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.

Gene Dodaro will provide an overview of the GAO High Risk List including recent changes and describe how ERM can help agencies with high risk issues. Learning objectives:  Provide an overview of the GAO High Risk List including recent changes. Describe how ERM can help agencies with high risk issues.

Speaker Daniella Datskovska, President-Elect, Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM)

Choose from three fun options: Group Storytelling: Travel Trick or Trivia Boo at the Zoo

Speakers Nicole Puri, President, AFERM

Systemic risks are all around us – we’re all still living through the cascading systemic failures of COVID. Recent systemic failures like Texas Energy, SolarWinds, and the Microsoft Exchange hack demonstrate how global connectivity and new technology innovations are introducing new systemic risks at a level and of types never seen before.  But few leaders fully (more…)

The human element is increasingly recognized as the biggest vulnerability in cybersecurity and the largest contributor to operational risk yet no risk frameworks effectively quantifies or assesses human factor risks. These findings are the subject of collaborative research with leading Ivy league universities and the Cognitive Risk Institute. This session goes beyond internal controls, audit (more…)