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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

8:45 AM
- 9:25 AM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Join us at The Brewery to register for your pass, plan your sessions and network over breakfast.


9:30 AM
- 9:35 AM
Location: King George

Take your seats - Konnect Fest is about to begin.


9:35 AM
- 10:20 AM

10:20 AM
- 10:50 AM
Location: King George

Kick off Konnect Fest with Riskonnect CEO Jim Wetekamp as he shares an update on the evolving risk landscape and the role organisations must play in navigating it. In this opening keynote, Jim will reflect on the progress made across the Riskonnect community, highlight key trends shaping the future of risk, resilience, and compliance, and outline the company’s vision for helping customers stay ahead in an increasingly complex environment. Expect insights into where the market is heading, what it means for risk leaders, and how Riskonnect is continuing to innovate to support its customers’ success.


10:50 AM
- 11:15 AM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Enjoy a break and connect with your peers. Continue the conversation with fellow risk professionals, share insights from the day’s sessions, and stop by Solution Central to meet our sponsors and discover the latest solutions from Riskonnect


11:15 AM
- 11:55 AM
Location: Queen Vault

Gain exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s Resilience solutions. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features by product solution. Take advantage of this opportunity to directly contribute your ideas and suggestions to shape the future of resilience.


Location: James Watt

Gain exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s insurable risk solutions. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features by product solution. Take advantage of this opportunity to directly contribute your ideas and suggestions to shape the future of insurable risk management.


Location: King Vault

Gain exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s GRC solutions. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features by product solution. Take advantage of this opportunity to directly contribute your ideas and suggestions to shape the future of GRC.


12:00 PM
- 12:40 PM
Location: King Vault

AI is quickly moving from theory to practical application in risk management. Join this session to explore how organisations are beginning to integrate AI capabilities into their RMIS environments. We’ll look at real use cases, demonstrate how tools like Agentforce can support risk teams, and open the discussion to share experiences, opportunities, and challenges as AI becomes part of the future of risk management.


Location: Queen Vault

Resilience doesn’t have to be dry or complicated — it can be practical, relatable, and yes, even fun! In this interactive session, Aaron Dixon will show you how to take BIAs, BCPs, and best practice guidelines and turn them into something real teams actually understand and use.

You’ll explore simple ways to teach key skills, involve your people, and make resilience something everyone can relate to. Through hands-on exercises, relatable examples, and lively discussion, we’ll tackle the people side of resilience: how to communicate plans clearly, collaborate effectively, and turn everyday processes into real and usable resilience practices. Walk away with ideas you can apply immediately.


Location: James Watt

At the outset, Control Risks were working with risk data dispersed across over 50 spreadsheets, limiting their ability to draw out meaningful insights and a cohesive global perspective. This session will explore the practical steps they have taken to implement a centralised, user-friendly platform — from pre-loading risk data to demonstrate early value, to driving engagement and building internal advocates.

Hear how linking risks to strategic priorities is already shaping better conversations, clearer accountability, and more actionable insights. Attendees will gain key learnings on overcoming implementation hurdles, proving value quickly, and laying the foundations for long-term behavioural change and more efficient risk management.
 


12:40 PM
- 1:30 PM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Enjoy a break and connect with your peers. Continue the conversation with fellow risk professionals, share insights from the day’s sessions, and stop by Solution Central to meet our sponsors and discover the latest solutions from Riskonnect.


1:30 PM
- 2:10 PM
Location: King Vault

A dynamic, customer-led session highlighting real-world innovation in GRC, demonstrating how Somerset Bridge Group are simplifying risk and regulatory complexity, strengthening risk and compliance programmes, gaining clearer visibility, and driving more informed decision-making with Riskonnect.


Location: Queen Vault

Project risk management has never been more sophisticated. Yet the escalation and visibility of risk to PMOs and to Business leaders is often challenging.
In this session, we will explore
The moment project risk becomes a strategic priority  — recognising the signals early
The structural barriers most PMOs face — the framing, language, and relationship challenges that make upward communication difficult, regardless of how good the underlying analysis is
Translating delivery risk into business consequence — practical ways to connect project data to the outcomes that resonate with senior stakeholders
What's working in practice — patterns from PMOs that have found ways to bridge the gap between delivery reality and strategic decision-making 


Location: James Watt


Join us to discuss what the insurers and brokers are looking for your renewal value collection, the challenges and the benefits of an automated solution. This session will highlight the recently enhanced Renewal Value Collection solution and how that can help you strengthen your renewal outcomes.
 


2:15 PM
- 2:55 PM
Location: Queen Vault

When it comes to AI, many organisations face the same challenge: excitement at the opportunity, and paralysis about where to begin. In this session, Pinnacle Pet shares their real-world AI journey, from early uncertainty to building a structured, scalable AI governance framework.
The session explores how to start small with practical use cases, establish foundational policies, and evolve governance as adoption grows. It will also unpack the critical conversations required across the organisation, and how aligning stakeholders early accelerates progress.
Pinnacle Pet will demonstrate how clarity emerges through action, and how governance becomes more intuitive as maturity increases. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to adopt AI in their own organisations.
 


Location: King Vault

In this customer-led session, Suntory will share their GRC transformation journey as they move towards a connected, global approach to risk management. They will reflect on key implementation challenges, including defining clear scope and aligning stakeholders and partners along with focusing on the outcomes achieved. A key focus will be their success in shifting from a reactive to a more proactive, insight-driven risk culture and leveraging automation to drive engagement & compliance. 
Attendees will gain practical learning points on how to approach implementation effectively, drive engagement, and use connected risk data to enable more confident, strategic decision-making.
 


Location: James Watt

Cyber risk is no longer just a technical concern, it’s a financial exposure that demands cost efficient governance, clear stakeholder alignment, and defensible decision making. Join the session to explore how quantifying cyber risk transforms vague threats into measurable business impacts, enabling leaders to prioritise investments, justify budgets, and strengthen organisational resilience with confidence.


2:55 PM
- 3:30 PM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Enjoy a break and connect with your peers. Continue the conversation with fellow risk professionals, share insights from the day’s sessions, and stop by Solution Central to meet our sponsors and discover the latest solutions from Riskonnect.


3:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Location: King George

A forward-looking keynote exploring the rise of connected risk ecosystems. This session will examine how data, technology, and AI are shifting decision-making, enabling organisations to anticipate risk earlier, respond faster, and build stronger resilience across the enterprise.


4:00 PM
- 4:45 PM
Location: King George

The convergence of advanced generative AI applications, sophisticated cybersecurity threats, and persistent economic volatility continues to transform risk management strategies in 2026. Building on findings from Riskonnect's influential 2025 New Generation of Risk Report, this executive session examines how risk predictions have materialised and evolved over the past year. 

Our distinguished panel of senior risk leaders will analyse the practical implementation of AI governance frameworks, advanced cyber resilience strategies against increasingly sophisticated threats, supply chain restructuring impacts on operational resilience, shifting geopolitical dynamics and their implications for global business operations, practical climate risk assessment methodologies, integration of ESG considerations into enterprise risk management, and strategic resource allocation in an environment of continued economic uncertainty. 


4:45 PM
- 5:00 PM
Location: King George

Join us for final remarks before we present our customer awards


5:00 PM
- 9:00 PM

Join us for an evening of relaxed networking and celebration as Konnect Fest continues after the day’s sessions. Enjoy drinks and canapés while connecting with fellow attendees, speakers, and the Riskonnect team in a more informal setting. With entertainment and a few surprises planned throughout the evening, it’s the perfect opportunity to unwind, continue the conversation, and make new connections.


Wednesday, April 29, 2026

8:45 AM
- 9:25 AM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Welcome back to day 2 of Konnect Fest. Join us for a breakfast networking session.


9:30 AM
- 10:10 AM

10:10 AM
- 10:40 AM
Location: King George

Recent events have shown that our world continues to be shaped by global crises with long-term impacts. Resilience has moved from a risk topic to a Board-level imperative. For organisations, adapting strategies in real-time has become essential, both operationally and in securing the future.

Join Control Risks experts James Blaszkowski and Abigail Barrett as they examine the lessons organisations have learned under pressure, from failed assumptions to the actions of leaders who adapted fastest. The session will provide practical insights into decision making under uncertainty, planning for the unknown, and embedding resilience as a strategic advantage for long-term stability and success.
 


10:45 AM
- 11:25 AM
Location: James Watt

A customer-led session with PureCycle exploring how organisations are tackling real-world risk and compliance challenges, evolved their risk management journeys with Riskonnect Active Risk Manager (ARM), and realised meaningful and tangible results. Hear how they’ve simplified complex risk landscapes, improved visibility and decision-making, strengthened risk and governance programs, and delivered measurable organisational value.


Location: Queen Vault

Understand how organisations evolve from basic continuity planning to fully integrated operational resilience, supported by automation and real-time insights.


Location: King Vault

Critical sectors face increasing cyber and IT threats, with disruptions impacting operations, data, and public trust. Regulatory expectations — including NIS2, CER Directive, GDPR, and other frameworks — are pushing organisations to adopt structured, proactive approaches to safeguarding systems and services. This session examines how regulatory expectations are shaping the convergence of IT risk management and operational resilience. Drawing on high-profile incidents and regulatory actions as illustrative examples, it will explore why these requirements exist, the types of weaknesses regulators are seeking to address, and the operational and compliance ramifications when organisations fall short. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of what “good” looks like from a regulatory perspective, how cyber and IT risk ties into resilience outcomes, and why anticipation, coordination, and preparedness are now critical for protecting essential services.


11:25 AM
- 11:55 AM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Enjoy a break and connect with your peers. Continue the conversation with fellow risk professionals, share insights from the day’s sessions, and stop by Solution Central to meet our sponsors and discover the latest solutions from Riskonnect.


12:00 PM
- 12:40 PM
Location: Queen Vault

Join this interactive roundtable session designed to move beyond the hype and into the realities of AI in the RMIS space. This discussion-led session will bring together peers to openly explore the challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of AI.
Join us as we share experiences, exchange ideas, and uncover where AI is delivering real value today, and where barriers still exist.
 


Location: King Vault


A dynamic, customer-led session showcasing how JTC Group is transforming its approach to GRC. Discover how they are simplifying risk and regulatory complexity, strengthening compliance programmes, and gaining clearer visibility to support more informed decision-making with Riskonnect. The session will cover key challenges, implementation insights, early wins, and practical takeaways for organisations on a similar journey.
 
 


Location: James Watt

The common challenges that national and local government organisations face in relation to risk can be covered in 4 areas: understanding, resourcing, scaling and sustaining.
Poor levels of risk management maturity or understanding when faced with complex multiple demands.
The financial challenges to maintain essential outputs while investing for the future: people, training, and tooling.
Finding the optimum scale of risk management activity appropriate to the organisation.
Sustaining organisational focus upon risk management activity – why it matters.
Where and how can software providers help?
 


12:45 PM
- 1:25 PM
Location: King Vault

customer session


Location: Queen Vault

In a world of constant disruption, resilience depends on connection — between people, processes, and risk insight. In this session, Tom Teixeira, Partner at  Arthur D Little will share lessons on how organisations that communicate, collaborate, and think beyond silos are better equipped to leverage culture and digital environments to anticipate risk, respond decisively, and emerge stronger from challenges.


Location: James Watt

Many organisations invest heavily in risk and compliance technology—but at times struggle to clearly demonstrate the full value it can deliver. In this session, we’ll introduce Riskonnect’s Value Pathways approach: a practical framework for measuring maturity, identifying under-used capabilities, and linking system usage to real business outcomes. Learn how leading customers are moving beyond “go-live” to continuously prove ROI, prioritise improvements, and maximise the value of their Riskonnect investment.


1:25 PM
- 2:30 PM
Location: Queen Charlotte

Enjoy a break and connect with your peers. Continue the conversation with fellow risk professionals, share insights from the day’s sessions, and stop by Solution Central to meet our sponsors and discover the latest solutions from Riskonnect.


2:30 PM
- 3:00 PM
Location: James Watt

Location: Queen Vault

For resilience, risk, and compliance leaders at complex organizations, who struggle with fragmented tools, limited visibility, and increasing regulatory pressure, Riskonnect’s Criticality Assessment Tool provides an intelligent, configurable way to identify and prioritize the business processes and dependencies that matter most.
Riskonnect’s Criticality Assessment Tool combines transparent scoring and dependency-based analysis to deliver a clear, defensible view of criticality.
By connecting criticality insights across BIAs, plans, incidents, and enterprise risk, organizations prioritize efforts, accelerate program maturity, and confidently prove resilience to regulators and executives.
 


Location: King Vault

AI is rapidly moving from concept to practical application in governance, risk, and compliance. Join this session to explore how organisations are beginning to integrate AI capabilities into their GRC programmes. We’ll look at real use cases, demonstrate how tools like Agentforce can support risk and compliance teams, and open the discussion to share experiences, opportunities, and challenges as AI becomes an increasingly important part of modern GRC.


3:00 PM
- 3:30 PM
Location: King George

Artificial intelligence is transforming how organisations manage risk — from predictive analytics and automation to real-time monitoring and generative insights. But alongside opportunity comes new complexity.

This panel explores how AI is being applied across enterprise risk, compliance, cyber, and operational risk — and what it takes to govern it responsibly. Speakers will discuss where AI is delivering measurable value today, the emerging regulatory and ethical considerations, and how organisations can build trust through strong data, transparency, and oversight.

Join us to learn how to balance innovation with control and embed AI confidently across the risk universe.

 


3:30 PM
- 3:40 PM
Location: King George

3:45 PM
- 4:00 PM
Location: Queen Charlotte