Main Conference Day 2 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
- Integrated decision-making for a customer centric approach
- Integrated Balance Sheet Management as source of business innovation
- Anselmo Marmonti - Vice President for Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions, SAS
The financial services industry is seeing generative AI emerge as a hot topic in boardroom discussions, thanks to its potential to transform and reinvent risk management. Senior risk leaders play a crucial role in navigating the risks associated with GenAI adoption while simultaneously leveraging this technology to accelerate Risk Transformation within their own functions. This panel will explore both sides of this agenda with practical insights and examples on where and how to safely unlock the power of AI.
- Leigh Bates - Partner, Financial Services Data Analytics Leader & UK Risk AI Leader, PwC
- Nassim Daneshzadeh - Partner, UK Head of Banking Risk, Controls & Regulation, PwC
- Emily Prince - Group Head of Analytics, LSEG
- Rohit Dhawan - Group Head of AI & MRM, Lloyds Banking Group
- Dara Sosulski - Group Head of AI & MRM, HSBC
Protecting the bank while supporting steering and growth in a time of uncertainty
What is key today in the CRO agenda? What role should the CRO play in the current environment? What future capabilities should be built?
- Matteo Coppola - Managing Director and Senior Partner; Global Leader, Risk & Compliance, BCG
- Stephane Landon - Group Chief Risk Officer, Société Générale
- Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder - Vice President and Group Chief Risk Officer , World Bank Group
- Sotaro Kato - Executive Officer Chief Risk Officer, Nomura Holdings, Inc.
- Axel Weber - Former Chairman of UBS, former President of Deutsche Bundesbank, President Center for Financial Studies and Senior Advisor, BCG
- Key factors driving change in the global financial sector
- The role of AI and Generative AI
- Compelling use cases of an integrated decisioning approach
- Anthony Mancuso - Director, Head of Risk Modeling and Development, SAS
- Rob Livingstone - Chief Credit Officer, Permanent TSB
- Mark Thundercliffe - Former CRO, HSBC & Virgin Money
- Being agile and responding to a changing work environment
- Tackling key “known unknowns” such as cyber and climate risks
- Bringing a risk lens to enhance strategic decision making
- Daniel Butler - Head of EMEA Financial Institutions Industry, Aon
- Davide Alfonsi - Group Chief Risk Officer, Intesa Sanpaolo
- Raminder Boparai - Chief Risk Officer, Capital Markets and Group Head of Financial & Enterprise Risk, London Stock Exchange Group
- Lisa Stevens - Chief Administrative Officer, Aon
- Jason Forrester - Co-Head, CRO CIB, Global Head, ERM & Deputy CRO, SC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt - Former Prime Minister of Denmark & Former CEO, Save the Children
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
- Katie Price - Former Governor HMPPS, Critical Incident & Risk Contingency Expert and Founder, Beyond the Black Swan Risk Solutions
Extended Q&A
- 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
Roma Agrawal, engineer, author and broadcaster, shares stories of innovation and risk from her experience as structural engineer on The Shard, and discusses the importance of human instinct and time in the workplace.
Please note Limited space: First-come first-served!
Chatham House Rules
- Roma Agrawal MBE - Structural Engineer, Author and Broadcaster, Roma the Engineer
Please note Limited space: First-come first-served!
Chatham House Rules
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
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 inaugural RiskMinds International poker champion is up for grabs!
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
- Kris Ramana - Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Marco Stella - Senior Partner & Head of Credit Risk competence line, Prometeia
- Secil Arslan - Associate Partner, Prometeia
What changes are we seeing? What adjustments are banks making during times on uncertainty?
What are the latest supervisory guidelines?
What challenges are there to overcome and what enhancements are being made to our model risk programmes in response to ongoing uncertainty?
- Thomas Groen - Head of Enterprise and Capital Risk, Barclays
- Nikolai Kukharkin - Head of Quantitative Risk Control, MUFG Bank Ltd
- Evan Sekeris - Chief Model Risk Officer, Capital One
- Carl Densem - Risk Manager, Financial Markets, RaboBank
- David Suetens - Independent Director, Bridge Building
- Nino Gordeladze - Former ERM Lead, Enterprise Risk Management Direction, Bank of Georgia
- Sarah Rickard - Head of Policy, Reputational & Sustainability Risk, HSBC Group
- John Scott - Head of Sustainability Risk, Zurich Insurance Group
- Imtiaz Hussain - Former Managing Director and Deputy Chief Auditor, BNY Mellon
- Javier Muñoz - Chief Compliance Officer, Santander CIB Europe
- Dorota Wojnar - Head of ESG Risks Unit, European Banking Authority
Access to capital, the road ahead and overcoming key challenges
- David Carlin - Founder, D.A. Carlin and Company LLC
- Natalia Dobrinskaya - Managing Director, Head of EMEA Model Risk Management, Goldman Sachs
- Alok Rustagi - Director, Data & Analytics, EXL EMEA
- Luke Pearce - Chief Data Officer, Santander
- Dheeraj Awasthy - Global Head of Analytics and Innovation, HSBC
- Jim Knight - Risk Platform Director, Lloyds Banking Group
Unpacking the changes we are already seeing and how risk managers are effectively monitoring usage
- Cécile Prinsen - Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Elias Tsoukatos - Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Martha Cummings - Independent Director, Marqeta, Inc. amongst other organisations
- Pedro Morales - Risk & Compliance Director, Google
- Hylton Van Zyl - Managing Director, Technology Partnership Development, Bank of America
- Mike Silva - Former Chief Compliance Officer for Americas, UBS
- Katharina Hefter - Global Lead for Compliance & Crisis Management, BCG
Raising scrutiny, cost pressures, innovation and upcoming threats
- Bernhard Gehra - Managing Director & Senior Partner, Global Non Financial Risk and Compliance Lead, BCG
- Graham Kent - Group Chief Compliance Officer, Deutsche Bank
- Iris Bujatti - Chief Compliance Officer, Erste Group
- Satnam Lehal - Former Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Danske Bank
What are the current requirements and expectations of Chief Compliance Officers?
What impact has this had on reporting lines and level of visibility across the business?
- Elena Elia - Assistant General Counsel, Financial Crimes, Wells Fargo
- Regina Gaffney - Head of Compliance, Ireland, Invesco
- Munis Haddadin - Chief Compliance Officer, Capital Bank
- Anna Streuli - Head of CRO Office (incoming), Helaba Group
GenAI is transforming the risk landscape for CROs. In this session, we demonstrate how robust AI validation can safeguard your business, with a live demo to bring it to life.
- Focus on Use Cases, Not Foundation Models: While foundation models are challenging to test directly, specific LLM patterns and use cases can be effectively evaluated.
- Evolve Testing Techniques: We leverage statistical methods, SMEs and our innovative LLM-as-a-judge approach to assess performance, bias, and robustness.
- Live Demo: We’ll showcase an LLM-as-a-judge tool in action, demonstrating how this method can build trust in AI.
- Chris Heys - Partner, Banking Modelling and GenAI Validation Lead, PwC
- Tim Chapman - Director, AI and Risk Modelling, PwC
- Alberto Micucci - Head of xVA & CCR Solutions, S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Luke Armstrong - Head of Buy Side Risk - Financial Risk Analytics, S&P Global Market
- Severine Melis-Cooper - Head of Financial Risk Analytics, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Designed to build the next generation of risk analysts using a suite of tools and processes based on techniques developed by the US intelligence services.
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.
Just for fun! Steve will also give away two signed copies of his book to two lucky winners
Sign up via the app, grab a plate of lunch before and join the discussions!
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
- Donna Murphy - Deputy Comptroller For Compliance Risk Policy and Acting Deputy Comptroller for the Office of Financial Technology, OCC
Here the objective is to deliberate on how AI and rapid access to critical data can allow organizations to push the boundary and enhance risk management outcomes for Chief Risk Officers and Risk Function. Speakers will be sharing the perspectives on leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Risk Analysis and Decision Making from perspective of Financial Institutions and will also share cross industry view point deliberating on Risk based performance management.
- Andrew Cross - Andrew Cross, Strategic Risk Advisor, BFSI CRO Strategic Initiatives, Tata Consultancy Services
- William Hahn - Consulting Partner, BFSI CRO Strategic Initiatives, Tata Consultancy Services
- Priyesh Khanna - Managing Director, Risk Transformation Strategy & Delivery, Barclays
- David Butcher - Global Head GRC, Data & AI, Investec
How can we organize adequately the 3 LOD to manage model risk without overlap or blindspots?
Let’s look at two new playfields :
Artificial intelligence models, gaining more and more usages, bringing new risks or reviving already existing ones ?
Basel Credit Risk models, with evolution of regulation (CRR3) and a more demanding ECB (4th line) ?
- Gilles Artaud - Head of Model Risk Audit, Crédit Agricole
- Eric Peter - Head of Group Model’s Audit, Societe Generale
How to design and deploy high precision, production grade models with Machine Learning and benefit from staggering execution speed?
- Cécile Auger - Head of Model Risk Management, Murex
Climate risk scenario analysis is a core tool that is being developed and used by financial institutions and regulators. To date, this has been primarily focused on measuring the long-term effects of climate risk on the banking book, but how do we measure climate risk in the short term given the unique challenges this presents, particularly when evaluating the impact from a trading book perspective ?
- Gregg Jones - Director, Risk & Capital, ISDA
- Richard Gray - Director, Regulatory Affairs, Institute of International Finance (IIF)
Join this session to explore how banks and asset managers can leverage science-based solutions, cutting-edge AI, and innovative tools to design financing mechanisms that drive the sustainable transformation of food systems in emerging markets. Investments in food and agriculture are often hampered by perceived risks in a sector highly exposed to climate change and a major contributor to emissions and biodiversity loss. However, with the integration of AI-powered risk management tools and well-crafted investment strategies, these challenges can be turned into opportunities. Learn how advanced risk assessment and strategic investment can pave the way for initiatives that strengthen food security and support the planet’s health.
- Godefroy Grosjean - Co-lead, CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance
- Diana Kapsa - Head Credit Methodology Retail, UBS
- Olmo Vázquez - Global CEO, Mirai RiskTech
- Carolina Thomaz - Chief Risk Officer, Itaú Private Bank Zurich
- Monica Borjas - Director of Business and Commercial Strategy, Dow Jones
- Tom Hardin - Ex-FBI informant and corporate trainer, Tipper X Advisors LLC
- Nora Ilmoni - Head of Compliance PC & BC, & Regulatory Engagement, Danske Bank
What are the risks?
- Rosamund de Sybel - Head of Geopolitical Risk, Financial Crime Compliance, ICBC Standard Bank
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
Increasing trend in use of models and need of independent assessment
Model Risk Assessment approach and key roles
Use case: Generating efficiency in Model Validation by mean of digitalization and GenAI
- Rita Gnutti - Executive Director Internal Validation and Controls, Group Chief Risk Officer Area, Intesa Sanpaolo
- Thomas Clifford - Partner, Nordics Financial & Regulatory Risk Lead, Deloitte
- Miles Elliott - Global partnering lead for Risk Management and Anti Financial Crime, SAS
- Frank Gerhard - Solution Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Cathryn Kelly - Head of Credit Strategy Group, MUFG EMEA
- Junichi Hiroma - Vice President of Risk Management, MUFG EMEA
Assessing key performance indicators and what risk managers need to act on
- David Suetens - Independent Director, Bridge Building
- David Suetens - Independent Director, Bridge Building
Improving transparency and accountability
- Sam Thomas - Barrister, 2 Bedford Row
- Donna Murphy - Deputy Comptroller For Compliance Risk Policy and Acting Deputy Comptroller for the Office of Financial Technology, OCC
- Jon Hill - Professor of Model Risk Management, Dept. of Financial Risk Engineering, NYU-Tandon
- Natalia Dobrinskaya - Managing Director, Head of EMEA Model Risk Management, Goldman Sachs
- Simona Fionda - Interim Non-Financial Risk Director, Aldermore Bank
- Munis Haddadin - Chief Compliance Officer, Capital Bank
- María Jose Rodríguez - Chief Risk Officer, Laboral Kutxa
- Julie Sherratt - Managing Director, Head of Business Governance and Portfolio Oversight, TD Asset Management
- Nino Gordeladze - Former ERM Lead, Enterprise Risk Management Direction, Bank of Georgia
How can we improve synergy and effectiveness between different risk types?
- Bonnie Frank - Managing Director and Head of Private Investment and Enterprise Risk, PSP Investments
- John Hammersley - Managing Director, Compliance Advisory, Santander
- Bri Hidalgo - EVP, Group Head of Compliance & Operational Risk, The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
This session will explore the mindset shift for leaders to transform risk into a strategic driver for innovation and performance accelerator, turning perceived limitations into opportunities.
- Tania Johannisson - Global leader in risk strategy & innovation, a seasoned executive, & the Founder & Managing Director, Amplific
Crucial capabilities that risk management functions should enhance to successfully mitigate future risk shocks.
- Evgueni Ivantsov - Chairman, European Risk Management Council
- Caspar Berry - Guest Decision Making Expert & Former Professional Poker Player, Poker Night Live, Sky Poker and Casino Royale
- Thomas Hougaard - Head of Markets ESG risk & FRTB, Nordea
- Karsten Stickelmann - Adviser, Internal Models Division, European Central Bank