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2026 Virtual Conference Agenda & Presentations

Review session descriptions and speaker bios, and download the presentations from our 2026 Fall Virtual Conference! Members are able to watch the session recordings here.

Agenda

8:55 AM - 9:00 AM

5 minutes

Welcome & Kick-Off

Julie Gaiaschi, CEO & Co-founder, TPRA

Zoom Lobby

Kick off this virtual conference with a few words from Julie Gaiaschi, CEO & Co-founder of the Third Party Risk Association (TPRA).

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

50 minutes

From Headlines to Action - Managing Geopolitical Risk Across Third-Party Ecosystems

Sandeep Suresh, Supply Wisdom

Room 1

Geopolitical events no longer impact only global enterprises—they can disrupt organizations of every size through third-party, fourth-party, and extended supplier ecosystems. From regional conflicts and trade restrictions to sanctions, cyber…

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

50 minutes

A New Can of Worms: Why Compliance Alone Can't Contain a Zero-Cost Adversary

Richard Hummel, SecurityScorecard

Room 2

Compliance frameworks are built on an assumption that no longer holds: that adversaries need time, budget, and skill to iterate. That assumption is what's actually in the can of worms.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

50 minutes

Beyond the Checklist: Building a Unified Third-Party Control Framework

Jan Stappers, LL.M., PgD EVP, GRC Solutions Strategy, Mitratech

Room 3

The TPRM landscape has become a maze of overlapping mandates, standards, and stakeholder expectations, and a checklist alone can't get you through it. Navigating this landscape requires more than a…

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

50 minutes

Continuous Monitoring That Improves Oversight

Ken Wolckenhauer, Nordea Bank

Room 1

Turning on risk monitoring and alert feeds is easy but turning them into better decisions is harder. This session looks at how teams are selecting signals, setting thresholds, and building…

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

50 minutes

Moving at Attacker's Speed: How to Rethink TPRM for the Post-Mythos Era

Jake Olcott, Bitsight

Room 2

Third-party risk management was built for a slower world. Today, organizations face a growing volume of vulnerabilities, faster paths to exploitation, and an expanding attack surface that extends across vendor…

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

50 minutes

Gaining c-suite acceptance of emerging risks: regulation is your friend

Rachel Elliott, DRI

Room 3

Navigating emerging supply chain risks is becoming evermore complex, particularly with events become concurrent. The tropics are expanding by 0.5 degrees each year, and new countries are being affected by…

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

50 minutes

The Two-Front Threat: Using AI to Govern Vendors in a Post-Quantum World

Room 1

The third-party risk function is caught between two converging threats and most programs are equipped for neither.


On one front: AI-enabled vendors deploy adaptive systems that drift, bias, and change…

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

50 minutes

Staying One Step Ahead: Why Intelligence Is Replacing Traditional Third-Party Risk Management

Austin Starowicz, RiskRecon

Room 2

Cybersecurity isn't becoming more difficult because organizations have more vendors—it's becoming more difficult because adversaries are moving faster than traditional risk management processes.


Forward-looking organizations are shifting away from static…

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

60 minutes

Lunch

Take a break to enjoy some lunch before jumping back into learning with our next session staring at 1 PM CT!

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

50 minutes

Your Vendor Didn’t Change, But Its AI Did: Rethinking Material Change in TPRM

Brian Shaw, Independent

Room 1

A third party may remain under the same contract while quietly changing its models, data sources, subprocessors, embedded copilots, or level of automation. Those changes can materially alter your risk…

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

50 minutes

When Risk Evolves, Agility Wins: AI Transforms Third-Party Risk Management

Bryn Sedlacek, Aravo

Room 2

Today's TPRM programs must support resilient operations, secure IT, ethical business practices, regulatory compliance, and sustainability while navigating an increasingly interconnected risk landscape. Learn how an agile, human-centered platform provides…

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

50 minutes

Third-Party Risks and Sanctions

Michael Volkov, Volkov Law Group

Room 3

With the beginning of the aggressive trade enforcement era, companies need to focus on third-party risk and sanctions enforcement. The law, the practice, and the risks are important. As we…

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

50 minutes

Fourth-Party Risk: The Exposure You Can’t Always See

Tracey Forney, previously Sr Information Security Manager with Federal Reserve

Room 1

Dependencies on sub-contractors and upstream providers can introduce risk that is not obvious from primary contracts. This session considers how organizations are identifying and managing fourth-party and Nth-party risk in…

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

50 minutes

The AI-Enabled Vendor: Building a Third-Party AI Risk Assessment Aligned to NIST AI RMF

Nitin Agarwal, Luminace

Room 1

Third-party vendors are rapidly embedding generative and agentic AI into the services organizations already consume, often without notice and rarely within the scope of existing vendor assessments. Point-in-time questionnaires capture…

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

50 minutes

Beyond the AI Hype: What’s Actually Working in Third-Party Risk Management

Sophia Corsetti, ProcessUnity

Room 2

AI has produced no shortage of demos, claims, and new terminology. But after the initial wave of experimentation, TPRM teams need a more useful conversation: What is actually working? Where…

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

50 minutes

From Finding to Fixing: Managing Third-Party Issues, Exceptions & Performance

Kholofelo Mothibi, Corebride Financial

Room 3

Identifying a vendor risk is only the beginning. The real test of a TPRM program is what happens next—how issues are prioritized, remediation is managed, exceptions are governed, and vendor…

3:50 PM - 4:00 PM

10 minutes

Conference Conclusion

Julie Gaiaschi, CEO & Co-founder, TPRA

Zoom Lobby

We will close out this event with a few announcements and drawings for raffle prizes!

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