What if we built Nuclear Power Stations like IT Systems?
Schedule
Mon Feb 23 2026 at 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm
UTC+00:00Location
University College London (Room 347) | London, EN
About this Event
Speaker
Gill Ringland
Agenda
12.15 - Event start with talk: What if we built Nuclear Power Stations like IT Systems?
12.55 - Q&A
13:15 - Event close
Synopsis
Clearly society’s tolerance for incidents at a Nuclear Power Station is very low. Luckily, these incidents are far and few between. But we are frequently subjected to the impacts of IT disruptions. So it is probably good that Nuclear Power Stations are not built like many IT systems. While IT disruptions may not be as catastrophic as a Nuclear incident, it is clear that the cumulative impact of IT incidents is rapidly increasing, and society’s tolerance is decreasing. It is becoming unacceptable to merely recover the IT services after a disruption. Just like with Nuclear Power Stations, IT services need to be able to anticipate/avert and/or withstand disruptions. Organisations need to be developing and providing Resilient IT services. In this presentation I share practical examples on how to achieve this.
About the speaker
Gill Ringland is a Life Fellow of the BCS, an ICL Fellow Emeritus, an Emeritus Fellow of SAMI Consulting and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science. She wrote the best seller Scenario Planning while responsible for strategy at ICL. She has over 150 publications and publishes thought pieces and blogs through the BCS, Long Finance, the apf and Radix. Resilience of Services: reducing the impact of IT Failures is her 13th book, with Ed Steinmueller, based on the work of the BCS IT Leaders Forum. She can be contacted via [email protected].
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