A new European congress bringing together hospital leaders, operational teams, emergency preparedness experts, civil protection authorities, and industry partners to advance hospital resilience, continuity of care, and cross-sector preparedness.
EMPREP is being developed as a dedicated platform for hospital operational resilience, continuity planning, infrastructure readiness, supply chain security, and cross-sector crisis response.
Command, decision-making, and resilience planning beyond the first 72 hours.
Resilient logistics, procurement, infrastructure, and essential-service continuity.
Infrastructure, cyber, workforce, and cross-sector preparedness across Europe.
Hospitals across Europe are facing growing operational pressure from cyberattacks, infrastructure failures, supply chain disruption, climate events, mass-casualty incidents, and prolonged crises. EMPREP 2027 is being developed to create a dedicated European platform for the professionals responsible for keeping hospitals operational when systems are under pressure.
Hospitals are increasingly recognised as essential infrastructure that must remain operational during crises.
Healthcare systems need plans, teams, and technologies that can sustain care through long-duration disruption.
Hospital resilience requires collaboration between healthcare, civil protection, government, military medical, logistics, technology, and industry stakeholders.
Focused on governance, continuity, infrastructure, logistics, cyber readiness, and cross-sector coordination.
EMPREP 2027 is a new European congress dedicated to hospital operational resilience and emergency preparedness.
The congress will focus on the systems, structures, teams, and partnerships that allow hospitals to maintain continuity of care through complex and prolonged crises. Unlike events focused primarily on clinical disaster medicine, EMPREP will address the operational governance space: crisis leadership, continuity planning, supply chain security, infrastructure resilience, cyber readiness, and cross-sector coordination.
To strengthen hospital operational resilience and the capacity to maintain continuity of care through long-duration, multi-hazard crises.
A resilient, interoperable European healthcare system that can sustain continuity of care during large-scale and prolonged crises.
To unite hospital leaders, operational teams, emergency services, civil protection authorities, military medical stakeholders, and industry partners to share practice, standardise operational models, and strengthen system resilience across Europe.
EMPREP 2027 will explore the operational, strategic, technological, and human dimensions of hospital preparedness and resilience.
Hospital command systems, decision-making, and resilience planning beyond the first 72 hours.
Supply continuity, procurement, logistics, infrastructure, and essential service continuity.
Surge capacity, multi-hazard planning, man-made incidents, and protracted emergency scenarios.
Facility resilience, cybersecurity, digital downtime readiness, isolation, and decontamination.
Staff resilience, long-term wellbeing, mental health support, and crisis-related workforce challenges.
AI decision support, telemedicine, simulation, digital tools, and technologies supporting preparedness.
EMPREP 2027 is designed for the people planning, leading, and sustaining hospital operations during crisis.
CEOs, medical directors, COOs, board members, and senior leaders with responsibility for resilience and continuity.
EPRR leads, supply chain managers, infrastructure leads, continuity planners, CIOs, CISOs, and facilities leaders.
Health ministry representatives, regulators, civil protection authorities, crisis coordinators, and public-sector preparedness stakeholders.
Disaster medicine specialists, emergency medicine professionals, ICU and ED leaders, EMS, and prehospital teams.
Healthcare professionals involved in operational readiness, workforce planning, and continuity of care.
MedTech, digital health, simulation, cybersecurity, logistics, infrastructure, and resilience solution providers.
EMPREP 2027 is planned as a three-day international congress combining strategic sessions, practical case studies, cross-sector workshops, and hands-on learning formats.
Lessons from hospital leaders, policymakers, and emergency-response experts.
Connecting hospitals, public health, civil protection, emergency services, military medical stakeholders, and industry.
Hands-on formats focused on real-world crisis preparedness and continuity planning.
EMPREP 2027 is being developed with input from leading voices in hospital resilience, emergency preparedness, civil protection, healthcare operations, and system-level crisis response. The advisory structure is currently in development and will bring together multidisciplinary expertise from across Europe.
Hospital resilience, continuity planning, and healthcare emergency preparedness.
Hospital command, emergency planning, civil protection, and crisis response.
European hospital, preparedness, policy, and resilience networks.
Building resilient hospitals requires collaboration across sectors. EMPREP 2027 will create a platform where healthcare leaders and operational teams can engage with industry partners offering technologies, services, and solutions that support preparedness, continuity, infrastructure resilience, logistics, cybersecurity, simulation, training, and crisis response.
Solutions supporting preparedness, command, communication, and continuity.
Solutions supporting preparedness, command, communication, and continuity.
Technologies and services supporting digital resilience and incident response.
Partners supporting supply continuity, facilities resilience, and essential services.
EMPREP 2027 aims to convene a highly relevant European audience of hospital leaders, operational decision-makers, emergency preparedness professionals, and public-sector stakeholders involved in resilience and continuity planning.
First-edition delegate target under review
Target countries represented
Operational decision-maker target
Planned launch year
EMPREP 2027 is being developed as part of Kenes Original Events, an initiative through which Kenes creates new conference platforms where there is a clear need for focused knowledge exchange and cross-sector collaboration.
With over 60 years of experience in international conferences and association management, Kenes develops platforms that bring together the right stakeholders to advance dialogue, education, and professional exchange in emerging and strategically important fields.
Conference and association management expertise.
Global conference experience across sectors and communities.
International reach and local delivery expertise.
Annual participant engagement across Kenes congresses and events.
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