Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Webinar examining severe summer weather risks facing European businesses, including heatwaves, storms, flooding, drought and wildfires
- Designed for business continuity, risk management, operations and supply chain professionals responsible for organisational resilience
- Explores practical applications of weather intelligence and climate-risk data for proactive decision-making
- Features analysis of Germany and the DACH region as case studies for compound climate and infrastructure risk
- Presented by Everbridge and Arcadis, combining crisis management and climate risk consulting expertise
Introduction
Europe’s Summer Weather Risk Outlook: What Businesses Need to Prepare for Now is a virtual event addressing the operational and strategic challenges that extreme summer weather presents to European organisations. The webinar brings together expertise from Everbridge and Arcadis to help business continuity, risk and resilience professionals understand emerging climate hazards and develop practical response strategies. With consecutive summers delivering record-breaking temperatures, unprecedented flooding and increasingly destructive storm systems across the continent, the timing reflects growing urgency among enterprises to move beyond reactive crisis management toward systematic climate adaptation.
About This Event
This live webinar is structured around expert-led discussion of the specific weather hazards European businesses should monitor during the summer months. The session examines which regions and industry sectors face the greatest exposure, providing attendees with frameworks for assessing their own organisational vulnerabilities. Rather than focusing on theoretical climate science, the programme emphasises actionable intelligence that can inform immediate preparedness decisions.
Everbridge, known for its crisis management and critical event management platform capabilities, hosts the event alongside Arcadis, a consultancy specialising in climate risk assessment and adaptation planning. This combination of operational technology perspective and strategic consulting insight shapes the session’s dual focus on short-term weather response and longer-term resilience building.
Severe Weather Hazards Under Examination
The webinar addresses five primary weather hazards that pose escalating risks to European business operations. Heatwaves have become more frequent and intense, with direct implications for workforce safety, equipment performance and energy infrastructure stability. Severe storms, including convective events that can develop rapidly during summer months, threaten physical assets and can disrupt transportation networks with little warning.
Flooding represents a particularly complex risk category, as summer precipitation patterns have become increasingly volatile. Flash flooding from intense rainfall events can overwhelm urban drainage systems, while prolonged wet periods affect agricultural operations and supply chain logistics. Conversely, drought conditions create competing pressures, affecting water-dependent industries and increasing wildfire risk in vulnerable regions.
Wildfires, once considered primarily a Mediterranean concern, have expanded their geographic footprint across Europe. The interaction between drought, heatwaves and vegetation conditions creates compound risk scenarios that can escalate rapidly, affecting air quality across wide areas and forcing facility closures even in locations not directly threatened by fire.
Germany and the DACH Region as a Climate Risk Case Study
The programme highlights Germany and the broader DACH region as a critical case study for understanding compound climate and infrastructure risk. This focus reflects the region’s position as an industrial and logistics hub where weather disruptions can cascade through European supply chains. The 2021 flooding in western Germany demonstrated how extreme precipitation events can overwhelm infrastructure that was not designed for current climate conditions, causing widespread damage to manufacturing facilities, transportation networks and energy systems.
The DACH region also illustrates the challenge of managing multiple simultaneous hazards. Summer months can bring heatwaves that stress electricity grids while drought conditions affect river levels critical for industrial cooling and barge transportation. These interdependencies mean that weather intelligence must account for systemic vulnerabilities rather than treating each hazard in isolation.
Integrating Weather Intelligence with Business Continuity Planning
A central theme of the webinar concerns the practical application of weather intelligence within business continuity frameworks. Traditional approaches to weather risk often relied on reactive responses to forecasts issued hours or days before an event. The session explores how organisations can integrate longer-range climate-risk insights with operational weather monitoring to enable more proactive decision-making.
This integration requires bridging what have historically been separate organisational functions. Meteorological data and climate projections must connect with operational systems, supply chain visibility tools and crisis communication platforms to deliver actionable intelligence to decision-makers. The webinar addresses how this convergence can strengthen both immediate response capabilities and strategic resilience planning.
For supply chain professionals, weather intelligence applications extend beyond protecting owned facilities to understanding exposure across supplier networks and logistics routes. Summer weather disruptions in one region can create ripple effects through interconnected supply chains, making visibility into geographic risk concentrations increasingly valuable.
Duty of Care and Workforce Protection Considerations
The event addresses duty of care obligations that organisations hold toward their employees during extreme weather events. Heatwaves present particular challenges for workforce safety, requiring adjustments to working conditions, schedules and protective measures. Environmental, health and safety professionals face the task of translating weather forecasts into practical workplace policies that protect employees while maintaining operational continuity.
Beyond immediate physical safety, extreme weather events can affect employee wellbeing through disrupted commutes, damaged homes and community-level impacts. Organisations with distributed workforces must consider how weather events in different locations affect their people and what support mechanisms should be in place.
Who Should Attend
The webinar is designed for professionals with responsibility for organisational resilience across European operations. This includes business continuity managers, risk officers, security directors, operations leaders, facilities managers and environmental health and safety professionals. Supply chain and logistics leaders will find relevant content addressing transportation and supplier network vulnerabilities.
Crisis communications professionals may benefit from understanding the weather scenarios they should prepare messaging frameworks around. The session is particularly relevant for those working in large organisations with complex operational footprints, multiple facilities or extensive supplier relationships across European geography.
Senior managers and executives seeking to understand climate risk at a strategic level will find the session provides context for investment decisions in resilience capabilities and climate adaptation measures.
The Broader Context of Climate Adaptation for European Business
This webinar arrives as European businesses face mounting pressure to demonstrate climate resilience to stakeholders including investors, regulators and insurance providers. The physical risks of climate change have moved from theoretical future concerns to present operational realities, with consecutive years of record-breaking weather events affecting industries across the continent.
Organisations that have historically treated severe weather as an occasional disruption are recognising the need for systematic approaches to climate risk assessment and adaptation. The challenge lies in translating broad climate projections into specific operational preparations, identifying which investments in resilience will deliver meaningful protection, and building organisational capabilities to respond effectively when events occur.
The convergence of weather intelligence technology, climate risk analytics and crisis management platforms represents an evolving capability set that enterprises are working to understand and deploy effectively. Events such as this webinar serve to accelerate knowledge transfer and help organisations benchmark their preparedness against emerging practices in climate adaptation and operational resilience.