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SAIIE invites you to attend a free 2-hour webinar titled: On resilience, sustainability and industrial engineering
There is an increasing understanding of the need to operationalize resiliency and sustainability for socio-economic inclusivity, liberal politics, and sustainable development. A primary objective of this webinar is to provoke a wider discourse on resilience, sustainability, and industrial engineering. The webinar will expound an argument that the elastic view of resilience is inadequate within the sustainability paradigm given that human civilization is transcending the era of Society 5.0; an era that is characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) and currently propelled by evolutionary 4IR technologies. In the era of Society 5.0 and 4IR, the reality is that industrial engineering has to deal with hyper interconnected and interdependent cyber-physical systems (CPS) that are inextricably interwoven within our world of socio-economics and socio-politics, as well as the environment and ecology. Thus, resilience engineering must not only resolve inherent vulnerabilities in hyperlinked CPS but also, deal with the effects of supervening transient, intransigent and evolutionary stressors emanating from normal and extraordinary socio-economic-political actions, casus fortuitus, and other vis major events attributable to the environment and ecology.
This webinar is validated for 0.2 CPD credits. A CPD certificate will be issued only to current active SAIIE members and professionally registered members from other Voluntary Associations who attend this online engagement after verification of attendance via the event platform's check-in and check-out status of each attendee.
