Pre-Conference, 17th August, Monday
Masterclass: Risk Without Borders: The New Reality of Third-Party Exposure
By Ramesh Pillai, GMD Friday Concepts
As supply chains expand and partner ecosystems deepen, third-party relationships are now a major driver of performance-and one of the fastest-growing sources of enterprise exposure. Stakeholders and regulators expect organizations to move fast and stay in control, yet disruption can hit from anywhere: cyberattacks, supplier failure, trade shocks, and natural disasters can cascade quickly into operational downtime, financial loss, and reputational damage.
This masterclass equips leaders to build a robust, forward-looking third-party risk management (TPRM) program that protects risk appetite while preserving value-strengthening due diligence, right-sizing controls, and upgrading continuous monitoring across strategic, operational, reputational, regulatory, financial, cyber, business continuity, AML/CFT, and model risks. You’ll leave with practical approaches to turn third-party dependency into resilient, decision-grade oversight that goes beyond compliance-so you can innovate with partners without surrendering accountability, visibility, or control.
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Pre-Conference, 20th August 2026
Masterclass: Cyber Crisis Simulation: The Breach You Discovered Six Months Too Late
By Reece Soukoroff, Founder & CEO NOF Consulting
Your security team just got a notification. A third party found your customer data for sale on the dark web. It’s been there for three months. The breach? At least six months old, possibly longer. Now you’re in the middle. Your technical team needs time to investigate properly.
Legal is demanding answers for regulatory notification. Executives want to know what happened and why it wasn’t caught. And you’re the one who must make sense of incomplete information, conflicting priorities, and impossible timelines. This isn’t a ransomware drill where the problem is obvious. This is the breach that hides – and you’re the one who has to piece it together while managing upward to executives, coordinating across legal and technical teams, and figuring out what can actually be known versus what leadership wants to hear. Participants navigate the reality of breach response from the middle: translating technical findings, managing stakeholder expectations, and making recommendations when nothing is certain.
Pre-Conference, 21st August 2026
Masterclass: From Signals to Strategy: Managing Emerging Risk with ISO 31050
By Ramesh Pillai, GMD Friday Concepts
Emerging risks rarely arrive with complete data or clean narratives. They show up early as weak signals-fragmented, ambiguous, and easy to dismiss-yet they can become outsized threats or decisive opportunities. They may be triggered by shifts in your external environment (social, political, economic, environmental, technological, legal, and ethical) and amplified by internal realities such as governance, culture, and changing processes, products, or services.
Managing emerging risk takes more than registers and hindsight; it requires a knowledge-driven discipline that turns limited information into decision-grade intelligence for strategic, tactical, and operational choices. Anchored in ISO 31050, this masterclass provides a practical approach to sense, interpret, and prioritise uncertainty-translating signals into clear priorities, linking actions to objectives, and embedding emerging risk management as a continuous capability. Participants learn how emerging risks arise, how they evolve, and how to act early to build preparedness, resilience, and upside-before “not obvious yet” becomes “too late.”
