Main Conference Day 2 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)
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Join a stunning guided run through the iconic cityscapes of London, taking in breathtaking views of the city skyline as dawn breaks over the capital.
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Location: Meet in the lobby of the InterContinental O2
Time: 7:00 AM, November 19 2025
Max 20 persons
- Anselmo Marmonti - Vice President, Pre-Sales for Banking Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions,, SAS
- Matteo Coppola - Managing Director and Senior Partner; Global Leader, Risk & Compliance, BCG
- Axel Weber - Former Chairman of UBS and Senior Advisor, BCG
- Amy Wierenga - Chief Risk Officer, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
- Aurelio Maccario - Group Chief Risk Officer, UniCredit
- Hannah Fry - Mathematician & Broadcaster, University of Cambridge
Strategies for vendor risk assessment, continuous monitoring, and managing concentration risk in critical service providers.
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
The Operational and Non-Financial Risk horizon is crowded with threats. This Boardroom Briefing session will offer the ORX view of the ONFR horizon and invite the views of participants. Join risk leaders in debating how the ONFR environment is changing and what this means for how we manage ONFR.
- Steve Lindo - Course Designer & Instructor, Financial Risk Management, Columbia University
Please note Limited space: First-come first-served!
Chatham House Rules
Room Peninsula East (Ground Floor)
Join us for an exclusive wellness session in Peninsula East. Rest, relax, recharge, and reset to absorb more in the upcoming sessions.
Model risk regulation is fragmenting globally, with divergent requirements across US, EU, UK, and APAC. How is this creating compliance complexity for global banks and what more should we be doing to improve transparency?
- Jonathan Taylor - Head of Quantitative Analysis and Model Risk Management, Bank of England
Validating vendor models, contractual protections, ongoing monitoring of external AI services, and managing concentration risk in AI providers
Keynote presentation on how disruption of the risk environment and the impact of AI are combining to push toward ONFR 2.0
Keynote panel discussion on the need and opportunity for the transformation of ONFR
Panel discussion on how to build enterprise scale AI risk management
- Steffie Schwillens - Global Head of Non-Financial Risk, ING
- Adrian Munday - Global Head of Operational, Technology and Cyber Risk, Standard Chartered Bank
- Shresti Bijou - Head of Operational Risk, Natwest Group
- Lorenzo Fantini - Managing Director & Senior Partner, The Boston Consulting Group
As risk functions move beyond AI pilots, the gap between expectation and reality is where the real lessons live. This panel brings together practitioners who have applied AI on recent cases to share a candid, practical view of what has genuinely delivered value, where it has fallen short, and what should be done differently.
Drawing on recent work, the panel will explore:
- The measurable impact AI has delivered on recent engagements
- What's made the difference between the successes and failures of AI adoption on cases, from the data and governance to the ways of working behind the wins
- Where it's fallen short, the pitfalls to avoid and the new risks AI introduces, along with the guardrails that are needed
Practical takeaways for risk leaders weighing where AI can add genuine value.
- Daniel Mikkelsen - Partner & Managing Director, Alix Partners
- John Kelly - Chief Risk Officer, AIB UK
- Vicki Vidler - Head of Operational Risk, Lloyd's
- Munib Ali - Partner, Alix Partners
What began as automation of repetitive tasks has rapidly evolved into AI acting as a senior quantitative analyst, capable of synthesizing complex data, providing portfolio insights, generating stress tests, and enabling forward-looking decision-making.
In this session, we will explore the evolution AI senior quantitative analyst, from early concept to scaled deployment, and how its underlying architecture, coupled with an expanding ecosystem of intelligent agents, is fundamentally transforming risk operations.
What began as automation of repetitive tasks has rapidly evolved into AI acting as a senior quantitative analyst, capable of synthesizing complex data, providing portfolio insights, generating stress tests, and enabling forward-looking decision-making.
In this session, we will explore the evolution AI senior quantitative analyst, from early concept to scaled deployment, and how its underlying architecture, coupled with an expanding ecosystem of intelligent agents, is fundamentally transforming risk operations.
- Curt Burmeister - Co-Head and CTO, SS&C Algorithmics
- Bernhard Gehra - Managing Director and Senior Partner, Regional Practice Area Leader Risk and Compliance North America, BCG
- Anna Issel - Chief Compliance Officer, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW)
- Anna Streuli - Head of CRO Office, Helaba Group
- Kirsty Hart - Global Head of Risk and Compliance, Archer
Sign up via the app, grab a plate of lunch 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.
Sign up via the app, grab a plate of lunch 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.
Sign up via the app, grab a plate of lunch 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.
Model risk regulation is fragmenting globally, with divergent requirements across US, EU, UK, and APAC. How is this creating compliance complexity for global banks?
- Sajid Iqbal - Head of Financial Risks and ICAAP, Habib Bank AG Zurich
Why operational risk needs more caution with AI
AI makes unstructured thinking effortless, and operational risk has always leaned on narrative. Left unchecked, rigour could be the first casualty.
Why structured loss-generation mechanisms matter even more
Only with an explicit loss-generation mechanism to push against can AI collect evidence and challenge assumptions in a systematic, continuous and auditable way.
Should the industry move towards AI model validation?
For operational risk — and beyond — will model validation eventually be taken over by robots?
- Patrick Naim - Founder, Elseware
- Olivier Vigneron - Chief Risk Officer, Barclays Bank PLC and Barclays Capital Securities Ltd
- Evan Sekeris - Senior Economist, Bank Policy Institute
Presentation on using AI to re-engineer core ONFR process with a focus on practical application to RCSA
Panel discussion on what a successful future data strategy for ONFR 2.0 will look like and deliver
Presentation on what a transformed ONFR 2.0 operating model will look like
Critical failure modes in algorithm-dependent banking operations
- Architecting trustworthy machine learning through lineage, auditability, and bias mitigation
- 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
- Why does AI in credit risk needs a credit brain
- Specialized AI vs. general-purpose LLMs for credit decisions: market direction, practical deployment learnings from 30+ banks, and what regulator-ready AI looks like in live credit risk deployments
- How governance, traceability and accountability are engineered into AI
- Raj Abrol - Co-Founder & CEO, Galytix
- Roshni Patel - Chief Growth Officer, Galytix
AI is not just another model risk challenge. It is a decision-risk accelerator.
This session will show how Decision-Centric Governance can help CROs, boards and control functions move from fragmented AI controls to accountable AI decision architecture.
- Wilhelm Koch - Managing Director, Global Head of Non-Financial Risk Management, DWS
- Why the industry needs a shared repository of quantum applications and best practices.
- Prioritising use cases based on business value, technical feasibility, and quantum readiness.
- Accelerating collaboration between financial institutions, technology providers, academia, and regulators.
- Sanja Hukovic - Group Director, Head of Model and AI Risk Management, London Stock Exchange
• To what extent, and how, can established MRM principles be applied to agentic AI and generative AI? Or are we quietly validating models nobody actually understands anymore?
• Your validation framework was built for models that sit still. Agentic AI doesn't.
• Periodic sign-off is a comfort blanket. By the time you review it, the model has already changed.
• The real question isn't whether MRM survives. It's whether your organization notices when it stops working.
• We're bringing insights straight from the source: ahead of RiskMinds, we're convening 15+ MRM leaders for a closed-door roundtable in London, and sharing what they really think on stage.
• EU AI Act enforcement won't wait for your governance model to catch up.
- Jos Gheerardyn - CEO, Yields.io
Panel discussion on what skills and capabilities a value adding ONFR 2.0 team will require and strategies to get there
Presentation on how to build a positive ONFR 2.0 brand focused on value
The gap between proof-of-concept success and operational deployment – what are we seeing in real time?
How Capitec sits above the global conduct frontier on fraud —and why the regulators converging on its standard cannot fully reach it
- Ismail Moola - Chief Risk Officer, Capitec
After a productive day of learning and collaboration, take a moment to relax and mingle with fellow attendees. With panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, Clipper Bar offers the most breathtaking views of the Canary Wharf skyline and the River Thames.
Unwind with live jazz as you consolidate new and old friendships – let the music melt away a day of networking