Pre-conference Day: Summits & Workshops - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
Harmonization initiatives like AMLA and deregulation packages like the EU’s Omnibus on digital, sustainability or investment simplification are reshaping the regulatory and supervisory landscape. Financial institutions are facing increasing accountability across key areas, including financial crime, cyber risk, and the rapid expansion of private credit. At the same time, advances in AI are equipping CROs and CCOs with more predictive, scalable, and cost-efficient tools to manage these emerging risks. This panel discussion explores how leaders at leading institutions need to rethink their risk management and compliance approach, shifting toward AI-enabled, forward-looking models that strengthen controls while keeping pace with regulatory change and market evolution.
- Katharina Hefter - Managing Director and Partner; Global Compliance and Crisis Management Leader, BCG
- Barbara Roth - Chief Admin Officer, State Street
- Giuseppe Bresciani - Head of Group Compliance Governance, Methodologies & Assurance, Generali
- Carina Kozole - Chief Risk Officer, ING Netherlands
- Hans-Georg Beyer - Divisional Board Member, Group Credit Risk Management, Chief Credit Risk Officer Corporate Clients, Commerzbank
- Addressing cross-border regulatory divergence and its impact on risk management frameworks
- Strategies for maintaining compliance amid evolving supervisory expectations across EU jurisdictions
- Cecilia Gejke - Chief Risk Officer and Management Board member, MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.
Understanding global supervisory expectations for continuous stress testing frameworks and how CCAR, DFAST, and international standards are adapting to real-time risk assessment
Discussing the shifting geopolitical landscape and how this is reshaping asset management operations, supply chain restructuring and investment strategies
- Ann Roughead - Chair, Senior Independent Director, Non-Executive Director and former CEO, Senior Roles, JP Morgan, Citi, Columbia Threadneedle and LV=
- How liquidity management evolved from swing pricing and anti-dilution measures in traditional funds to the broader toolkit now emerging for private and semi-liquid markets
- Whether increasingly sophisticated liquidity management tools can truly address structural liquidity mismatches, or merely make them easier to manage
- Why the long-term success of semi-liquid investing may depend less on liquidity tools and more on accepting that some structures remain inherently semi-liquid
- Stefan Junglen - Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer, DWS Group
Concentrated positions in mega-cap tech stocks, specific sectors, or illiquid holdings create outsized risks, especially as passive investing and thematic strategies drive concentration
The gap between proof-of-concept success and operational deployment – what are we seeing in real time?
- Ratul Ahmed - Managing Director, Commerzbank
As regulators worldwide demand board-level accountability for algorithmic decisions, model failures, and AI-driven systemic risks, what are banks doing to transform board governance?
- Threat landscape for agentic AI systems
- Multi-agent system vulnerabilities
- Supply chain and third-party risks
Navigating insurance market withdrawal from geopolitically sensitive regions due to sanctions compliance, political violence escalation, and reinsurance capacity constraints
AI-driven vulnerabilities and opportunities in insurance
How are leading CROs keeping on top: Discussing strategic frameworks and best practices.
- Raphael Borrel - Chief Risk Officer, Generali
- Natasha Naidoo - Chief Risk Officer, Old Mutual
- João Santos - Managing Director, Risk Management, Fidelidade
- Gerardo Di Filippo - Head of Group Risk Management Processes and Operations, Generali
- Jacob Palmer - Managing Director and Partner, BCG
Addressing reporting modernisation initiatives, data lineage requirements, and leveraging common data models for efficiency
- Lessons learned from the first year of DORA enforcement
- Common supervisory findings and regulatory feedback
- Outstanding compliance gaps and remediation priorities
- Evolving expectations for third-party risk management
Quantifying the unquantifiable - Developing robust frameworks to measure and monitor concentration risk across cloud providers, payment processors, and critical service vendors—including methodologies for assessing systemic exposure, establishing concentration thresholds and risk appetite limits
Providing practical insights into how risk functions can identify the key risk drivers of private-market funds, which data sources are available, and how to engage effectively with portfolio management and investment risk teams.
- Anh Tran - Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer, Allianz Asset Management
Exploring the evolving regulatory expectations and moving beyond proof-of-concept to production-ready tokenised dealing models
Navigating the practical and ethical considerations of deploying AI in research automation, trading execution, client communications, and operational processes
- Stephan Höcht - Head of Risk, Assenagon Asset Management
- William Cooper - Former Head of Risk & Compliance, Novo Holdings
Integrated defense architecture combining detection, verification, and institutional resilience
- Consolidating multi-source risk data - the practical challenges
- Building a single, governed source of truth across the fund, with access controls, data quality checks, and reconciliation
- Looking ahead: agentic AI for natural-language data interaction and automated workflows
- Stéphane Rio - CEO & Founder, Opensee
• High reliance on models predicting the changing behavior of both customers and markets
• AI agents changing the way we can do our job and make and maintain models
• Model risk management tries to keep up within these developing environments
• Using AI to support model risk management
- Bart Rikkert - Risk Officer Model Risk & Validation, Aegon
The African Art of Turning Systemic Risk into Competitive Advantage.
In Africa, volatility is not an occasional disruption. It is often the operating environment.
Yet organisations continue to innovate, connect, insure, invest, serve customers and create value—often in conditions that would test even the most sophisticated risk frameworks.
Join African CROs for a provocative conversation that turns the traditional risk narrative on its head.
Because the future of risk belongs to those who are learning to dance with it.
- Thabile Nyaba - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Solarikin Advisory Solutions
- Denver Fortuin - Chief Risk Officer, Absa Financial Servcies
- Malebu Makgalemela Mogohloane - Group Executive: ERM, Forensics and Insurance, Telkom
What does it mean for your business and risk management?
- Martha Cummings - Former senior roles at the Federal Reserve, Wells Fargo, Santander and currently Independent Director, Marqeta and Senior Advisor, BCG
- Kevin Walsh - Former Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management & Market Risk Policy and Senior Advisor, BCG
Navigating the evolving liquidity regulatory landscape following recent banking sector stress, including proposed modifications to LCR outflow rates, enhanced intraday liquidity monitoring requirements, stricter contingency funding plan standards
- Nino Gordeladze - Independent Risk & Governance Advisor | Former CAE & Deputy CRO/ERM, BoG
Navigate heightened climate vulnerability in developing economies, data scarcity challenges, sovereign risk implications, and portfolio strategy for climate-exposed regions
- Nino Gordeladze - Independent Risk & Governance Advisor | Former CAE & Deputy CRO/ERM, BoG
- Isabelle Niño - Head of Credit and Operational Risk, British International Investment plc
- Sebastian Werner - Head of Climate Risk Scenario Design, Citi
Developing transition plans that balance climate ambition, risk management and stakeholder impacts, embedding just transition principles across the organisation and throughout the value chain, while strengthening client engagement and supporting long-term value creation
- Luca Bartolucci - Deputy Head Climate Change & ESG Risks competence line, Prometeia
As regulatory reporting becomes more complex, ISDA is building a Digital Regulatory Reporting AI platform that connects regulatory requirements, industry decisions and machine-executable DRR code. By combining an authoritative ISDA Knowledge Base, rule translation, CDM and DRR code generation and end-to-end traceability, the platform is designed to reduce implementation cost, improve consistency for members and give regulators greater transparency into how reporting obligations are interpreted and applied.
- David Shone - Director of Product- Data & Digital, ISDA
Critical failure modes in algorithm-dependent banking operations
In a market shaped by high volatility, regulatory change and increasingly interconnected risks, enterprise resilience is becoming a source of strategic advantage — not just a defensive risk-management capability. This session will explore how AI-enabled scenario intelligence can help insurers connect stress testing, Solvency II review requirements, ALM, SAA, capital optimization and portfolio construction within a single decision framework. We will discuss how integrated modeling across assets, liabilities, market and credit risk, climate and liquidity scenarios can support better balance-sheet steering, improved pension risk transfer analytics and more robust alternative asset modeling. Finally, we will show how high-performance computing and cloud-based risk platforms can turn complex scenario analysis into faster, more actionable decisions for CROs, CIOs and investment teams.
- Paolo Laureti - Director of Insurance Solutions, SS&C Algorithmics
Implementation strategies for consumer protection regulations, product governance, and demonstrating fair value across the customer lifecycle
- The role of internal models: Assess their value, viability and interaction with standardised approaches and the output floor
- Implementation in practice: Discuss the key challenges, strategic choices and lessons emerging as the framework is put into effect
- Preparing for ongoing evolution: Anticipate supervisory expectations, technical amendments and regulatory clarifications
- Panayiotis Dionysopoulos - Head of Capital, ISDA
- Derek Nesbitt - Technical Head of Division, Prudential Policy, Bank of England
- Amol Tandon - Global Head of FRTB, JP Morgan
- Orestis Nikou - Head of Prudential Policy and AML, Government & Public Affairs, Deustche Bank
- Sara Saab - Head of Regulatory Interpretations, Wells Fargo
When stable meets stress: managing stress scenarios for issuer, participant and observer banks
- Periklis Thivaios - Adjunct professor, University of Nicosia and True North Partners LLP
Strategic foresight on upcoming regulatory priorities, supervisory focus areas, and what senior risk leaders must anticipate
Exploring geographic risk assessments, property-level hazard mapping, collateral valuation adjustments, and concentration risk management for physical climate exposures
- Ajay Gambhir - Director of Systemic Risk Assessment, ASRA
Addressing divergent supervisory approaches across jurisdictions, scenario design requirements, portfolio impact quantification, and translating stress test results into actionable risk management
- Ramadurai Krishnan - CEO, Global Credit Data
- Arjun Mahalingam - Head of Risk, UNEP FI
Artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed financial crime capabilities, enabling fraudsters to operate at unprecedented scale and sophistication through synthetic identity fraud. What are banks to protect customers?
- Ian Wilson - Non-Executive Director, Board Advisor and Fintech Entrepreneur, Mentor & Investor, Kompasbank, Revolut and Darlington Building Society
- Pedro Morales - Program Management Director, Technical Risk Management, Google
Chief Risk Officers face a new category of risk: the inability to distinguish between human and machine actors.
As generative AI, deepfakes, and autonomous agents become increasingly sophisticated, attackers can use stolen identities purchased on the dark web to pass interviews, gain access to critical systems, and operate as trusted insiders. Armed with genuine documents, employment histories, and AI-generated video and voice capabilities, these actors can bypass traditional verification processes and exploit the very trust on which organizations depend.
At the same time, AI agents are beginning to interact with business processes, customers, and employees with growing levels of autonomy, creating new challenges around accountability, governance, fraud, and operational resilience.
Through real-world cases, dark web insights, and live demonstration, this session explores how the erosion of trust in digital identity is reshaping the risk landscape and why traditional controls may no longer be enough. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CROs can prepare for a future where verifying both who is acting and whether that actor is human may become one of the most critical risk controls in the organization.
Key takeaway: In the age of agentic AI, trust, identity, and accountability are emerging as some of the most important risks a CRO must manage.
- George Proorocu - IT OPS Chapter Lead – Cybersecurity & Fraud, ING Bank
- Solvency II standard model (2027) has recalibrated tranched SPV debt with most material changes in AAA ratings and in CLOs.
- How are Collateralised Loan Obligations structured and why opt for € CLOs over US$ CLOs?
- Private CLOs can deal with specific insurer issues.
- Standard model or internal model?
- Legal and document analysis Large Language Model support.
- Erik Vynckier - Board Member, Chair of the Investment Committee, Foresters Friendly Society and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
How are we overcoming this?
- Thabile Nyaba - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Solarikin Advisory Solutions
- Jessica Kutumela - Chief Risk Officer, Guardrisk Group
- Russel Goldstein - Chief Risk Officer, Darta Saving Life Insurance
- Malebu Makgalemela Mogohloane - Group Executive: ERM, Forensics and Insurance, Telkom
Grab a drink before and join the discussions!
A chance to get together and discuss a topic which offers delegates a chance to hear from and discuss key issues with specific VIP speakers in a more intimate setting.
Grab a drink before and join the discussions!
A chance to get together and discuss a topic which offers delegates a chance to hear from and discuss key issues with specific VIP speakers in a more intimate setting.
Grab a drink before and join the discussions!
A chance to get together and discuss a topic which offers delegates a chance to hear from and discuss key issues with specific VIP speakers in a more intimate setting.