Preconference Day: Summits & Workshops - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
- Jeroen Van Doorsselaere - VP, Global Product & Platform Management, GRC Finance Risk & Reporting, Wolters Kluwer
What were the key drivers of the 2024 regulatory agenda? What can we expect for 2025 following a landscape-shifting year of elections and volatility? What are potential implications on risk strategies?
- Thomas Pfuhler - Managing Director and Senior Partner, BCG
- Keiran Foad - Group Chief Risk Officer, Natwest
- Bert Verdoodt - Head of LC&I Compliance & Sustainability, Group Compliance, Danske Bank
- David Bailey - Executive Director for Prudential Policy, Bank of England
- Barbara Frohn - Managing Director, Head of UK, EU, Middle East & Africa Regulatory Strategy & Policy, Citi
A deep look from one of the architects of the EU’s AI act into it’s implications, capital markets, geopolitics, and a year of decisive elections across half the planet.
- Dan Nechita - Head of Cabinet for MEP, European Parliament
In recent years, we've seen additional regulatory scrutiny over the completeness, accuracy and quality of prudential regulatory reporting. The expectations on firms are steadily increasing driven by macro risks (geopolitics, technological change, nature risks and the macroeconomic environment); the quantum of regulatory change; and recent market disruption.
In this session we'll explore the expectation gaps between different stakeholders, the legislative pressure for change, and the actions firms should be taking. Board members need to ensure they have the right tools and mechanisms in place to completely and accurately identify, assess, and report their prudential risks to the level of precision expected by a range of stakeholders. This will require enhancements to governance, processes, systems and controls, supplemented by assurance or other validation techniques.
- David Hewitt - Prudential Regulatory Partner, PwC
- Mike Wallace - Regulatory Assurance partner, PwC
- Nadine Moore - Managing Director & Partner, BCG
What challenges were faced in 2024, and what threats do we foresee for 2025?
What is the role of GenAI in cyber resilience, and how should we better integrate technology risk strategies into the wider risk management approach?
Where does regulation fit into the equation?
- Theodora Lau - Founder, Unconventional Ventures
- Carolina Thomaz - Chief Risk Officer, Itaú Private Bank Zurich
- Tom-Martijn Roelofs - Global Head of Security Strategy and Data, ING
- Fox Ahmed - Global Head Cybersecurity and Technology Regulatory Risk, BNP Paribas
- Ali Shepherd - CISO, Director of Op Resilience, AI Delivery, Financial Conduct Authority
A big question on everyone’s mind is What are the risks of GenAI?
However, what can we consider as the opportunities of GenAI in cyber resilience strategies?
What is the right mentality to have when it comes to preserving the balance between the opportunities and threats?
- Nicole Königstein - Chief AI Officer, Head of AI & Quant Research, quantmate
Breaking down the recent CrowdStrike incident and looking at third party risk management as a whole
- Sabrina Feng - Chief Risk Officer, London Stock Exchange Group
- Tom-Martijn Roelofs - Global Head of Security Strategy and Data, ING
- James Crask - Risk Professional, Independent
- Chelsea Wallace - Head, Global Sustainability Engagement and Disclosures, Standard Chartered Bank
- Jo Paisley - President, GARP Risk Institute
- Mekala Krishnan - Partner, McKinsey & Company
Despite the Paris Agreement, the world is still heading towards a dangerous 3°C rise in temperature. Understanding the full costs of inaction—including those of mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage—highlights the urgent need for climate action.
Swift action is crucial if we are to minimise the long-term effects of climate change and ensure a sustainable and resilient future for all. Together we'll discuss the risks for organisations, the barriers to action, opportunities and how to build climate resilience as pressure mounts.
- Andrea Castoldi - Managing Director and Partner, BCG
- Caroline Oosterloo - Former Chief Risk Officer, ABN AMRO
- Nick Talbot - Head of Climate Risk, Natwest Group
- Ludivine Labarre - Group Deputy Chief Risk Officer, Société Générale
- Lucy Shenton - Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
Challenges, opportunities and emerging risks insurers need to be aware of
- Russel Goldstein - Chief Risk Officer, Darta Saving Life Insurance
- Kirsty Leece - Group Chief Risk Officer, Vitality
- Lukas Ziewer - Former Group Chief Risk Officer, Athora Holding Ltd
How can insurance companies create long-term value in today’s world? Re-evaluating investment opportunities, risk prevention strategies, modernising and staying relevant in a multi-crisis environment and an increasingly competitive marketplace
- Lin Qu - Director, Linvestment Management
- Aurore Lecanon - Chief Risk Officer, Ageas UK
- Thabile Nyaba - Chief Risk and Sustainability Officer of OMI and Past President, IRMSA
- Chris Knight - Group Chief Risk Officer, Legal & General
- Giles Fairhead - Chief Risk Officer, Pension Insurance Corporation
(DORA, EU AI Act)
- Thomas Poppensieker - Senior Partner, Mckinsey & Company
- Lucy Shenton - Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
Use cases, regulation and supervisory topics
- Matthias Fahrenwaldt - IT Policy and Supervision, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
- David Buckham - Founder and CEO, Monocle
Perspectives from the US, UK, and the EU
- James Shipton - Senior Fellow, Melbourne University
- Kevin Walsh - Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management & Market Risk Policy, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
In this presentation, we'll dive into the latest strategic themes in cybersecurity, explore the evolving threat and regulatory landscape, and discuss the urgent shift from reactive to proactive risk management.
- Philippe Korur - Director, Managed Cyber Risk Lead, PwC
- Christian Arndt - Cyber Strategy & Advisory Lead, PwC
The Format for Incident Reporting Exchange (FIRE) as a way to converge reporting to regulators and in firms’ supply chain
- Hans Sassen - Member of the Secretariat, Financial Stability Board
- Coen ter Wal - Director Technology & Operations, AMFE
- Renu Ann Joseph - Founder & CEO, Luminant Analytics
Are we driving the wrong behaviours for the wrong reasons?
Balancing regulation with business incentive.
- Victoria Collins - Global Head of Climate Risk & ESG, Nomura
- Adam Ennamli - Chief Risk Officer, General Bank of Canada
- Frankie Phua - Managing Director, Head of Group Risk Management, UOB
- Laurence Bogni Bartholmé - Head of ESG Execution, HSBC Continental Europe
- Valérie Villafranca - Group Head of ESG Operational Transformation, Société Générale
- David Croker - Partner - Financial Services Sustainability Leader, PwC
- Elena Amirkhanova - Partner - Sustainability Practice, PwC
- Hassaan Khan - Senior Manager - Sustainability Practice, PwC
We’ll reflect on stage together with fellow CROs how Risk functions have evolved so far, what key drivers for change will be in the coming 5-10 years, the gaps to the current status and how the change should be managed.
- Anastasios Panagiotou - Managing Director & Partner, BCG
- Simone Auer - Group Chief Risk Officer, Talanx
- Gerardo Di Filippo - Head of Group Risk Management Processes and Operations, Generali
- Fabian Uffer - Group Chief Risk Officer, SCOR
- Christophe Vandeweghe - Chief Risk Officer, Ageas
- Brid Meaney - Group Chief Risk Officer, Phoenix
In the evolving landscape of Australia's banking and insurance sector, the effective management of non-financial risks and the fostering of a robust risk culture are crucial for long-term stability and trust. Reflecting on past regulatory reviews and industry practices, Peter will share his experiences and insights on integrating risk management into business management and promoting a culture of accountability in this key sector of Australia’s economy.
- Peter Taylor - Group Chief Risk Officer, IAG
Here the objective is to deliberate on how AI and Generative AI strategies are getting formed, translating from buzz to reality. How risk leaders are on the front foot with it, and ensuring 'risk' provides a competitive advantage. Speakers will be sharing their perspectives on Gen AI adoptions in governance, risk and compliance functions for insurers and reinsurers, along with how AI can enable continuous assurance
- Lukas Ziewer - Former Group Chief Risk Officer, Athora Holding Ltd
- Sean O'Neill - Consulting Partner, BFSI CRO Strategic Initiatives, Tata Consulting Services
- Gerardo Di Filippo - Head of Group Risk Management Processes and Operations, Generali
- Dan Wong - Executive General Manager, Enterprise Risk, IAG Australia
As the deadline approaches, what conversations are being had? Where is Basel today and how are future reforms being built on as part of these international accords? Perspectives from banks and regulators alike.
- Lisa Galletta - Head of U.S. Prudential Risk, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA)
- David Philips - Head of Traded Risk Measurement, Bank of England
- Diana Iercosan - Principal Economist, Federal Reserve Board
- Fabio Perata - Head of Banking Supervision Division, European Central Bank
- Eduardo Epperlein - Managing Director, Global Head of Risk Methodology, Nomura International
Breaking down CCR regulation for banks and exploring the interlinkage of NBFIs activity with broader financial sector as we consider future trends and dynamics from risk management perspective
- Panayiotis Dionysopoulos - Head of Capital, ISDA
- Barbara Frohn - Managing Director, Head of UK, EU, Middle East & Africa Regulatory Strategy & Policy, Citi
- Toks Oyebode - Managing Director, JP Morgan
- Katherine Wolicki - Global Head of Engagement and Outreach, GARP
- Fabrizio Anfuso - Senior Technical Specialist, Prudential Regulation Authority
How are cyber criminals using technology for fraud and financial crime? What are institutions doing to address this?
- Howard Rawstron - Head of Economic Crime Risk Management Framework Team, Lloyds Banking Group
- Tracey McDermott - Group Head, Conduct, Financial Crime, Standard Chartered
A lesson in technology resilience
- We give an overview of the challenges, pitfalls, and solutions of using LLMs for highly specialized financial tasks
- To achieve the necessary financial expertise, we show how LLMs can be finetuned using state of the art Parameter Efficient Finetuning (PEF) methods such as LoRA and QLoRA
- We discuss the three types of data necessary for successful applications of LLMs in finance
- On three practical use cases (sentiment of financial news, ESG information extraction and the analysis of analyst calls), we show how finetuned LLMs perform compared to foundational models
- Svetlana Borovkova - Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
What are the risks and opportunities?
- Daniel Mikkelsen - Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Mark Azoulay - Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Anne-Sophie Castelnau - Global Head of Sustainability, ING
- Gianluca Cantalupi - Firmwide Risk Executive and Head of Climate, Nature, and Social Risk, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Dominic Tillyard - Director - Climate Risk Advisory, Aon
What transformative changes are required now?
- Jo Paisley - President, GARP Risk Institute
- Jimena Alvarez - Lead, Greening Finance for Nature - Global Finance & Economy Group, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
- Thomas Viegas - Nature Strategy Lead, Aviva
- Sharon Brooks - Head of Nature Economy, UNEP-WCMC
Risk managers are integrating climate scenarios in their enterprise risk framework. They need precision and granularity to optimize investments
- Paolo Laureti - Product Manager, Insurance, SS&C Algorithmics
- Stefano Battiston - Professor, University of Zurich
How are we measuring value whilst mitigating risk?
- Susana Morato Grice - Director of Enterprise Risk, Just Group
- Manish Dureja - Vice President and Risk SME, EXL
- Klaus Düllmann - Head of Strategic Risk and Analytics Division, European Central Bank
- Nidhi Agarwal - Chief Model Risk Officer, Virgin Money
- Odile Hounkpatin - Head of Model Validation, Santander
Exploring the intersection of regulatory challenges, risk management, and technology in today's financial environment:
- Addressing the surge in calculation complexity and costs amid rising interest rates, volatility, and credit spreads.
- Integrating advanced technology to streamline market and counterparty risk measurement on an intra-day basis.
- How scalability on the cloud is addressing the complexities around the FRTB framework covering market risk and CVA capital.
- How AD greeks allow for quick, effective what-if calculations to understand the cost of trading.
- Andrea Allegra - VP, Financial Engineering, Numerix
How does global regulation on digital assets differ across different regions? How can global businesses balance and manage these differences as part of the wider regulatory risk management strategy?
- Theodora Lau - Founder, Unconventional Ventures
- Eric Schaanning - Group Head of Market and Valuation Risk Management, Nordea
- Muhammad Sajid Iqbal - Head of Market, Liquidity & Wealth Management Risks and Model Risk Management, Habib Bank AG Zurich
- Periklis Thivaios - Adjunct Professor, University of Nicosia
- Regulation v Supervision
- Concentration risk
- Stress testing
- FinTech
- Key risks
- Martha Cummings - Independent Director, Marqeta, Inc. amongst other organisations
- Kevin Walsh - Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management & Market Risk Policy, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Jeroen Van Doorsselaere - VP, Global Product & Platform Management, GRC Finance Risk & Reporting, Wolters Kluwer
- Adam Ennamli - Chief Risk Officer, General Bank of Canada
- Nicole Königstein - Chief AI Officer, Head of AI & Quant Research, quantmate
How are outsourcing and third-party risks being managed? Where does transparency and liability tie into this?
- Justin McCarthy - CEO, Professional Risk Managers' International Association Institute (PRMIA)
- Alisa Rusanoff - Head of Credit and Technology, Crescendo Asset Management
- Marcus Corry - Director, Technology & Operations, AFME
- Samikendra Ghosh - Group Third Party Risk Lead and Head Resilience Risk Oversight, HSBC
Breaking down the details into AI-driven investment strategies. Understanding the risks, uncertainty, and balancing innovation.
- Stefano Pasquali - Head of Investment AI Modelling & Research team, BlackRock
- Nadine Moore - Managing Director & Partner, BCG
The latest on governance expectations and embedding this into risk management
- Marcus Chromik - Former CRO, Commerzbank, Non Executive Director, Unicredit
- Maciej Lewandowski - Senior Risk Officer, Citi
- Sabine Dittrich - Head EU, Financial Regulation, Slaughter and May
- Isabelle Niño - Head of Credit and Operational Risk, British International Investment plc
- Ajay Gambir - Director of Systemic Risk Assessment, ASRA
What are the key drivers for investment? What are the hidden risks?
- Victoria Collins - Global Head of Climate Risk & ESG, Nomura
- Xiaomin Rong - CRO, Global Wealth and Retail Banking Business and GCNA Region, Standard Chartered
- Dr. Prince Adjei - Chief Executive Officer, DBG Guarantee
- Richard Lacaille - Former Global CIO, State Street
- Chelsea Wallace - Head, Global Sustainability Engagement and Disclosures, Standard Chartered Bank
What have been some of the pitfalls so far and where does the opportunity lie?
- Renu Ann Joseph - Founder & CEO, Luminant Analytics
- Lin Qu - Director, Linvestment Management
Primary insurers require the reinsurance giants to participate in their underwriting risks of meteorological and other catastrophic impacts to be able to address the market. The reinsurance market is currently heavily in favour of reinsurers both with respect to price and to underwriting terms. The catastrophe bonds market has printed substantial profits since the last serious meteorological event (which occurred September 2022).
Risk management rests on analysis of historic events (such as Miami 1926) and advanced simulation. A number of techniques and critical uncertainties around climate modelling and adverse weather modelling from first physical atmospheric principles as well as mathematical and computational bottlenecks will be investigated.
- Erik Vynckier - Board Member, Chair of the Investment Committee, Foresters Friendly Society and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
- Lucy Shenton - Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Periklis Thivaios - Adjunct Professor, University of Nicosia
- Bo Boisen - Chief Risk Officer, Nordea Denmark
Momentum: Makers & Builders is the first of a book series created by Bobbie Shrivastav and Dr. Renu Ann Joseph, two insurtech entrepreneurs, that profiles 10 stellar insurtech female entrepreneurs in North America & Europe. We believe this to be the world's first compilation of female insurtech founder stories - and an important step forward in changing the large, slow to change, but very important insurance industry and a shoutout to female tech entrepreneurs.
- Renu Ann Joseph - Founder & CEO, Luminant Analytics
- Vasiliki Basiou - Director - OpRisk Capital & Climate Risk, UBS
- Dan Nechita - Head of Cabinet for MEP, European Parliament