Agenda
8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
9:00 – 9:40
REGULATION
Global supply chain: A law enforcement perspective
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- Reviewing national security
- Assessing community outreach
- Ensuring public safety
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Senior Executive, FBI |
9:40 – 10:20
GEOPOLITICAL RISK
Managing supply chains across jurisdictions and continued uncertainties of external factors
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- Spillover effects of disruptions to supply chains
- Impact of geopolitical factors on assessment of risks
- Making complex global interlinkages
- Managing increasingly confrontational global relations
- Spill over into trade relations and tariff disputes
- Changes to processes as a result of trade tensions
- Ripple effect of changes throughout the supply chain
- Impact to manufacturing with reliance on China and Taiwan
- Understanding level of exposure
- Managing short and long term disruptions
- Updating contractual obligations in line with geopolitical changes
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Lacrecia Billings, Interim Vice President, Supply Chain Acceleration, Walmart |
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:50 – 11:30
ECONOMIC VOLATILITY
Monitoring global economic volatility and reliance of global economies on supply chains
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- Reviewing progress made towards recovery post pandemic
- Absorbing pent up demand
- Balancing recovery and mitigating recession risks
- Complexities of Covid-19 supply shock
- Impact of structural supply shocks on inflation
- Understanding mechanisms for the Inflation reduction act
- Global economy tightly integrated through trading relations
- Reliance on efficient and effective processes
- Assessing the global impact of a US interest rate hike on supply chains
- Making global supply chains part of economic policy thinking
11:30 – 12:20
RESILIENCE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Gaining visibility across suppliers and subcontractors and enhancing resilience
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- Conducting security assessments to drive resilience
- Understanding and quantifying supply chain resiliency
- Identifying challenges and vulnerabilities
- Identifying key suppliers and steps to manage relationship
- Reviewing impact of global events on supply chain resilience
- Understanding market forces that could impact supply base
- Business continuity in case of supply chain disruptions
- Understanding where reliance lies on certain products or services
- Reviewing traceability requirements across industries
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Sara Ricci, VP, Information Risk, HBC |
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Senior Executive, Black Kite |
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Robert Peters, Manager of Supply Chain Implementation, HealthTrust Performance Group |
12:20-1:20
Lunch break and networking
1:20 – 2:00
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
Financial services case study: introducing layers of risk management to build a true risk program
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- Understanding how financial services conduct supply chain oversight
- Introducing cyber and IT security controls
- Reviewing interagency guidance to set as cross industry standard
- Developing infrastructure to manage third party risk
- Building out unified platforms and common approaches
- Calculating inherent risk for all third parties
- Quantifying risk beyond tiering high, medium, low
- Focusing on risk beyond just assessments
2:00- 2:40
GOVERNANCE
Reviewing governance structures in global organizations and making the business case for an evolving program
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- Keeping third party risk on a level playing field with areas including security
- Highlighting third party risk as an area of importance at board level
- Governance requirements to ensure sufficient budget and funding
- Staying proactive with prioritization of third party risk
- Ensuring teams are appropriately staffed
- Investing in technologies and data sources
2:40- 3:20
INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENTS
Identifying which third parties to undertake deep dive independent assessments
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- Determining frequency of assessments
- Understanding IT, cyber and physical security risks
- Differentiating different types of third parties and services
- Identifying high risk third parties
- Demonstrating value to secure budget
- Identifying criticality via inherent risk questionnaires
- Inclusion of likelihood factors
- Identifying the likelihood of risks manifesting themselves
- Developing risk data: Driving a cultural change towards risk management
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Tausif Khan,, Associate Director, Third Party Risk, DTCC |
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Michael Rivas, , Head of Third Party, DTCC |
3:20-3:50
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
3:50- 4:30
CYBER SECURITY
Prioritizing cyber security defenses across third parties and supply chain
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- Talking risk: aligning with Cyber, IT, and IT Audit on the definition of ‘risk from an enterprise standpoint
- Compliance Vs Risk: The two are not synonyms!
- The currently rising criticality of third party security risks
- Your company’s must-have general security processes and technologies at a high (non-tech) level
- Obtaining reasonable assurance your company’s third parties also implement must-have security measures
- Challenges to achieving optimized 3rd party security risk assurance
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Cindy Chadwick, , Supplier Cyber Security Risk & Assurance Principle Architect, , GSK |
4:30- 5:20
PRIVACY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Incorporating privacy as part of a security framework to protect confidential data
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- Managing access controls to data
- Aligning privacy controls with security controls
- Protecting confidentiality of data
- Technical access controls to implement privacy rules
- Distinguishing between privacy and security
- Managing interconnected nature whilst understanding differences
- Inclusion of privacy officer in event of a security incident
- Managing regulations across states and jurisdictions
- Privacy risks with increased use of AI and large language models
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Phani Dasari, former Head of Business Security Officer, TikTok |
5:20-5:30
Chair’s closing remarks
5:30
End of day one and networking drinks reception
8:00- 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50- 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
9:00- 9:40
RECOVERY
Post pandemic recovery: Long-term repercussions of global disruptions
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- Managing long lead times and impact downstream
- Impact to industries reliant on semiconductors still facing delays
- Managing and navigating delays
- Lessons learnt across industries
- Global labor and manufacturing shortages
- National infrastructure to manage changes
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Callie Kennedy, Associate Director of Supply Chain, HCA Healthcare |
9:40- 10:30
NEARSHORING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing global trends of onshoring and deglobalization post pandemic
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- US move to buying onshore with limited build capability
- Developing infrastructure to move manufacturing operations
- Time consuming and cost prohibitive nature of onshoring
- Transition to green economy
- Scaling up green technologies domestically
- Mitigating concentration risks with over reliance in certain jurisdictions
- Capitalizing on the move and developing long term capabilities
- US regulations on sourcing in certain jurisdictions
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Elizabeth Anderson, Senior Director, Supply Chain Lead, JLL |
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Gonzalo Lopez-Polin, Operations/Supply Chain, American Industrial Partners |
10:30-11:00
Morning refreshment break and networking
11:00- 11:40
CONTRACTS
Reviewing third party controls to mitigate risks and key features to include within a contract
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- Filling unknown gaps
- Including unknown variables within contract clauses
- Controls to monitor during onboarding
- Including clauses for cyber insurance
- Ensuring indemnification in the event of a breach or business continuity impact
- Balancing business priorities and risk management
- Including SLA requirements as part of contract
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Patrick Carr, Supply Chain Director, Pelco Products |
11:40- 12:20
CONCENTRATION
Identifying concentration of supplier to ensure stability and security of supply chains
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- Material shortages and product availability
- Ensuring parts are in the right place at the right time
- Implementing risk mitigation checkpoints to limit disruption
- Ripple effect of shortages
- Controlling risk in the supply chain to get products to customers
- Identifying third and fourth party concentration
- Developing a program to assess concentration risk
12:20-1:20
Lunch break and networking
1:20- 2:00
4TH PARTIES
Fourth parties/subcontracting: Gaining a holistic view of subcontractors to understand full risk landscape
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- Keeping track of third party vendors and identifying critical fourth parties
- Gaining control of fourth party oversight
- Monitoring capabilities beyond third parties
- Understanding full subcontracting ecosystem
- Getting sufficient information for due diligence on subcontracting
- Tracking percentage of a single project outsourced to fourth parties
- Identifying critical supply chain
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Anit Banerjee, Third Party Risk Officer – Legal Risk Management, Meta |
2:00- 2:50
ESG – PANEL DISCUSSION
Reviewing ESG aspects across supply chains to understand impacts and considerations beyond environmental
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- Mitigating the impact of supply chains on the environment
- Ensuring sustainability of supply chains
- Understanding environmental impacts at all stages
- Balancing higher costs and sustainability
- Customer support in decarbonizing and creating a greener economy
- Progress of global organizations regulated across jurisdictions
- Monitoring supply chain for social challenges
- Tracking modern slavery and child labor
- Updating policies in line with ESG requirements
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Kim Bach Vu, Sr Manager, Supply Chain Responsibility, Applied Materials |
2:50-3:20
Afternoon refreshment break
3:20- 4:00
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Mitigating human trafficking and exploitation risk exposure
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- Incorporating third party data provided through public private partnerships
- Overlapping datasets as a means of resolving entities
- Monitoring for social, political unrest and failed nation states to minimize intersection with exploitation
- Incorporate monitoring, tracking trends of missing persons globally to harden supply chains to exploitation
- Pig butchering “the most egregious form of Human Rights violations”
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Christopher Kemp, Senior Operations Manager, Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative |
4:00- 4:40
AI
Leveraging advanced technology to gain insight across the supply chain whilst understanding potential new risks
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- Uses of AI for supply chain and third party risk
- Analyzing and leveraging data and outputs
- Recruiting or retraining to effectively leverage AI tools
- Impact of Covid-19 on AI outputs with skewed historical input
- Managing retrospective tools
- Balancing AI as an enabler and a risk
- Risks with ChatGPT public information
- Building capabilities to enhance decision support and analytics intelligence
- Data privacy concerns with access to online tools
4:40-4:50
Chair’s closing remarks
4:50
End of End of event