Building Adaptive and Shock-Resistant Portfolios

Besaint Sahni, Head of Global PMO at CAIRE Inc. (Advanced Energy), delivers a keynote on building portfolios that can withstand supply chain disruptions, regulatory shocks, and market volatility. Drawing on hard-won lessons from recent years of unprecedented disruption, Besaint will present a framework for designing portfolio architectures that are inherently resilient.

The session will cover techniques for stress-testing portfolios against multiple disruption scenarios, building strategic optionality into project plans, and creating rapid-response governance mechanisms that can be activated when crises emerge. Attendees will learn how to balance efficiency and resilience — two objectives that often seem to be in tension.

This keynote is particularly relevant for leaders in medtech and life sciences, where regulatory requirements and patient safety considerations add additional dimensions of complexity to portfolio resilience planning.