Registration is open for the 2025 AFERM Virtual Summit, the premier event for federal enterprise risk management professionals. Cross it off your to-do list and register today!
Mission Possible: Unlocking the Future of Enterprise Risk Management,
AFERM’s groundbreaking virtual event, will bring together the sharpest minds in ERM, policy, technology, collaboration and innovation to answer a bold question: What does the future of Enterprise Risk Management look like beyond 2025—and who gets to define it? The time to reimagine Enterprise Risk Management is now.
Expect two days of expert insights, collaborative sessions, and practical tools to help you thrive in an evolving risk landscape.
Register by September 21 to secure Early Bird pricing:
Share Your ERM Experiences as a Speaker For 2025 AFERM Virtual Summit. We invite you to share your enterprise risk management knowledge and expertise by becoming a session speaker or workshop facilitator at the AFERM Virtual Summit! This is a terrific opportunity to help advance the practice of ERM in the government.
Submit Your Nominations For The
AFERM ERM Awards For Government
Nominations are open for the 2025 AFERM ERM Awards for Government. Organizations can self-nominate for one or both awards:
ERM Luminary Award – for a government entity that has achieved an advanced level of ERM maturity and demonstrates a sustained and broad range of accomplishment in the implementation and application of enterprise risk management to organizational processes and practices.
ERM Notable Achievement Award – for a government entity that has accomplished a significant and noteworthy achievement in establishing an ERM program over the past year or that has achieved impressive growth in the development of a previously established ERM program, as reflected in improved organizational processes and practices.
Submit your nomination by Friday, August 15, 2025.
Enhancing public sector ERM through interactive information processing:There is a potential serious shortcoming with government entity ERM programs focusing solely on the measurement and tracking of risks through only identifiable and measurable events, and performance of internal controls. Government agency ERMs often act as the society’s risk managers of the last resort. When extreme events happen, what are considered as private events quickly turn into public obligations, thereby underscoring the need for more proactive assessments of the evolving public risk landscape to discern unpredictable-even unknowable-developments. This article highlights how ERM within these government agencies can generate value from ERM by integrating with local responsive initiatives and central strategic risk analyses. It makes a call for agencies to balance their current compliance and control-based risk management approaches toward more proactive assessments of emergent and unpredictable public exposures. Read More.
How to Manage Emerging Generative AI risks while keeping up pace with innovation: A global study by Deloitte finds that when it comes to generative AI (Gen AI) strategies, managing risk and compliance are the two topmost priorities of companies. This article explores the four key types of AI related risk categories that impact cybersecurity. Gen AI introduces internal and external risks that cut across these risk categories, which also includes emerging security threats that target data and models that Gen AI solutions depend on. The report provides some emerging approaches to data, model and application security that organizations should consider to combat the increased risk and attack surfaces. Read More.
AFERM is the premier professional community for government ERM practitioners. Here are just a few of the benefits that your AFERM membership gives you year-round:
Access to our online resource library with over 100 contributed artifacts
Educational workshops for ongoing professional development
Virtual and physical communities through our forums, communities of practice, and book club
Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions to AFERM are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Membership dues and event registration fees are not considered contributions.
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