• VENT TIME:   SEPTEMBER 23, 2026, 08:30 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.
• EVENT ADDRESS:   FINLANDIA-TALO, MANNERHEIMINTIE 13 E

Essentials for Your Path to Excellence

ERM Day 2026, organized by the Finnish Risk Management Association (FINNRIMA), brings together Risk Management professionals for a full day of discussion on the theme “ERM Meets Resilience”. The program explores how organizations can strengthen resilience in an increasingly uncertain operating environment. The sessions will cover digital sovereignty, the role of boards in resilience, national security of supply, human resilience and performance, and resilience from a CRO perspective.

Speakers include recognized professionals from the European Parliament, international business, risk management, governance, and security of supply. The day will end with a networking cocktail session, offering a good opportunity to continue the discussion and connect with peers in the risk management community. Join us at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki on 23 September 2026.

Attending will expand your knowledge, enhance your network, and position you as a forward-thinking risk management professional. Register now to stay ahead in the evolving risk management landscape!

GRC 20/20 Analyst Keynote . . .

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.

Conference Host . . .

The Finnish Risk Management Association, FINNRIMA, is Finland’s leading professional community for risk management, bringing together risk and security leaders, organizations, educational institutions, public authorities, insurers, brokers, consultants, and others committed to advancing the discipline. Established in 1987, FINNRIMA provides a forum for professional dialogue, collaboration, education, and the exchange of practical insight across Finland’s risk community. With approximately 360 individual and organizational members, including many of Finland’s largest industrial groups and insurance organizations, the association works to strengthen professional risk management capabilities, promote wider understanding of risk throughout society, support research and education, and contribute to the development of relevant standards and regulation. FINNRIMA also connects Finland’s risk community to the broader European profession through its membership in the Federation of European Risk Management Associations, FERMA.