Milano - Cortina 2026: a possible integrated security model

Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026: the safety of the event passes through a multidisciplinary and integrated model

Winter Olympic Games 2026.  Where are we? Some would say that the time is already ripe to make reflections and start discussion tables on how to manage and organize the event sports, someone else, instead, Given the vicissitudes of the war and the social - economic and geopolitical tensions that are destabilizing the entire continent, and not only, you might think that the priorities and topics on the agenda are very different.

What is certain is that the organization of major events such as the Olympic Games requires and presupposes long times, detailed analysis and assessments, even in the long term, and, among these, certainly the issue of security can only be central and transversal on several fronts.

Olympic Games Milan Cortina and safety: the importance of a multidisciplinary approach

Considering the complexity and variability of the context (the locations affected by the competitions and the Games are located in an extended and heterogeneous area), as well as the increasingly rapid and continuous evolution and changes on the partner-sidegeopolitics today more than ever in fervor at the gates of Europe, the system of management and organization of the Olympic Games is and will certainly be susceptible to variations and updates, requiring a necessary as inevitable multidisciplinary approach.

Integrate Police models and specialized management skills

 As defined and described in the Dossier submitted for the Italian bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, a «lean and functional safety management» is required. Adopting a security management model within large events also means understanding how the integration between the use of intelligent technological solutions, Control and monitoring models typical of law enforcement and highly specialized organizational and management skills, constitute the real added value to counteract and mitigate risks and threats to security and public order.

Safety and large events, determine the mix of human and technological factors

It is in contexts like these that the mix of human and technological factors takes on a decisive role. Operate according to models and processes defined in advance, in the right balance between technical skills, operational and experience in the management of complex environments and systems, will be able to manage the safe change of the scenarios of risk and the monitoring of the organizational complexities that will impact on the mobility, the transports, the logistics generating criticalities and possible emergencies to analyze in advance.

by Francesca Balducci, Think Tank Risk and Scenarios Secursat