Understanding the changing role of many of our Members, our focus this year is on empowering risk professionals to become Stronger and Louder.

With diminishing resources our focus must be on how we maintain resilience; how we guarantee we are crucial to our organisations; and how we ensure we are relevant, effective and indispensible.

Opening our Conference will be Ben Smith, delivering an inspiring Keynote on 401 marathons in 401 days and on Tuesday Joanne Roney, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council will deliver an insightful Plenary.

Our freshers' event will be combined with the Chair's welcome reception on Sunday. This is a great opportunity for Members to network in an informal setting, meet the Alarm buddies and pick up information on how to get the most out of your time at the Conference.

Our Risk Awards will take place on Monday 25 June at The Principal, hosted by Paul Sinha. This is a prestigious evening where we celebrate our Members' innovative work. There are eight categories to enter and details can be found on the Alarm website.

The Alarm Conference continues to be included as part of your membership fee. Do not miss out on this excellent learning and development event.

I hope to see you there.

Jane O'Leary
Chair, Alarm