If the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have taught us anything, it is that resilience comes in many forms – and is all too often in short supply. But it can be built into a company’s strategy and can enable businesses to thrive in adversity.

As companies emptied buildings and facilities while the March 2020 lockdown took effect, hastily cobbled-together remote working plans resulted in ad hoc decisions taken on the fly as organisations struggled to come to terms with the many practical headaches they faced, both technological and human.

Lurking in the background were unforeseen dangers, including security vulnerabilities, along with instabilities caused by the rapid shift to new and untested technologies. The ability of companies to navigate these challenges has never been under greater stress and building resilience has become a key concern.

With the right technology in place, a distributed workforce can be more resilient, effective, and diverse. It is therefore imperative for organisations that want to survive in this new normal to evolve and adapt to new technologies and solutions that can help them empower workers to be productive anywhere, optimize each unique worker experience for performance, cost, and security, and extend enterprise-class operations to the home.

To discuss this and more, the Business Resiliency Virtual Boardroom will bring together senior IT and digital transformation decision makers and leaders from Government services, Education, Healthcare and Retail sectors in the UAE to discuss some of these challenges and learn latest best practices and innovative solutions on how they built a resilient business.