Better Business — Better Society Seminar Series
The Seminar Series discusses the current and societally important topics at the School of Business. The seminars will be arranged monthly, excluding holiday seasons.
Better Business – Better Society seminar: Managing Business Uncertainty in Practice
This seminar on Tuesday 9 June will focus on how to manage business uncertainty in practice and how data contributes to resilience.
In this event, we are committed to Aalto University’s principles for a safer space.
Welcome to the Better Business – Better Society seminar: Managing Business Uncertainty in Practice!
Communities today face overlapping disruptions such as climate events, infrastructure stress, and unequal access to essential services. These challenges are not isolated; they interact, amplify one another, and often expose existing vulnerabilities. Organizations and policymakers are not lacking data. The challenge is translating large, complex datasets into decisions that are fair and timely.
The seminar will be built around a keynote by Jose Ramirez-Marquez, Associate Professor and Division Director of Enterprise Science and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. His keynote, Strategic Resilience – Leveraging Data to Address Community Vulnerabilities, focuses on how converting data into structured insights reveals where systems are vulnerable, who is most affected, and which interventions produce the greatest resilience gains.
The seminar is organised in collaboration with Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR) and Aalto University School of Science.
Invitations to the live seminar will be sent to the School of Business’s partners, supporters, invited guests, and alumni. The online stream of the seminar is open to everyone.
Programme
School of Business Update
Virpi Tuunainen, Associate Dean, Aalto University School of Business
School of Science Update
Pauliina Ilmonen, Dean, Aalto University School of Science
Keynote: Strategic Resilience – Leveraging Data to Address Community Vulnerabilities
Jose Ramirez-Marquez, Associate Professor and Division Director of Enterprise Science and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Towards Improved Resilience
Ahti Salo, Professor of Systems Analysis, Aalto University School of Science
Scenarios as a Leadership Tool for Uncertain Times
Nina Hyvärinen, Senior Advisor, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Aalto University School of Business
Practitioner's view: Preparing and leading through extreme conditions
Jaakko Wallenius, Vice President, Resilience and Defense, Elisa
Audience Q&A
Online stream of the seminar
Please find the online stream of the seminar below. By clicking the red play button in the middle, the stream will start playing. The recording is available for viewing on this page as well as on the seminar series page after the seminar.
You can send questions to the speakers through the Presemo platform: https://presemo.aalto.fi/bbbsjune26
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