Co-located with The Emergency Tech Show

ESS 2025 Content Programme

Ensuring emergency planners have the tools to do the job

18 Sep 2025
Protecting the Protectors Stage Sponsored by Texport
Fire , Ambulance , Police
In the first session hosted by the Emergency Planning Society, this panel will consider the wider questions around national resilience capability and the potential move to a posture of defence, rather than resilience planning and whether we need more emergency planners. Join them as they discuss how to protect the protectors by putting in place resilient structures and what they have learned from a recent EPS-led Big Conversation about what this looks like in the future. 
Speakers
Jeannie Barr
Jeannie Barr, Director for Professional Standards & Learning - EPS
Stephen Arundell
Stephen Arundell, Vice Chair - Emergency Planning Society
David McClory
David McClory, Resilience Manager - Slough Borough Council
Beverley Griffiths
Beverley Griffiths, Senior Lecturer - Buckinghamshire New University