Pre-conference Day: Summits & WorkshopsMonday, 16 November 2026 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)

Discussing the shifting geopolitical landscape and how this is reshaping asset management operations, supply chain restructuring and investment strategies

Massive growth in private equity, private credit, real estate, and illiquid alternatives has created liquidity mismatches and redemption risks, especially as interest rates remain elevated. What do asset mangers need to do to improve transparency?

Why it's critical: Recent bank failures and market volatility have heightened focus on counterparty exposures. Explore margin requirements and concentration risk in prime brokerage relationships

The gap between proof-of-concept success and operational deployment – what are we seeing in real time?

As regulators worldwide demand board-level accountability for algorithmic decisions, model failures, and AI-driven systemic risks, what are banks doing to transform board governance?

Navigating insurance market withdrawal from geopolitically sensitive regions due to sanctions compliance, political violence escalation, and reinsurance capacity constraints

What is the outlook on growth and inflation in an increasingly competitive marketplace?

McKinsey’s latest research reveals a significant shift in what boards, CEOs, and other executives will demand from their risk function in the next 3–5 years. This calls for a fundamental reimagination of the role of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and the risk team to be more dynamic, forward-looking, and focused on the business's profitable growth priorities. This shift will affect every risk professional. 

What will the Risk function of 2030 look like? How do we get there? What role will the next generation of agentic AI play in shaping this transformation, both for defense and offense

Concentrated positions in mega-cap tech stocks, specific sectors, or illiquid holdings create outsized risks, especially as passive investing and thematic strategies drive concentration

When a major disruption hits — cyber, supplier, technology, or market — the CRO becomes the organisation’s nerve centre. The Board looks to you to provide assurance, the CEO looks to you for control, and regulators expect confidence that the firm can manage risk appropriately while recovering without breaching tolerance. In those moments, risk leadership moves from theory to reality.

This session will explore how CROs can lead from the front when the business is under pressure — the right people, plans, and priorities activate fast and in the right order. We’ll discuss how to turn operational resilience frameworks and recovery plans into dynamic, live capabilities; how sequencing and planning determine whether recovery succeeds or stalls; and how CROs can use technology, data, and rehearsal to prove their organisation can withstand disruption. Because when the next crisis hits, the real question won’t be “Was it on your risk register?” — it will be “Could you lead the business through it?”

Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere, and actors seem to already increasingly use AI to enhance their offensive capabilities. There are qualified experts that state that AI would actually be of greater use for the ‘Blue Team’, but when you take a serious look there are relatively little successful implementations on the defensive side. It is time to boost cyber defence!

In this presentation we will look at:

• Factors that inhibit application of AI in cybersecurity

• How ING has set up a fit for purpose organisation for AI in cybersecurity

• Two successful use cases in the fields of Identity and Access Management and detection of cyber-attacks in the SOC

• How AI may also extend to security and risk reporting   

Industry outlook for 2026

Tips on building a resilience-focused culture, investing in technology, creating a sound operational framework to strengthening your business

1. Industry insights: Future of Risk & Compliance for insurers
2. AI for Risk – Real-life examples
3. What’s Next – Agentic Use Cases and Controls

Asset Managers face various systemic and idiosyncratic challenges which prompts the need to apply effective ex-ante risk management. As an industry, Asset Managers need to pay attention to these challenges and be willing to learn from each other to ensure resilience and enable relevance. Join this session to delve into how richer sets of data can help firms to learn and anticipate trends, to better address risks in an ex-ante manner, as well as help firms (be they active or passive in their investment disciplines), bootstrap their operational resilience and, thus, be more effective and efficient.

Addressing divergent supervisory approaches across jurisdictions, scenario design requirements, portfolio impact quantification, and translating stress test results into actionable risk management

Exploring geographic risk assessments, property-level hazard mapping, collateral valuation adjustments, and concentration risk management for physical climate exposures

In this session, ACTICO will showcase how Agentic AI can have a transformative impact on credit risk assessment in corporate and commercial lending. Agentic AI introduces autonomous, adaptive and explainable credit risk agents that can reduce operational risk and unlock new efficiencies.

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between past waves of AI innovation – from predictive analytics to the emergence of Agentic AI

• Explore the five key attributes of credit risk agents

• Identify practical use cases in credit risk assessment where Agentic AI delivers measurable impact

Insurers today face complexity from the interplay of fair value and risk-based metrics within different regulatory regimes, alongside the imperative for balance sheets to work harder. This session will delve into how technology has transformed the operating model for ALM, risk and capital management, moving from spreadsheets and siloed tasks to shared, scalable infrastructure. The panel will focus on how well teams can work from consistent foundations to make quicker and better-informed decisions. We will also explore the crucial role of scenario analysis and stress testing, how insurers turn analysis to targeted action, and what that means for the infrastructure needed to support them.

From stress-testing portfolios, to adapting underwriting strategies and engaging with policymakers, we’ll discuss how CROs of the largest insurers are strengthening resilience, aligning with evolving regulations, and ensuring adaptability in an increasingly volatile global landscape

Assessing disruptive technology scenarios (green hydrogen, carbon capture, battery breakthroughs), timing uncertainty, and implications for current portfolio positioning. What to risk managers need to be aware of?

Navigate heightened climate vulnerability in developing economies, data scarcity challenges, sovereign risk implications, and portfolio strategy for climate-exposed regions

• Arturo will analyse the evolution of key sustainability trends on the 10th anniversary of the “Tragedy of the Horizon.”

• He will also examine the growing influence of geopolitics and geoeconomics on transition planning, and share his insights into the challenges that technology, data centres, artificial intelligence, and the energy sector pose for sustainable finance.

CROs face a rising threat: AI-powered employees who aren’t real. From deepfake candidates passing interviews to LLM-driven workers extracting internal data, attackers are using synthetic identities to breach trust, not just firewalls. This talk breaks down the new infiltration playbook—real cases, dark web tactics, and a live demo—to help risk leaders stay ahead of threats their models never saw coming

Agentic AI represents the shift from static scripts to adaptive, autonomous systems capable of acting in complex environments. While agent-based systems existed before modern LLMs, their fusion with generative AI has greatly expanded their scale, enhanced their capabilities, and introduced new risks. What does readiness look like for organisations preparing to integrate agentic AI into their infrastructure? How can we ensure that critical data and systems remain protected? How do we maintain oversight and resilience without slowing down automation? And how can organisations govern and safeguard agentic AI to deploy it responsibly in high-stakes environments?

How will the financial services industry redefine the mandate, increase capability and stakeholder engagement?

Risk managers today face new systemic threats, such as climate change and geopolitical instability, that materially impact liquidity, as well as market and credit exposures. Through practical and historical examples, this session illustrates how traditional siloed models falter under compound stresses. Modern platforms, on the other hand, combine stochastic simulations and forward‑looking scenario analysis over correlated financial risk factors, where emerging threats are estimated precisely. Attendees will learn how to shift from fragmented regulatory compliance toward actionable business insight.

• Building resilient talent pipelines for Insurance risk functions
• Attracting and retaining risk professionals in a competitive insurance landscape

As AI becomes central to business strategy, its role in Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance is expanding rapidly. Our panel of industry leaders will explore how enterprises can adapt and thrive AI-led high impact transformation in risk management, key considerations for moving from pilot to scaled execution, point of views on guardrails, model risk assurance and different operating model for industrialization of Gen AI and AI agents in Insurance Risk Management.