ISACA Lisbon 2020 Conference LogoI am honored to speak at the 5th annual IDC / ISACA in Lisbon Portugal.  This years event was a virtual event. This session examines critical governance failures and the ensuing impact on reputation. We will explore high profile examples including VW Dieselgate, Boeing 737MAX, & other events that destroyed or severely compromised organizational reputations. Checkout the session recording.

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EuroCACS / CSX 2020 is the premier cybersecurity and risk management conference that brings together experts and practitioners from throughout Europe. Risk management practitioners from a wide range of industries, including finance, banking, tech services, government, insurance, medical and more will converge on Geneva Switzerland in October to dive deep into information security and discuss cybersecurity's impact across all fields of information systems and technology.

Please join me for my session Can Your Reputation Survive 4IR?.The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) represents previously unimaginable ways in which disruptive technology becomes embedded in global supply chains, societies and the human body. As a result of this rapid and dramatic change, organizations are facing unprecedented threats and risk events that are having a profound impact on their ability to do business. Many organizations today are unprepared for the rapid rate of change, unprecedented risk scenarios and the required governance activities to survive in the 4IR.

I had an opportunity to chat with RIMS members about global opportunities and threats of in the risk management industry.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things (IOT) present significant challenges for risk practitioners and those responsible for organizational governance. AI and IOT are driving technology innovation at unprecedented levels. The rate of change as well as the degree of change are occurring faster that we have ever seen before.

The dramatic rate of change is best illustrated by Buckminster Fuller’s knowledge doubling curve. Buckminster Fuller was an American futurist, prominent author, and university professor.  Fuller developed the knowledge doubling curve in the 1980s to illustrate how the collective knowledge of humankind was changing. Knowledge is defined as information and skills acquired through experience or education and Fuller’s knowledge doubling curve is intended to measure the knowledge rate of change in the modern world. Fuller determined that knowledge doubled every century until 1900.

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Please join me for my session "Risk Management in the Post-Information Age".

Disruptive technologies such as AI, IOT, and Bots are driving frenetic change in nearly all industries. Experts at IBM suggest that, by the end of this decade, disruptive technologies will cause the collective knowledge of humankind to double every 12 hours. This dramatic rate of change presents incredible opportunities (The Good) as well as unprecedented risk (The Bad). Unfortunately, current risk management practices are woefully inadequate for dealing with the unparalleled risk associated with the Post-Information Age (The Ugly).  

This session will explore risk management practices from the 1500s to today and make a case for the rapid evolution of current risk management practices. The session will present bimodal risk management as the next generation of risk management practices.  Bimodal risk management allows organizations to achieve compliance-driven value preservation while simultaneously using value creation to capitalize on the opportunities presented by disruptive technologies. During the session, we will explore examples of disruptive change in the financial sector, transportation sector, and others. We will offer specific strategies and tactics that enable organizations to prepare for the future and set the stage for transitioning to bimodal risk management.

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Please join me and my colleague Jeff Verner at RIMS2018 for our session "Robots and Risk Management".  

Today we are on the verge of a technologic explosion driven by disruptive technologies such as technology robots, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), deep learning, and Big Data. These disruptive technologies are rapidly and dramatically altering the world we live in; pushing the pace of technological evolution to warp speed. The rate of change driven by disruptive technologies require that we fundamentally change the way we think about risk management. Disruptive technologies present countless opportunities for risk practitioners to create value instead of simply preserving value through organizational and regulatory compliance. 

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This is an update to my new writing project.  Bi-modal Risk Management (BRM) recognizes that we must preserve the value we have already created but at the same time seek to create new value.  My new book illustrates how risk practitioners can use new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, or the Internat of Things (IOT) to create value.  Check back here and follow me on Twitter (@TaoOfRisk) for updates over the coming months as I finalize the manuscript and publish the book.  

Bimodal Risk Management - A Survival Guide for the Future

I have started my next writing project that presents a risk management approach to help people and organizations cope with the massive technologic change we are facing today. Today we are on the verge of a technologic explosion fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), deep learning, Big Data,  technology robots, and other disruptive technologies.  These disruptivie technologies are rapidly and dramatically altering the world we live in; pushing the pace of technological evolution to warp speed.