European Conference on Operational Research in Rome, Italy, 2013.

Dr. Shahzeb
Ali Malik of IIRSM recently attended the 26th European Conference on
Operational Research in Rome, Italy. The conference was held at Sapienza University
in Rome over four days. In his presentation, he covered several topics
including the basic concepts about Risk Management (RM) and in particular,
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Along with that, he talked specifically about
misconceptions about ERM and different factors that affect ERM adoption within
organisations including people’s perception of risk and the need for an
organisation to have risk based culture. He also discussed the on-going
research project which involves designing an online Decision Support Tool
(DST).

Along with
his session, Dr. Malik also attended several other sessions related with his
area of research. He enjoyed the overall experience of attending one of the
largest European conferences of 2013 and gained positive feedback from other
researchers who attended his session. Some of the main sponsors of the
conference include IBM, Elsevier, Springer, SAS, and Wiley.

Dr. Malik
has also submitted another research paper for the British Association of
Management (BAM) conference which will be held on 10th – 12th September, 2013
in Liverpool. He will be attending the conference and will present his views on
“Improving Risk Management Practice: A New Web-Based Initiative”.