Client events
We enjoy organising regular events where our clients and associates can network and explore a topical risk theme in stimulating surroundings. Click
on the links to find out about our previous events:
As If By Magic!
The Magic Circle HQ (October 2010)
Possibly our most entertaining event yet was at the headquarters of The Magic Circle. We pride ourselves on finding creative solutions to knotty problems and decided to challenge our guests to do the same by finding magical solutions to the budget deficit - whilst being distracted by mind readers, pickpockets and close-up magicians! Once again our guests met the challenge head on with some highly creative, if not particularly ethical, ideas. The winning team chose Help for Heroes to be the recipient of their prize money.
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2008: A Time Odyssey
Silver Barracuda (May 2008)
Risk Solutions celebrated its first ten years by considering the risks and opportunities of time travel. As we glided along the River Thames on board the Silver Barracuda, reflecting on how major events have shaped the capital, our guests were asked to consider how they would use time travel to benefit society. As usual, our guests rose to the challenge identifying unusual and controversial applications of the technology with the winning concept being the HMRC team's proposals for 'life-tax'!
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An Enigma Variation
Cabinet War Rooms (October 2005)
With terrorism
and national security at the top of the political agenda we chose a related
theme for our 2005 client event. Having 'rendezvoused' at
the Cabinet War Rooms our guests were set the challenging task of decoding
intercepted messages to prevent an attempt on Churchill's life.
The evening also gave us chance to explore the importance of making decisions
despite uncertainty, taking account of societal concern and the need
to present information in ways that inform and can be readily acted upon.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lloyd's Building (June 2004)
Insurance has
been a vital risk management tool for centuries and where better to explore
the topic than the Lloyd's Building? Our guests formed 18th Century
shipping consortia and competed against each other and an unlikely number
of disasters (including pirates, unrest in the colonies and extreme weather
conditions) to see who could amass the greatest wealth over the evening.
In recognition of their efforts, we gave a donation to the winning team's
charity of choice (Save The Children) and our chairman, Ray Proctor,
rounded off the evening with anecdotes of how 'risk thinking' has
evolved over the years.
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A Knight at the Temple
Middle Temple Hall (June
2003)
The Middle Temple Hall provided a classic setting for our light
hearted examination of risk in the legal process. The need for a case
to be proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' indicates that doubt
can remain and that juries need to weigh up the risks to society of acquitting
the guilty against those of punishing the innocent. To explore the issues,
we invited our friends at The Spontaneity Shop to stage mock trials of
Robin Hood and Sir Walter Raleigh, examining their conduct from legal
and ethical perspectives, and asking our guests to pass judgement. Fortunately,
both were acquitted!
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Good Times, Bard Times
Kensington Roof Gardens
(June 2002)
Literature can provide an amusing and instructive insight
into why people take risks. We decided to use scenes from popular Shakespearian
plays to look at themes that resonate today. A talented troupe of actors
presented scenes from Romeo & Juliet, Henry V and Midsummer Night's
Dream plus an impromptu play, in the Elizabethan style, based on the
experiences of two of our guests. The Kensington Roof Gardens provided
an unusual setting for the event, with minstrels and street entertainers
helping to evoke an Elizabethan atmosphere.
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Breaking the Mould
Leighton
House (November 2001)
We chose the home of Lord Leighton to explore how
innovators, in art as in all areas of life, take risks. Our guests were
invited to take a few risks themselves by expressing their creative side
through photographic compositions, poetry (on risk taking), plasticine
sculptures and collages
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Of Trading, Ryskes and Remedyes
Chelsea Physic
Garden (June 2000)
We chose the Chelsea Physic Garden to explore some
topical risk issues with clients in June 2000. Guests were provided with
a guide to the garden and notes drawing parallels between historic events
and issues of today on the themes of:
- fair trade & trading
barriers
- genetic modification & gene patenting
- conservation & sustainability
- drug
development & testing
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A Transport of Delight
London Transport Museum
(January 2000)
We saw in the new millennium with a look at transport
safety in the appropriate setting of the London Transport Museum. Our
guests were treated to a thought-provoking talk on risk in the transport
sector, and how it feels to bear the risk of running a major transport
service organisation by Denis Tunnicliffe, then Chairman of London Underground
and Chief Executive of London Transport. Further food for thought was
laid on in the form of our own temporary exhibits at the museum and a
quiz on risk covering each of the major modes of transport.
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An Evening
with Attitude
Hurlingham Club (July 1999)
The Hurlingham Club, by the
banks of the Thames, provided a delightful summer evening backdrop of
tennis, croquet, quiet lawns, shrubs and borders. Our theme built on
a research project carried out in May and June, to collate and analyse
references to 'risk' in the UK media. Attitudes to risk (and to the things
people do to control risk) shape a great deal of our behaviour, and some
provocative interactive sketches set the evening off in style.
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The Upside
of Uncertainty
London Zoo (November 1998)
Our second event was held
in November 1998 at London Zoo. The reception was held in the Aquarium
(in sub-arctic conditions) followed by a presentation looking at how
animals have thrived in even tougher environments! Skits, following the
animal theme, suggested why the Dodo and others had failed to seize the
Upside of Uncertainty.
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The Drama of Risk
National Theatre Museum (September
1997)
Our launch event was at the National Theatre Museum in Covent Garden
with the 'drama of risk' as its topic. Risk Solutions' philosophy
was presented (with the help of a young team of actors) under the themes
of:
- providing assurance in a changing world
- developing
new and better 'recipes' for risk control
- engaging and
communicating with stakeholders on risk topics.
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There is no security in life, only opportunity.
Mark Twain |
