Managing Converging Risk: Why Energy Infrastructure Must Be in Your Corporate Security Strategy Webinar

Contributed by the Professional Development Community

Description

In today’s borderless risk environment, cyber threats, geopolitical instability, supply chain disruptions, and climate-driven disasters are converging in ways that fundamentally reshape corporate security strategy. Energy infrastructure — once considered an operational or engineering function — has emerged as a strategic security priority.

This webinar examines how centralized grid vulnerabilities, interdependent infrastructure systems, and geopolitical energy dependencies expose organizations to cascading operational and financial risk. Drawing from critical infrastructure leadership experience in emerging markets, this session reframes energy resilience as a core component of enterprise risk management.

Participants will gain a practical framework for integrating energy infrastructure considerations into corporate security programs, board oversight discussions, and business continuity planning.

Energy resilience is no longer a sustainability discussion, it is a corporate security imperative.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how cyber, physical, and geopolitical risks converge within energy infrastructure systems.
• Identify key vulnerabilities in centralized power architectures that create cascading risk.
• Assess how energy dependency impacts enterprise security posture.
• Apply a practical framework to integrate energy resilience into corporate security and ERM programs.
• Recognize the strategic role of distributed energy resources and microgrids in risk mitigation.

Speaker*

Dr. Oswald Smiley, CPP, PSP, PE, PMP
Manager of Engineering & Construction Projects | Jamaica Public Service Company

Dr. Oswald Smiley is an accomplished engineering and security professional with over two decades of experience in energy infrastructure, construction management, and physical protection. As Manager of Engineering & Construction Projects at the Jamaica Public Service Company, he leads initiatives focused on grid modernization and resilience. A licensed professional engineer, and certified security consultant and practitioner (CPP, PSP), Dr. Smiley bridges the disciplines of engineering, project management, and physical security. He is the author of Removing the Barriers for Engineers Entering Business and an advocate for integrating engineering resilience with security leadership in critical infrastructure systems. 

*Note: Speakers and content are subject to change without notice.

Topic: Risk Management, National Security

Credit Information: Completion of this webinar is eligible for 1 CPE credit.    

Translation Captioning Available: This webinar includes AI translation captioning in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish (Latin American). The translation captioning feature is available both during the live session and for the on-demand version. You may select your preferred language in the webinar session.