Preconference Day: Summits & Workshops - 2025 Agenda - 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 2025 regulatory agenda? What can we expect for 2026 in a world shaped by rising geopolitical risks, economic uncertainty, and increasingly conflicting policy agendas?
How does the rise of a multipolar global landscape impact cross-border regulation—and what does growing fragmentation mean for supervisory alignment, risk strategies, and supply chains?
This panel brings together senior leaders to reflect on major developments and discuss how organizations are adapting their compliance frameworks amid volatility. What practical lessons have emerged, and what strategic shifts are needed to remain resilient in an increasingly fractured regulatory environment?
- Katharina Hefter - Managing Director and Partner; Global Compliance and Crisis Management Leader, BCG
- Patrick Montagner - Supervisory Board, European Central Bank
- Barbara Roth - Chief Admin Officer, State Street
- Bert Verdoodt - Head of Compliance Large Corporates & Institutions and Sustainability, Danske Bank
What are the expectations for the future of regulation? What are the impacts on banking and financial institutions? Will regulation adjust to the new realities as credit risk and supply chain disruptions evolve? What policies and changes can be expected?
Exclusive technology showcase
How is this reframing the risk landscape? How are financial institutions unpacking digital complexity?
- Hanna Sarraf - Chief Risk Officer, Monzo Europe
How are risk managers building cyber resilience through integrated security frameworks, preparing for the increasingly complex risk environment anticipated ahead?
How is risk management mitigating sophisticated state sponsored threats and digital warfare through advanced intelligence and proactive monitoring systems?
How is the industry implementing comprehensive third-party risk management frameworks including continuous monitoring protocols and contractual security requirements in addressing the growing challenge of supply chain vulnerabilities?
What does this mean for risk management?
- Investment priorities in climate transition and strategic capital deployment
- Portfolio construction approaches and forward-looking assessment frameworks
- Bowie Ko - Senior RI Researcher, Responsible Investing, Man Group
- Isabelle Niño - Head of Credit and Operational Risk, British International Investment plc
- Mapping the global patchwork of emerging climate and ESG disclosure requirements (TCFD, ISSB, SEC, CSRD)
- Building compliance systems that can adapt to rapidly evolving regulatory frameworks
- Developing strategies to address conflicting regional requirements and reporting standards
- Preparing for increased regulatory scrutiny and enforcement actions in ESG reporting
- Simona Viscardi - Partner, McKinsey & Company
Intensifying AI governance and digital regulations, consumer duty protection and ESG integration
How can insurance companies transform compliance challenges into strategic advantages?
What is the outlook on growth and inflation in an increasingly competitive marketplace?
- Raphael Borrel - Chief Risk Officer, Generali
Examining transformative pricing strategies, more efficient claims processing, higher accuracy in detecting fraudulent claims and overall customer experience transformation
- Thijs Woerden - Director General, European Central Bank
A regulatory milestone and pivotal framework for AI – Is this addressing the real risks?
How is the industry responding?
Delay, dilute and deviate?
- Panayiotis Dionysopoulos - Head of Capital, ISDA
What opportunities lie ahead that firms can leverage?
The dual nature of AI in the financial services industry
- Expanding risk frameworks to incorporate biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation
- Implementing TNFD recommendations and nature-related disclosure requirements
- Developing methodologies to assess dependencies and impacts on natural capital
- Vasiliki Basiou - Climate Risk Specialist, .
- Assess how firms are developing frameworks to assess social impacts of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Create stakeholder engagement approaches that address community concerns
- How are businesses implementing governance structures that balance climate objectives with social responsibility?
What do risk managers need to know?
Industry outlook for 2026
Tips on building a resilience-focused culture, investing in technology, creating a sound operational framework to strengthening your business
- Aurore Lecanon - Chief Risk Officer, Ageas UK
As cyber-attacks grow ever more sophisticated, how are companies building digital protection and avoiding exposure?
As global supply networks grow increasingly complex, how are insurers switching gears to keep on top of hidden risks?
Use cases of deadline, implementation strategy since January 2025 – how are banks adjusting?
What is the current state of play?
How the power outage that paralyzed Spain and Portugal's critical infrastructure, exposed vulnerabilities and deep flaws in even the most sophisticated business continuity plans
How can the industry learn from this and build on digital resilience to protect banking systems, payment networks, and financial operations in their organisations?
How is this being re-assessed?
- Gregg Jones - Director, Risk & Capital, ISDA
What developments are shaping how insurers optimise balance sheets
How should insurers design the analytics systems they use for management
What stress and scenario capabilities do insurers need in the future
How will automation and AI change analytics teams
- Lukas Ziewer - Senior Advisor, Fentics Technology
From stress-testing portfolios, to adapting underwriting strategies and engaging with policymakers, we’ll discuss how CROs of the largest insurers are strengthening resilience, aligning with evolving regulations, and ensuring adaptability in an increasingly volatile global landscape
- Jacob Palmer - Managing Director and Partner, BCG
- David Sansom - Chief Risk Officer, Lloyds
- Christophe Vandeweghe - Chief Risk Officer, Ageas
Balancing regulatory expectations across both sides of the pond
Top tips across banking with use cases
Basel III timelines keep shifting, creating additional challenges for banks as they navigate today’s global regulatory landscape and continue to seek to optimize capital. In this session, Fitch Solutions will address Basel III implementation differences and discuss strategies to optimize capital and the challenges ahead.
- Joo-Yung Lee - Managing Director, Fitch Ratings Research & Data, Fitch Solutions
- Andrew Shenton - Senior Director & Market Strategist, Fitch Solutions
Recent developments, considerations and decision-making processes
As tokenisation returns to the forefront, what are the regulatory considerations? How is regulation evolving to protect banking and asset management? What are the expectations from global governments?
- Jeroen Van Doorsselaere - VP, Global Product & Platform Management, GRC Finance Risk & Reporting, Wolters Kluwer
CROs face a rising threat: AI-powered employees who aren’t real. From deepfake candidates passing interviews to LLM-driven workers extracting internal data, attackers are using synthetic identities to breach trust, not just firewalls. This talk breaks down the new infiltration playbook—real cases, dark web tactics, and a live demo—to help risk leaders stay ahead of threats their models never saw coming
- George Proorocu - IT OPS Chapter Lead – Cybersecurity & Fraud, ING Bank
How are firms developing a strategic quantum readiness roadmap that balances immediate preparatory measures with long-term security architecture transformation?Examine how quantum computing capabilities are fundamentally altering encryption standards and creating new vulnerabilities - How do we ensure critical data remains protected?
How will the financial services industry redefine the mandate, increase capability and stakeholder engagement?
- Financial penalties and market value impacts
- Consumer trust erosion metrics
- Jo Paisley - Co-President, GARP Risk Institute
- Developing strategies to address data gaps and inconsistencies in ESG reporting
- Creating systems to manage the increasing volume and complexity of ESG data requirements
Mapping the evolving climate litigation risk landscape across jurisdictions
Risk managers today face new systemic threats, such as climate change and geopolitical instability, that materially impact liquidity, as well as market and credit exposures. Through practical and historical examples, this session illustrates how traditional siloed models falter under compound stresses. Modern platforms, on the other hand, combine stochastic simulations and forward‑looking scenario analysis over correlated financial risk factors, where emerging threats are estimated precisely. Attendees will learn how to shift from fragmented regulatory compliance toward actionable business insight.
- Paolo Laureti - Product Manager, Insurance, SS&C Algorithmics
- Building resilient talent pipelines for Insurance risk functions
- Attracting and retaining risk professionals in a competitive insurance landscape
Advancements in AI provide significant opportunities in transforming risk management and regulatory compliance. In this panel discussion, the panelists will deliberate on AI led high impact experience transformation in risk management, key considerations for moving from pilot to scaled execution, point of views on guardrails, model risk assurance and different operating models for industrialization of Gen AI and AI agents in insurance risk management
- Robert Chanon - Global Consulting Partner, Head of Insurance and AI, Tata Consultancy Services