Name
Numbers that Persuade: The Case for Risk Quantification
Date & Time
Friday, October 9, 2026, 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Description

It’s tough to justify investment, influence strategy, and advise the board with qualitative heat maps. Risk quantification translates risk exposure into financial terms, which helps risk teams better compete for resources, optimize insurance strategies, and make a more compelling case for mitigation and resilience investment. Just as important, quantification helps risk professionals tell a clearer and more engaging story about risk, one that connects exposure to business impact, decision-making, and action.

This session will introduce core methodologies available to practitioners, including FAIR, Monte Carlo simulation, and scenario-based financial modeling, and explore how these approaches can be applied to real organizational exposures. It also will examine the critical connection between quantified risk insight and insurance program design, showing how modeled exposure can inform coverage decisions and help identify dangerous gaps before a loss event occurs.

Whether you are beginning to build a quantification capability or looking to mature an existing one, this session will provide practical and immediately applicable guidance for making risk more relevant, more understandable, and more actionable for executives and boards.

 

 

 

     

Michael Rasmussen
Track
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Insurable Risk