Pre-Summit Workshops:
October 5th, 2010

Time	Title/Description	Speakers
8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast and Workshop Registration
9:00 AM	Workshop A: Leveraging Your Compliance Program Toward Corporate Governance Gain an understanding of various paradigms around corporate governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Discuss the many challenges involved in aligning GRC within an organization. Join us for this practical workshop and identify: • how one company is working through challenges of aligning GRC; • resources available to help your company work through compliance challenges; and • various approaches for leveraging your existing compliance and risk management programs to improve corporate governance
9:00 AM	Workshop B: Practical Application of Leading Practices in Regulatory Compliance Today companies face the challenge of establishing a consistent set of processes, practices and systems that support external compliance and internal self-assessment. Join us for this workshop to identify leading practices that are being used by companies to create proactive programs that are sustainable and adaptable in the face of countless regulatory expectations and requirements across the physical and financial markets. Workshop attendees will gain an understanding of the key components of a compliance program as well as gain valuable insight regarding the regulatory compliance capability maturity of their own organizations. Some specific leading practices discussed include: • Risk Assessment Processes • Organizational Structure • Underlying Policies and Procedures • Control and Monitoring Mechanisms • IT Systems and Information Management
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM	Workshop C: Modern ERM The global financial crisis has revealed the need for a paradigm shift in risk management practices. There is now a greater perceived need for a risk management framework that focuses on the risks that matter rather than the minutiae that consume so much time, energy and resources. A viable ERM framework must be associated with tangible business objectives. However, common practices in ERM currently represent a mix of disparate, silo-based tasks designed primarily to comply with regulatory, rating agency and/or audit requirements. These tasks generally include traditional RCSA, the tracking of open audit issues and key risk indicators, process mapping, collecting loss data and measuring risk capital. In recent years, a new approach to managing enterprise risk has been introduced. This new approach is called Modern ERM. Modern ERM is a top-down approach, which focuses first on the major risks within a comprehensive and mutually exclusive risk architecture and drills down only in those risk areas where more granularity is required. This holistic and systematic approach allows practitioners to triage the risk management process. Because it is significantly less resource-intensive, it avoids focusing management attention and resources on immaterial risks. A key feature of Modern ERM is that it creates a structured and transparent process for factoring risk into the business decision-making process at both a tactical and strategic level. Specifically, it provides managers, senior managers and C level executives the tools and information they need to optimize risk-reward, risk-control and risk-transfer in the context of cost-benefit analysis. Implementing Modern ERM is fast becoming a strategic imperative for every major corporation and its stakeholders. This workshop will cover the key issues in ERM, the pros and cons of Traditional vs. Modern ERM and how to implement a Modern ERM program.	Ali Samad-Khan, President, Stamford Risk Analytics Bill Boerum, EVP - Sales & Marketing, Stamford Risk Analytics
1:00 PM	Workshop D: Bullet Proof BCM Business Continuity Management (BCM) encompasses the sum total of management plans and actions designed to keep a business going even in the event of extraordinary changes taking place in the business environment. For example, what do you do if your credit card checking system crashes? What do you do in the event of fire or natural disaster? The companies that can best predict what can go wrong and set up plans and polices that adequately address them are best positioned to maximize profit and continue growing their business. They will also safely ward off the impact of certain events which normally could cause their business from going under. This workshop will guide you through the crucial elements of a BCM plan such as: Insurance issues, reacting to interruptions and responding to a full spectrum of events that are outside of your organization such as natural disasters and economic downturns. You will learn how to: • Anticipate business risks that could impact your company’s ability to meet financial responsibilities • Quantify financial impact of sudden operational disruptions • Define roles and responsibilities of an emergency situation • Develop recover and restoration strategies in the event of severe disruption • Address both technical and business needs from performance and capacity to security and records management.
4:15PM	Workshop Adjourn