CALL FOR ABSRACTS

Global Supply Chain Security Conference

Imperial College, London 7-8 July 2011

www.scs2011.org


Dear colleague,
(with apologies for cross-posting)

Supply chain security is often associated with the robustness and/or vulnerability to failures and disruptions. Potential sources of disruption to supply chains are numerous, ranging from routine events like strikes, process and system failures to natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, volcano eruptions, and large epidemics. In the post-9/11 era, the focus has shifted to events involving malevolence such as piracy, terrorism, counterfeiting, theft, smuggling and illegal trafficking.

PORTeC (www.portec.org.uk) at the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London, is organising a 2- day Conference on “Global Supply Chain Security” on 7-8 July 2011 in London, UK. This event seeks to address the operational, management, and policy challenges that supply chain security presents to businesses, governments and other supply chain stakeholders. The conference programme will include plenary sessions, paper presentations and poster sessions. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for consideration in an edited Book. For more details, please visit the conference website at: www.scs2011.org

This event will bring together speakers from both industry and academia with knowledge, experience, visions, methods and results to share with delegates. The conference organisers welcome papers and/or presentations on the following:

- Themes (risk analysis, economic appraisal, technology applications, policy and regulations, crisis management, disaster recovery, etc.);
- Types of vulnerabilities and disruptions (failures, political instability, attacks, systemic threats, fraud, climate change, etc.);
- Industry sectors (shipping and ports, airports and air cargo security, border control and trade facilitation, insurance and banking, energy, chemicals/nuclear, commodities and consumer products, internet and network security, etc.).

Abstracts (200-300 words) must be received not later than 15 April 2011. Authors are invited to submit abstracts to:

Dr. Khalid Bichou
Chair of the Organising Committee
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Please kindly help circulate this Call for Papers to your colleagues whom may be interested and we look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Yours sincerely,