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Organized by the Institute for Risk Management (IMdR), the 18th edition of the Lambda Mu Congress (34th year of existence) on risk management took place in Tours (Indre-et-Loire) from 16 to 18 October. A major French-speaking meeting of risk management and operational safety specialists, this biennial conference brought together more than 500 engineers, researchers, risk managers, leaders of industrial and service companies and academics from all sectors of activity that work and innovate for risk management: aerospace, insurance, agri-food, biotechnology, chemistry, energy, environment, civil engineering, computer science , mechanics, military, offshore and onshore operations, pharmacy, health, telecommunications, transport...
Globality, interaction, unpredictability, levels of organization, circulating information... This year's conference focused on complex systems, that is, socio-technical systems that encompass technical products in relation to the actors and organizations that design, manufacture and operate them, and which, through interaction, generate unforeseen emergences. At the opening of the congress he chaired, Pierre Dufour, Air Liquide's managing director, stressed the importance he attaches to the human factor: "The complexity of human beings makes every crisis complex." At the end of the congress, Jean-François Barbet (Sector), chairman of the programme committee, stressed in particular in the review that "the decision-making dimension was very present [in the 180 or so papers commented], especially in relation to the uncertainties of the processes."
Interdisciplinarity
In the face of complexity, risk control and operational safety must be complemented by the work and skills of other disciplines for a systemic approach to risk. This was the focus of the roundtable moderated by Jean-Paul Langlois, President of the IMdR and organizer of the conference, entitled: "How can the knowledge gained on how the brain works guide research on dynamic modeling of complex systems to help in decision-making?" Alongside François Ailleret, honorary general manager of EDF and honorary president of the Institut Pasteur, and Daniel Krob, professor of the Ecole Polytechnique, head of the chair "Engineering complex systems", Alain Berthoz, neurophysiologist, professor emeritus at the Collège de France, evoking the concept of "simplexity" in neuroscience has opened a new field of cooperation with specialists.
Two award-winning theses
Two IMdR awards (financial award of 1,000 euros each by Air Liquide) have rewarded research carried out in collaboration with the industry.
Ariane Lorton: Troyes University of Technology / EADS Innovation Works for its thesis on prognosis and maintenance
Vincent Dubourg: Clermont University / Phimeca for his thesis on the reliability of submarine hulls.
Find out more: https://www.imdr.eu
