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Day One | June 9
Day Two| June 10
Main Agenda
Interactive Deep-Dive Sessions
Chair’s Opening Remarks
 | Lisa Kalscheur,Chief Marketing Officer,Weave.AI |
9:00 THIRD-PARTY RISK IN 2026: WHY TRADITIONAL TPRM MODELS ARE NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE – PANEL DISCUSSION
 | Michael Ciacciarelli,Head of Third Party Risk Management, Markets Group,Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
 | Kayla Davis,Vice President of the Enterprise Vendor Management Office,Keesler Federal Credit Union |
 | Alex Hammam-Howe,Head of Third Party Management Operations,SMBC |
 | Clarence Chio,CEO and Founder,Coverbase |
9:50 REGULATORY EXPECTATIONS: NAVIGATING SHIFTING TPRM APPROACHES IN THE US AND GLOBALLY
 | Philip Gledhill,Supervising Examiner, Operational Risk and Resilience,Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
 | Alongside the main conference, we will hosting deep-dive, practitioner-led sessions designed to move beyond presentations and into collaborative problem solving with peers facing the same challenges. |
10:25 Morning Refreshment Break and Networking
10:55 TPRM BY EXCEPTION: GOVERNING AI-ENABLED THIRD PARTIES IN A REGULATED ENVIRONMENT
 | Brian Shaw,VP, Head of North America,Certa |
11:30 CRITICAL THIRD PARTIES: POWER IMBALANCES WITH CRITICAL THIRD PARTIES– PANEL DISCUSSION
 | Trina Dubose,Executive Director, Head of Third Party Risk Audit,Morgan Stanley |
 | Amanda Sang,Director, Operational Risk and Analytics,Bank of Canada |
 | Rajat Bhatnagar,Head of Third Party Risk, BBVA |
 | Sandeep Bhide,VP Product Management,ProcessUnity |
12:20 Lunch Break and Networking Roundtables
Join small, topic-led discussions over lunch to exchange ideas, share experiences, and gain practical insights with peers. Key insights fed into the panel.
Performance Management – Turning Vendor Performance Into a Risk
 | Charmi Patel,Third Party Vendor Risk Manager,Columbia Bank New Jersey |
Vendor Risk vs Business Reality
When commercial pressure overrides risk discipline.
 | Chelsea Tieken,Business Strategy and Planning Director, TPRM Strategy and Initiatives,USAA |
| Clarence Chio,CEO and Founder,Coverbase |
Testing Resilience Business Reality: When Exit Is Not an option.
Designing resilience strategies for irreplaceable vendors
 | Megan Speranza,Vice President, Global Head of Resiliency Risk Management,American Express |
Exit Strategies That Don’t Work
Why most vendor substitution plans collapse under real stress.
| Trina Dubose,Executive Director, Head of Third Party Risk Audit, Morgan Stanley |
Will AI and Quantum Make your TPRM Programs Obsolete?
What to know, where to start
 | Brian Shaw,VP, North America, Certa |
Using AI for Mapping to Questionnaires
 | Ken Wolckenhauer,First Vice President, Vendor Management, Nordea Bank |
Stressed Exit Discussion
 | Wayne Scott,Global Regulatory Compliance Solutions Lead,Escode |
1:20 RANSOMWARE AND CYBERSECURITY: THIRD-PARTY CYBER INCIDENTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY – PANEL DISCUSSION
 | Anthony Muhammad,Director, Deputy Head of US Operational Risk Capital, Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis,Barclays |
 | Thomas Kartanowicz,CISO, Europe and Americas,Standard Chartered Bank |
 | Steve Thomas,Founder and CEO,HackNotice |
2:10 Consider how to assess vendor risk like a cybercriminal using an adversarial mindset
 | Mike Gall,Director of Sales Engineering,Black Kite |
2:45 WHEN AI GOVERNS AI: VALIDATION, OVERSIGHT AND THE “CHECK THE CHECKER” PROBLEM – PANEL DISCUSSION
 | Sabeena Ahmed Liconte,Head of Legal and Chief Compliance Officer,ICBC Standard Bank Group |
| Ken Wolckenhauer,First Vice President, Vendor Management, Nordea Bank |
 | Chetan Patel,Senior Director – CISO US & UK, Helaba |
Interactive Deep-Dive Session | Simulation Lab (Limited to 13 Delegates)
1:20 RESILIENCE UNDER STRESS: DESIGNING SEVERE BUT PLAUSIBLE THIRD-PARTY FAILURE SCENARIOS – SIMULATION LAB
A practitioner-led, closed-door simulation focused on how firms design and test severe-but-plausible third-party failure scenarios — not just document them.
Expect open, peer-to-peer exchange on:
- Designing joint testing exercises with critical vendors and key service providers
- Stress-testing shared infrastructure and cloud dependencies under realistic conditions
- Validating recovery timelines, fallback options, and manual workarounds
- Simulating disruption across extended ecosystems beyond Tier 1 dependencies
- Challenging assumptions that fail under real stress and identifying hidden vulnerabilities
Designed to move beyond frameworks into practical approaches you can take back and apply.
 | Megan Speranza,Vice President, Global Head of Resiliency Risk Management,American Express |
 | Olga Voytenko,Vice‑President, Corporate Operational Risk & Resilience | Chief Risk Officer – Corporate Functions,Sun Life |
3:35 Afternoon Refreshment Break and Networking
4:05 CONTINUOUS MONITORING: MOVING BEYOND SCORES, SIGNALS AND DASHBOARDS
| Trina Dubose,Executive Director, Head of Third Party Risk Audit,Morgan Stanley |
4:40 STRESSED EXIT PLANNING: ESCROW AS A KEY CONTROL
| Wayne Scott,Global Regulatory Compliance Solutions Lead,Escode |
5:10 Chair’s Closing Remarks
5:15 End of Day One and Networking Drinks Reception
Main Agenda
12:20 Lunch Break and Networking Roundtables
Performance Management – Turning Vendor Performance Into a Risk
| Charmi Patel,Third Party Vendor Risk Manager,Columbia Bank New Jersey |
Vendor Risk vs Business Reality
When commercial pressure overrides risk discipline.
| Chelsea Tieken,Business Strategy and Planning Director, TPRM Strategy and Initiatives,USAA |
| Clarence Chio,CEO and Founder,Coverbase |
Testing Resilience Business Reality: When Exit Is Not an option.
Designing resilience strategies for irreplaceable vendors
| Megan Speranza,Vice President, Global Head of Resiliency Risk Management,American Express |
Exit Strategies That Don’t Work
Why most vendor substitution plans collapse under real stress.
| Trina Dubose,Executive Director, Head of Third Party Risk Audit, Morgan Stanley |
Will AI and Quantum Make your TPRM Programs Obsolete?
What to know, where to start
| Brian Shaw,VP, North America, Certa |
Using AI for Mapping to Questionnaires
| Ken Wolckenhauer,First Vice President, Vendor Management, Nordea Bank |
Stressed Exit Discussion
| Wayne Scott,Global Regulatory Compliance Solutions Lead,Escode |
Interactive Deep-Dive Sessions
Main Agenda
Interactive Deep-Dive Sessions
8:50 Chair’s Opening Remarks
 | Brian Shaw,VP, Head of North America,Certa |
9:00 OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE BEYOND BUSINESS CONTINUITY – PANEL DISCUSSION
| Megan Speranza,Vice President, Global Head of Resiliency Risk Management,American Express |
 | Spruille Braden,Head of Enterprise Resilience,MassMutual |
 | Rich Alber,Managing Director,EY |
 | Cyril Korenbeusser,Head of Operational Resilience,Mizuho |
9:50 AGENTIC AI IN THE THIRD-PARTY ECOSYSTEM – PANEL DISCUSSION
 | Sabine Barbier-Goldman,Head, Global Third Party Risk,BMO |
 | Jelle Groenendaal,Senior Director,Diligent |
| Alongside the main conference, we will hosting deep-dive, practitioner-led sessions designed to move beyond presentations and into collaborative problem solving with peers facing the same challenges. |
10:40 Morning Refreshment Break and Networking
11:10 INCIDENT RESPONSE ACROSS ORGANIZATIONAL SILOS: WHEN CYBER, LEGAL AND TPRM DON’T ALIGN
 | Fusako Nitta,Director, Operational Risk and Third Party Manager,Daiwa Capital Markets |
11:45 FROM VENDOR MANAGEMENT TO ECOSYSTEM RISK: MANAGING COMPLEX THIRD, FOURTH AND N-TH PARTY NETWORKS
 | Ritu Jethani,former Head of Risk and Compliance,Plootus |
12:20 Lunch Break and Networking Roundtables
Join small, topic-led discussions over lunch to exchange ideas, share experiences, and gain practical insights with peers. Key insights fed into the panel.
The Hyperscaler Dilemma
Are financial institutions now too dependent on cloud providers to fail over?
 | Polina Ryabko,AVP, Category Management and Third Party Risk,Bayview Asset Management LLC |
The Fourth-Party Visibility Problem
How far into the supply chain can firms realistically see?
| Rajat Bhatnagar,Head of Third Party Risk,BBVA |
| Rich Alber,Managing Director,EY |
When the Vendor Breach Becomes Your Breach
Managing accountability when incidents originate in the supply chain.
| Fusako Nitta, Director, Operational Risk and Third Party Manager, Daiwa Capital Markets |
| Steve Thomas,CEO,HackNotice |
The Vendor Power Shift
What happens when critical vendors simply refuse oversight?
 | Joel Ipe, U.S. Third Party Risk Management (1LoD), Scotiabank |
1:20 OFFSHORING RISK AND RESILIENCE: FROM COST ARBITRAGE TO RESILIENCE BY DESIGN
| Chelsea Tieken,Business Strategy and Planning Director, TPRM Strategy and Initiatives,USAA |
| Olga Voytenko,Vice‑President, Corporate Operational Risk & Resilience | Chief Risk Officer – Corporate Functions,Sun Life |
2:10 AI IN THE THIRD-PARTY ECOSYSTEM: CONTINUOUS MONITORING, AUTONOMOUS RISK & RESILIENCE IMPLICATIONS
| Amanda Sang,Director, Operational Risk and Analytics,Bank of Canada |
2:45 Afternoon Refreshment Break and Networking
3:15 GOVERNANCE, REPORTING AND MI THAT SENIOR LEADERSHIP TRUSTS
 | Sonia Verbeeck,Head of Third Party Risk at UNJSPF Office of Investment Management,United Nations |
3:50 THE FUTURE OF TPRM LEADERSHIP: SKILLS, STRUCTURE AND STRATEGY – PANEL DISCUSSION
 | Joel Ipe,U.S. Third Party Risk Management (1LoD),Scotiabank |
| Polina Ryabko,AVP, Category Management and Third Party Risk,Bayview Asset Management LLC |
| Charmi Patel,Third Party Vendor Risk Manager,Columbia Bank New Jersey |
4:45 End of Vendor and Third Party Risk USA 2026
Main Agenda
12:20 Lunch Break and Networking Roundtables
The Fourth-Party Visibility Problem
How far into the supply chain can firms realistically see?
| Rajat Bhatnagar,Head of Third Party Risk,BBVA |
| Rich Alber,Managing Director,EY |
The Hyperscaler Dilemma
Are financial institutions now too dependent on cloud providers to fail over?
 | Polina Ryabko,AVP, Category Management and Third Party Risk, Bayview Asset Management LLC |
When the Vendor Breach Becomes Your Breach
Managing accountability when incidents originate in the supply chain.
| Fusako Nitta, Director, Operational & Third Party Risk Manager, Daiwa Capital Markets |
| Steve Thomas,Founder and CEO,HackNotice |
The Vendor Power Shift
What happens when critical vendors simply refuse oversight?
| Joel Ipe, Director, Third Party Risk Management, U.S. Internal Control,, Scotiabank |
Interactive Deep-Dive Sessions