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🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 1 July 2026 Nine in ten enterprises can't map their AI dependencies, and the world's airlines are quietly writing the resilience playbook the rest of us should be copying. This fortnight: what happens when the tools you depend on can vanish overnight, and how carriers survive when their entire runway disappears. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Hidden AI...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 17 June 2026 A frontier AI model is forced offline worldwide in ninety minutes, and a Middle East peace deal still cannot unwind the supply shocks now setting up for 2027. This fortnight: vendor lock-in becomes a national-security risk, and three crises stack into one. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Government Pulls Frontier AI Model Anthropic was orde...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 3 June 2026 Google's AI is quietly stripping businesses of brand control in search, while a civil war in Myanmar tightens its grip on the world's rare earth supply. This fortnight: the platform that owns your customers' attention, and the conflict zone powering your electric vehicles. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Google AI Reshaping Brand Control Onl...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 20 May 2026 The age of managing one crisis at a time is officially over, and nation-states are now turning ransomware into a weapon against private business. This fortnight: why resilience must be built for permanent turbulence, and how the line between espionage and cybercrime has dissolved. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Building Systems for Continuo...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 6 May 2026 An AI chatbot wipes an entire company database in minutes, and a Pacific paradise becomes ground zero for a global drug superhighway. This fortnight: the human negligence behind the AI blame game, and the cartels, gangs, and corruption reshaping Fiji. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. AI Blame Game Masks Human Negligence An AI chatbot built on...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 20 April 2026 A UN report warns the Middle East crisis could drag millions across Asia-Pacific into poverty—and a catastrophic biometric breach just handed hackers a near-perfect deepfake training kit. This fortnight: compound shocks radiating from the Strait of Hormuz, and the permanent cost of stolen faces. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Middle East...

🎧 This week on Unbreakable Ventures This episode features Greg Headley , Lead Data Scientist at Informed Solutions , on what it actually takes to build AI systems that work in high-impact, safety-critical environments—from healthcare regulation to national policing. Informed Solutions is one of the first ten UK organisations to achieve ISO 42001 certification , the world’s first international sta...

The largest oil supply disruption in history is unfolding—but the real crisis hits in 2027. This week: agricultural collapse looms across Asia-Pacific, and the UAE turns regional chaos into competitive advantage. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Hormuz Closure Triggers Cascading Agricultural and Industrial Crisis The Strait of Hormuz closure has disrupted 20% of global oil and LNG flows alongside critic...

In this week's risk update: intensifying insurance audits are catching businesses off guard across Australia and New Zealand, military strikes on Middle East data centres threaten global cloud infrastructure, and five other emerging threats we're watching closely. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Insurance Audits Intensify as Businesses Scramble to Prove Resilience Fixinc has observed a marked increase...

In this week's risk update: quantum computing threatens to break the encryption protecting your business, Singapore's SME backbone calls for expanded government support, and five emerging threats we're watching closely. 🧠 Main Threats Covered   1. Your Encryption Has an Expiry Date Google's latest announcement confirms quantum computers capable of breaking current encryption standards are no long...

Unbreakable Ventures Special Edition – February 2026 Monsters, Multipolarity, and the 1%: Inside the WEF Global Risks Report 2026 What's inside this episode The World Economic Forum has released its 21st Global Risks Report. Only 1% of experts expect calm. In this special episode, we break down what has changed, what risks are climbing, and what you can do about it. Key Highlights - Why the WEF's...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 9 February 2026 In this week's risk update: a global shipping crisis reshaping trade economics, Singapore's bold nationwide blackout simulation, and five other emerging threats we're watching closely. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Consumer Goods Costs Surge on Global Shipping Crisis Container rates from Asia to Europe and the US have more than doubled...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 26 January 2026   In this week's risk update: a staggering 80% insurance protection gap leaving Asia-Pacific businesses exposed to climate losses, the World Economic Forum's warning on geo-economic fragmentation reshaping global trade, and five emerging threats we're watching closely. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. APAC Insurance Gap Leaves 80% Weather...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update - 12 January 2026 🔍 What's inside this episode In this fortnight’s risk update: Compounding 2026 supply-chain shocks, ransomware squeezing transport logistics, and five quick-fire threats to watch. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Economic: 2026 Supply Chain Disruption Outlook Everstream Analytics is flagging a 2026 disruption landscape where climate-link...

🎧 This week on Unbreakable Ventures In this solo deep dive, Ollie Law examines the Common Operating Picture paradox and why New Zealand still lacks a truly integrated national system for disaster response. Using Taiwan’s world-leading disaster management platform as a reference point, the episode explores how communication, technology, and community preparedness combine to dramatically reduce los...

🎧 This week on Unbreakable Ventures This episode features Brenden Winder , Civil Defence and Emergency Manager at Christchurch City Council, on what really happens when disasters strike — and why community leadership matters more than plans. Drawing on experience from the Christchurch earthquakes and tsunami planning, Brenden shares hard truths about preparedness, public behaviour, and the limits...

🎙️ Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 16 December 2025 In this fortnight's risk update: HR burnout emerges as the top business risk heading into 2026, India mandates continuous SIM-binding for messaging apps affecting 500+ million users, and five emerging threats from Cloudflare outages to AI investment warnings. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. HR Burnout Identified as Top Business Risk Nea...

Unbreakable Ventures Fortnightly Risk Update — 1 December 2025 In this week's risk update: the UN's inaugural Global Risk Report reveals a world dangerously under-prepared for interconnected threats, major food companies abandon net-zero timelines in favour of operational resilience, and five emerging threats we're tracking closely. Main Threats Covered 1. The UN Global Risk Report 2024 The United...

🔍 What's inside this episode Threat concerns this week: AI demand triggers 60% memory chip price surge. UK's Storm Claudia shows compound weather risks. And 5 quick fire stories on aviation's $11B crisis and H5N5 bird flu. In this week's risk update: Samsung's 60% memory price hike reveals how AI's explosive growth is starving global tech supply chains, Storm Claudia demonstrates the cascading ch...

🔍 What's inside this episode Threat concerns this week: Business travel weather disruptions cost US firms $17 billion annually. AWS's fifteen-hour outage locks fans out of playoff baseball. And 5 quick fire stories on Microsoft's second outage and crisis management costs. In this week's risk update: weather chaos forces companies to rethink duty-of-care as 50% of US business travelers face disrup...

🔍 What's inside this episode In this week's risk update: researchers expose how half the world's satellite communications broadcast unencrypted—intercepted with $800 of basic equipment, the pharmaceutical industry faces a perfect storm of supply chain fragility and regulatory upheaval threatening patient access to critical medicines, and five other emerging threats including Japan's ransomware-cr...

Sonali Chandratilake, a seasoned crisis management expert and Emergency Management & Business Continuity Manager at the University of Canterbury , shares insights from 15+ years on the front lines of NZ's major crises (Canterbury Earthquakes, Christchurch Mosque Attack, COVID-19). Her unique perspective combines professional roles with personal advocacy (Cleft New Zealand). Discover her pragmatic...

🔍 What's inside this episode In this week's risk update: three climate disasters kill over 100 people in 14 days exposing compound environmental risks, U.S. tariffs trigger economic upheaval across Southeast Asia threatening entire export sectors, and five other emerging threats including Google's disruption of the SEO industry and warnings of a historic AI bubble. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Asia...

This week on Unbreakable Ventures, we welcome Sandeep Sharma who joins us to share his experiences and advice from his debut book, Good on you Mate! Good on You, Mate! follows Sandeep’s journey from Mumbai to Christchurch as an international student. It's part memoir, part practical guide for anyone considering studying abroad. And where one might think this as a purely academic read, the advice o...

🔍 What's inside this episode In this week's risk update: a cyberattack on shared airport systems exposes the hidden costs of efficiency, Russian military aircraft systematically test NATO's eastern defences, and five other emerging threats including AI surveillance glasses and Thailand's banking crisis. 🧠 Main Threats Covered 1. Collins Aerospace Cyberattack A single software platform failure br...