.png)
The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Birmingham City Centre, UK
What the Risk and Resilience Day is all about
Energy Systems | Risk | Resilience | Uncertainty | Reliability | Modelling | Understanding
The EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day is continuing the tradition of the previous Durham Risk Day series (2010-2014) and is an annual seminar for researchers involved in all aspects of risk and uncertainty analysis applied to current and future power and energy systems.
We have had great events in Manchester in 2018, Cambridge in 2019, Glasgow in 2020, London in 2023, and Newcastle in 2024. Our road-trip continues and this year we are off to Birmingham!
This one-day event will showcase the best research and industrial applications across the following topics:
Reliability analysis of system assets
Analysing system
resilience and high impact low probability events
Control and optimisation of uncertain power systems
Planning future energy systems under uncertainty
Modelling and quantifying uncertainty in energy systems
Communicating risk to energy system stakeholders and policy makers
The event (on Thursday 13 March 2025) is an in-person-only event and will be a mix of keynote presentations, oral presentations, and posters. We need you and your research to make it a success so make sure you get involved and make the most of this unique opportunity to meet other researchers focused on these crucial topics.
Keynote Speakers
The EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day 2025 will feature two must-see keynote talks.
-
Emily Wallace is a Fellow in Weather and Climate Extremes at the Met Office and her role is to empower government, industry and the public to deal with extreme weather and remain safe and resilient in our changing world. This builds on a career focussed on this problem within the energy sector, championing use of weather and climate modelling to support clean and reliable energy generation and distribution now and in the future. This has included use of meteorological information from weather, seasonal and climate timescales to advise on future energy networks, network resilience, renewable energy projects, and nuclear safety and design.
Talk Title: TBC.
-
Ed Beard leads policy development at the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) for flood, water and waste infrastructure. He also leads wider environmental, resilience and planning policy issues relating to infrastructure. Ed joined NIC in January 2021 from Defra. Ed worked in Defra for around 20 years on a range of issues including: drinking water quality, sewage treatment and environmental water quality and water resource planning.
Talk Title: TBC.
It's a fantastic lineup - so make sure you're a part of the day!
We Need You
Be a part of the EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day 2025
The EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day 2025 will only be a success with your involvement. We need you to come and present your research and discuss your ideas with the rest of us working in this area.
You can submit anything to the Risk and Resilience Day
It can be something you've already published, something you've not published, something you're about to publish, or even just a new idea you're working on. Presenting at the Risk and Resilience Day is about showcasing your research and starting conversations. Presenting will not stop you from publishing your ideas elsewhere - we promise!
To be a part of the Risk and Resilience Day in 2025...
You need to submit a one-page summary (using this template here) that describes what you will be presenting on the day. No extended abstracts or papers are required. You can include any figures or equations you need to clearly and concisely communicate your ideas. Just make sure you clearly cover:
-
The motivation for the research.
-
The unique aspects and novelty that make what you have done interesting.
-
The wider applicability and value of what you have done.
Once you have written your summary - please send it to riskday@manchester.ac.uk
We'll decide whether to put you down for an oral or poster presentation based on the mix of submissions we receive but if you have a preference for an oral or poster - let us know in your email. We can't promise you'll get your request as it all depends on space - but we'll do our best to keep everyone happy.
Important dates
11 December 2024
One-page Summary Submission Deadline
Make sure you submit your one-page summary by this date to be in with a chance of presenting.
20 January 2025
Acceptance and Full Event Schedule Announced
We will tell you if your presentation will be included and announce the full event schedule.
24 January 2025
Registration Opens
Spaces are limited to make sure you book your place once registration opens.
6 March 2025
Registration Closes
Registration will close a few days before the event and you cannot buy your ticket on the day - so make sure you register in advance.
13 March 2025
Supergen Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day 2025
The big day!
Presenter Information
The following information is provided as a rough guide to the time and format of the different presentation types. This is not guaranteed at this stage and we might need to change timings depending on the submissions we receive.
If you have an oral presentation:
You will be given 12 minutes to present (with 3 minutes for Q&A afterwards).
We will be very strict on time to keep things running so please do not bring along a 20 minute presentation and just talk quickly – that never works. There are no limits on slides, only on time – which will be strictly enforced.
Please bring your slides along with you on the day, or email them in advance to riskday@manchester.ac.uk. Your presentation will happen on a Windows PC, so if you have prepared your slides on a Mac, you might want to make them into a pdf to be safe.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of time in the schedule for you to have longer discussions about the details.
If you have a poster presentation:
Your poster must be A0 and portrait orientation. You need to bring your printed poster with you. We will not print it for you.
We will not be accepting A4 slides on a poster board (we know you’re not that lazy... but just in case). There’s no template – just make it look good.
You will also need to stand and present a 1 minute overview of your poster in the Poster Introduction Speed Round. You'll be doing this without slides. You’ll basically be trying to get the audience interested so they come over to say hello in the following poster sessions.
Event Details
The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square,
Birmingham, B1 2DR
Thursday 13 March 2025
09:00 - 17:30
Registration
Unfortunately nothing this good comes for free and we need to charge a small registration fee (£50) to cover basic costs like event hire and food. It's still an absolute bargain though!
Places are limited so don't leave it to the last minute, register early to secure your place.
Please note you will not be able to turn up and register on the day! Registration will close a few days before the event to make sure we know the final numbers.
Event Programme
The programme will be announced closer to the event. For now, we know that it will start at 09:00 and end at 17:30. You can check out the past events for details of how the day is typically organised. We will have a mix of oral and poster presentations with plenty of opportunities to discuss work and learn some new ideas.
Venue
The one-day event will be held in The Exchange, part of the University of Birmingham, but located in the city centre and (not on the Edgbaston campus that you may be more familiar with). The Exchange is located a short walk away from Brimingham New Street train station.
Please check out the venue website or get in touch if you need any more information about how to find the venue.
Organisers
This event is being hosted by the University of Birmingham and is supported by the Supergen Energy Networks Hub. Get in touch to find out more about the Supergen Energy Networks Hub and their other events.
If you want to send your thanks and praise, we recommend sending it straight to the people making the day happen.
EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Impact Hub
The EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Impact Hub brings together the vibrant and diverse energy networks community to gain a deeper understanding of the interactions and inter-dependencies of energy networks. Led by Professor Phil Taylor from the University of Bristol, the Hub integrates a wide range of industrial and academic partners with other energy networks stakeholders.
The EPSRC Supergen Energy Networks Impact Hub aims to address the challenges of resilience, digitisation, policy and place, markets, and regulation for energy networks and is a collaboration between a consortium of universities:
-
University of Bath – Prof Phil Taylor, Lindsey Allen, Prof Furong Li, Dr Chenghong Gu, Dr Andrew Shea, Catherine Adams
-
University of Birmingham – Dr Adriano Sciacovelli
-
University of Bristol – Dr Sridhar Adepu, Dr Caitlin Robinson, Dr Samuel Williamson
-
Cardiff University – Prof Jianzhong Wu, Dr Muditha Abeysekera, Sian Allister
-
University of Leeds – Prof Peter Taylor, Dr Sheridan Few
-
The University of Manchester – Dr Robin Preece, Dr Victor Levi, Dr Alessandra Parisio
-
Newcastle University – Dr David Greenwood
Stay in the loop
Subscribe to updates from the EPSRC Supergen
Energy Networks Hub Risk and Resilience Day