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Welcome to Risky Business

We organise and run conferences and courses to improve safety and outcomes in healthcare and other high risk industries. We do this through sharing experiences & ideas between those who operate in risky environments such as business, emergency services, exploration, sport & healthcare. Learning how to manage risk, harness innovation, improve teamwork and leadership are vital ingredients in achieving these goals.
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20
20 conferences to date
8800
8,800 delegates
410
410 speakers
"Risky Business is a superb conference, providing a unique opportunity to learn from the hard won experience of front line professionals working in high stakes industries around the world."
Dr Kevin Fong, University College London Hospital

our conference is aimed at

Nurses
The complexity of healthcare demands exceptional skills in Leadership and Teamwork. It also requires that we can react to incredibly challenging situations at a moment’s notice. Our conference speakers have extraordinary stories to tell which address many of these issues.

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Doctors
This is a patient safety conference with a big difference. Exceptional speakers, from a wide array of high risk environments, share their stories of endeavour, safety, risk, human factors, systems and quality improvement.

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OTHER PROFESSIONALS
Our motivational and world renown speakers tell their own stories of overcoming seemingly impossible odds. The lessons we can all draw from their experiences will help us manage risk and make our work environments safer, more efficient and happier places.

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London COVID LIVE 2020 talks

Here's the latest talks from our London 2020 Online Conference.

Dr Pallavi Bradshaw

The Medicine: Has COVID changed the doctor-patient relationship forever?

Magnus Falk

The Technology: The Rise of Zoom

ICU Panel Discussion

The Medicine ICU Panel Discussion - What Have We Learnt

Matthew Shaw

Opening Address from Matthew Shaw

Judy Breuer

The Science: The Virus - Latest Update on Pathophysiology

Right Honourable Tony Blair

Coronavirus: A Global Challenge Requiring a Unified Approach - interviewed by Katie Derham

Matthew Gould

The Technology: An Update from the CEO of NHSX

Dr Alasdair Bamford

The Medicine: Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

Dr Katrina Pollock

The Science: The Vaccine - How This Acts and When Available

Yvonne Coghill

The People: Diversity and Risk

Laurie Santos

The People: The Science of Wellbeing

Martin Landray

The Science: Clinical Trials - What We Know & The Pipeline

Adam Kucharski

The Science: Modelling - What Can We Expect Next

Captain Dave Fielding and Jasmine Kamani

The People: Project Wingman - Creating First Class Lounges

Pat Symonds

The Technology: Formula 1 to Ventilators

Allyson Pollock

The Science: Public Health - What Should We Be Doing

Jessica Barker

The Technology: Cyber Security

Don Berwick

What Might Healthcare Look Like Post Covid?

Martin Marshall

The Medicine: Transformation of General Practice

latest news

We have been really honoured to have so many influential speakers attending all our conferences. We are now aiming to write blogs each week to assist website viewers to link our talks to current events both inside healthcare and more generally
Why we are Likely to get it Wrong
06
Mar

Why we are Likely to get it Wrong

'Medical errors are an inevitable outcome of the human cognitive system working within the complex and sometimes chaotic healthcare system...'

Reflections on Risky Business 2019
27
Feb

Reflections on Risky Business 2019

'...lessons that I was able to take from the incredible collection of speakers at last year’s conference have proven invaluable...'

Changing Culture Can be Challenging
24
Feb

Changing Culture Can be Challenging

'...other industries would not countenance the error rates that are daily found in medicine.'

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