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
- Barbara Roth - Chief Admin Officer, State Street
- Bert Verdoodt - Head of Compliance Large Corporates & Institutions and Sustainability, Danske Bank
- Carina Kozole - Chief Risk Officer, ING
- Vishal Oberoi - Group Head of Compliance, Nexi
Balancing regulatory expectations across both sides of the pond
Top tips across banking with use cases
Exclusive technology showcase
- Charlie Lewis - Partner, McKinsey & Company
How is this reframing the risk landscape? How are financial institutions unpacking digital complexity?
- Theodora Lau - Founder, Unconventional Ventures
- Hanna Sarraf - Chief Risk Officer, Monzo Europe
- Maxine Gee - Chief Risk Officer, London Stock Exchange
By 2026, boards will be expected to oversee AI as a core risk — alongside cyber, climate, and geopolitical shocks. Emerging markets offer a powerful preview of this future: rapid adoption, evolving infrastructure, and high-stakes resilience. Drawing on experiences from fintechs, telcos, and regulated financial services, this talk will highlight what global boards can learn from emerging markets as they govern AI, prepare for a more complex risk universe, and unlock immense opportunities for innovation and inclusion.
- Ramatoulaye Adama Diallo - Board Director & Operating Partner-Financial Services, Fintech, Telecoms & Digital Infrastructure, Former CEO, CFO & COO -ex Google, Orange, Etisalat
- Charlie Lewis - Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Rich Isenberg - Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Marta Szentkereszty - EMEA Executive, Global Climate and Environmental Risk Management, Bank of America
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
McKinsey’s latest research reveals a significant shift in what boards, CEOs, and other executives will demand from their risk function in the next 3–5 years. This calls for a fundamental reimagination of the role of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and the risk team to be more dynamic, forward-looking, and focused on the business's profitable growth priorities. This shift will affect every risk professional.
What will the Risk function of 2030 look like? How do we get there? What role will the next generation of agentic AI play in shaping this transformation, both for defense and offense
- 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?
- Barbara Frohn - Risk Regulation Expert, formerly IIF, FCA and Citi
- Prag Sharma - Global Head, Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AI CoE), Citi Innovation Labs
Delay, dilute and deviate?
- Panayiotis Dionysopoulos - Head of Capital, ISDA
- Eduardo Epperlein - Managing Director, Global Head of Risk Methodology, Nomura International
- Sara Saab - Head of Regulatory Interpretations, Wells Fargo
- Sviatlana Phelan - Chief Counsel, Regulatory Affairs, PNC
- Derek Nesbitt - Technical Head of Division, Prudential Policy, Bank of England
- Alexandra Gebauer - Head of Division International Policy, BAFIN
What opportunities lie ahead that firms can leverage?
Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere, and actors seem to already increasingly use AI to enhance their offensive capabilities. There are qualified experts that state that AI would actually be of greater use for the ‘Blue Team’, but when you take a serious look there are relatively little successful implementations on the defensive side. It is time to boost cyber defence!
In this presentation we will look at:
Factors that inhibit application of AI in cybersecurity
How ING has set up a fit for purpose organisation for AI in cybersecurity
Two successful use cases in the fields of Identity and Access Management and detection of cyber-attacks in the SOC
How AI may also extend to security and risk reporting
- Tom-Martijn Roelofs - Global Head of Security Strategy and Data, ING
- Justin McCarthy - CEO, Professional Risk Managers' International Association Institute (PRMIA)
- Fox Ahmed - Global Head Cybersecurity and Technology Regulatory Risk, BNP Paribas
Why nature risk lags behind climate risk in terms of risk framework integration
Barriers to embedding nature risk, including conceptual complexity, data and metrics gaps, regulatory uncertainty
How can TNFD recommendations and disclosure requirements support with these barriers
Lessons from climate risk integration that can inform nature risk governance, data strategy, and cross-functional collaboration
- Jo Paisley - President, GARP Risk Institute
- Vasiliki Basiou - Climate Risk Specialist, .
- Nick Talbot - Head of Climate Risk, Natwest Group
- Nicola Ranger - Executive Director, Earth Capital Nexus & Professor in Practice, Natural Capital, Risk & Finance, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Thomas Viegas - Group Nature Lead, Aviva
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
- Russel Goldstein - Chief Risk Officer, Darta Saving Life Insurance
- Industry insights: Future of Risk & Compliance for insurers
- AI for Risk – Real-life examples
- What’s Next – Agentic Use Cases and Controls
- Stephen Gould - Partner and Insurance Sector Lead, Deloitte
Asset Managers face various systemic and idiosyncratic challenges which prompts the need to apply effective ex-ante risk management. As an industry, Asset Managers need to pay attention to these challenges and be willing to learn from each other to ensure resilience and enable relevance. Join this session to delve into how richer sets of data can help firms to learn and anticipate trends, to better address risks in an ex-ante manner, as well as help firms (be they active or passive in their investment disciplines), bootstrap their operational resilience and, thus, be more effective and efficient.
- Anh Tran - Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer, Allianz Asset Management
· Evolving Role of the CRO: The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is now a strategic navigator, guiding banks through uncertainty to embrace opportunities
· Geopolitical and Economic Challenges: Geopolitical fragmentation and economic volatility are the new normal, demanding a more agile and connected risk function
· Digital Transformation and Risk Management: Digital transformation without corresponding evolution in risk management can be potentially disastrous
- Arvind Sarin - Partner, Head of Finance, Risk, Compliance, KPMG in Germany
- Robert Smith - Partner and UK Head, Regulatory & Risk Advisory, KPMG in the UK
Use cases of deadline, implementation strategy since January 2025 – how are banks adjusting?
What is the current state of play?
In this session, ACTICO will showcase how Agentic AI can have a transformative impact on credit risk assessment in corporate and commercial lending. Agentic AI introduces autonomous, adaptive and explainable credit risk agents that can reduce operational risk and unlock new efficiencies.
Learning Objectives
Distinguish between past waves of AI innovation – from predictive analytics to the emergence of Agentic AI
Explore the five key attributes of credit risk agents
- Identify practical use cases in credit risk assessment where Agentic AI delivers measurable impact
- Christopher Hansert - Product Manager Credit Risk Solutions, ACTICO
Understanding critical differences in vendor risk assessment methodologies
- Jo Paisley - President, GARP Risk Institute
- Gregg Jones - Director, Risk & Capital, ISDA
- Agnieszka Trzcinska - Team Lead Economist, European Central Bank
- Sebastian Werner - Head of Climate Risk Scenario Design, Citi
- Jack McKeown - Director, Risk Advisory, Deloitte
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
- Gerardo Di Filippo - Head of Group Risk Management Processes and Operations, Generali
- Katherine Wolicki - Global Head of Engagement and Outreach, GARP
- Fabrizio Anfuso - Senior Technical Specialist, Bank of England
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
- Eduardo Epperlein - Managing Director, Global Head of Risk Methodology, Nomura International
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?
- Periklis Thivaios - Adjunct professor, University of Nicosia and True North Partners LLP
- Toks Oyebode - Managing Director, JP Morgan
- 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
Agentic AI represents the shift from static scripts to adaptive, autonomous systems capable of acting in complex environments. While agent-based systems existed before modern LLMs, their fusion with generative AI has greatly expanded their scale, enhanced their capabilities, and introduced new risks. What does readiness look like for organisations preparing to integrate agentic AI into their infrastructure? How can we ensure that critical data and systems remain protected? How do we maintain oversight and resilience without slowing down automation? And how can organisations govern and safeguard agentic AI to deploy it responsibly in high-stakes environments?
- Nicole Königstein - Chief Data Scientist and Head of AI & Quantitative Research, quantmate
How will the financial services industry redefine the mandate, increase capability and stakeholder engagement?
- Ian Wilson - Non-Executive Director, Board Advisor and Fintech Entrepreneur, Mentor & Investor, Kompasbank, Revolut and Darlington Building Society
- Elina Aartola-Mäkelä - Chief Risk Officer, Head of Risk & Compliance and member of the Group Management Team, S-Bank
- Financial penalties and market value impacts
- Consumer trust erosion metrics
- 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
- Marta Szentkereszty - EMEA Executive, Global Climate and Environmental Risk Management, Bank of America
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
- Gian Luca De Marchi - Chief Risk Officer, Unipol
- Building resilient talent pipelines for Insurance risk functions
- Attracting and retaining risk professionals in a competitive insurance landscape
- Thabile Nyaba - Former Chief Risk and Sustainability Officer of OMI and Past President, IRMSA
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