2022 Summit Call for Speakers

Deadline Extended! We Are Seeking Dynamic and Innovative Speakers to Share Their Experience at Our Upcoming 2022 Aferm Summit

We invite you to share your enterprise risk management knowledge and expertise by becoming a session speaker or workshop facilitator at the upcoming 2022 AFERM Summit!

This is a terrific opportunity to help advance the practice of ERM in the government. Join other distinguished leaders in shaping the ERM conversation by sharing your experience and insights to the federal ERM community. As you may be aware, speaking at an AFERM Summit is an extraordinary and exhilarating experience. If you have attended one of our Summits in the past, you know that the AFERM audience expects presenters who are engaged and present with a great deal of energy and dynamic exchange with the attendees. Telling compelling stories is vital and if you have “a great risk management story to share,” submit your proposal today.

2022 AFERM Summit Theme and Tracks

This year’s Summit theme, Navigating the Unknowns that Matter” explores how successful implementation of ERM positions your organization to best navigate the most critical unknowns that lie ahead. The Summit sessions and workshops will support the following tracks:

  • Integrating ERM into the Larger Agenda: ERM is a highly-interconnected discipline that extends far beyond the traditional compliance, reporting, and operational areas. This track explores how ERM can be successfully integrated into critical areas of your organization – especially those areas where these bridges do not exist yet. How can ERM programs remain nimble and resilient by engaging – and staying engaged – with different groups across the enterprise? Session topics might include ERM integration with diverse areas such as legislative affairs, budget formulation & execution, labor relations, strategy and performance monitoring, audits, general counsel, public affairs, continuity of operations, and supply chain and vendor management…just to name a few.
  • Delivering Value to Decision Makers: Federal leaders are challenged by an ever-increasing mosaic of priorities and obligations alongside core mission delivery. ERM can bring clarity to this complexity and deliver tremendous value by informing the most impactful decisions. How? This track explores what information decision makers value and how ERM is uniquely positioned to deliver. What are the leading practices, tools, and technologies to analyze, interpret, and deliver risk insights to decision makers? What techniques allow your ERM program to calibrate – and recalibrate if necessary – to changing priorities? How can organizations successfully create an information pipeline between the ERM function and decision making? How can ERM retain a “seat at the table” in times of leadership transition and shifting priorities?
  • ERM as the Facilitator: Enterprise risks are inherently complex. Successful management requires a convergence of diverse perspectives and engagement from multiple stakeholders. ERM practitioners play a valuable  role by bringing together these playmakers and focusing attention on the most important unknowns facing the organization. They facilitate the right discussions – supported with the right information – that result in tangible outcomes and value to the organization. But this does not always come easy. This track explores the unique role ERM serves within an organization in bringing together disparate, yet complementary, perspectives. What parties should be part of the conversation and when? What are the leading approaches ERM professionals can employ to facilitate these challenging conversations? What can we learn from experiences in other organizations?

Information on Session Speakers & Workshop Facilitators

Summit Session Speakers

We are seeking moderators and speakers for a limited number of knowledge breakout sessions that support the Summit theme and tracks. These sessions may follow various formats. Speakers:

  • Will submit session topic and speaker proposals and coordinate with the AFERM Summit Planning team
  • Are compelling story tellers especially from an ERM perspective with a passion for sharing their knowledge and experience with others
  • Can help provide solutions to common challenges that we all face with workable and tailored solutions
  • Provide clear, successful use cases, best practices, teachings and how-to’s, including takeaways (templates, presentations, white papers, etc.) for attendees
  • Can facilitate an interactive conversation around a professional development topic
  • Have experience working with or in government and can provide tools and techniques that you feel can realistically be applied within the government sector
  • Are able to present in-person at the Summit event at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington, D.C.

Summit Workshop Facilitators

We are also seeking experienced facilitators for a limited number of the Summit interactive workshops that will showcase cutting edge ERM practices through hands-on sessions with the Summit attendees. Workshop facilitators:

  • Will submit workshop topic proposals and coordinate with the AFERM Summit team
  • Will design and execute creative in-person workshops that deliver practical experiences that will be most valuable for ERM professionals
  • Will propose compelling workshop topics that generally align with the Summit theme and address common challenges that federal ERM professionals face with workable solutions. Just a few examples of potential workshop topic ideas:
    • ERM governance (i.e. running an interactive mock risk committee meeting to highlight best practices)
    • Measuring ERM maturity (i.e step-by-step walkthrough of a leading maturity model for a sample organization)
    • Risk appetite (i.e crafting and socializing a meaningful risk appetite statement)
    • Risk assessment (i.e. interactive end-to-end risk assessment of a sample risk, including articulating the risk statement, defining thresholds and KPIs, and assigning a risk rating),
    • Risk register and profile (i.e. workshop to illustrate best practices for collecting and organizing risk information
    • Leading impactful risk conversations with different stakeholders
  • Provide clear, successful use cases, best practices, teachings and how-to’s, including takeaways (templates, presentations, white papers, etc.) for attendees
  • Can facilitate an interactive conversation around a professional development topic
  • Have experience working with or in government and can provide tools and techniques that you feel can realistically be applied within the government sector
  • Are able to present in-person at the Summit event at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington, D.C.

Helpful Tips for Crafting Your Speaker Submission

  • Detail your key talking points with a focus on what you would like the audience to learn and take away
  • Think through why an attendee would find your topic valuable
  • Identify the issues and challenges your session will address 

Speaker Proposal Form

The Call for Speakers now closes at midnight on August 15, 2022. All speakers will be notified of their selection status by August 29, 2022.