Ukraine has become one of the world's most important learning environments for emergency medicine, leadership and organisational resilience. As the nature of conflict, crisis and major incidents continues to evolve, so too must the way emergency services prepare, adapt and respond.
In this session, Professor Mark Hannaford, Founder & CEO of World Extreme Medicine and Co-Founder of the World Extreme Medicine Fund, joins Luca Alfatti, Co-Founder of the World Extreme Medicine Fund and Global Medical & Humanitarian Leader, to share lessons drawn from four years of delivering humanitarian aid, frontline medical capability and trauma training across Ukraine. Their work, alongside collaboration with NATO and international partners, has provided a unique perspective on how organisations perform and adapt under sustained operational pressure.
Richard Lewis, Chief Operating Officer of World Extreme Medicine, will then translate these frontline lessons into the UK emergency services context, exploring what they mean for organisational preparedness, leadership, interoperability and building capability before the next major incident.
Rather than simply presenting stories from the frontline, this session asks a more important question:
What is Ukraine teaching us about building organisations that can adapt, learn and perform under pressure?
Delegates will leave with practical insights, fresh perspectives and tangible actions to strengthen preparedness before the next major incident tests them.
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