To develop a community of practitioners and users of Resilience Engineering

To create ways to share experience and learning, such as:

• summer schools and industry partnerships,
• conferences and workshops,
• books and papers.

To create a sense of identity:

• a collegial community of practitioners and users,
• a confederation of industrial partnerships,
• opportunities to speak with a common voice in professional and industrial settings.

To promote a shared understanding of what resilience engineering means:

• debate and discussion,
• examples of applications in diverse ways and fields,
• point and counterpoint.