Risk-!n 2026 – Program Day 2

Schedule - Friday 22 May

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Welcome coffee

May 22, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Hub

Themes: Networking

 

0.1 The boundaries of a D&O policy for listing risk. A real case

May 22, 8:30 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management · Insurance & Captive Management · Resilience, Continuity & Crisis Management

• Karin Rechsteiner
  Insurance Manager, Holcim Ltd.

 

1.1 Artificial Intelligence: A Crisis in the Making

May 22, 9:15 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics · Enterprise Risk Management

• Benedikt Unold
  Board Member; CTO, CIO, HRM Systems
• Fulvio Maccarone
  Private Investments Advisor, Professional Board Member, Lecturer, EQ/NEXT Advisors 8.
• Jakob Barandun
  CEO, Suisse Capricorn
• Sebastien Wyss
  Head of Financial Lines, Kessler

 

1.2 Value-Based Risk Management: From Noise to Decision Advantage

May 22, 9:15 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Michael Rasmussen
  GRC Analyst & Pundit, GRC Report & GRC 20/20 Research
• Stefan Gershater
  Head of Risk and Governance, The Co-operative Group (UK)

 

1.3 Navigating Geopolitical Risk in an Era of Strategic Uncertainty

May 22, 9:15 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Lucy Lei
  Director, Genesis Pacific Advisory
• Richard Lukacs
  Geopolitical & Global Risk Advisor; Master Coach ERM, Independent
• Tanja Wranik
  Founder & Managing Partner, Pimetrics

 

Morning coffee break & Networking #1

May 22, 9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Hub

Themes: Networking

2.1 Why Cyber Risk is the next challenge managing your Supply Chain Resilience

May 22, 10:25 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics

• Christian Koxholt
  Chief Commercial Officer, Quantum Fort AG

 

2.3 When Risk Arrives Too Late: From ERM to Resilience Leadership

May 22, 10:25 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management · Resilience, Continuity & Crisis Management

• Emma Price
  Pioneer, Brave Within LLP
• Jennifer Geary
  Founder, The C-Suite Framework
• John Benfield
  Head of Business Development, Horizonscan

 

2.2 What It Takes to Make ERM Stick

May 22, 10:25 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Dominic Santschi
  Research Associate & Ph.D. Candidate, University of St.Gallen
• Mike Devine
  VP Head of Enterprise Risk Management, ABB

 

3.1 Cognitive biases in AI

May 22, 11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics · Enterprise Risk Management

• Pierre Lauquin
  Risk & Business Continuity Manager, Swiss government
• Rafael Tiedra
  Data Scientist, Geneva State

 

3.3 Risk seen from the other Side

May 22, 11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Maximilien Roche
  Consultant, Rock Integrity & Investigations
• Nicolas Kaeller-Cox
  VP Internal Audit and Risk, Sonova Group

 

3.2 Resilience Under Pressure: Building Continuity and Risk Capability in High-Risk Environments

May 22, 11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management · Resilience, Continuity & Crisis Management

• Gregory Descamps
  Enterprise Business Continuity Lead, UCB
• Roberto Grosso Ciponte
  Group Risk & BCM Officer, RONAL AG
• Sarah Hobday-Mitchell
  Business Continuity Director, Parexel

 

4.3 Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management

May 22, 11:55 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Graeme Keith
  Managing Partner, Stochastic ApS
• Markus Buchner
  Head of Enterprise Risk Management, Siemens Energy

 

4.1 AI in Compliance: From Experimentation to Defensible Practice

May 22, 11:55 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics

• Cecilia Garcia Podoley
  Vice-Chair of the Board, Ethics & Compliance Switzerland
• Demir Arifovski
  Account Director, NAVEX
• Michael Rasmussen
  GRC Analyst & Pundit, GRC Report & GRC 20/20 Research

 

4.2 - The Golden Rules of Corporate Risk Management: Agree, Disagree, or Rethink?

May 22, 11:55 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Hermann Suter
  Head of Group Enterprise Risk Management, Barry Callebaut AG
• Stefan Hunziker
  Professor of Risk Management, Lucerne School of Business

 

Lunch & Networking #2

May 22, 12:35 PM - 1:35 PM
Room: Hub

Themes: Networking

 

5.1 Why Performance Management must be integrated with GRC

May 22, 1:40 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics · Enterprise Risk Management · Insurance & Captive Management · Resilience, Continuity & Crisis Management

• Mario Keil
  Head of Sales DACH, Corporater
• Maximilian Bazzi
  Founder & CEO, Bazzi Consulting

 

6.3 Adopting Agentic AI systems efficiently, avoiding duplication of efforts and achieving reusability and scalability.

May 22, 2:25 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Alejo Marquez
  Senior Consultant - Data Scientist, Management Solutions
• Leigh Thorpe
  Director - Applied AI Solution Architect, UBS
• Ruben Moral
  Partner, Management Solutions

 

6.1 Data sovereignty in times of geopolitcal tensions

May 22, 2:25 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics · Enterprise Risk Management

• Gérald Vernez
  Founder & CEO, dVCyberGroup SA
• Henri Haenni
  CEO, Abilene Group SA
• Laura Kiviharju
  Strategic Legal Advisor in AI & Data Compliance, dataprotectionAdvice GmbH

 

6.2 Risk Maturity in a Shifting World: Strategy, Quantification, and Accountability

May 22, 2:25 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics · Enterprise Risk Management

• Alan Ragueneau
  CEO and Co-Founder, GlisRisk
• Annette Schüller
  Board Member, Ethics & Compliance Switzerland
• Vilma Nasteckienė
  Founder, MB Rizikos menas (Holistic Business Risk)

 

7.2 From Reporting to Steering - How Risk Management and Internal Audit strengthen strategic direction

May 22, 3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Anja Zumkeller
  Director of Compliance and Audit, Risk & Advisory, FIFA
• Martin Studer
  General Partner and Chairman, Bluerain Partners Group AG (former Global Head of Internal Audit at Zurich Insurance Group and EY International)
• Stina Belfrage
  VP Internal Audit, Autoliv
• Thomas Michel (Session Host)
  Governance Expert, KeyStone Governance & Structures (former Head of Internal Audit and ERM at the WEF)

 

7.3 When Risk Management meets Crisis

May 22, 3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management · Resilience, Continuity & Crisis Management

• Bruno Parnet
  Risk Manager, Audemars Piguet
• Marybelle Barras
  Board Advisor and Transformation Expert, Barras Advisory

 

7.1 De-Risking Longevity: Building the Talent Engine for a Resilient Re/Insurance Market

May 22, 3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management · Insurance & Captive Management · Resilience, Continuity & Crisis Management

• Binci Heeb
  Editor-in-Chief, thebrokernews
• Caroline de La Cochetiere
  Managing Director Switzerland, Lincoln
• Nadine Esposito
  Founder, Wellthspan Advisory

 

8.1 How can you build a robust cybersecurity strategy and withstand attacks from hackers around the world?

May 22, 3:55 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Cyber, AI risks & Quantum topics

• Christophe Pelfresne
  Cybersecurity expert, Banque de France
• Dimitri Chichlo
  Founder & Principal Advisor, AndSecure
• Doron Tenne
  Cybersecurity Strategy Senior Advisor & Mentor, Retired Executive security and cyber affairs director at SICPA SA, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

8.3 Building Supply Chain Resilience with TPRM and Parametric Protection

May 22, 3:55 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Room 3

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Didier Odorico
  Integrated Supply Chain Director of Risk Management, BD
• Juan María Marqués Domenech
  Commercial Director for Iberia and Central Europe, Descartes Underwriting
• Philippe Sejalon
  CEO, INGAGE Institute

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8.2 A frank discussion - Are we Exploring opportunities, navigating ambiguity, delivering wisdom?

May 22, 3:55 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Room 2

Themes: Enterprise Risk Management

• Adrian Clements
  President AT-IPIC & Executive Risk Consultant, AT-IPIC
• Marc Pharoah
  Non - Financial Risk & Risk Culture Specialist, Independent
• Sebastian Crosina
  Commercial Lead & Risk Consultant, Spark Science

 

9.1 Closing remarks and group picture

May 22, 4:40 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Room 1

Themes: Networking

• Stephane Martin
  Co-Founder, Risk-!n