greater adaptability and innovation, and enhance decentralized, self-organized and emergent, adaptive behaviour.
- Altogether, this will constitute a dynamic approach to the discovery and co-development of new Internet-based knowledge capabilities that can help build trust and collaboration, effectively empower readiness through enhanced resilience, connect generations, and cultivate a wide array of new global partnerships. Promoting greater resilience toward complex emergencies and shared global threats posed to the environment, human security (including health), maritime and cyber security, and energy security, as well as challenges posed by terrorism and hybrid warfarerequireour utmost attention.
- In response, the inaugural 17-18 September 2015 launch of Global Knowledge Networking (GKN) co-convened by the U.N. Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Global Challenges Forum led to the Geneva Declaration, which established a “Global Resilience Readiness Initiative.”
- NATO’s Heads of State and Government have underlined at their Warsaw Summit, 8-9 July 2016 their commitment “… to enhance resilience, i.e. to maintain and further develop the Alliance members individual and collective capacity to resist any form of armed attack. In this context, we are today making a commitment to continue to enhance our resilience against the full spectrum of threats, including hybrid threats, from any direction. Resilience is an essential basis for credible deterrence and defence and effective fulfilment of the Alliance’s core tasks.”[1]
- In support of this NATO Summit commitment, Headquarters Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT) will hold in Norfolk, Virginia on 2-4 May 2017a major conference, entitled “Interdependency in Resilience”with the aim of bringing better visibility of interdependencies between military, civil and private sectors and identify existing issues in the field of civil-military resilience.
- The Roundtable Workshop identifed below will take place at the National Defense University two weeks immediately following the NATO SACT Conference. It will be carried out in an informal manner to maximize discussion through a facilitated, design-inquiry approach, seeking to incorporate the benefits and insights achieved at the Norfolk SACT conference, as part of the preparation for the November Symposium.
- The 15-16 May Roundtable Workshop brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new ideas on how to build partnerships through shared consciousness leading to empowered execution. To this end, it invites professionals/experts of diverse disciplines to contribute to a collaborative production where all parties profit;a program that will not stop when dinner is served.
Roundtable Workshop Discussion Format: Moderators will facilitate participation of discussants. There will be no formal presentation or powerpoint briefings.
Programme
Monday, 15 May 2017
07.00 – 09.00Breakfast and Registration
09.00 – 09.30Welcome
Dr. Richard Hooker, Director, NDU Institute for National Strategic Studies
Mr. Frederic LaBarre, Partnership for Peace Consortium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
09.30 – 10:00KEYNOTE:
Findings from the SACT Interdependency in Resilience Conference
RADM Pete Gumataotao (USN), Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Policy, Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation
Introduced by Dr. Walter Christman, Chairman, Global Challenges Forum
10.00 – 11.30 DISCUSSION GROUP 1:
Reinventing Resilience – What`s new? What to provide? What to expect?
Moderator: Dr. Walter Christman
Discussants: Mr. Sam Carter, Rockefeller Foundation
Mr. Dick O’Neill, Highlands Forum
Mr. Jan Boyer, SOFRA Advisory
Dr. Stephen Flynn, Center for Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern Univ.
MG (Ret.) Mohammed Farghal, Jordan National Defense College
Against the background of striking natural disasters and increasingly complex hybrid challenges to security and prosperity, preparing for an uncertain future means understanding the risks and being vigilant for the unexpected. To this end not only governments and international organisations, industry and the military need to strengthen ties to support each other during times of need, but more than that: resilience builds on the involvement of all stakeholders to include individual actors.
11.30 – 12.00Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00 PARTICIPANT INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION
Moderator: NDU Facilitator
13.00 – 14.00Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 DISCUSSION GROUP 2:
A Comprehensive approach – Connect & Prepare; Partner & Innovate; Transform & Create Synergies
Moderator: Dr. Alex Crowther, NDU INSS
Discussants: Mr. Serge DaDeppo, Director, NATO ACT Innovation Hub Mr. Ben Zweibelson, Director JSOU Design Program
Mr. Peter Schechter, US Atlantic Council
Dr. Tomas Reis, Swedish National Defense College Mr. Evariste Karambezi, UN Institute for Training and Research
Enhancing resilience has become a strategic task. To this end a resilience strategy needs to be developed that takes a comprehensive approach towards military and civil/societal needs. Three key elements will likely instruct the intended strategy deliveries focusing to design appropriate action in building adequate resilience readiness.
- Connect & Prepare – Networking relevant actors and capabilities is at the core of the UN and NATO`s network enabling capabilities.
- Partner & Innovate – Resilience requires to capitalize on the collective problem solving capacity in organizations, nations, and societies, clearly not only within identified sectors, but rather cross sectoral, employing the creativity of involved actors thus leveraging advances in information and knowledge, research and observations to address emerging resilience challenges.
- Transform & Integrate – resilience needs to be embedded into security and prosperity (related) operations and systems by transforming the approach to societal, industrial and military resilience.
19:30Dinner at …TBD with Keynote – Dr. Linton Wells, former CIO of the US Defense Department and Principal, Global Resilience Strategies, Inc.
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
07.00 – 09.00Breakfast
09.00 – 10.30 DISCUSSION GROUP 3:
Organizing Resilience – Network Knowledge and Building Resilience Readiness
Moderator: Dr. Alex Crowther, NDU INSS
Discussants:Mr. Greg Knapp, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Ms. Sae Schatz, Director, US ADL Co-Lab
Mr. Paul Thurkettle, NATO ACT ADL Program
Mr. Ivan Labra, Principal, Digital Mind, Inc.
Ms. Greta Keremidchieva, Rakovski Defense College, Bulgaria
Building resilience is a matter of people, structures, processes and technology. These should embody the characteristics of resilient systems and be iterative, inclusive, integrated, adaptive and flexible. They should provide for the constant infusion of new information and knowledge. They should have a structural flexibility fostering continuous reassessment and reprioritization to adequately address new risks and opportunities.
From the outset, a bold and innovative approach is required, yet building on existing efforts, but also recognizing that there is an opportunity to build on the new energy emerging in the context of the unfolding resilience initiative. Plenty of opportunities will arise for example to position the military, government administration and the private sector as a connected testbed for new technologies, integrated learning, innovative partnerships and creative thinking.
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 DISCUSSION GROUP 4:
Risk Management – Dealing with Cyber Vulnerabilities
Moderator: Dr. Mark Pullen, George Mason University C4I & Cyber Center
Discussants: Mr. Ralph Thiele, Cyber Expert, German Political-Military Society
Dr. Anne Bader, International Cyber Security Dialogue
Mr. Derek Bryan, USPACOM Cyber Warfare Innovation Center
Dr. Itamara Lochard, NATO Cyber Center of Excellence
Ms. JC Hurz, Founder, JoyStick Nation
Broad reliance on cloud computing and big data has increased vulnerability to hybrid threats. Via the cyber space everything is connected to everything else: systems, machines, people, departments, organizations. And everything can be damaged, disrupted or put out of service practically from anybody anywhere. Defenders don’t know when an attack is being launched, where it will strike, and how. The resulting ambiguity makes an adequate reaction difficult. This is true for societies or multinational organizations that operate on the principle of consensus. Consequently, improving the resilience of communication and information systems is important for both civil preparedness and military readiness. Industry needs to be involved. Public-Private Partnership on cybersecurity could improve protection. It could also ensure continued research and innovation.
12.30 – 13.30Lunch
13.30 – 15.00DISCUSSION GROUP 5:
Driving innovation – Information Technology to Catalyse Disruptive Innovation
Moderator:Mr. Philip Stockdale, Center for Technology & National Security Policy
Discussants: TBD – NDU CTNSP to determine
Discussion concept note: TBD
15.00 – 16:00PARTICIPANT INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION
Moderator: NDU Facilitator and Dr. Walter Christman
- To foster imagination and discovery, produce enlightened experience, foster innovation and promote sustainable development, we will explore ways to:
- Support community decision-making in partner nations and in international bodies through “composable organizations,” where people, ideas, processes and technology can be brought together as needed;
- Pursue “whole of stakeholders” approaches and enhanced information sharing in disaster preparedness;
- Build new learning tools with partners to improve common understanding and shared procedures for rapid, decisive, resilient responses to complex emergencies;
- Contribute to significantly enhanced training and readiness capabilities for security and resilience through co-development of a global network of regional Resilience Readiness Centres;
- Evolve to meet new security challenges, and adapt to the pace of change of information and communications technology (ICT) that underpins the development of the Smart Society.
16:00 – 16:30Concluding Remarks
Dr. Walter Christman, Chairman, Global Challenges Forum Foundation.
Mr. Frederic LaBarre, Partnership for Peace Consortium, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
19:00Depart to Dinner Venue (TBD)
Wednesday, 17May 2017
Individual Departures
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[1] NATO Summit Guide. Warsaw, 8-9 July 2016.