Welcome to the 2025 Konnect Library
Check out any sessions you missed or revisit those you found particularly insightful. All are available to watch on demand.
2025 Konnect Highlights Video
Keynote Sessions
Keynote | Unlocking the Next Generation of Risk Performance
In an era of constant disruption, organizations must treat risk and resilience as core disciplines that drive performance, not just protective measures. Riskonnect CEO Jim Wetekamp shares Riskonnect’s vision for building high-performing, resilient organizations that thrive amid change. Discover how leading enterprises are embedding risk resilience into their operations, transforming risk management from a cost center into a performance accelerator with measurable ROI. Learn how AI-driven insights and intelligent risk platforms enable proactive decision-making, turning uncertainty into a source of competitive advantage and sustained business growth.
Keynote | From Chaos to Clarity: Turning Intelligent Risk into Confident Action
When cyber threats strike or key suppliers falter, swift and confident decision-making is critical. In this session, Riskonnect Chief Product Officer Kathryn Carlson demonstrates how consolidating fragmented risk data into clear, trusted intelligence enables faster, more effective responses. Learn how to move beyond reactive management by applying three key principles—Clarity, Trust, and Speed—to strengthen organizational resilience. The session offers practical strategies to close the clarity gap, turning risk insight into decisive action and transforming threats into opportunities for competitive advantage.
Keynote | The 2025 Riskonnect New Generation of Risk:
A Panel Discussion
The convergence of advanced generative AI applications, sophisticated cybersecurity threats, and persistent economic volatility continues to transform risk management strategies in 2025. Building on findings from Riskonnect’s influential 2024 New Generation of Risk Report, this executive session examines how risk predictions have materialized and evolved over the past year. Our distinguished panel of senior risk leaders will analyze the practical implementation of AI governance frameworks, advanced cyber resilience strategies against increasingly sophisticated threats, supply chain restructuring impacts on operational resilience, shifting geopolitical dynamics and their implications for global business operations, practical climate risk assessment methodologies, integration of ESG considerations into enterprise risk management, and strategic resource allocation in an environment of continued economic uncertainty. Moderated by CMO Andrea Brody, this session provides CROs with actionable insights and peer perspectives on navigating the complex risk landscape of 2025, with emphasis on practical governance approaches and strategic foresight against a backdrop of shifting budgets and evolving risk functions.
Keynote: Journey to the Risk-Resilient Organization: Following the Yellow Brick Road to Enterprise Risk Management
| Every successful risk management program follows a unique journey filled with challenges, discoveries, and transformation. In this engaging session, a panel of risk leaders will share their own paths to building resilient, intelligent, and strategically driven programs—overcoming obstacles like data silos and disruptions along the way. Drawing inspiration from the Wizard of Oz, they’ll reveal how the power to transform risk management lies within each organization. Through real-world insights and lessons learned with Riskonnect, attendees will gain practical guidance to elevate their own programs from good risk management to exceptional risk leadership. |
Keynote: Charting Your Own Course: Turning Integrated Risk Thinking into Action
In today’s fast-changing business environment, traditional one-size-fits-all risk frameworks are no longer sufficient. Success requires integrated risk thinking that aligns performance, resilience, assurance, and compliance with an organization’s unique priorities. Drawing on research and real-world insights, this keynote presents a practical approach to embedding integrated risk practices into day-to-day operations, enabling organizations to move beyond rigid playbooks and translate risk strategies into actionable momentum—regardless of program maturity or focus area.
Keynote: Critical Connections: Linking What Matters in the Risk-Resilience Matrix
Organizational resilience thrives when traditionally siloed functions work together. This keynote explores how linking risk management and business continuity transforms isolated efforts into a cohesive resilience system. Attendees will learn how to identify and activate critical connections—between financial protection, operational continuity, and other key areas—to create measurable value. From establishing shared risk vocabularies to leveraging integrated technology, the session provides actionable strategies to prioritize and strengthen relationships across the risk ecosystem, enabling a truly interconnected approach to resilience at any stage of maturity.
Keynote: Choose Your Own Adventure: Leveraging Risk Management to Navigate the Business and Deliver Value
Risk management today requires a proactive, value-driven approach, where every decision steers an organization toward opportunity or uncertainty. This interactive keynote reframes risk as a strategic adventure, emphasizing emerging technologies, expanded frameworks, and organizational agility to anticipate, adapt, and thrive. Through a Choose Your Own Adventure tabletop exercise, participants will navigate real-world scenarios, confront consequences, and explore how different choices shape outcomes—leaving with practical insights and tools to build a resilient, agile, and successful organization.
Keynote: Forever Human in Risk Management: Preserving Human Judgement in an AI-Driven World
As artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced analytics revolutionize risk management, a critical question emerges: How do we maintain the irreplaceable human element in risk assessment while embracing technological innovation? This forward-looking session explores the evolving landscape where human intuition, emotional intelligence, and relationship-building remain essential—even as machines handle increasing portions of risk analysis.
Risk professionals face a unique challenge: clients and stakeholders are becoming more informed through AI tools yet simultaneously less patient and more selective about whom they trust with their organization’s most critical vulnerabilities. The future belongs to risk managers who can seamlessly blend technological capabilities with authentic human connection.
Keynote: Awards Presentation
Riskonnect has announced the winners of the 2025 Konnect Awards. This annual awards program honors customers who redefine the possibilities in risk management while exemplifying Riskonnect’s core values: Pioneer, Focus, Spark, and Community.
This year’s winners showcase the diverse ways organizations are transforming risk into opportunity. They embody the creativity, passion, and collaboration central to Riskonnect’s values. Their achievements reflect dedication, innovation, and a strong commitment to progress, and we are proud to celebrate the positive changes they are driving within their industries.
Riskonnect recognized nine organizations across four categories that align with Riskonnect’s core values. Additionally, three new customers were honored as members of the Riskonnect community.
Breakout Sessions
Executive Exchange Sessions
Breakout: Integrated Scenario Analysis and Common Impact Drivers
This session unveils a structured methodology for consistently evaluating impacts across diverse risk types. You’ll learn how to bridge siloed risks, identify universal impact drivers, implement standardized assessment practices, and navigate complex risk landscapes with integrated scenario analysis.
Breakout: Navigating the AI Regulatory Matrix: Connecting Compliance to Competitive Reality
Executive leaders are grappling with complex and interconnected AI regulations and risks that require a clear strategic vision. This session will help you navigate regulatory complexities and turn AI compliance challenges into opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage. Learn how to develop strong risk management frameworks that link regulatory requirements to strategic benefits in our rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Breakout: Breaking Through the Reporting Matrix: Connecting Compliance to Strategic Reality
Corporate reporting has evolved from simple compliance checklists into vital strategic intelligence networks. This session will show you how to move beyond superficial compliance and interpret the changing reporting standards that transform compliance into strategic assets. Learn how to leverage technology to connect reporting data with improved decision-making and build stakeholder trust in our interconnected business environment.
Breakout: The Upside of Uncertainty: Transforming Global Shocks into Strategic Wins
In an increasingly volatile business landscape, transformative shocks have become inevitable. This session explores how to systematically anticipate, analyze, and respond to major disruptions—from pandemics to geopolitical shifts —to propel organizational growth and resilience.
Tuesday, October 14
Breakout: The Claims Revolution Awakening connecting Intelligence to Resolution
This session reveals how intelligent technologies create powerful connections that revolutionize claims management from end to end. Discover how Riskonnect harnesses AI and advanced analytics to connect fragmented processes into accelerated, accurate outcomes. See the complexity of traditional claims handling and experience the code that transforms processing speed, accuracy, and results through real-world examples.
Breakout: Collaborative Cyber Resiliency Across IT, Cybersecurity, and Business Continuity
In today’s interconnected digital matrix, businesses face cascading risks due to their reliance on limited digital service providers – creating dangerous single points of failure. Effective cyber resiliency requires mapping the relationships between IT infrastructure, cybersecurity threats, and business continuity planning. Cyber-focused BIAs serve as the blueprint for understanding these critical connections and help organizations prioritize recovery efforts. This session explores how to build a unified matrix of collaboration between IT, cybersecurity, and business continuity teams, revealing the interconnected pathways that strengthen your organization’s digital resilience. You’ll learn practical strategies for identifying, connecting, and mitigating the cyber risks that pose the greatest threat to your business continuity plan.
Breakout: The Matrix: Decoded | Partner
Innovation Showcase
Join our partners as they reveal hidden connections that are transforming risk management through the integration with Riskonnect. This dynamic showcase illustrates how collaborative partnerships can unlock new dimensions of risk visibility and control, reshaping traditional approaches to enterprise risk. Partners are decoding complex risk scenarios and unveiling innovative solutions that enhance organizational resilience and improve strategic decision-making capabilities.
Breakout: What’s New and
What’s Next with Analytics & AI
Get exclusive insights into Riskonnect’s AI solutions roadmap, including new features, enhancements, product vision, and what’s to come. Engage with our product team and directly contribute your ideas to drive innovation and shape our development.
Breakout: Decoding Healthcare’s AI Matrix: Connecting Ethics to Patient Reality
This session explores how AI is transforming healthcare risk networks by addressing current trends, controversies, and ethical principles. Discover the framework for developing continuous AI governance that links transparent oversight to patient safety. Learn to navigate interconnected data privacy regulations while ensuring that AI models prioritize healing rather than harm in our evolving digital healthcare landscape.
Breakout: Integrating Enterprise Risk Management at the National Level Through a Unified Platform Architecture
Our transition from fragmented risk management to an integrated enterprise approach using Riskonnect’s platform ecosystem has been transformative. By connecting various applications—such as risk management, compliance, audit, and incident management—we have uncovered hidden relationships between risks and enhanced our response times. Join this session to learn practical insights on dismantling silos to foster proactive risk intelligence.
Breakout: Unlocking the Renewal Enigma: Connecting Value Collection to Strategic Reality
Transform your renewal value collection from a tedious annual task into a strategic advantage by connecting fragmented data points to valuable business intelligence. This session will show you how to break through the illusion of disconnected collection methods and enter into an integrated, continuous value-capture network. Explore three interconnected perspectives—Riskonnect, customer, and industry—that will unlock the key to streamlined data gathering and improved accuracy.
Breakout: Improv Intelligence: Mastering Adaptability in Emergency Response
This interactive session will show you how improvisational techniques can transform your emergency response capabilities. You’ll learn practical improv skills that enhance split-second decision-making, strengthen team communication, and build adaptability during rapidly evolving crises.
Breakout: Navigating the AI Governance Matrix: Connecting Human and Machine Intelligence
This session examines the crucial intersection where AI, automation, and human expertise come together in contemporary risk management networks. Discover how AI-powered solutions improve risk identification while relying on essential human oversight to establish a balanced governance model that aligns technological advancement with ethical considerations. Explore the principles for preserving human agency while unlocking the transformative potential of AI in interconnected risk environments.
Breakout: What’s New and
What’s Next with GRC/GSP
Get exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s GRC solutions, including Business Strategy, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, Policy Management, Regulatory Compliance, Internal Controls Management, Technology Risk Management, Environmental, Social, & Governance, and Third-Party Risk Management solutions. This session will cover the roadmap, including new features, enhancements, product vision, and what’s to come. Take advantage of this opportunity to connect directly with our product team and contribute ideas and suggestions to shape the future of GRC.
Breakout: The Global Threat Awakening: Connecting Distant Risks to Present Reality
This session will show you how to look past the illusion of distant threats and understand their true connections to your organization. You will discover effective methods for horizon scanning and practical frameworks that can transform geopolitical uncertainty into strategic foresight. Learn how to identify early warning signals across global networks and establish action thresholds that convert remote risks into decisive response strategies.
Breakout: Revolutionizing Cyber Risk Management and Insurance Decisions
Risk managers are at the forefront of protecting organizations from sophisticated cyber threats. Do you have a clear understanding of your cyber risk exposure? What is the financial implication of a potential threat? We talk you through how you can visualize cyber risk with a 360 view and deliver informed decisions about risk mitigation and insurance coverage.
Breakout: The Healthcare Digital Matrix: Connecting Patient Safety, Data Protection, and Operational Risks
In the interconnected digital ecosystem of healthcare, cyber threats do not exist in isolation; instead, they create a ripple effect across patient care, regulatory compliance, and operational systems. This session explores the critical connections between cybersecurity incidents and their widespread impacts on organizations. You will learn how to decode the complex relationships between risks that matter most. For example—how a ransomware attack can threaten both patient safety and HIPAA compliance, how a data breach can undermine trust and financial stability, and how system downtime can disrupt care delivery. Through real-world case studies and strategic frameworks, you will gain insights on how to identify, prioritize, and respond to the interconnected cyber risks that define resilience in modern healthcare. You will leave with a practical understanding of how effective incident response planning can address not only immediate threats, but the entire network of connected risks that are vital for organizational survival in today’s digital healthcare landscape.
Breakout: What’s New and
What’s Next with Insurable Risk
Gain exclusive insights into the future of Riskonnect’s RMIS solution. This session will explain our vision, investment strategy, and top features. Take advantage of this opportunity to contribute your ideas and suggestions directly to shape the future of insurable risk management.
Breakout: Risk Alchemy Decoded: Connecting the Matrix of Critical Challenges
Today, organizations encounter a complex matrix of interconnected risks including IT security vulnerabilities, data breaches, physical security threats, and operational disruptions. These risks can have cascading effects across entire business ecosystems. Traditional, siloed approaches to risk management often overlook how these risks can amplify one another—from cyber incidents that harm brand reputation to physical security gaps that expose digital vulnerabilities.
This session will highlight how leading organizations are transforming this intricate risk landscape from a strategic liability into a competitive advantage through integrated risk management. Participants will examine real-world scenarios where IT security failures lead to brand crises, explore the convergence of data and physical security risks in hybrid environments, and understand how initiative-taking risk connection strategies can drive innovation and market differentiation.
Breakout: The Risk Intelligence Awakening: Moving from Concept to Reality
This session guides you on a transformative journey from traditional misconceptions about risk to intelligent capabilities fueled by AI and emerging technologies. Explore how Riskonnect integrates predictive analytics and machine learning into a unified network that extends beyond current limitations. Experience how this approach transforms reactive management into proactive intelligence, allowing us to anticipate challenges before they arise in our interconnected world.
Breakout: AI Governance: The New Frontier of
Algorithmic Risk
AI governance emerges as the critical code linking algorithmic risks to organizational reality. This session reveals practical approaches for navigating AI bias, transparency, and accountability while connecting evolving regulatory requirements to responsible innovation. Discover how to see through the complexity of AI systems and establish meaningful connections between artificial intelligence risks and strategic decision-making frameworks.
Breakout: Metrics That Move Markets: Proving Your Risk Program’s Value
This session explains how to move beyond compliance checklists toward metrics that demonstrate actual program value. You’ll learn how to align risk KPIs with business objectives to transform the way executives perceive your risk function and your impact. You’ll also get a practical look at how analytics can provide compelling evidence of risk management’s strategic value while delivering a powerful story of organizational resilience.
Breakout: Journey to Becoming a Resilient by Design Organization
Stronger resilience comes when enterprise risk management and business continuity planning are aligned. This session shares practical ways to improve teamwork across departments to inspire risk-aware decisions and synchronized continuity planning.
Breakout: Breaking the Clinical Code: Integrating Insights to Feed Your Risk Scorecards
In the healthcare sector, risk management is inherently complex— disparate individual actions influence departmental outcomes; patient occurrences are linked to overall financial implications; and numerous early risk indicators are available requiring assessment. This session reveals how Risk and Clinical Scorecards transform fragmented incident reports into an integrated system that draws key connections among events, departments, divisions, and involved personnel. Participants will learn to correlate legal, risk, insurance, and employment data, to identify mitigation opportunities, enhance accountability, and inform financial decisions. Discover how to connect the dots between attributing clinical events to staff performance trends, understanding how departmental culture impacts patient outcomes, and hierarchical reporting structures enable or obstruct risk visibility. Through practical scorecard frameworks and real-world healthcare applications, you’ll explore how integrating data across organizational levels converts isolated incidents into valuable insights for leadership—facilitating strategic actions to drive systemic improvement. Walk away with tools to develop scorecards that focus on the relationship of critical aspects to achieve exemplary healthcare within our complex clinical environment.
Wednesday, October 15
Breakout: The Code of Connection: Unifying Risk and Compliance
This session will present practical methods for overcoming the artificial barriers that isolate risk, compliance, audit, and continuity functions. You’ll discover how unified Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms create strong connections between previously siloed departments, transforming fragmented operations into an integrated network of strategic collaboration. Experience the benefits of seamless information flow and shared intelligence that drive organizational success.
Breakout: Breaking the Medicare Code: Essential Tools for Risk Navigation
Explore the intricate Medicare compliance landscape where Civil Money Penalties, Section 111 Reporting, and WCMSA obligations intersect. Our experts will reveal strategies for data cleanup and streamlined reporting, turning compliance challenges into effective risk management with clarity and confidence.
Breakout: Unplugging from Vendor Blindness: The Early Warning Connection
This session will teach you how to look beyond basic vendor data to identify hidden risk signals that can lead to supply chain disruptions. You will learn how to automate intelligence gathering and link early warning signals to efficient information networks. Experience how digging deeper into surface-level data uncovers the interconnected third-party relationships that are crucial for protecting your organization.
Breakout: From Spreadsheets to Strategic Intelligence: How Aramark and Sazerac Transformed Risk Management Through Connected Data
Join industry leaders for an engaging discussion on how the Riskonnect-LineSlip partnership transforms risk and insurance data management at two major enterprises: Aramark and Sazerac. This session will showcase real-world implementation stories, measurable outcomes, and strategic insights from organizations that have successfully eliminated data silos and revamped their approach to policy data management.
Breakout: Decoding the Workplace Violence Matrix: Connecting the Dots Beyond Incident Reports
This session will explore the evolution of workplace violence management through a comprehensive reporting and response framework. You’ll learn from two years of real-world implementation, including strategies for managing multiple incidents, creating collaborative investigation spaces, and keeping stakeholders informed via team-centered safety initiatives.
Breakout: AI in Risk Management: Addressing Both Opportunity and Peril
This session explores AI’s dual nature as a powerful ally and an emerging threat vector in risk management. You’ll gain strategies for leveraging AI’s predictive capabilities while addressing algorithmic bias, hallucinations, and security vulnerabilities. You’ll also learn how to navigate evolving AI regulations and support responsible innovation.
Breakout: The Safety Matrix: Connecting Field Data to Enterprise Risk Reality
Your safety audits generate massive amounts of disconnected data—but the real risks hide in the connections between field observations, worker feedback, and operational patterns. This session reveals how mobile audit tools and text analytics create a unified risk intelligence matrix, transforming scattered safety data points into a comprehensive view of your organization’s true risk landscape. You’ll discover how to map the hidden relationships between field conditions, human factors, and systemic vulnerabilities, shifting from isolated inspections to an interconnected risk prevention ecosystem that anticipates problems before they cascade into incidents.
Breakout: What’s New and What’s Next with
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.
Breakout: Awakening Your Visual Intelligence: Converting Data Silos to Risk Networks
Traditional siloed reporting doesn’t cut it with today’s complex web of interconnected risks. This session will explain how to transform fragmented data silos into unified intelligence networks using ClearSight storytelling capabilities. The session will feature one organization’s journey to successfully connect locations, exposures, policies, programs, and other data to create intuitive connections that enhance reporting for all stakeholders.
Breakout: Mining Root Cause Analysis for
Strategic Risk Transformation
This session offers practical tips on developing a structured approach to identify the underlying causes of adverse events. You’ll discover the right questions to ask and what technologies are required to develop corrective action plans to increase safety and reduce costs.
Breakout: Uncovering the Hidden Network
This session explores how your digital intake process forms a critical risk nexus—where thoughtful design not only enhances user experience but also improves data integrity, speeds up investigation timelines, and bolsters organizational credibility. You will discover practical strategies for designing and implementing an intuitive intake process that helps eliminate risks before they compromise your entire investigative framework.
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