16 September 2025
Risk & Resilience
Risk & Resilience
Risk & Resilience
The Diligent Risk & Resilience Virtual Summit is the ultimate virtual forum for leaders seeking to transform risk into opportunity. Featuring expert insights, forward-looking strategies, and actionable takeaways, this virtual event explores how to fortify your organization’s resilience against an evolving risk landscape. From navigating new challenges to leveraging resilience as a strategic advantage, this summit offers unparalleled guidance to help your organization thrive.
AMERS: 11am EST
EMEA: 11am BST
APAC: 11am SGT
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Exclusive insights
Gain exclusive insights into the state of resilience in 2025 from leading experts.
Discover
Discover how to integrate cyber resilience into the core of your organization’s strategy.
Learn
Learn how audit functions are evolving into strategic enablers for better decision-making.
Explore
Explore cutting-edge approaches to managing and mitigating risk across your organization.
Earn Continuing Education Credit
Earn CLE, CE, and CPE credit hours while gaining valuable knowledge and strategies for your GRC programs.
Risk & Resilience Virtual Summit: Agenda
Keynote | The resilience blueprint: Turning risk into a strategic advantage
TBC
Speaker
Michael Rasmussen
GRC Analyst & Pundit
GRC 20/20 Research
Discover how leading organizations are reframing risk management from a reactive discipline to a proactive enabler of growth and innovation. This session sets the tone for a resilient future — one where uncertainty becomes opportunity.
Navigating the risk landscape: The state of resilience in 2025
TBC
Moderator
Jay Cameron
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Diligent
Speaker
Maurice L. Crescenzi Jr.
Industry Practice Leader, Moody's
Moody's
From economic volatility to geopolitical tensions and climate disruptions, the risk landscape is evolving fast. This session unpacks recent trends and why building organizational resilience is more than just a buzzword — it’s a survival imperative. Learn how forward-thinking companies are adapting in real time.
Key Takeaways:
Understand the top macro and emerging risks shaping organizations in 2025.
Learn how leading risk teams are adapting strategies to remain resilient amid volatility.
Explore frameworks for aligning risk management with business agility and decision-making.
Gain insights into building a culture of resilience — from leadership to frontline.
Cyber resilience at the core: Protecting what matters most
TBC
Moderator
Meghan Day
Principal Solution Designer
Speaker
Nick Frost
Co-Founder & Lead Consultant, Cyber Risk Management Group
Cyber Risk Management Group
As digital infrastructure becomes increasingly critical, cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue — it’s a boardroom priority. This panel explores how organizations can embed cyber resilience into their enterprise risk frameworks and prepare for the inevitable with agility and speed.
Session Key Takeaways:
Learn how to integrate cybersecurity into your enterprise risk strategy.
Understand the evolving threat landscape and how to prepare for the unexpected.
Discover best practices for improving response readiness and minimizing business disruption.
Hear how risk, IT, and security leaders are working together to build cyber resilience.
Audit's expanding role in risk management: From gatekeeper to strategic enabler
TBC
Moderator
Miles Hitchcock
Director of Product Marketing
Speaker
Mike Levy
CEO and Managing Principal of Cherry Hill Advisory
Audit teams are uniquely positioned to connect dots across silos, surface emerging risks, and validate the effectiveness of controls. This discussion will explore how Internal Audit is evolving to play a central role in resilience planning, risk-based decision-making, and value creation.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how internal audit is shifting from reactive assurance to proactive insight.
Learn how audit teams can contribute to enterprise resilience through risk-based planning.
Explore ways to break down silos and collaborate across risk, compliance, and operations.
See real-world examples of audit driving strategic outcomes and building trust with the business.
Conclusion | The future of Risk: Built to withstand, ready to grow
TBC
Speaker
Scott Bridgen
GM of Risk & Audit
Diligent
Resilience is not just about defense — it's about positioning for success. In this inspiring close, we’ll leave attendees with a call to action: how risk and audit teams can lead with confidence, collaborate cross-functionally, and help the business thrive in a world of constant change.
Keynote | The resilience blueprint: Turning risk into a strategic advantage
Navigating the risk landscape: The state of resilience in 2025
Cyber resilience at the core: Protecting what matters most
Audit's expanding role in risk management: From gatekeeper to strategic enabler
Conclusion | The future of Risk: Built to withstand, ready to grow
Virtual Summit Speakers
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Who should register?
Chief Risk Officers (CROs)
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)
Risk Managers
General Counsel (GCs)
Audit and Compliance Leaders
Information Security Leaders
Enterprise Risk Management Professionals
