[📣 Conference] Americas Risk Exchange: Discussion thread

[LaurieKelly]

Welcome to our live interaction discussion thread for the Americas Risk Exchange! 

1. Log on November 5th when we go live from 10am-12:30pm eastern.  I suggest joining about 10 mins early to make sure your connection is all set.
2. Follow along with me as I moderate our session, introducing the speakers, sharing discussions, and launching polls.
3. "Reply" to any posts with a question or comment.  Our team of specialists and presenters will be available throughout the event to respond in real-time.

Now all you have to do is grab a coffee or water, plug in those headphones, sit back, and enjoy!  

See you there!

[LaurieKelly]

That's a wrap!! 👏

Thank you to everyone, we really appreciate you taking the time to attend in what we appreciate is a crowded market for virtual events at the moment! I hope you have found the event valuable, and that it has raised some good food for thought and potential learnings you can draw from. Your satisfaction really matters to us, so please take a few minutes to fill in our survey to help us plan for future events:   https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=4Zs2YlF940qJK9DWSAH-rSdcE5VzAZ5IiCYk-OzZ9IVUMUdS...

[LaurieKelly]

Onto our last session!  Our final presenter is Nelly Garcia, who will share her experience of how to Encourage a Risk Culture across your organization.

[LaurieKelly]

Welcome David! David is a partner at A&D Contadores Publicos, with 22 years of experience as a public accountant, of which over 10 years as a financier in insurance, surety and private sector

[LaurieKelly]

Thanks Michael - very insightful!

Next up, please welcome Michele Imperiali who has some important updates to IT policies and regulatory compliance.

[SarahMx]

[Poll] According to you what is the most important objective of an IT compliance initiative? https://community.mega.com/t5/GRC-Discussion-EA-Risk-Exchange/bd-p/riskexchforum-board 

[LaurieKelly]

Thank you Claire!

Next up we have Michael Rasmussen from GRC 20/20, he will provide his expert view on how to manage IT compliance in modern business.

[BB-Mega]

Great food for thought from Michael. "IT is not operating in a vacuum". The need to link processes, risk and compliance between departments such as sales, manufacturing, compliance, cloud, IoT, HR, etc. is a potential minefield. It really brings the "agility" buzzword into tangible context. 

[LaurieKelly]

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments, our speakers and support team are here to help navigate your GRC challenges or questions.

[LaurieKelly]

Welcome Claire de Bie, MEGA consultant! She is going to spend about 20 minutes with us sharing insights on how to improve your internal control program using business processes

[SarahMx]

[Poll] How mature are your internal controls today? let us know here: https://community.mega.com/t5/GRC-Discussion-EA-Risk-Exchange/bd-p/riskexchforum-board 

[BB-Mega]

Some interesting results coming in on the polls so far. Looking forward to seeing the aggregated data across the whole world to see similarities and differences in the different regions

[LaurieKelly]

Thanks Luca!  We have 1 minute breaks in between each session, so take a quick break and get a glass of water or cup of coffee or morning snack. 🙂

[LaurieKelly]

Let's kick it off with Luca Di Risi, COO of MEGA who will provide an overview of MEGA and how the HOPEX platform can help you manage risk in the context of operations

[LaurieKelly]

That was a great video - you can access the video here if you want to see it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hiDIRGLOII

[SarahMx]

Check out our poll that has been launched in the forum! https://community.mega.com/t5/GRC-Discussion-EA-Risk-Exchange/bd-p/riskexchforum-board 

[AdrienL]

Hi I just try to connect to the webinar : Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Online Meetings" Regards Stephane

[ElodieBlanchard]

Hi Stephane, I sent you an email few minutes ago. Hopefully you'll manage to join us today, otherwise as said, we'll be sharing recording tomorrow!

[LaurieKelly]

Hi Everyone! I'm Laurie Kelly from MEGA and I'll be your forum moderator today. Welcome to MEGA's inaugural EA & Risk Exchange virtual conference! We're so glad you are here, joining over 3100 people who registered for our global Exchange conferences. Please use this forum to interact with your peers. In addition to the speaking sessions, we will have some polls here to drive interaction and help us all share insights and our own experiences with each other. Here's one of my favorite quotes, "Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied."

[LaurieKelly]

We are one hour away until start time.  Now is a good time to start getting logged on and ready.  The team is here so feel free to ping us with any event logistics or general GRC/EA/product questions whenever you're connected.