Main Conference Day 1 - Leadership Forum - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
- Louis Theroux - Documentarian, Journalist, Author, Broadcaster and Host, The Louis Theroux Podcast
Chief risk officers today face an unprecedented convergence of systemic, interconnected risks that defy traditional risk management frameworks. How are CROs operating across multiple domains and staying on top of this ongoing threat landscape?
The real-time risk imperative and the collapse of traditional risk horizons – what do risk leaders need to be acting on now for real-time exposure management?
Exhibition - Play a few hands of poker dealt and hosted by former professional poker player (and poker advisor on Casino Royale), Caspar Berry who will give insight into the different things that poker can teach us about investing and life.
*No money will change hands but the pride of being the RiskMinds International 2026 poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
- Managing interest rate volatility, inflation pressures, and unpredictable central bank policy shifts in ALM decision-making
- Building adaptive balance sheet strategies to withstand geopolitical disruptions, market dislocations, and evolving customer behaviour patterns
- Stress testing and scenario planning
- Automated control testing & exception management
- Integration of CCM with enterprise GRC architecture
- Probabilistic risk modelling using factor analysis of information risk (FAIR)
- Integration of cyber value-at-risk (CVaR) with economic capital models
- Deep learning models for net interest margin (NIM) prediction and scenario analysis
- Reinforcement learning for optimal capital allocation and liquidity buffer calibration
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
- Anne Kleppe - Global Lead Responsible AI and Managing Director and Partner, BCG
Practical roadmap for CROs to establish climate data taxonomies, validate third-party climate models, and embed physical and transition risk scenarios into credit, market, and operational risk frameworks before regulatory deadlines hit.
What changes are we seeing across the industry and what does this mean for risk management?
- End-to-End data lineage and metadata management for AI model auditability
- Ethical AI frameworks and bias detection in credit risk and asset allocation models
Implementing hybrid VaR frameworks that combine variance-covariance approaches (delta-normal method) with historical simulation and Monte Carlo techniques
- Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and microsegmentation for hybrid cloud environments
- Homomorphic encryption and confidential computing for data sovereignty and privacy preservation
Play a few hands of poker dealt and hosted by former professional poker player (and poker advisor on Casino Royale), Caspar Berry who will give insight into the different things that poker can teach us about investing and life.
*No money will change hands but the pride of being the RiskMinds International 2026 poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
Keep an eye out for a sprinkle of magic while you network!
- Tom Elliot - Comedy Magician, Tom Elliot
Strategies for vendor risk assessment, continuous monitoring, and managing concentration risk in critical service providers
How are Chief Risk Officers protecting institutions from quantum threats, whilst harnessing for competitive advantage?
Innovative strategies for attracting and retaining top risk professionals. Addressing competitive talent markets, compensation benchmarking, employer value proposition development, and creating compelling career pathways in compliance and risk functions
Implementing computational frameworks that simulate heterogeneous agent interactions across interconnected financial networks—modelling counterparty exposure chains, funding liquidity spirals, and fire-sale externalities using graph theory algorithms
Multi-factor yield curve modelling with non-parallel shift analysis
Deploying econometric frameworks to detect and quantify wrong-way risk (WWR) where counterparty default probability increases with mark-to-market exposure
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
Play a few hands of poker dealt and hosted by former professional poker player (and poker advisor on Casino Royale), Caspar Berry who will give insight into the different things that poker can teach us about investing and life.
*No money will change hands but the pride of being the RiskMinds International 2026 poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
Keep an eye out for a sprinkle of magic while you network!
- Tom Elliot - Comedy Magician, Tom Elliot