OpRisk North America
Benchmark best practices and innovation with the largest global community of operational risk experts.

Presents
OpRisk North America
ETC. VENUES, 360 MADISON AVENUE, NYC | October 20, 2022
More practice, less theory.
OpRisk North America returns to New York this October, reuniting the leaders of the OpRisk community from top investment banks and buy-side firms for an important face-to-face meeting.
Our interactive agenda has been steered by the Risk.net editorial team and OpRisk advisory board and covers the most pressing issues facing OpRisk professionals, from managing cyber attacks to the evolution of fraud to regulatory expectations.
The day will facilitate a peer-to-peer dialogue and give you the practical, forward-looking insights and innovative solutions you need to remain compliant and ensure business continuity for your firm in the era of digital transformation.
Practical insights and innovative solutions for OpRisk professionals
Our 2022 agenda is shaped in partnership with our advisory board:

Nedim Baruh
Head of Operational Risk Measurement and Analytics
JP Morgan
Nedim Baruh leads the Operational Risk Capital and Analytics function at J.P. Morgan Chase ("JPMC") and is responsible for the Operational Risk Capital and Stress Testing processes.
Most recently, Nedim has been leading JPMC's effort to enhance its Scenario Analysis program by developing factor based models to assess its material risks. This work will help JPMC bridge the gap between operational risk measurement and management.
Prior to joining JPMC, Nedim was part of the Algorithmics Operational Risk advisory function and led many client engagements in the operational risk space.
Nedim has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bala Ayyar
Managing Director & Chief Data Officer, SG Americas
Société Générale
Since joining SG in 2009, he has held a range of positions. Currently, he is the Chief Data Officer, SG Americas, with responsibility for data management and governance within the Region. This function is responsible for implementing the requirements of BCBS 239, establishing sound data governance framework that meets Group needs and local supervisory expectations, and creating a solid platform for the data to be leveraged for strategic business decisions. Prior to that, he headed up the Project Management Office for the SG US Transformation project. SG roles before that included Deputy CFO of the Americas Region of their Corporate & Investment Bank and Head of Finance Offshoring in SG Bangalore.
Prior to joining SG, Bala was with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) for fourteen years in a range of positions in Toronto and New York. As Senior Vice President of the Wholesale North America Finance, he headed up the controllership function for CIBC’s World Markets and Treasury & Risk Management Strategic Business Units within North America. With a global team across Toronto and New York, he was responsible for establishing a SOX-compliant industry-leading Finance control environment as well as supporting the efficient execution of business initiatives and managing the Finance related US regulatory relationships during a very demanding period. Prior to that, he also had stints as the business-line controller for the Bank's US origination businesses (Corporate Lending, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking, Structured Finance, and High Yield), as well as the 2/ic to the Chief Accountant, with responsibility for consolidated financial, management and regulatory reporting at the corporate level.
Born and brought up in Mumbai India, Bala has a degree in mathematics from the University of Mumbai and holds professional accounting qualifications from both India and the United States. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey is married with two children, and enjoys long-distance running.

Yogesh Mudgal
Director, emerging technology risk
Citi

Hasintha Gunawickrema
Chief control officer, wealth and personal banking
HSBC

Tom Osborn
Editor, risk management
Risk.net
Tom Osborn is the desk editor of Risk.net’s risk management coverage. Prior to joining Risk, he reported on the futures and foreign exchange industries for Dow Jones' Financial News and the Euromoney group of publications. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Warwick, UK.
Attendees will gain insights into:
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- Mitigating and reporting on cyber incidents
- Overcoming the latest forms of fraud
- Tools that identify and quantify cyber, third party and ICT risk in a holistic way
- Regulatory expectations, including a closed-door Q and As session
- The new threat actors linked to IoT, 5G and technology risk
- How climate risk, diversity and well-being sit within the operational risk remit

Join the OpRisk 2022 series

In-person, June 28

Virtual, October 4-7

In-person, October 20
Why partner with us?
Re-engage and re-connect:
The pandemic put our lives on hold, now is the time to generate leads and re-connect with the senior leaders of the OpRisk community
Raise the bar:
Add your voice to the discussion as the community builds a framework that is forward-looking and can withstand the next crisis
Benchmark:
We bring together the largest, most global community of senior OpRisk professionals so you can better understand their needs

OpRisk Series:
- OpRisk Europe - In-person
- OpRisk Fall - Online
- OpRisk North America - In-person
Previous sponsors
Fusion Risk Management is a leading industry provider of cloud-based software solutions for operational resilience, encompassing risk management, third-party risk management, information technology and security risk, business continuity and disaster recovery, and crisis and incident management. Its products and services take organizations beyond legacy solutions and empower them to make data-driven decisions with a comprehensive and flexible approach through one system. Fusion and its team of experts are dedicated to helping companies achieve greater operational resilience and mitigate risks within their businesses.
Interos protects customers’ brand and operations from risk in their extended supply chains and business relationships. The first AI-powered platform for eliminating multi-party, multi-factor risk from 3rd, 4th to nth tier parties, Interos automates discovery, detection, and response to financial, operations, governance, geographic, and cyber risk. Designed by experts and leveraging the company’s 15 years of experience in managing the world’s most complicated supply chains, Interos provides real-time risk management for the largest commercial brands in manufacturing, financial services, and aerospace and defense.
MetricStream is the global market leader of Integrated Risk Management and GRC empowering organizations to accelerate growth with risk-aware decisions. The MetricStream Platform and solutions provide quantifiable risk insights powered by deep domain expertise, embedded content, collaboration, integrated data, analytics, and AI. We connect governance, risk management, and compliance across the extended enterprise with business objectives, enabling our customers to thrive on risk. For details please visit: www.metricstream.com.
Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting and investing in the future of our clients wherever they do business. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide.
Our 5,200 people, of which almost half are lawyers, are located across 30 offices in 20 countries. In order to offer our clients the highest quality advice, our lawyers across three divisions; Corporate, Dispute Resolution and Finance, specialise in industry sectors as well as practice areas.
About Archer
Archer, an RSA company, is a leader in providing integrated risk management solutions that enable customers to improve strategic decision making and operational resiliency. As true pioneers in GRC software, Archer remains solely dedicated to helping customers understand risk holistically by engaging stakeholders, leveraging a modern platform that spans key domains of risk and supports analysis driven by both business and IT impacts. The Archer customer base represents one of the largest pure risk management communities globally, with over 1,500 deployments including more than 90 of the Fortune 100
OneTrust Vendorpedia™ is the largest and most widely-used technology platform to operationalize third-party risk. The offering enables both enterprises and their vendors with technology solutions that include: the Third-Party Risk Exchange, a community of shared (and pre-completed) vendor risk assessments with 70,000+ participating vendors; Questionnaire Response Automation, a tool that helps organizations answer incoming security questionnaires; and Third-Party Risk Management software, a platform to streamline the entire vendor lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding. More than 7,500 customers of all sizes use OneTrust, which is powered by 75 awarded patents, to offer the most depth and breadth of any third-party risk, security, and privacy solution in the market. OneTrust Vendorpedia offers purpose-built software designed to help organizations manage vendor relationships with confidence, including and integrates seamlessly with the entire OneTrust platform, including – OneTrust Privacy, OneTrust GRC, OneTrust DataGuidance™, and OneTrust PreferenceChoice™.
Milliman’s Complex Risk Analysis is a next-generation cyber risk solution that incorporates a forward-looking approach to modeling how cyber risks occur and propagate. It provides organizational decision makers and risk managers with a more accurate understanding of current vulnerabilities—as well as actionable recommendations for mitigation decisions and sophisticated predictions about potential future financial losses. Using the power of AI, Milliman’s solution helps identify emerging threat vectors before they cause damage to your organization, tying cyber risk directly back to your balance sheet and forecasts to help you model the effect of various actions.
Website: milliman.com/crisalis
Cutover is the Work Orchestration and Observability platform that drives greater business outcomes with a new model of working. We orchestrate humans and machine automation to improve performance and radically compress timelines. We have proven success helping world-class organizations with technology delivery and release, operational resilience, and transformation.
Cutover uses automated runbooks to plan, orchestrate, and analyze complex work. Our customers replace the chaos of multiple spreadsheets and fragmented communications, with a single intuitive platform. Teams can achieve more in less time, making more efficient use of resources.
Real-time visibility and detailed analytics deliver greater control, precision, and agility. This enables organizations to move quickly with confidence, reducing the risk of disruption and customer-facing incidents.
Bottomline (NASDAQ: EPAY) helps make complex business payments simple, smart, and secure. Banks rely on Bottomline for domestic and international payments, state of the art fraud detection, insider fraud protection, behavioral analytics, consolidated case management and regulatory compliance solutions. Banks around the world benefit from Bottomline cyber fraud and risk solutions. Headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, Bottomline delights customers through offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information visit www.bottomline.com.
Eventus Systems is a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customize and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and digital asset markets. Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume and real-time environments of tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, market centers, buy-side institutions, energy and commodity trading firms, and regulators. The company’s rapidly growing client base relies on Validus and Eventus’ responsive support and product development teams to overcome its most pressing regulatory challenges.
The usage and Risks from Spreadsheets and other End User Computing (EUC) tools such as Python/R/SQL/SAS/RPT files and Access databases continues to increase, in response to fast changing market conditions, economic uncertainty and regulatory mandates.
CIMCON’s EUC Insight is an intelligent, automated and unique software platform that reduces these risks across the entire EUC Life Cycle. Its Discovery, Inventory, Monitoring and Disposition modules identify new EUCs and assess risk, inventory them, monitor for high risk changes and dispose as needed. A single user interface integrates all modules and file types. XLAudit is a visual, easy to use Excel plugin that performs quick validation, logic and error checks on spreadsheets and documents the results.
Whether your EUCs are already on the Cloud or will be, CIMCON tools and services can help. We support all major Cloud repositories and can help fix links that break when moving to Cloud.
We can also migrate your legacy Access databases to a web application on cloud. CIMCON has a wide range of consulting, technology and reseller partners around the globe. With 25 years of experience, 500 customers in 30 countries, and a #1 ranking by Gartner, CIMCON is the only company you will ever need to manage all of your EUC needs.
Albany Beck helps clients overcome challenges, explore opportunities and improve services through our Advisory, Consulting and Technology enablement services.
We specialise in providing a broad range of services covering strategy, consulting, digital, technology, finance and risk across the Financial Services sector. Underpinned by a robust change management and governance process with appropriate commercial and economic models, we ensure our clients gain the maximum value through our service delivery. Our flexible, scalable and cost-efficient business model genuinely meets our clients' needs whilst creating a lasting and positive impact.
Through our Employed Consultant Model (ECM), we provide organisations with access to an alternative source of talent, enabling our clients to overcome immediate workplace skill gaps and prepare for future talent needs by bridging the gap between contract and permanent resources. By engaging with Albany Beck, each of our clients benefits from a stable, flexible, highly productive workforce that can grow with its organisation.
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OpRisk North America is a great place to embrace and benchmark operational risk, as well as cyber risk in one place… for me it’s the perfect way to engage in debates about the hottest topics within the industry today
Glenna Hagopian, CCO & head of enterprise risk
The event brings a collective view on how we can better manage operational risk, not just for the firm but for the financial industry as a whole
Henry Quach, VP, operational risk, Morgan Stanley
A well organized event with good networking opportunities
SmartStream
Extremely knowledgeable speakers, engaging and fielded any questions
State Farm

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