Three experienced ERM practitioners will share lessons and provide illustrative stories about bringing ERM to federal agencies. The panelists will discuss what they have learned through their many years of experience assisting multiple federal agencies to build ERM into the way they do business.

With the increase in funding resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as increased infrastructure appropriations, federal agencies are presented with more challenges than ever before to manage their increased grants portfolios while meeting their obligations under A-123. This interactive session will present participants with information designed to address risks presented by increases in funding (more…)

This session discusses strategies for recruiting and developing new risk managers in an everchanging federal landscape. The Office of Housing-Federal Housing Administration’s (Housing-FHA) Office of Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs (ORMRA) hosted an impactful four-month professional development rotation for a cohort of Office of Housing employees. The Compliance and Risk Officer from the Administrative Office (more…)

The pandemic and the associated risks experienced by Federal agencies exposed vulnerabilities for future major global events to influence the future risk landscape.  Emerging risks could have a significant impact on an agency’s ability to effectively and efficiently meet their mission.  This session discusses how agencies have built sustainable risk analysis using different types of (more…)

Discussion about how GAO’s High Risk List relates to ERM programs, using ERM and performance governance structures to address issues on the List, and working across agencies on multiagency risks.

As with other enterprise risks, effective cybersecurity risk management embeds when: senior management has well understood and prioritized the key cybersecurity risks for the organization, the cybersecurity team is focused on prevention and mitigation of these risks and employees are well informed and incentivized to sustain cybersecurity awareness. Unfortunately, the complexity and highly technical nature (more…)

A panel of CROs/heads of ERM discuss: Which skillsets they feel are important in effective ERM teams and in CROs, What they look for when interviewing ERM professionals, and What different backgrounds can bring to ERM (legal, accounting, performance, organizational dynamics, change management, etc.).

ERM integrating with strategy and performance.