The current phase of structural global instability is reshaping access to energy and resources, supply chains, regulation, and competitiveness, with a particularly significant impact on SMEs, which are more exposed to systemic risks and have more limited capacity to adapt. In this context, the challenge for companies is no longer solely to maximise efficiency, but to strengthen resilience by integrating geopolitical risk into decision-making and rethinking growth models.
During this session with Anaïs Voy-Gillis, Chief Strategy and CSR Officer at Humens and Associate Researcher at the University of Poitiers, participants will have the opportunity to reassess their corporate strategies, gaining insights into how to manage critical dependencies, integrate geopolitical risk into decision-making, and build more resilient models over the medium to long term. The discussion will also provide a practical framework for understanding the evolving positioning of European industry, at the intersection of strategic autonomy, decarbonisation, and reindustrialisation.
In particular, the session will explore:

• Global instability as the new structural context and its concrete impact on energy, supply chains, and SME competitiveness
• European industry between strategic autonomy and the energy transition
• The shift from efficiency to resilience, with a focus on new decision-making frameworks for SMEs and the strategic levers needed to compete in an uncertain environment