8/20/2025 Bi-Weekly Newsletter
Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Posted by: Vince Lungaro
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AFERM Newsletter: Summit registration, award nominations, webinar, and more! |
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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) could not be more relevant in the federal government than it is today. As a key resource to prioritize resources, optimize spending, and realize efficiencies, ERM helps agencies achieve their missions and objectives. This Summit is an opportunity to strengthen support for ERM and advance its role as an essential tool for success.
On October 21–22, 2025, AFERM’s 2025 Virtual Summit, "Mission Possible: Unlocking the Future of Enterprise Risk Management," will explore a critical question: What will ERM look like beyond 2025 — and who will shape its future?
This year’s Summit sessions and workshops are organized around three themes:
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Innovate – Learn to use innovative and emerging solutions and techniques to better identify, assess and respond to risks before they are realized.
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Integrate – Learn to better collaborate ERM with Planning, Budgeting and Strategy and improve risk-based decision making.
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Impact – Learn how to create a greater impact for realizing agency mission, optimize opportunities and reduce fraud, waste and abuse, through ERM
AFERM is the premier think-tank for generating fresh ideas and tools about ERM. There is no better place to spend two full days learning, networking, and earning valuable CPE credits.
Don’t wait—secure your spot and be part of the conversation redefining ERM’s future.
Register by September 21 to secure Early Bird pricing:
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THANK YOU 2025 AFERM Virtual Summit Sponsors!
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Submit your Applications and Nominations for AFERM Scholarships and Individual ERM Awards
Applications and nominations for the AFERM Scholarships and the 11th Annual AFERM Individual ERM Awards are now open!
Submissions are due by 5 pm ET Friday, September 5, 2025.
Please note that the scholarships are awarded on a self-application basis, where the awards are provided on a nomination basis. This means that to be eligible for an award you must be nominated by another individual, whereas to be eligible for a scholarship you should apply on your own behalf.
For additional questions, please reach out to erm-awards@aferm.org.
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AFERM Webinar: Policy Disruption and Federal Risk:
Navigating Executive Orders and the One Big Beautiful Bill
Join us on Tuesday, August 26 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET, for the next AFERM Webinar, "Policy Disruption and Federal Risk: Navigating Executive Orders and the One Big Beautiful Bill."
Webinar Speakers:
- Sam Twyman, Finance and Compliance Senior Manager, Crowe
Mr. Twyman is a Senior Manager in the firm’s Consulting business unit focusing on the public sector with a specialization in oversight and auditing within Offices of Inspector General and the Transportation industry. He has over 15 years of experience in utilizing accounting principles, standards and practices to provide overall project plan and program oversight while ensuring compliance with Government Auditing Standards. He is responsible for the day-to-day management, supervision, technical, and administrative direction of a multi-disciplined staff performing audits, assessments, enterprise risk management, compliance reviews, and issues management.
- Jonathan Dunn, Finance and Compliance Senior Manager, Crowe
Mr. Dunn is a senior manager in the firm’s Public Sector Consulting Services Practice. He has more than 10 years of professional experience working primarily with public sector organizations, including institutions of higher education, governments, and non-profit organizations. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Government Accountants, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
- Neha Rajput, Finance and Compliance Senior Staff, Crowe
Ms. Rajput is a senior staff in the firm’s Public Sector Consulting business unit focusing on audit and risk compliance services. She works primarily with public sector organizations including Offices of Inspector General, local, state, and federal government, and non-profit organizations.
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Be A Part of AFERM University
AFERM co-developed the RIMS-CRMP-FED Certification. Now we are teaching it! Through AFERM University, you can affiliate with a community of certified practitioners dedicated to ERM at all levels of government, speaking the same language with your certification.
AFERM is now offering RIMS-CRMP-FED Preparatory Courses. The next two-day, live, virtual, course is Monday, September 8, and Tuesday, September 9, from 9:00am - 4:00pm ET.
Participants who complete this program are eligible for the RIMS-CRMP and RIMS-CRMP-FED examinations [as part of the course fee] at no cost, provided the course participant sits for the examination within 90 days of completing this course.
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The Case for Strengthening Risk Management in Government Institutions: The role of the public sector is central to national development. Government institutions deliver essential services, drive major infrastructure projects and oversee fiscal responsibilities. Despite this critical role, many government agencies, are continued to be plagued by long-standing issues related to procurement irregularities, underperformance, lapses in project delivery and financial leakages. At the heart of many issues is a governance gap. This article focuses on the gaps related to structured and proactive approach to risk management that remain underdeveloped in the government of Ghana. It makes an argument for the things that public sector organizations need to achieve to effectively manage risks related to climate uncertainty, rapid technological changes, geopolitical shifts, and increased public scrutiny. Read more here.
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Join or Renew Your AFERM Membership
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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
- “Risk Chats” – the official AFERM podcast
- Educational workshops for ongoing professional development
- Virtual and physical communities through our forums, communities of practice, and book club
- Discount on the annual AFERM Summit
- The latest news and info in ERM.
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