Call for National Conference speakers

 

Our National Conference theme for 2026 is ‘Stronger Together: 35 years of innovation and leadership in risk’, it marks a milestone for ALARM in promoting risk excellence. Our Conference brings together professionals from public service organisations, including local and central government, emergency services, housing, health care, and universities to celebrate decades of collaboration, innovation, and resilience in the management of risk. Through shared experiences and forward-thinking strategies, these sectors have shaped resilient, safer, and stronger communities.

What do you see the year ahead may bring that will need action, planning, and new thinking for 2026? What has worked well for you in recent years and could inspire the next generation to continue building on those successes. 

 

 

ALARM’s 2026 National Conference will feature approximately 40 engaging educational sessions, ranging from 45-60 minutes. The sessions are a valuable resource for risk professionals and provide presenters with an opportunity to demonstrate their expertise and experience, and share good practice, innovative ways to address timely issues, and raise emerging risks that practitioners need to start to plan to manage. 

Members have expressed interest (but not limited to) in the following subjects and theme: 

• Assurance  
• Cyber Security and Resilience Bill 
• Insurance tendering and evaluation 
• Local Government restructuring  
• Resilience in a changing environment 
• Risk management in a changing environment 
• Technological transformation risk management, AI and impacts.

You have until Friday 14 November 2025 to submit your proposal.

Successful applications for sessions will be based on: 

• Proposed content being specific, new, and relevant to ALARM members. 
• Offering skills to ALARM members to raise to improve their ‘voice’ in their organisation. 
• Delivery of the session in workshop, panel discussion, Q&A, quiz, scenario, or trial formats. Attendee feedback has indicated that slide-based seminar formats, that could be equally delivered online, are not appropriate as members need to justify their attendance at in-person events.  
• Attendee interaction and engagement. 
• Learnings from the session being made obvious, with attendee access to follow-up information and signposting to relevant information.

Submit your proposals