Risk Appetite Dinner, BERLIN
June 23 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm BERLIN, GERMANY
An Evening of Candid Conversation for Risk Leaders
Risk Appetite Executive Dinners are an invitation-only global thought leadership series for senior risk executives responsible for navigating uncertainty, protecting enterprise value, and enabling their organisations to take the right risks.
Hosted by Michael Rasmussen, Founder of GRC 20/20 Research, analyst at GRC Report, and host of the Risk Is Our Business and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy podcasts, this invitation-only dinner brings together a carefully curated group of CISOs, risk leaders, and GRC executives for candid, off-the-record discussion. This is not a vendor pitch, conference panel, or marketing event. It is a high-trust forum for peer-level dialogue among executives facing real-world board pressure, regulatory expectations, and identity-driven risk exposure.
Dining Experience
The dinner is set in the Fancy Schmancy Private Dining Room at Night Kitchen, located within the historic Heckmann Höfe courtyard in Berlin Mitte. This seated executive dinner is intentionally designed to slow the pace, encourage open dialogue, and foster meaningful peer connections. Attendance is strictly limited to ensure depth of discussion and a consistent level of seniority around the table.
Discussion focus
The evening will explore what it means to lead risk in an era of rapid AI adoption. Topics will include governing AI as a systemic enterprise risk, the role of human judgement in an increasingly automated landscape, and what boards are now expecting from the risk function. The conversation will touch on how AI is reshaping risk identification and decision-making, where accountability and assurance break down, and what it takes to build a risk-aware culture when the pace of change shows no sign of slowing.
Conversations are held under Chatham House Rule.
Event details
📅 Tuesday, 23 June 2026
🕕 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
📍 Night Kitchen — Fancy Schmancy Private Dining Room
Heckmann Höfe, Oranienburger Str. 32, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Participation
For those selected, this Risk Appetite Executive Dinner offers a rare opportunity to step away from surface-level debate and engage deeply with fellow leaders who understand that risk is not something to be avoided, but something to be governed, aligned, and deliberately embraced.
Attendance is by invitation only to ensure a senior, peer-level audience and a balanced, high-value discussion.
GRC 20/20 Risk Appetite Facilitator . . .
If you ask my family what I do for a living, they might say that I “travel the world talking about risk.” And honestly, that wouldn’t be far from the truth. But the more formal introduction is that I am an analyst, researcher, storyteller, and, as the industry likes to remind me, the Father of GRC. More than 23 years ago, while at Forrester Research, I coined the acronym GRC and articulated it as a way to integrate governance, risk management, and compliance capabilities in strategy, process, and technology.
Today, through GRC 20/20 Research, I spend my days studying how organizations around the world navigate complexity and uncertainty. My job is to observe patterns, identify challenges, understand how strategy, process, and technology intersect, and help organizations evolve to be more effective, efficient, resilient, and agile. Along the way, I also founded GRC Report, a global news and insights platform focused entirely on governance, risk management, compliance, and business integrity news and insights around the world. It has become a place where practitioners, executives, policymakers, and technologists can see the GRC landscape through a global lens.
I also host two podcasts — Risk Is Our Business Podcast and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy Podcast — because I believe conversation is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing how people think about risk and integrity. These podcasts allow me to explore big ideas with remarkable minds from around the world, and they keep me grounded in the reality that risk is not merely a function — it is the fabric of every decision and every ambition. In many ways, I am an explorer of uncertainty. As an industry analyst, I map and monitor the ever-expanding GRC galaxy — now tracking over 1,500 solutions and the professional services orbiting them. The universe of GRC is vast, dynamic, and constantly in motion, and I am endlessly fascinated by how organizations chart their course through it.
Risk Appetite Dinner Host . . .
Mitratech is a trusted, global technology partner empowering corporate legal, risk & compliance, and HR professionals to maximize productivity, control expense, and mitigate risk by deepening operational alignment, and increasing collaboration & visibility across their organization. With Mitratech’s proven portfolio of end-to-end solutions, organizations worldwide are able to proactively identify and implement best practices and standardize processes across all lines of business to manage risk and ensure business continuity. Mitratech partners with more than 10,000 companies worldwide, from small nimble teams needing tech-enablement, to the largest organizations in the world trying to centralize, streamline and collaborate across their legal and risk functions. Mitratech’s user base spans more than 160 countries.