Why Attend
Benefits of Attending
Here’s what you will learn at the Gartner Compliance & Risk Management Summit:
- How to build an effective Enterprise Risk Management program
- How to prepare for the next wave of regulations and risks
- Strategies and tactics to minimize data loss and privacy violations
- How to take advantage of outsourcing opportunities
- How to develop standards and frameworks relevant to compliance and risk management
- IT's role in providing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions for business
- How to build transition management plans that reduce risk and foster opportunity
- Best practices for IT compliance and risk management
- How to choose tools and technologies wisely
- What you can do to reduce e-discovery risk and cost
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Who Should Attend
IT professionals across all industries and decision-makers in finance, audit and business departments, including:
- CCOs, CGOs, CROs, CFOs, CIOs, CAEs, CPOs and General Counsels
- IT executives, directors and managers charged with governance, compliance, privacy, risk and IT audit management
- Finance, Audit, Legal Risk and Compliance Managers
- Governance, Risk and Compliance Consultants
- Regulators
Testimonials
“An excellent learning experience without being toned down to the lowest denominator. Revved me up to return home prepared to fully enjoy my profession.”
Jyl Swegle, Risk Analyst, Providence Health & Services
“Crème de la crème. The quality of the Gartner speakers was superb.”
Gail Zemanek Bayse, Operations Risk Manager, W.P. Carey
“Great opportunity to keep abreast, network with peers and resolve questions.”
Loic Jegousse, Director IT Internal Controls, MDS Inc.
“Advice of Gartner analysts was always outstanding.”
Rolando Galvez, Chief Information Security Officer, Merrill Corporation
“A new look at combining IT risks, governance and compliance. This overall concept is still early, but definitely growing.”
Chris Bursch, VP IT Risk & Asset Management, Unum Provident
Reactions are in and the feedback is good — read what your peers thought about the May 2007 summit!
Dayne Gardner, Senior Compliance Manager, Washington Mutual
Objective:
"I'm looking at how to do proactive risk assessment and remediation for my IT group. In the larger sense, maybe for information technology overall. I want to see how we can architect compliance into our strategic initiatives and make sure that it’s tactically built into projects that get rolled out to the enterprise."
Most relevant conference sessions:
"I'm a Paul Proctor fan. His sessions really resonated with me, especially "Hot Security Technologies to Address Hot Auditor Issues." Proactive risk and compliance. Those are my hot buttons."
Significant takeaway:
"I was impressed at the size of the professional community in compliance and risk management. The ongoing networking potential of this conference is huge."
Gayle Zemanek Bayse, Operations Risk Manager, W.P. Carey & Co.
Objective:
"To build a more unified program for my company... Everyone's been focused on trying to remain complaint in this new environment. But are we simply responding to new regulations, or are we being thoughtful about our response? That's an extremely important question right now. I feel that everyone needs to have an organized approach. Otherwise, we will all get caught up in simply reacting to auditors."
Most relevant conference sessions:
"The Top 10 Security and Risk Audit Findings You Need to Avoid." We've all been tiptoeing around auditors and spending huge amounts of money on remediation that's uncalled for in some cases. So I enjoyed learning how to negotiate audit findings."
Significant takeaway:
"The analysts' objectivity. I've never attended a Gartner conference before; other conferences seem to pale in comparison."
Marina Klochan, Operational Risk Manager, AXA Financial
Objective:
"I wanted to hear what my peers were doing, especially in the areas of privacy and third-party outsourcing."
- "Going Global: Best-in-Class Security and Privacy Strategies for International Operations."
- Friday Keynote Session: Dealing with Security Breaches and the Role of Regulations
Significant takeaway:
"I was impressed with the caliber of people. This wasn't your average crowd. These were high-level decision makers talking about real problems and looking for real solutions."
