The second edition of IPUR’s annual conference, The Risk Quotient 2019, was held on 20 October 2019 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The conference was jointly organised by IPUR, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS), School of Public Policy & Management (Tsinghua University), as well as the Centre for Social Risk Assessment in China (Tsinghua University).
The one-day conference brought together more than 100 attendees in academia, industry, and government, as well as post-graduate students from China and Singapore to engage in meaningful dialogues about the emerging risks in the emerging ABCD technologies:
- Artificial Intelligence: Social risk governance in the AI era
- Blockchain: Blockchain development and risk regulation;
- Cloud Computing: Cloud computing, 5G and new technology risks; and
- Data: Big data and network security.
In his welcome remark, Director of IPUR Prof Koh Chan Ghee said “We are now at the cusp of a very exciting time – the 4th Industrial Revolution. The ABCD technologies are changing the way we live, work, and play.”
“They are not a silver bullet, but have instead opened up a Pandora’s box of complex risk in this increasingly interconnected world,” he added.
Through Risk Quotient 2019, IPUR set out to facilitate the understanding of technological risk and ultimately:
- Allow society to achieve its goals more effectively;
- Mitigate the current erosion of trust between the people, organisations and governments; and
- Improve resilience in all aspects of life.
The conference also served as a platform for speakers and attendees to network, and set the stage for further collaboration amongst academia, industry and government to improve risk communications and promote the importance of the public understanding of risk.
View the post-conference report.
