Connecting Business initiative

✨Starting SOON (9am London time)!✨

This is it. Today is the Private Sector Resilience Forum - a fully virtual and free event that covers seven topics with over 25 expert speakers through honest, insightful, practical conversations with room for participants to ask questions and share their lessons learned, too.

Will you join us?

📅 TODAY Thursday 21 May
⏰ 9am-7pm London time (GMT+1)
🛜 Online
🚨 CBI Private Sector Resilience Forum

The full programme is on the visual below and you can register at the site shown (or check the comments section).

Tag a friend or colleague, share this post, and SEE YOU THERE!

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✨Este jueves 21 de mayo se llevará a cabo el Foro de Resiliencia Empresarial CBi, en el marco del 10.º aniversario de CBi (Connecting Business initiative ).

Un espacio para reflexionar sobre el papel del sector privado en la construcción de resiliencia ante crisis y desastres.

1 día. 7 sesiones. 10 horas de contenido inspirador. Más de 25 expertos.
!Súmate!
📅 Fecha: jueves 21 de mayo
🖥️ Modalidad: Virtual
🔗 Registro e información de las conferencias aquí: https://cbi10.lovable.app/

¡Acompáñanos en esta celebración de una década de impacto y resiliencia!


👉 👉 https://www.connectingbusiness.org/

✨Este jueves 21 de mayo se llevará a cabo el Foro de Resiliencia Empresarial CBi, en el marco del 10.º aniversario de CBi (Connecting Business initiative ).

Un espacio para reflexionar sobre el papel del sector privado en la construcción de resiliencia ante crisis y desastres.

1 día. 7 sesiones. 10 horas de contenido inspirador. Más de 25 expertos.
!Súmate!
📅 Fecha: jueves 21 de mayo
🖥️ Modalidad: Virtual
🔗 Registro e información de las conferencias aquí: https://cbi10.lovable.app/

¡Acompáñanos en esta celebración de una década de impacto y resiliencia!


👉 👉 https://www.connectingbusiness.org/

✨Mark your calendars✨: THIS Thursday 21 May is the CBI Private Sector Resilience Forum to mark our 10-year anniversary.

It’s intended as a celebration, as well as a chance to publicly showcase what resilience means in practice across cultures, geographies, and sectors while articulating the role business can and often already plays in crises.

1 day. 7 sessions. 10 hours of inspiring content. Over 25 experts.

If you're curious about:

⚡️climate resilience
🚛supply chains and sectors such as finance and tourism
🛟how emergency response can pave the way for a resilient recovery
🧘‍♀️mental health in crises
🏦whether governance and policies matter in crises (they do!)
💡the role of innovations in emergency preparedness (high AND low-tech)
🌪️hurricane season and how best to prepare for it

Then consider joining us:
📆Thursday 21 May
⏰9am-7pm London time (GMT+1)
⛓️Online
🏷️CBI Private Sector Resilience Forum

We've lined up some amazing speakers and organizations such as Fiji Commerce & Employers Federation (FCEF) Vanuatu Business Resilience Council Pacific Islands Forum Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management Sri Lanka Kadin Indonesia Türk İş Dünyası Konfederasyonu Center for Disaster Philanthropy Desafío Levantemos Chile Hombro a Hombro Microsoft UNDRR-Las Américas y El Caribe and Aitken Spence, CARICHAM, Miyamoto International, PT Astra International, SANY Foundation, Z Zurich Foundation, FEWACCI, Hormuud Salaam Foundation, and more.

Details on sessions in the visuals below or in the l!nk in the comments.

See you there?

China’s growing innovation ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with stronger capabilities across industries and increasing global relevance. What’s equally striking is a parallel shift: a stronger focus on translating innovation into real-world impact.

From rescue robots in Shenzhen to roundtable discussions in Beijing, this piece by (Huihua) Hu highlights a clear takeaway: it’s not just about how fast innovation is advancing, but how purposefully it is being applied to humanitarian challenges - bridging business, technology, and emergency response, and opening the door to more structured and scalable partnerships.

🔗 Read more: https://www.connectingbusiness.org/news-events/news/technology-and-innovation-meets-humanity-china

Resilience. It's a word that gets used a lot these days - but what does it mean, really, for you as an individual, as a member of a community, as part of a business or other organization?

If you're curious about

✨ climate resilience
✨ supply chains and sectors such as finance and tourism
✨ how emergency response can pave the way for a resilient recovery
✨ mental health in crises
✨ whether governance and policies matter in crises (they do!)
✨ the role of innovations in emergency preparedness (high AND low-tech)
✨ hurricane season and how best to prepare for it

.. then our upcoming event might be right up your alley!

Join us
☀️ Thursday 21 May
⏰ 9am-7pm GMT
📍 Online
🏷️ CBI Private Sector Resilience Forum

We're lining up some great speakers who can share their experience in crises through an honest conversation about what works, what doesn't work, and what you can take away from a practical perspective.

Stay tuned - we'll be sharing the names of some of our partners and speakers soon! (And see the first comment for a 🔗 to more information.)

Which is sessions are the most interesting to you?

📢 Mark your calendars!

We're bringing together some amazing speakers to showcase how business is already driving resilience with examples from our partners around the world, because we believe in co-creating a better future, together.

1️⃣ day. 7️⃣ sessions. 🔟 hours of inspiring content 👇

Our one-day ✨Private Sector Resilience Forum✨ will cover topics such as:

⛈️ Climate resilience, inspiration from the Pacific

🚚 Supply chain resilience with examples from the finance & tourism industries

🔗 The link between crisis response and recovery

🧘‍♀️ Mental health in crises

📃 The role of governance and policies in resilience

📳 Innovation to foster preparedness

🌀 Hurricane season, lessons learned from the Caribbean

Come and celebrate CBI turning 10 by joining us for some inspiring conversations, examples of what works and lessons learned related to business engagement in disaster management & crisis resilience!

And don't hesitate to share or tag a friend or colleague who might be interested.

We've been a bit quiet here lately, but that doesn't mean big things aren't afoot... This is a milestone year for CBI, as we'll soon be celebrating our 10th anniversary!

Under the theme "Resilient Futures: From Response to Legacy", we'll be marking the occasion with quite a few exciting announcements and activities - so stay tuned, and watch this space.

It's time to level up, and we're ready for it.

What if businesses were not just donors... but first responders?

Because that's the reality already, one that we at the OCHA-UNDP Connecting Business Initiative and our Member Networks live and breathe. Businesses are an integral part of any disaster management system, because businesses are there, in the communities, affected by crises alongside everyone else. Or at least, they could and should be.

In a world facing more frequent disasters, rising uncertainty, and increasing pressure on humanitarian and development systems, one thing is clear: we need to rethink how we manage risk and deal with emergencies.

CBI shows what's possible when the private sector steps in - not just with funding, but with what they do best: logistics, technology, infrastructure, and expertise.

From rebuilding homes after wildfires in Chile to supporting population after cyclones in the Philippines, businesses are already playing a critical role on the ground.

In 2024-2025:

🛟 9.9 million people reached
⚠️ 54 crises responded to
🗺️ 67 countries with a CBI presence

This is not about charity.

It's about partnership.

The future of humanitarian action and disaster management will be built together.

The CBI Annual Report 2024-2025 is published, download it on the CBI website.

Thank you to our partners for all their support!