Governance, Risk & Compliance in a Riskier World

Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday, March 30 | Day 2 - Wednesday, March 31

Agenda topics, timing and speakers subject to change.

 
 
 

Day 1 - Tuesday, March 30

 

11:45 am – 12:00 pm Eastern

Opening Remarks

Speaker:

  • Steve Richard | Chair | Committee on Governance, Risk, & Compliance
 
 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern

New World, New Risks
Organizations are still absorbing the lessons they can learn from the 2020 pandemic response. After reacting to the crisis, 2021 is all about the steps that need to be taken to reassess and modify your risk management framework in a post-pandemic environment. This session will review changes being considered to governance and risk management in the coming year and the crucial difference between business continuity and business resiliency.

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1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Eastern

Cyber Threats and the Distributed Workforce
Shifting work patterns on a massive scale can have serious unanticipated implications for IT and cybersecurity. Companies need to ensure that the exchange of data between their offices and employees working from home is adequately protected and that home office IT set-ups do not become a gateway to new forms of cyber crime. Learn the approach and elements of a sound cyber security plan for your organization.

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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern

Managing Your Talent Risk
Talent management is the key to organization survival and differentiation, but it also brings on a unique set of risks. Everything from ensuring a robust and diverse pipeline of future leaders to managing skills shortages and protecting intellectual capital requires a focused approach. In this session participants with learn how to apply risk management techniques to the growing challenge of recruiting and retaining an exceptional workforce.

Speakers:

  • Sharon Aldenton | Manager of Talent Management | Bechtel Corporation 
  • Johnel Evans | Vice President, Inclusion & Diversity | Becton, Dickinson and Company
  • Tim Hird | Executive Vice President | Robert Half
 

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Eastern

Global Markets, Global Exposure
A global pandemic is rapidly upending the geopolitical landscape, causing companies that have a multinational footprint to rethink their long-held assumptions of the safety and security of different regions. Financial executives can use tools, such as ERM, to measure and managing their risk, but geopolitical fragmentation across trade and technology means that old ERM assumptions don’t apply. Join this session to learn how leading organizations are changing their long-held assumptions.

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Day 2 - Wednesday, March 31

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern

The Board’s Role in Managing Risk
How ready are directors to evaluate, communicate, and act on risks and how prepared is management in supporting the board on executing a risk management plan? Investors and regulators have called for boards to up their game in overseeing organizational risk culture. Learn how some leading boards are addressing this critical issue.

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1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Eastern

Stress Testing and Governance
Widely publicized control breakdowns at large public companies are resulting in boards being forced to re-examine their corporate governance and oversight. Reacting to demands from regulators and shareholders, directors are being held responsible for both the creation of appropriate governance structures and the insuring of the effectiveness of those governance structures. Boards are evolving from an approach of focusing primarily on “tone at the top" to one of instituting substantive checks and balances. Gain insight from senior executives with experience as designated testifying experts on governance and board issues to understand what to consider when implementing an effective stress testing program for risk management governance.

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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern

Compliance and Regulation Priorities for Leaders
The regulatory landscape is changing with a new administration and the regulatory expectations for establishing a comprehensive risk management program will change with it. From legislative regulatory reform initiatives to the frequency of examining FCPA regulations and related controls, leaders need to understand the changing environment. Join some of the leading compliance professionals to learn how their priorities are changing in 2021.

Speaker:

  • Shamoil Shipchandler | Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Risk and Regulatory Legal Group | Charles Schwab Corporation
 

3:05 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern

Risky Business: A Guide to Risk Scoring Across Security, Privacy, & Business Risks
Risk scoring across vendor management, breach notifications, DPIAs and other activities is imperative for compliance with many global privacy laws and security frameworks. Organizations routinely tailor their data protection and security activities based on the results of detailed risk assessments, but this leads to a myriad of questions. How do you calculate risk? What constitutes low, medium or high risk? How do you define a risk criteria? What’s the difference between inherent, current and residual risk? In this session, we’ll detail the importance of conducting risk assessments under global privacy laws like the GDPR and security frameworks such as ISO 27001, provide scenario-based approaches to risk assessment and give examples on how to tailor your approaches based on risk level.

Key takeaways:

  • Understand various approaches to conducting risk assessments.
  • Discover how to define a risk criteria and how to calculate risk level.
  • Learn how to tailor your privacy and security programs using a risk-based approach.

Speaker:

  • Dan Harms | Consulting Manager | OneTrust GRC
 
 

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Eastern

Is Your ESG Reporting Ready for Prime Time?
With investors and regulators around the world keenly focused on ESG disclosures, companies not only need to be more transparent about their ESG strategies, metrics, and governance, but they also need to ensure their disclosures are "Investment Grade." This session will cover:

  • describing an overview of current ESG developments
  • Explaining directors’ role in building robust ESG policies
  • Processes and controls, and oversight
  • Ensuring ESG reporting aligns with management's strategy for long term value creation
  • Adopting the generally accepted reporting standards and frameworks that are appropriate for stakeholders (e.g., SASB, TCFD, GRI)
  • Involving the finance organization and auditors to bring confidence and trust to disclosures
  • Using technology to automate the data gathering and consolidation process, including a demo of PwC’s ESG Pulse tool

Speakers:

  • Barbara BerlinManaging Director of Governance Insights Center | PwC
  • Sara DeSmithESG Assurance Leader, Partner in Digital, Assurance and Transparency | PwC
 
 
 

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