We Are Seeking Dynamic and Innovative Speakers to Share their Experience at Our Upcoming 2023 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 2023 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.
2023 AFERM Summit Theme and Tracks
This year’s Summit theme, “Collaborate and Celebrate – Weaving ERM into the Fabric of Government” explores how embedding enterprise risk management principles and practices into the core of government operations can improve government performance. 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 and should be integrated into critical areas of your organization ultimately becoming intrinsic to the culture of your organization. How can ERM leaders collaborate with different groups across the enterprise to ensure successful integration of ERM concepts? Session topics might include ERM integration with diverse areas such as legislative affairs, budget formulation & execution, labor relations, strategy and performance setting/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 used 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?
- Embracing the Journey: Celebrate Progress and Prepare to Pivot: Implementing and maturing an ERM program is a journey…a long-term journey. As with any journey there will be bumps in the road, obstacles to overcome and potential detours. Recognizing this is a key element to staying motivated to keep on keeping-on. Understanding that you may need to re-group, back up and reconsider an approach you’ve taken or a tool you’ve developed, and celebrating those incremental successes and progress made will help ERM professionals, and the organization as a whole, move forward. The track explores techniques used to build and nurture an ERM program that’s resilient, innovative and engaging in an environment faced with increasingly tight resources, competing priorities, ongoing leadership changes and organization culture challenges including those associated with ERM skeptics.
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 guidance 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 Walter E Washington Convention 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.
- Provide clear, successful use cases, best practices, teachings and how-to guidance, 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 Walter E Washington 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 closes at midnight on September 22, 2023. All speakers will be notified of their selection status by September 30, 2023.