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| Track A: Emerging and Strategic GRC | Risk management and compliance requirements emanate today from more than just regulators. Stakeholders that include customers, suppliers and communities have a growing expectation that the enterprise will manage risk more effectively in support of strategic business goals. Additionally, the organization’s license to operate will often by influenced by the management team’s ability to manage nonfinancial data and to demonstrate an appropriate commitment to sustainable development. This track will look at the emerging and strategic GRC issues of environmental sustainability management, corporate social responsibility, risk culture, privacy and multiregulatory compliance. | A |
| Track B: Enterprise and IT Risk Management | Enterprises are putting increasing focus on risk management as not just an extension of compliance and IT security, but as a strategy to achieve better business performance in an uncertain world as well. This track will focus on what organizations can and should do to establish risk management as an overall business-focused, process-centric discipline that aligns behavior with risk appetite, business objectives, and enterprise personality and behaviors. In the not-too-distant future, we expect to see IT risk management (and compliance) as a function that is fully integrated into the enterprise risk management framework. | B |
| Track C: Continuous GRC | As organizations become increasingly sophisticated in their response to global regulation, they inevitably migrate from the tactical governance approach of periodic snapshots to a more-strategic one of continuous risk assessment and process improvement. This track will examine current technologies, standards and best practices to automate compliance and risk management processes, making them more efficient, reliable and better-documented. | C |
| Virtual Track D: Financial Services Professional | In the face of unprecedented financial market volatility and economic slowdown, the survival of individual financial institutions hinges on their ability to better understand and manage risk in order to restore the stakeholder confidence that is necessary to attract funding and retain market share. Beyond a tighter regulatory and compliance regimen, the current environment has amplified the need for organizations to transform from a fragmented business line and product focus for risk management to a holistic strategy that enables greater visibility into and active management of risk and its impact on corporate performance.
The Financial Services Professional Track will provide insight and actionable advice on how to get a fast start to effectively interconnect elements of risk and performance across the enterprise, including the immensely important aspect of data integration and the technology applications necessary, not just to survive, but to leverage risk management as a competitive weapon. | FSP |
| Virtual Track E: General Counsel and IT Legal Professional | The changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding e-discovery is only a clarion call to the legal profession and information technologists that the growth and potential survival of the enterprise depends upon their solidarity. At the heart of the current predicament facing most organizations today is the ability to know what electronically stored information (ESI) is retained as well as the rapid growth of regulatory supervision and litigation alike. Where is the data , what is its value, and is there a preservation, regulatory, contractural or litigation-related obligation attached? These sound like simple questions but just try to get a simple or straight answer. Any answer! The General Counsel and Legal Technology Track will focus on those areas where the speed and reach of technology outpace corporate policy, jurisprudence and, often, good judgement. Gartner analysts will share research, client experiences and technology solutions that range from the internal nexus of IT and enterprise risk management to the transborder conflicts in the globalization of privacy. | GCILP |
| Virtual Track F: Sustainability and CSR Professional | Talk about sustainability and "green IT" is much more than just preserving natural resources and reducing overall cost of operations. The same is true about corporate social responsibility; it goes well beyond organizational philanthropy and brand polishing. The presentations in this virtual track will look at how IT organizations are addressing these issues. The content will be supplemented with hands-on workshops and analyst/user roundtables. | SCSRP |