Privacy & Information Security Round Table

For privacy officers, data officers and operational risk managers to discuss the impact of the GDPR, California Privacy law, pending India “GDPR” bill and related risk matters.

For pricing and registration, contact Sylwia Czajkowska at sczajkowska@rmahq.org.

Culture and Conduct Round Table

For the senior risk leaders to discuss frameworks for managing culture, conduct violations, conduct risk, and link to reputation.

For pricing and registration, contact Stacy Germano at sgermano@rmahq.org.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies Round Table

For senior executives responsible for the risk management of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies including BSA/AML, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory considerations.

For pricing and registration, contact Stacy Germano at sgermano@rmahq.org.

Incentive Compensation Round Table

For executives responsible for compensation and performance management. Discussions will focus on framework for managing incentive compensation, pool adjustments, and data gathering and score-carding.

For pricing and registration, contact Bernie Mason at bmason@rmahq.org.

Registration & Reception

Avoid the lines on Wednesday morning; pick up your conference materials and enjoy a refreshment compliments of SAI Global.

Registration & Breakfast

Welcome & Introductions

Opening Address

Spyro Karetsos, Chief Risk Officer, TD Ameritrade

Keynote Address

Edward P. Schreiber, Chief Risk Officer, Zions Bancorporation

Break

Break Out Sessions 

1. Risk Appetite
   Risk tolerance; risk target; risk limits; communication throughout the organization.
   Kevin Storm, EVP & Deputy Chief Risk Officer, BB&T

2. Insurance as a Risk Management Tool
   Erin Amerlan, SVP, Operational Risk & Insurance, Charles Schwab

3. Culture and Escalation
   Developing a framework for an ethical culture and providing tools on “the art of effective escalation"
   David H. Wright, SVP & Director, Regulatory Services & Risk Governance, U.S. Bank

4. The Why, How, and What of Effective Risk Reports
   Increases in corporate scandals across industries have signaled a need for effective risk management. Because of this, boards of directors are calling on risk professionals to show them where their companies stand. The challenge for practitioners is analyzing data across functions and levels, while portraying one comprehensive picture of risk. Join us to get answers on the most critical questions on risk analysis and reporting, and get current case studies and examples you can use in your next presentation.

   Learning Objectives:

• The Why: Discuss increased pressures for today’s risk and governance professionals in a changing regulatory environment, and the role risk management plays in supporting the board’s objectives.
• The How: Share how to align operational activities with the strategic goals they impact in order to connect data from across the enterprise and deliver a meaningful picture of risk to the Board.
• The What: Outline actionable steps to collect and integrate information across departments and adopt the common characteristics of today’s most successful risk presentations and dashboards.

    Steven Minsky, CEO, LogicManager

Break Out Sessions 

1. Effective Challenge: Risk Culture and Use Test
   Michael Abriatis, EVP, Chief Operational Risk Officer, PNC

2. TBD

3. People Risk? What you need to know to take a strategic approach to understand, measure, and mitigate this risk type for your organization.
   People are touted as a company’s greatest asset; however people can also create significant risk for the organization if not understood, managed, and measured.  This session will provide a different way of thinking about people risk through culture, conduct, and the full employee lifecycle. 
   Jennifer Aydelott, SVP, HR Control Executive, Wells Fargo

4. Risk Appetite and KRIs at the Business Unit Level
   Monitoring and tracking the drivers of risk in daily business unit operations.
   Krissy Blackwood, Senior Director, CapitalOne

Lunch

Keynote Address

Dean Yoost, author “Illuminating Data in the Boardroom” and Member of the Board of Directors MUFG Union Bank and Pacific Life Insurance Company

Break Out Sessions 

1. How to Defraud a Company in Three Easy Steps
   Kevin Sasser realized there was a problem in his company’s third-party risk management program just as soon as the FBI called him. With the increasing scrutiny on third-party vendor relationships, could you organization survive the fraudsters’ “three-step plan”?  Come hear Kevin’s first-hand account of how a fraudster defeated his team’s internal safeguards, created thousands in losses, and earned Kevin an invitation to the witness stand. In addition, here the latest in industry trends, common mistakes, and what you can do to protect your organization.
   Kevin Sasser, Director of Sales and Strategic Initiatives, Argos Risk

2. Operational Risk Loss Events
   Internal versus external; identifying potential risk exposures; establishing action plans; root cause analysis.
   Melinda L. (Mindy) Ball, Chief Operational Risk Officer, The Huntington National Bank

3. Reputation Risk
   While culture and conduct are important considerations, each risk discipline must be positioned to safeguard and enhance reputation; if institutions do not pay attention to these inputs the end result is the assumption of operational risk.
   Joe Iraci, Head of Financial Risk Management, TD Ameritrade

4. Payment System Risk
   Considerations associated with managing, monitoring, assessing and governing the risk of payment systems from all channels (mobile, online, in person).
   Mark Williams, Chief Operational Risk Officer, Zions Bancorporation

Break Out Sessions 

1. Privacy Update
   The impact of the GDPR and other privacy legislation.
   Mark Schreiber, Esq., Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP

2. The Evolution of the RCSA: A Case Study
   Alan Freeman, Director, Operational Risk Management, Discover

3. Managing Reputation: Establishing a Framework and Implementing Tools to Manage Reputational Consequences
   Mike Finlay, Chief Executive Officer, RiskBusiness

4. LIBOR Risk Management
   What could go wrong? A discussion of program readiness; customer impact risks and considerations; Impact assessment – how and where does LIBOR affect your business activities; contract management; operational risk – LIBOR impact to systems, operations, and models; and Accounting change considerations.
   Mark A. Twerdok, Partner, KPMG LLP, and Khuram Babar, Director, KPMG LLP

Break

Emerging Risk Panel

Moderator: Phil Bray, Principal, KPMG; Michael Abriatis EVP, Chief Operational Risk Officer PNC; Joe Iraci Head of Financial Risk Management TD Ameritrade; Janet Lerch, Chief Operational Risk Officer, US Bank; Mark Weintraub, Chief Operational Risk Officer, Wells Fargo

Networking Reception

Keynote: LIBOR Replacement – The Countdown Begins

Alice Wang, Managing Director, Global Head of CIB Operational Risk, JPMorgan Chase

Keynote: Cybersecurity – Lessons Learned from the Department of Defense

Katie C. Stewart, Senior Member, of the CERT® Division at the Software Engineering Institute, a unit of Carnegie Mellon University

Break

Break Out Sessions

1. E2E Process Risk Assessment – Challenges & Innovations
   KPMG

2. The Risk Management Implications of M&A Transactions
   Michael Glotz, Chief Executive Officer, Strategic Risk Associates

3. The Role of Operational Risk in New Product Development
   Christopher Nestore, SVP and Head of Operational Risk Management, TD Bank

4. An Overview of Machine Learning & AI
   What it does and what it doesn’t do, how it can be useful for a risk organization, and the chain of events for a successful project.
   Chuck Fannin, CFA, Sr. Quantitative Risk Analyst, Modeling & Exposure Management, TD Ameritrade

Break Out Sessions

1. Third Party/Vendor Risk Management
   Inventory of all vendors, risks and controls; risk acceptance and escalation; treatment of evergreen contracts.
   Emily Nachlas, Executive Vice President, Director of Enterprise Risk Management, Iberia Bank

2. Proactive Management of Non-Financial Risks
   Billy K. Murray, Global Risk Management, Director, US Non-Financial Risk, BBVA Compass

3. Agile Risk Management
   How to innovate in the risk space.
   Philippa Girling, SVP, Chief Risk Officer, Investors Bank

4. Machine Learning and Model Risk Management
   How do institutions balance the ability to exploit technological advances which may lead to strategic advantages, without sacrificing strong risk governance and control?
   Eric Holmquist, Managing Principal, Capco

Lunch Keynote: Marijuana Policy and the Banking Industry

Aaron Klein, Fellow, Economic Studies & Policy Director, Center on Regulation and Markets, Brookings Institute

Break Out Sessions

1. Linkage between Cyber Risk, BCP and Third Party/Vendor Risk Management
   Mary Kapferer, Chief Enterprise & Operational Risk Officer, KeyBank

2. CFPB Update
   Fair lending data analysis methodology; AI/ML - impact on fair lending monitoring and analytics; and New HMDA data, impacts on analysis.
   Bryce Stephens, Section Chief, Office of Research, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

3. Where is Blockchain headed?
   A discussion of developments including being able to run blockchain on premises and the interoperability of different blockchains (where the core may not be technology but the particular blockchain governance agreements) with the promise of transfer/exchange of assets across blockchains.
   Jonathan Rosenoer, Blockchain Strategic Partnership Leader, IBM

4. Operational Risk Management: A Business Line Perspective
   David Diehl, SVP, Corporate & Institutional Bank Risk Manager, PNC

Break Out Sessions

1. How to Best Manage Nonfinancial Risk Across the Organization
   Risk management must be a core competency of all firms. Nonfinancial risks (operational risk, cyber risk and regulatory change management) are of growing importance but still not fully developed at many organizations today. This session will discuss the best practices for processes, tools and techniques for understanding non-financial risks, and the elements of risk management. By enabling trusted, aggregated and transparent risk data, we can make more informed, confident and effective business decisions. 
   Andrew Vesay, General Manager, US Operations, Iceberg Networks

2. TBD

3. TBD

4. TBD

Regulatory Panel

Nida Davis, Federal Reserve Board; Martin Henning, FDIC; Lazaro Barreiro, OCC