Executive Forum

Industrial Resilience System Readiness May 19, 2026

A closed-door executive forum on industrial resilience, system readiness, and national economic continuity.

Executive Briefing

If a major industrial incident
happens tomorrow,
are we ready?

This closed-door executive forum brings senior leaders together to examine system-wide exposure, cross-sector coordination gaps, and the governance architecture required to protect industrial and economic continuity.

Industrial disruptions are not operational events — they are economic shocks.

Forum Purpose

Beyond site-level response.
Into governance, continuity, and alignment.

Trinidad and Tobago is a highly industrialised, energy-dependent economy with interconnected exposure across energy, utilities, ports, logistics, telecommunications, finance, and public-sector coordination.

This forum moves the conversation beyond emergency response and into command architecture, decision authority, and the cross-sector alignment required when an event affects more than a single site.

Programme

A focused executive afternoon.

  1. 12:30 PM Executive Arrival & Registration APEXIS Registration Team
  2. 1:00 PM Welcome Remarks AMCHAM Trinidad & Tobago
  3. 1:05 PM Opening & Strategic Framing Andrea Davis — APEXIS Risk Innovation Group / TEEX Cooperative Learning Center
  4. 1:10 PM Remarks by the Honourable Minister of Energy & Energy Industries Dr. the Hon. Roodal Moonilal — Ministry of Energy (or Representative)
  5. 1:25 PM Remarks on behalf of the U.S. Embassy Jeffrey Cernyar — Acting Political & Economic Counselor, U.S. Embassy
  6. 1:45 PM Strategic Keynote — System-Level Risk & Industrial Resilience Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)
  7. 2:20 PM An Industry Perspective — Operating Within Interdependent Industrial Environments Dr. Fitzroy Harewood — Chief Executive Officer, Point Lisas Nitrogen Limited (PLNL)
  8. 2:50 PM Executive Panel Discussion (Roundtable) System-level readiness in an interdependent industrial economy — facilitated by AMCHAM TT HSSE Committee Chair
  9. 3:20 PM Key Insights & Discussion AMCHAM TT HSSE Committee Chair
  10. 3:25 PM Next Steps & Closing Remarks Andrea Davis — APEXIS Risk Innovation Group
  11. 3:30 PM Networking & Light Refreshments

Core Discussion Themes

Five lenses, one system.

01

System-Wide Risk Exposure

Understanding vulnerabilities beyond individual organisations.

02

Cross-Sector Coordination

Aligning government, industry, infrastructure, and response agencies.

03

Economic Continuity

Treating industrial disruption as a national economic risk.

04

Critical Infrastructure Interdependence

Recognising how ports, power, logistics, cyber, and energy systems connect.

05

Governance-Level Readiness

Moving resilience from operations to executive decision-making.

Featured Contributors

A curated room.

Confirmed contributors shaping the forum’s strategic dialogue.

Andrea Davis

APEXIS · TEEX Cooperative Center

Hon. Dr. Roodal Moonilal

Minister of Energy & Energy Industries

Jeffrey Cernyar

Acting Political & Economic Counselor · U.S. Embassy

Dr. Fitzroy Harewood

Chief Executive Officer · Point Lisas Nitrogen Limited

Why This Room Matters

Preparedness is not only what happens inside your organisation. It is also what happens when the systems around you are under pressure.

·01

Risk Clarity

See exposure across the systems you depend on, not just within them.

·02

Influence

Help shape the architecture, not react to it after the fact.

·03

Access

Direct engagement with decision-makers across interdependent sectors.

·04

Alignment

Pre-negotiated coordination before, rather than during, a crisis.

·05

Stress Testing

Examine leadership decisions under uncertainty, at executive level.

Next Steps

Designed to support what follows.

The forum is designed to support follow-on engagement, including the proposed formation of a Cross-Sector Industrial Resilience Working Group and future readiness exercises.

Learn More

More about the host & partner.

Register Interest

Stay engaged.

Register your interest in follow-up engagement related to the Working Group, future readiness exercises, or resilience discussions.

Your information will be used only for follow-up related to this forum.