Last verified: 29 September 2026.
Business continuity and resilience professionals have a busy calendar ahead, with upcoming sessions covering operational resilience, crisis exercises, third-party technology dependencies, AI risk and broader organizational resilience. This roundup highlights selected events currently verified through official organizer sources.
Top Upcoming Business Continuity & Resilience Events
BCI Operational Resilience SIG Open House
Date: 30 September 2026
Format: Online meeting
Focus: Operational resilience, validation and enabling solutions
The BCI Operational Resilience Special Interest Group session provides a forum for practitioners interested in the practical development and validation of operational resilience capabilities.
AI Without False Confidence: Grounding Scenario Tests in Real Data
Date: 30 September 2026
Format: Webinar
Focus: AI, scenario testing and resilience programme management
This BCI-listed webinar is particularly relevant as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly connected with scenario design, risk assessment and resilience decision-making.
BCI Canada Chapter Interactive Exercise: When AI Goes Wrong
Date: 1 October 2026
Format: Webinar / interactive exercise
Focus: AI risk and resilience analysis
An interactive session examining disruption scenarios involving AI. It is worth watching for practitioners expanding traditional business continuity and crisis exercises to include emerging technology risks.
Connecting the Resilience Ecosystem
Date: 13 October 2026
Format: Webinar
Focus: Resilience programme management
This session addresses the increasingly interconnected nature of resilience. For organizations moving beyond standalone continuity plans, connecting business continuity, risk, crisis, technology and operational resilience disciplines is an important direction of travel.
AI Risk Crisis Exercise
Date: 15 October 2026
Format: Webinar
Focus: AI risk, crisis exercise and programme management
This event combines two fast-converging areas: AI governance and crisis preparedness. It should be particularly useful for resilience teams considering how AI-related incidents can be incorporated into exercise programmes.
Technical & Third-Party Resilience
Managing Critical Third-Party Technology Dependencies
Date: 22 October 2026
Time: 14:00 BST
Format: Webinar
Organizer: The Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
Modern organizations depend heavily on cloud platforms, SaaS applications and specialist technology providers. This webinar focuses on mapping technology dependencies, identifying concentration and single-point-of-failure risks, and developing recovery strategies for supplier disruption.
Official event and registration information
Major Global Conference
BCI World Hybrid 2026
Dates: 10–11 November 2026
Location: London, United Kingdom + virtual attendance
Theme: Returns on Resilience
BCI World Hybrid is the BCI’s annual global conference for business continuity and resilience professionals. The 2026 programme includes keynotes, case studies, simulations, workshops, discussions and specialist community sessions, with an emphasis on demonstrating the organizational value created by resilience.
Both physical and virtual participation are available. The published programme runs across two days, and virtual attendees can access selected live-streamed and recorded sessions.
Official BCI World Hybrid 2026 website
GCC & Middle East Highlight
Business Continuity Summit Saudi Arabia
Date: 18 November 2026
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Format: In-person conference
Host: BCI Saudi Arabia Chapter
This inaugural Saudi Arabia summit is designed to bring together business continuity and resilience leaders for discussions on current resilience challenges, strategy and emerging approaches. For GCC practitioners, it is one of the most directly relevant regional events currently on the calendar.
At the time of verification, the organizer was inviting professionals to register their interest and be notified when registration opens.
Why These Events Matter
The current event calendar shows how the resilience profession is broadening. Traditional business continuity remains central, but the agenda increasingly includes operational resilience, third-party technology risk, crisis simulation, cyber-related disruption and AI risk. For resilience leaders, this makes cross-functional capability and realistic exercising increasingly important.
More Upcoming BCI Events
The BCI maintains a continuously updated calendar covering business continuity, organizational resilience, crisis and incident management, technology and cyber security, supply chain management and related topics.
Browse the official BCI Events Calendar
Event dates, times, availability and registration details can change. Readers should confirm the latest information with the organizer before booking travel or purchasing tickets.