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North West England Regional Group
"Networking NW"

Group contact details

If you live or work in the North-West of England and would like to attend a NW event please e-mail Gary White on gary.white@risktec.co.uk

Chairman - Kate Boothroyd

Secretary - Gary White

Future meetings

 

Date

11 July 2013

Time

10.30 for 11.00 start - 16.30

Subject

Risk Appetite: Part 2

 

Location

Hill Dickinson’s offices, Liverpool

 

 

 

Date

October 2013

Time

TBC

 

Subject

The Board's perspective of risk management: View of risk management from the 'top'

 

Location

TBC

 

 

Date

January 2014

Time

TBC

 

Subject

Risks in Construction

 

Location

TBC

 

 


Previous meetings

Presentations are available for many past meetings - please scroll down to access

 

Date

11 April 2013

Time

10.00 for 10.30 start

 

Subject

The Global Risk Landscape

 

Speakers

IRM summary (PDF 46 Kb)

Overview of the WEF survey (PDF 3.6 Mb)
David Forster, Zurich

How policy makers deal with global risks (no slides)
Kate Green, MP for Stretford and Urmston

How challenges of adapting to global risk landscape drive us to a new paradigm in risk management (PDF 4.2 Mb)
Nicola Ranger, LSE

See the speaker notes (PDF 398 Kb)

How resilience / keeping agile can help us adapt to the global risk landscape

(PDF 1.5 Mb)
Russell Price, Chairman of the Continuity Forum

Risk resilience in a public sector enterprise ( PDF 948KB)

Chris Gallagher, PwC


Location

PwC’s offices, Berterolli Square, Manchester

 

 

Date

24 January 2013

Subject

Risk Management in Hard Times

 

Location

Manchester Town Hall / joint meeting with the Manchester Business Continuity Forum

 

Speakers

IRM Summary (PDF 37KB)

 

Introductory slides (PDF 224KB)

 

How does reduced resource impact on BCM?(PDF 441KB)
Kimberley Hart, Manchester Business Continuity Forum


Systematically managing risks of a shrinking budget(PDF 23KB)
Tim Chronnell and Alan Shaw, DWP

How do you evaluate value from risk management?(PDF 249KB)

Dr Helen Wilkinson, Risk Solutions

 

Workshop Notes(PDF 37KB)


 

 

Date

18 October 2012

Time

10.00 for 10.30 - 16.30

 

Subject

The people side of risk management

 

Location

Marsh Offices, Manchester

 

Presentations

IRM Summary (PDF 62Kb)

Identifying the human element of risk (1.9MB) Paul Lawrence

Human factor tools in the rail industry (521KB) Huw Gibson

The IRM's risk culture and behaviours (1.2MB) Carolyn Williams

View the web version of Carolyn's risk culture presentation

Risk Culture, the people aspect (1.6MB) Eddie McLaughlin

Developing an integrated safety approach in a diverse organisation (523KB) Mike Robertson


 

 

Date

11 July 2012

Subject

Risk Appetite

Location

The Portland Hotel by Thistle, 3-5 Portland Street, Piccadilly Gardens,
Manchester M1 6DP


Presentations

Meeting summary (PDF 172Kb)


Risk appetite and tolerance - Richard Anderson (PDF 3,532Kb)


How much risk will we take? And other risky questions - Ruth Murray-Webster (PDF 623Kb)


Risk appetite in banking - Steve Townsend (PDF 542Kb)


Defra portfolio management and the new coalition - Achilleas Mavrellis (PDF 1,598Kb)


Risk appetite: a useful management concept or a term to keep the Board on board - Mike Robertson and Andy Garlick (PDF 1,584Kb)

 

 

Date

17 May 2012

Subject

Quantitative Risk Analysis

Location

Birchwood Golf Club, Warrington

Presentations

Meeting summary (PDF 85 Kb)

Dr Michael Frank - Head of Risk, Sellafield (PDF 2.9 Mb)

Quantitative Risk Assessment and decision analysis in complex, high consequence systems – a practical approach to risk assessment and decision making, processes for making logical decisions


Usman Chaudry - KPMG (PDF 5 Mb)

Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis – this talk will provide an overview of prevailing industry approaches to conducting stress tests and insights to development shaping practices across internationally active banks


Wendy Owen– ARCADIS (PDF  380 Kb)

Quantified Risk Assessment vs Qualitative Risk Analysis – Wendy will draw upon ARCADIS experience of working for clients predominantly in the Nuclear, Process, Transportation and Defence sectors. The level of quantified risk assessment vs qualitative analysis needs to be understood from the outset, based on a number of factors, delivered in a manner that avoids the complexity of numerical analysis


Penny Roberts – Turner and Townsend (PDF (PDF 1.11 Mb )

Schedule Quantitative Risk Analysis – a practical approach in a multi project environment – the challenge is to predict the opening date for a new terminal at Heathrow Airport, where there are 6 teams working in a programme level environment, working with contractors. Topics covered will include the challenges to achieving a consistent approach across the projects and questions that were addressed on route.


Elizabeth Mathie – Highways Agency (PDF 1.8 Mb)


Forewarned is Forearmed – the Highways Agency balancing risks andresources – how the Highways Agency are using data collected on traffic flow, our assets, worker activity and accidents, for workers and road users to understand where the safety risks are on the road network.


Neil Dunkerley – E C Harris (PDF 1.5 Mb)


Project Risk Analysis – a review of the application, implementation and outputs of risk analysis – looking at how undertaking Quantitative Risk Analysis can enable a client to gain confidence in both the cost and schedule forecasts.


 

 

Date

26 January 2012

Subject

‘Black Swan’ Events

Location

Hill Dickinson, No 1 St Paul's Square, Liverpool

Presentations Meeting summary (PDF 23 Kb)

The role that major disasters play in informing regulatory philosophy - David Snowball (PDF 904 Kb)

Popular misconceptions about black swan events - John Summers (PDF 333 KB)

Climate change and flooding - how to manage uncertainty including low frequency events - Tim Reeder (PDF 1,715 Kb)

Fukushima; a Black Swan event or just a shade of grey - Daniel Clarke (PDF 440 Kb)

Roads to ruin: A study of major risk events, their origins, impacts and implications - Alan Punter (PDF 291 Kb)

Catastrophic Incidents; Legally, where does the catastrophe lie? - Jason Bleasdale (PDF 1Mb)

 

 

Date

13 October 2011

Subject

Information - Does Increased Availability Heighten the Risks?

Location

Deloitte’s offices - Manchester

Presentations

Meeting Summary (PDF 29 Kb)

Cyber Risk - Alan Tickner (PDF 40Kb)

Cyber Crime: The Impact on the UK Economy - Ben Rendle (PDF 488 Kb)

Cloud Computing - Eric Healing (PDF 362kb)

Information Management – an approach to delivery - Tony Meehan (PDF 293 Kb)

 

 

Date

30 June 2011

Subject

Climate change – just another risk on the register?

Location

Manchester City Council Offices

Presentations

Meeting summary (PDF 106 Kb)

Adapting to climate change legislation (PDF 760 Kb)
Bill Chandler

Highways Agency Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Framework (PDF 3,776 Kb)

Steve Denton

United Utilities Water PLC Climate Change Adaptation (PDF 1,775 Kb)

Geoff Miller

Climate Change, Insurance, Risk & Business Continuity (PDF 2,162 Kb)
Peter Wilson

 

 

 

Date

7 April 2011

Subject Measuring the benefits of risk management
Location

Manchester

Presentations

Measuring the benefits of risk management (PDF 42 KB)

Risk management – measuring the benefits (PDF 102 Kb)
Rachel Kift

Building and sustaining benefits of ERM through organisational and change management (PDF 965 Kb)

Mike Florence

Quantitative measures of risk management effectiveness (PDF 22 Kb)

Ruth Murray-Webster

Selling the benefits of risk management to the Board or Motivating senior leaders to‘walk the talk’ of risk management (PDF 48 Kb)

Ruth Murray-Webster

 

Risk Management Return on Investment (PDF 148 Kb)

Elaine M. Hall

Risk Management - Measuring the benefits (PDF 31 Kb)

Andy Garlick


 

 

 

Date

20 January 2011

Subject Operational Risk
Location

KPMG - Manchester

Presentations

IRM Summary (PDF 91Kb)

IRM NW Group: Operational Risk – only relevant to the Financial Industry? (PDF 631Kb)
Mike Robertson

Operational risk management: what it is and why it matters
(PDF 794Kb)

John Thirlwell

Basel II and Lean Six Sigma Approach to Operational Risk

(PDF 542 Kb)

Saunders

A Regulators view on Operational Risk (PDF 1,032 Kb)
Simon Walker

 

 

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