EIS Council

Two months from now, experts from the resilience, energy, government, infrastructure, policy, NGOs, and academia sectors will come together for the Resilient Renewable Society (RRS) Summit once again to explore practical approaches to building resilience in an increasingly uncertain world.

Taking place in London on 16–17 September 2026, the two-day summit will look beyond theory and into the realities of disruption: natural disasters, energy system instability, emerging threats, and the growing need for whole-of-society resilience.

The agenda combines lectures, panel discussions, interactive workshops and a live simulation exercise that will challenge participants to make real decisions under pressure.

At a time when resilience is becoming one of the defining challenges, this summit is a chance to learn, contribute, and help shape the conversation.

Kindly hosted by the Centre for Active Resilience and Security (CARS) and the Department of Civil and Environmental and Engineering at Imperial College London, this summit is open to all who care about building a more resilient, renewable, and prepared society.

Register in advance and join us in London.

We’re proud to have contributed to a new paper on Israel’s preparedness for electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats, published by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at @ReichmanUni.

Our own Dr. @uganani is among the paper’s contributors, alongside Dr. LTC (Res.) Uri Ben Yaakov, PhD and experts in national security, disaster preparedness and infrastructure protection.

The paper examines what happens when electricity, communications and other essential systems are disrupted together, and what Israel can do to strengthen its preparedness.

For EIS Council, this work addresses our central responsibility: preparing for disruptions that cross organizational and national boundaries.

An emergency plan may cover the first 72 hours. What helps people keep going when it lasts for months?

At the Resilient Renewable Society Summit, Professor Małgorzata Zachara-Szymańska spoke about resilience as the ability to operate under constant pressure and learn from other people.

For infrastructure operators, public authorities and community leaders, that raises a practical question: how often do we learn from people outside our own organization?

How did a neighbouring utility keep operating with fewer staff? How did a local business keep deliveries moving when its usual routes were blocked? Their experience could expose gaps in our own plans before we have to rely on them.

Water, electricity and telecommunications providers plan their systems carefully. But how often do those plans involve the communities they serve?

At our recent Resilient Renewable Society Summit, Michael Bryson, Senior Vice President of Operations at @pjminterconnect, highlighted an opportunity for infrastructure-led organizations:

Work directly with local communities on practical, incremental improvements to resilience.

That means getting specific and asking tough questions. What does the community need to keep functioning during a disruption? Where can utilities and local leaders make progress together today?

Those conversations deserve a place in planning, before an emergency forces everyone into the same room.

Watch Michael’s perspective and write below: which conversation is overdue in your community?

127 earthquakes recorded worldwide today by USGS.*

Most were small. But Panama is still dealing with the consequences of Friday’s magnitude 7.7 earthquake: nearly 900 homes damaged, at least 27 people injured and more than 200 aftershocks.

Damaged bridges now need urgent repairs to help relief reach affected communities.

Earthquake risk also exists in places many people rarely associate with it.

The New Madrid seismic zone spans parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. Its 1811–1812 earthquakes destroyed settlements and temporarily forced part of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Today, a major earthquake there would threaten infrastructure serving people far beyond the region.

Japan’s 2011 disaster showed how failures can compound. At Fukushima Daiichi, the earthquake cut off grid power. The tsunami then disabled emergency power and critical cooling systems.

A hospital may have backup generators, but how does fuel reach it if bridges are damaged? How do crews restore electricity when communications are down?

These are the connections we need to understand before a disaster hits. They shape EIS Council’s work on resilience and the scenarios explored through the @Ginom_ai platform.

Tell us, does your organisation’s emergency plan account for earthquakes?