Ashley Zink, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Chief Risk Officer and Special Assistant to the Chief Accounting Officer, and Stephen Skardon, the City of Chicago’s Chief Risk Officer, will provide observations on risk management as embedded in successfully addressing key pillars of their mission such as accountability, civic engagement, diversity and inclusion, efficient budgeting, equity, government integrity and ethics, transformation, and transparency.
This session will presents 3 experts that have hands-on experience implementing technology solutions in support of their risk management objectives. The dialogue will be presented in the form of questions from the moderator and answers from the panel experts. The questions and answers will touch on all three Summit tracks with a primary focus on Delivering Value to Decisionmakers through technology.
The Presidents Panel discusses the evolution of Federal ERM, the differences between implementation of ERM in the Federal Space and Commercial Space and resulting lessons learned and best practices, and the future of ERM including the relationship between federal agencies and GAO, OMB, etc.
Inevitably, agency ERM offices will receive a knock on the door and find that the IG or GAO has arrived to initiate an audit of the ERM program. To avoid being caught unprepared for the eventual audit, there are steps ERM teams can take to become “audit-ready.” In this session, we’ll share several tools, techniques and actions that can be deployed by ERM teams to assess a program’s overall level of audit readiness, identify gaps, and pinpoint opportunities for shoring up your preparedness now. Topics to be covered include: Using a Pre-Audit Readiness Assessment Tool (PART), Considering the CIGIE ERM Practitioner’s Guide for IGs, Leveraging Maturity/Capability Models, Proactively Communicating/Engaging with the IG, and more.
The Risk Awareness Toolkit for Federal Risk Practitioners is part of an ongoing collaboration between risk management professionals from the Enterprise Risk Management Community of Practice (ERM CoP), Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), and AFERM Small Agency Community of Practice (SACoP). This document provides several tips for raising risk awareness and will expand in the future to contain examples and lessons learned from agencies’ successful risk awareness campaigns. Federal risk management practitioners are encouraged to leverage these tips and future examples, customizing them to align with their agency’s culture, norms, and other characteristics.
Reputational Risk and the Future of Trust: Using TrustIQ to Understand and Enhance Trust in Your Organization Deloitte understands that in today’s hyper-connected world, your organization’s reputation will drive your planning, strategy and purpose. Trust and reputation are inextricably linked, with trust being the foundation of all meaningful relationships between an entity and its various stakeholders at both the individual and organizational levels. A nice-to-have is now a must-have; a principle is now a catalyst; a value is now invaluable. In this session Deloitte’s Future of Trust practice will provide a demonstration of TrustIQ, a data-driven solution that assesses both internal and external perceptions of levels of trust in your organization. We will explore the various domains of trust, how to anticipate risks to your reputation before they manifest, and how to take action to enhance and build trust with your stakeholders.
This software demonstration/tour will highlight one of the hallmarks of rPM3 Solutions’ Aperitisoft™ software – its versatility. Using inherent features and easy user configuration, the software can support a wide range of different assessment applications. Clients are currently using Aperitisoft™ to assess information security posture (NIST & ISO 27001), environmental risk assessments (ISO 14000), project risk assessments, credit risk assessments, compliance assessments, and others. The software can also support third party risk assessments, health and safety assessments and risk-based selection of program / functional area audits.
During this session, Gary Bierc and Ken Fletcher demonstrate the versatility of the system configured to conduct a simple operational programs assessment using a set of basic criteria and automated assessment scoring.
This software demonstration/tour will show you how to manage you’re OMB A-123 requirements using rPM3 Solutions’ Aperitisoft™ software solution. This feature rich software was purpose-built to support ERM practitioners and logically structured to mirror the ERM process. A built-in survey tool supports risk identification, developing likelihood and impact factors, and risk evaluation and is easily tailored to meet your specific needs and unique requirements. The survey feature supports polling, interviews, and workshops, and simplifies collecting, compiling, and manipulating risk assessment information. Intuitive forms for entering information guide users through the ERM process from setting the context and risk identification through risk response planning & monitoring (including KRIs and linking to controls). Every aspect of your ERM process is captured in Aperitisoft™, so you won’t need to use excel spreadsheets or other Office suite products to get the job done.
In this session, Gary Bierc and Ken Fletcher will demonstrate how to use the software to conduct an agency strategic risk assessment.
