8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
More speakers to come
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
9:00 – 9:50
DORA – PANEL DISCUSSION
Overview of DORA regulation and best practices for final implementation in 2025
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- Emphasis on digital risk, operational resilience, operational risk, and third-party management
- Relevance of DORA to critical and important vendors
- Integrating DORA into existing risk management frameworks
- Impact of DORA to smaller financial institutions
- Reviewing and implementing DORA into frameworks
- Anticipating final implementation and reviewing best practices
- Presenting governance plans of DORA implementation to regulators
Yulia Omelchuk,
Head of Procurement and Vendor Management,
Knab
Mihaela Breg,
Head of Operational Resilience & Third Party Oversight,
Europe Arab Bank
Natalie Druckmann,
VP, Head of EMEA,
Certa
Dr Edward Renger
Head of Corporate Functions & Outsourcing Management
AXA Konzern AG
9:50 - 10:25
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMPLYING WITH DORA
Leveraging Technology for Digital Operational Resilience
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- Leveraging Technology for Digital Operational Resilience
Natalie Druckmann,
VP, Head of EMEA,
Certa
10:25 – 10:55
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:55 - 11:45
EXIT STRATEGIES – PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating complexities of exit plans and enhancing to comply with regulatory requirements
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- Enhancing exit planning in the offboarding process of insolvent suppliers
- Enhancing business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management
- Considering provisions needed in the case of third-party disruptions
- Reinforcing and maturing exit plans in an enhancing regulatory environment
- Navigating the complexity of exit plans to enhance resilience
- Exploring strategies to reinforce exit plans effectively amidst evolving regulations
- Exits, supplier terminations and DORA
Dean Berney,
Global Head of Operational Resilience & GCOO Risk Management,
Legal and General Investment Management
Jeff Simmons,
former CRO and Finance Officer,
MUFG
Mickael Abid,
Director, Sourcing and Third party Risk,
ING
11:45 - 12:20
Aligning your TPRM programme to regulatory and resiliency best practices
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- Understand the evolving regulatory landscape affecting TPRM
- Explore new regulations like DORA and LkSG that are shaping TPRM best practices
- Strategies for adapting to rising costs from cyberattacks, data losses, and regulatory compliance
- Discover how TPRM can be a strategic asset, not just a compliance requirement
- Insights into positioning your organization for success amidst regulatory changes
- Lead the change by implementing risk and resiliency management best practices
Adelani Adesida,
Senior Sales Director (EMEA),
Aravo Solutions
Carey Davidson,
Global Vice President,
Aravo Solutions
12:20 - 1:20
Lunch break and networking
1:30 - 2:05
NTH PARTIES
Enhancing direct oversight of critical third parties as regulated entities
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- Overview of critical third-party suppliers that are not directly regulated
- Identifying and managing concentration risks
- Direct oversight of critical third parties through DORA and what does this mean?
- DORA and the requirement of mapping
- Transferring data from critical third party to a new provider during exit planning process
- Navigating complexities of critical third-party providers
- Managing the impact of regulated critical third parties on resilience
- Addressing the shift of monitoring on critical third parties
Carlos Colino Sánchez-Ventura,
Managing Director / SCIB Global Head of TPRM, Market Data and Strategic Sourcing,
Banco Santander
2:05 - 2:40
FUTURE OF TPRM & RESILIENCE
Improving TPRM practices in international business, focusing on UK-EU resilience
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Mihaela Breg,
Head of Operational Resilience & Third Party Oversight ,
Europe Arab Bank
2:40 - 3:10
BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
Ensuring robust business continuity plans and integrating resilience in disaster recovery
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- Ensuring business continuity and testing to prevent system collapse
- Identifying suppliers in a monopoly and reviewing alternate options
- Managing stressed and unstressed exit plannings
- Effectively offboarding third parties and ensuring seamless exit strategies
- Business continuity planning in an evolving market changing environment.
- Enhancing connectivity between services areas and teams for effective BCP
- Navigating practical and regulatory challenges of business continuity testing
- Managing challenges of testing exit strategies and BCPS’s under monopolized providers
- Meeting regulatory standards during business continuity planning
Yacine El Mhamedi El Alaoui,
Director, Head of Global Markets Operational Security & Resilience,
Société Générale CIB
3:10 - 3:40
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
3:40 - 4:15
CONTINOUS MONITORING
Optimizing continuous monitoring process for holistic risk management
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- Internal policy requirements for resilience standards
- Tools and capabilities to ensure continuous monitoring for enhancing resilience
- Establishing risk appetite strategies to assess risk levels
- Determining required uptimes and SLAs with providers
- Regulatory mandates for monitoring and internal audits on services
- Exploring joint audit services for major providers
- Challenges in accommodating individual audits due to extensive client base
- Ensuring outsourced services meet expected standards
Charles Forde,
Chief Operating Officer, Investment Banking & Global Markets,
Nomura
4:15 - 4:50
GOVERNANCE
Strengthening governance structures in enhancing resilience and managing TPRM risks
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- Understanding internal roles and responsibilities to enhance resilience, the board and the three lines of defence
- Addressing duplicated and unclear roles within organizations
- Importance of a clear governance structure for managing third-party risks
- Strategies for mitigating governance risks and ensuring compliance
- Challenges in defining responsibility for resilience in third-party risk management
- Oversight and governance requirements for third-party providers
- Considering exit strategies from a third-party vs intragroup perspective
Birgit Biondi,
Head of Global Third Party Management Function,
Munich Re
4:50 - 5:25
TPRM AND OPERATIONAL RISK
How managing Vendor and Third-Party risk is key to any organisation’s resilience and success
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- Understanding key operational risk related to Third Parties.
- Monitoring Third Party Risk through the Three Lines Model.
- Identifying vulnerabilities and control gaps through enhanced risk assessments.
- Establishing effective controls to manage dependencies and single points of failure.
- Understanding the linkage between operational resilience and sound Third-Pary risk management.
Armel Massiminia,
Head of Operational Risk,
National Bank of Kuwait
5:25 - 5:30
Chair’s closing remarks
5:30
End of day one and networking drinks reception
8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
Day 2 Moderator: Adelani Adesida, Senior Sales Director (EMEA), Aravo Solutions
9:00 - 9:35
GEOPOLITICAL RISKS – FIRESIDE CHAT
Navigating geopolitical risks on the horizon whilst maintain resilient and building exit strategies
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- Considering high-risk locations and impact on resilience
- Reviewing current geopolitical landscape and impact on third parties
- Leveraging AI to monitor geopolitical horizon scanning to mitigate risks
- Developing exit strategies to minimize the impact of geopolitical risks on operations
- Stressed exit plans and non-stressed exit plans in the scenario of vendor collapse
- Effective strategies to enhance resilience against geopolitical disruptions
- Managing the impact of geopolitical risks that cause disruption to organizations
Dean Berney,
Global Head of Operational Resilience & GCOO Risk Management,
Legal & General Investment Management
9:35 - 10:20
SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE
Enhancing supply chain robustness through visibility, risk management and best practices
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- Onboarding management of nth parties and best practices
- Managing challenges of maintaining supply chain resilience.
- Identifying vulnerabilities through extended supply chain and mitigating risk
- Establishing visibility and responsibility to manage weak points of supply chain
- Gaining full visibility across full supply chain to enhance resilience
- Ensuring resilience in supply chain through visibility and assurance of vendors
- Strategies and tools to gain the visibility
- Oversight of supply chain resilience and establishing best practice
Christoph Lischka,
Former Head of Outsourcing and Third Party Management,
UniCredit Bank Austria
10:20 – 10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:50 - 11:40
ENHANCING COLLABORATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
Collaborative approaches to facilitate better strategies for mitigating risks
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- Ensuring compliance and risk management are adequately addressed
- Regulator and supplier relationship management for risk mitigation
- Engaging C-Suite executives in third-party risk management and downstream impacts
- Collaboration between financial institutions and vendors to facilitate better implementation
- Enhancing understanding and ownership of supplier risks at an executive level
- Broadening risk focus to non-financial risks for increased resilience
- Creating cross-divisional teams to look at risk at a wider scope
Yacine El Mhamedi El Alaoui,
Director, Head of Global Markets Operational Security & Resilience,
Société Générale
Carlos Colino Sánchez-Ventura,
Managing Director / SCIB Global Head of TPRM, Market Data and Strategic Sourcing,
Banco Santander
11:40 - 12:15
CONCENTRATION RISK
Mitigating concentration risks through direct overview of financial landscape
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- Mitigating concentration risks in a monopolized environment
- Understanding concentration risk elements of having an effective exit plan
- Reviewing locations and areas in the market
- Mapping out the supply chain to identify concentration risks
- Addressing the interconnection between concentration risk, cloud services, and data management
- Developing and implementing a concentration risk management plan
- Maturing concentration risk assessments
- Diversification across multiple data centres and implementing robust resilience measures
Mickael Abid,
Director, Sourcing and Third Party Risk ,
ING
12:15 – 1:15
Lunch break and networking
1:15 - 2:05
TECHNOLOGY AND AI – PANEL DISCUSSION
Leveraging opportunities of AI and technology to optimize supply chain, improve security, balancing efficiency and resilience
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- Leveraging technology to identify key exit planning strategies
- Leveraging tools to streamline SLAs
- Adapting technological solutions to future-proof resilience and exit strategies
- Role of AI in operational resiliency, scenario testing, and removing unconscious bias
- Building models to support and build third-party relationships
- Models for effective internal governance and leveraging existing frameworks
- Integration of AI in the onboarding and offboarding process
- Impact of AI in supporting resilience in third-party risk management
- Identifying potential risks of AI within vendor and third party management
Charles Forde,
Chief Operating Officer, Investment Banking & Global Markets,
Nomura
Christoph Lischka,
Former Head of Outsourcing and Third Party Management,
UniCredit Bank Austria
Darren Craig,
CEO & Founder,
RiskXchange
2:05 - 2:40
CRITICAL THIRD PARTIES
Enhancing direct oversight of critical third parties as regulated entities
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- Overview of critical third-party suppliers that are not directly regulated
- Identifying and managing concentration risks
- Direct oversight of critical third parties through DORA and what does this mean?
- DORA and the requirement of Mapping
- Transferring data from critical third party to a new provider during exit planning process
- Navigating complexities of critical third-party providers
- Managing the impact of regulated critical third parties on resilience
- Addressing the shift of monitoring on critical third parties
Jeff Simmons,
former CRO,
MUFG
Pallavi Srivastava,
Director, Head of Risk Management,
MUFG Securities
2:40 - 3:25
INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH TPRM EXPERTS – PANEL DISCUSSION
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- Session details coming soon…
Carlos Colino Sánchez-Ventura,
Managing Director / SCIB Global Head of TPRM, Market Data and Strategic Sourcing,
Banco Santander
Pallavi Srivastava,
Director, Head of Risk Management,
MUFG Securities
3:25 – 3:30
Chair’s closing remarks
3:30
End of TPRM & Resilience Amsterdam
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