2024 Konnect Library

Welcome to the 2024 Konnect Library

Check out any sessions you missed or revisit those you found particularly insightful. All are available to watch on demand.

2024 Konnect Highlights Video

Konnect Keynote Videos

Keynote | Riskonnect’s Vision for the Future

Riskonnect CEO Jim Wetekamp and Chief Product Officer Kathryn Carlson will unveil the company’s visionary product roadmap, offering a glimpse into the cutting-edge innovations and strategic initiatives that will shape the future of risk management. Drawing from his extensive industry expertise and forward-thinking vision, Wetekamp will explore how evolving technologies, regulatory shifts, and business models are transforming the risk landscape. He’ll also explain how Riskonnect’s integrated solutions will empower organizations to take on tomorrow’s challenges with confidence and agility. This insightful keynote will set the stage for an exciting event filled with inspiration, excellence, and a free exchange of knowledge.

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Keynote | The 2024 Riskonnect New Generation of Risk

Generative AI, escalating cybersecurity risks, and economic uncertainties are having a profound impact on today’s risk strategies. Riskonnect’s expert panel will explore findings from Riskonnect’s 2024 New Generation of Risk Report, which asked risk, compliance, and resilience professionals about their biggest concerns, emerging risks, and what they are doing in response. Moderated by CEO Jim Wetekamp, the panel will delve into AI, cyberthreats, supply-chain challenges, geopolitical risk, and more – all against a backdrop of shifting budgets and changing risk functions.

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Keynote | Riskonnect Awards

Congratulations to our 2024 Riskonnect award winners.

Keynote: Mastering Reputation Risk with the PEPS Framework

Keynote: Crack the Code: How to Talk Risk to the C-Suite

You know what the C-suite needs to know about risks – and have reams of data to back it up. So why aren’t they listening?

Bob Bowman, chief risk and compliance officer of The Wendy’s Company, found the C-suite communication code – and is ready to share the key with you. He will offer you his hard-earned wisdom and share the insights he’s gained to help you understand what makes each C-suite member tick and how to apply that to your advantage when telling your risk story.

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Keynote: Spotlight on Success

What’s the secret sauce of success? Join this interactive discussion with a few stand-out customers on what makes them tick and how their partnership with Riskonnect has contributed to their success.

Keynote: Risk in the Fast Lane: Accelerating into the Future with Integrated Risk Management

In today’s dynamic, modern risk environment, transitioning from legacy risk management and compliance systems to integrated risk management is not just necessary, it’s critical. Bringing his extensive expertise to Konnect 2024, John A. Wheeler will explore how IRM can enhance your risk management approach by connecting overarching capabilities like incident management, risk monitoring and reporting, risk quantification/analytics, and more. This keynote will explore how IRM facilitates a more cohesive, streamlined approach to managing a wide array of risks for more effective business decision-making and strategic risk oversight.

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Keynote: Risk Under One Roof: Where the Magic Happens

Konnect Breakout Sessions

Konnect Breakout Sessions| Executive Exchange Sessions

Breakout: Strategic Risk and Operational Resilience: Building Organizational Strength

In today’s dynamic business landscape, strategic risk, operational resilience, and effective risk management are imperative for organizational success. Join us for an insightful exploration on how these elements converge to fortify organizational strength. The discussion will start with strategic risk and how to identify and capitalize on strategic opportunities within resource constraints. We’ll then delve into ERM and its holistic approach and strategic relevance. Transitioning to operational risk, we’ll examine strategies for recognizing hazards, taking proactive measures, and responding rapidly. Finally, we’ll explore resilience strategies to navigate uncertainties and emerge stronger.

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Breakout: Reassessing Third-Party Relationships in a Volatile World

With the increase of violence, geo-political, and social volatility around the world, is it time to reassess your third party relationships? The more third parties you use, the more complex your relationships, the more risks you invite into your company… and what you concluded six months or a year ago may no longer be valid.

We will discuss ways to add additional data points and multiple lenses to your third party assessment and monitoring, so you can see a little further down the line so you can respond, before a relationship with a third party results in a reputational, operational or financial risk.

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Breakout: Putting the Plans in Everyone’s Hands

Building a robust resilience program is only half the battle; the real challenge lies in getting buy-in from every level of your organization. Resilience expert, Vanessa Mathews will guide you through four essential strategies to secure buy-in for your resilience program across executive, operational, and tactical teams.

You will come away knowing the common disconnects that hinder the effective execution of a crisis management program, and how to avoid these pitfalls as you build alignment.

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Breakout: Crafting Actionable Risk Appetite

Risk appetite plays a pivotal role in effective risk management frameworks. This session will offer insights into defining actionable risk appetite statements, including limits of exposure, required controls, and tolerated events, illustrated by case studies and other examples.

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Breakout: Integration of ERM and Strategy

Breakout: 90 Seconds to Midnight: The Power of Data Visualization (ERM)

This session will explore the idea of integrating the Doomsday Clock concept into ERM, using the clock’s countdown mechanism to illustrate critical risks in a compelling conceptual and visual way for senior leaders. Using novel methods of risk reporting like this can effectively convey urgency and severity, enhance risk awareness, facilitate informed decision-making, and foster a proactive risk management culture.

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Konnect Breakout Sessions| Active Risk Manager

Breakout: Risk Culture and Leadership in ARM

Leaders are the backbone of a strong risk culture and effective project risk management practices. This session will discuss the role of leadership in driving effective risk practices, a risk-aware culture, and implementation of ARM.

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Breakout: Tales from the Trenches: How We Use ARM

Join this lively discussion on how panel members use ARM, how it is administered, and how it is integrated into their processes and business intelligence.

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Breakout: Integrating ARM with Business Processes to Accelerate Risk Maturity

Organizations must proactively manage risks to survive and thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. Leveraging Active Risk Manager can significantly enhance an organization’s risk maturity, but the true potential is only realized when ARM is seamlessly integrated with existing processes and systems. This session delves into best practices for integrating ARM for a cohesive and streamlined approach to risk management across the enterprise, as illustrated with insightful case studies and success stories. You will gain valuable insights into effective integration strategies to unlock the full potential of ARM tools and accelerate your risk maturity journey.

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Breakout: How to Mature Your Risk Management Program with Active Risk Manager

Risk management processes evolve over time – and technology must keep up. Join this session to learn how Riskonnect’s Active Risk Manager supports flexible risk management practices to help organizations quickly adapt to changing circumstances, seize opportunities, and minimize threats. You’ll also learn how to involve different stakeholders in using ARM effectively to achieve your objectives.

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Breakout: Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration with ARM

This session will discuss strategies for engaging stakeholders and fostering collaboration among different departments via ARM.

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Konnect Breakout Sessions| Business Continuity & Resilience

Breakout: Critical Integration Points: Growing Pains of an Emerging Enterprise Business Continuity Program

Explore the intricate journey of an emerging enterprise as it scales its business continuity management program. Jakub Petersson, director, enterprise risk management, Corteva, and Steve Linder, principal managed service consultant, Riskonnect, will explore the challenges organizations face during this growth phase, punctuated by real-world insights of a robust enterprise BCM program.

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Breakout: Healthcare Crisis Preparedness: Ensuring Continuity and Patient Safety

Robust emergency preparedness plans and effective crisis management are critical for healthcare organizations. This session will explore strategies to mitigate risks, safeguard operations, maintain continuity of care, and prioritize patient safety during emergencies ranging from natural disasters to pandemics and cybersecurity threats.

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Breakout: What’s New and What’s Next for Business Continuity & Resilience

Get exclusive insight into the future of Riskonnect’s Business Continuity & Resilience solution. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features. Take advantage of this opportunity to engage directly with our product team and contribute your ideas and suggestions to shape the future of continuity and resilience solutions.

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Breakout: Protecting Against Evolving Threats

Join this session to learn how to fortify your defenses against emerging threats and safeguard your organization’s assets and operations. We’ll explore the dynamic threat landscape over the last few years then introduce effective strategies for bolstering resilience, including horizon scanning, threat intelligence, and response planning.

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Breakout: Future-Proofing Business Continuity Leadership

What skills will a business continuity leader need by 2030? This session will explore anticipated resilience trends, how the role of business continuity leaders will evolve into a coaching position, and what skills needed to succeed in this transition.

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Breakout: Training to Fail vs. Training to Win

How do you design training programs that will actually prepare your teams for the challenges ahead – instead of setting them up for failure? This session will offer a tutorial on building effective training programs so your team is ready to go no matter what challenges materialize.

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Breakout: Responding to a Crisis: What Would YOU Do?

This interactive session will take you through a simulated crisis exercise using polling technology to help the team decide the appropriate path forward. The facilitators also will discuss common mistakes and best practices learned from past real-life crises.

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Konnect Breakout Sessions| Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)

Breakout: What’s New and What’s Next in AI and Analytics

Get exclusive insights into the Riskonnect’s Artificial Intelligence solutions roadmap, including upcoming features, investment strategies, and product enhancements. Take advantage of this opportunity to engage with our product team and directly contribute your ideas to drive innovation and shape our development.

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Breakout: Navigating New Frontiers of AI and Third-Party Risk Management

Adopting artificial intelligence – notably large language models – into third-party risk management enhances data analysis, streamlines compliance, and improves decision-making. Using a focused framework for AI governance, ethical AI use, and bias mitigation is essential to balance ethical and regulatory considerations, while advancing TPRM across operations, finance, cyber resilience, privacy, compliance, and other critical areas.

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Breakout: Secure IT Buy-In: Crafting a Compelling Business Case

Engage in a dynamic discussion on strategies to secure buy-in from IT stakeholders. This session will explore tactics for building a persuasive business case and fostering collaboration with IT teams.

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Breakout: What’s New and What’s Next for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

Get exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s GRC solution. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features. Take advantage of this opportunity to connect directly with our product team and contribute ideas and suggestions to shape the future of GRC.

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Breakout: From Detection to Protection: Elevate Your Security Program with Advanced Risk Management

Security programs that stop at detection and monitoring don’t cut it anymore. This session will cover strategies to integrate advanced risk management principles into your security program to align security operations with business objectives and strengthen your approach. You’ll gain actionable insights on prioritizing vulnerabilities, streamlining compliance, and enhancing incident response. You’ll not only improve your resilience but also demonstrate the tangible value of your security investments to stakeholders.

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Breakout: Building a Risk-Aware Organization

This session will explore strategies for building a robust risk culture. You’ll learn how to cultivate awareness, accountability, and transparency across all level to strengthen your risk management practices.

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Konnect Breakout Sessions| Healthcare

Breakout: Healthcare Crisis Preparedness: Ensuring Continuity and Patient Safety

Robust emergency preparedness plans and effective crisis management are critical for healthcare organizations. This session will explore strategies to mitigate risks, safeguard operations, maintain continuity of care, and prioritize patient safety during emergencies ranging from natural disasters to pandemics and cybersecurity threats.

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Breakout: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Communication

This session will explore how effective communication among providers, administrators, patients, and stakeholders ensures comprehensive risk identification, assessment, and mitigation across the care continuum.

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Breakout: Sentinel Event Management: Practical Tech Solutions

This session will explore technology-driven approaches for managing sentinel events, with an emphasis on focused root cause analysis. You’ll learn how practical tech tools aid in detailed investigations to identify, mitigate – and prevent – causes of incidents for improved patient safety.

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Breakout: AI Revolution in Healthcare: Enhancing Risk Management & Patient Safety

AI is having a transformative impact on healthcare risk management and patient safety. Join Sherry Dillon, VP, product management, and Kim Alderman, director, AI innovation lab, as they delve into AI’s potential to streamline tasks, improve care outcomes, and effectively mitigate risks.

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Breakout: What’s New and What’s Next in Healthcare

Get exclusive insight into the future of Riskonnect’s Healthcare solutions. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features. Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with our product team and directly contribute your ideas and suggestions to shape the future of healthcare solutions.

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Konnect Breakout Sessions| Insurable Risks

Breakout: Harness the Magic of RMIS: Improving User Experience and Efficiency

This session will share an insider’s tips and tricks to improve the Riskonnect user experience. Learn how to leverage the magic of a RMIS and Riskonnect to increase efficiency. Explore topics such as user training, interface design, Riskonnect partnership and stakeholder engagement.

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Breakout: What’s New and What’s Next in Insurable Risk

Gain exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s insurable risk solutions. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features by product solution. Take advantage of this opportunity to directly contribute your ideas and suggestions to shape the future of insurable risk management.

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Breakout: Do More With TCOR

Monica Olis, HP Inc., Sam Stribling, Marsh Advisory, and Ilka McHugh, Riskonnect, will discuss the intricacies of total cost of risk (TCOR) analysis through an HP-specific lens with larger-world implications.

HP’s methodology consolidates comprehensive claims data into a streamlined format for enhanced analytics. Their holistic TCOR analysis employs a standardized calculation approach, normalizing figures against key business metrics to ensure year-over-year comparability. This refined process enables data-driven decision-making and more effective risk management strategies.

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Breakout: Medicare Reporting Update: How to Avoid Penalties

Medicare recently formalized the structure of civil monetary penalties and made significant modifications to the file specification. In this session, Riskonnect’s Vince Homer and Examworks’ Buffy Brewington, Scott Huber, and Virginia Johnson will review these changes and provide best practices for avoiding a per-claim penalty of as much as $365,000.

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Breakout: Optimizing Safety Audits: Lessons from Beacon Building Products

Beacon Building Products, Inc., has enhanced its safety compliance program by generating numerous risk-based audits that produce tangible results in real time. This session will explore the effectiveness of strategically deployed technology, integration of SME knowledge, and full organizational employee engagement to achieve a dedicated safety culture. You’ll come away with practical strategies for improving safety audit processes and fostering user participation within your organization. And, you’ll see, with clarity, that it can be achieved, within any function of your organization, within months not years.

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Breakout: Revolutionizing Claims Processing with Digital Solutions

Technology is revolutionizing claims processing, from incident reporting to claim prevention. This session will explore digital intake, claims automation, safety management, and new data sources like geospatial and the IoT.

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Breakout: How to Turn Data and Analytics into Optimization

Dynamic risks can be difficult to identify, quantify, and mitigate. Understanding these risks calls for up-to-date data and tools that can instantly give you the information you need. Join this session to find out how your data can improve your insurance ROI. You’ll discover how the latest integrations between Riskonnect and WTW’s powerful risk and analytic models can help you identify what’s driving your costs and diagnose the best way to address the issues. We’ll provide a demonstration of the Property Risk IQ models, including Property Quantified, Global Peril Diagnostics, and Climate Quantified.

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Breakout: Strategies for Success: AI-Powered Data Analytics for RMIS and Claims

This session will explore how AI can power RMIS and claims management solutions for data-driven decision-making. You’ll learn about predictive analytics, machine learning, and other analytical techniques to gain deeper insights, identify trends, and enhance risk management strategies.

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