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AFERM Newsletter: Summit Registration, Award Nominations, and more! |
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Earn Up to 14.4 CPEs at the
2025 AFERM Virtual Summit
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The 2025 AFERM Virtual Summit is just around the corner! This year’s theme, “Mission Possible: Unlocking the Future of Enterprise Risk Management,” invites you to discover what ERM will look like beyond 2025 — and who will shape its future.
📚 Full Agenda Now Available! Discover detailed information on each speaker and session, including the CPE credits offered. Use these details to build a schedule that maximizes learning and professional development.
Plan your two days of expert-led sessions and collaborative discussions, designed to provide:
- Expert insights from ERM, policy, and technology leaders
- Collaborative strategies and solutions for today’s risk challenges
- Practical tools to navigate complex enterprise risk landscapes
Plus, registered attendees can earn up to 14.4 CPEs through Summit sessions!
🗒️ Need to justify participation? Use our ready-to-go Summit Justification Toolkit!
💲Don’t wait — secure your spot and take advantage of early bird pricing, which runs through September 28!
- AFERM Members: $250
- Non-Members: $395
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Thank You AFERM Virtual Summit Sponsors!
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Nomination Deadline Extended!
11th Annual AFERM Individual ERM Awards
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Nominations for the 11th Annual AFERM Individual ERM Awards are still open! The deadline for submissions has been extended to Sunday, September 28, 2025.
We look forward to receiving your nominations via the AFERM website and highlighting those colleagues making a significant difference in the ERM Community at this year’s AFERM Summit. Nominees must be nominated by another individual to be eligible for an award.
We encourage you to nominate your colleagues for any of these categories:
- ERM Professional of the Year: Applies to work that has been accomplished over the past year regarding outstanding performance and contributions in the development, implementation, or advancement of ERM practices.
- ERM Leader of the Year: Applies to work that has been accomplished over the past year demonstrating excellence in championing ERM within their organization or the broader community.
- ERM Hall of Fame: Showcases achievements over an entire ERM career.
- ERM Volunteer of the Year: Honors a volunteer that has provided their time and effort to help AFERM and its members achieve all that we do.
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Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET for the next AFERM Webinar
Want to learn the true reality of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to have an honest conversation about the politics and dynamics of ERM on how to effectively push it forward within your institution or city? Come join Victoria Meadows of University of Maryland, Baltimore and Mel Thomson of Valley Metro to learn to not underestimate how politics can squash your ERM program during all stages of maturity. Learn how to overcome the “knowing about ERM” to actionable items to bring value to your institution. Invest some time in having the conversation of the placement of ERM within your organization or city, bringing champions to the table, and creating an elevator speech to grab individuals’ attention so that they would want to talk to you!
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Victoria Meadows
Assistant Director, Enterprise Risk Management Program,
University of Maryland - Baltimore
Victoria Meadows serves as Assistant Director of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program at University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). As Assistant Director, Victoria leads the way in the development of the ERM program to bring it to new heights through program development, data analytics, project management, strategic plan connection, relationship building across UMB schools and units, and related tasks.
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Mel Thomson
Risk Manager, Valley Metro
Mel Thomson is Valley Metro’s Risk Manager in Phoenix, Arizona. She is developing a new risk management department involving both traditional risk and Enterprise Risk Management. As a risk advisor and facilitator, Mel is designing Valley Metro’s new ERM program to engage executive leaders through the ERM process. Leaders and staff actively engage in identifying, assessing, treating, and monitoring their risks across the organization. Mel places special emphasis on anchoring risk appetite to strategic planning.
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Seven Essential Risk Management Frameworks: Implementing a framework for risk management helps to provide a structured methodology and processing for identifying and assessing risks and develop an appropriate risk management strategy. Adopting a standard risk management framework helps organizations to quickly adapt to new and emerging risks, thereby increasing overall resilience. This article highlights some of the key risk management frameworks that every organization should adopt today as it helps not only manage traditional risks but also some of the emerging risks, e.g., AI. Read more here.
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Six picks for Enterprise Risk Management software: This article explores some of the top Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) software that stand out for their clarity, flexibility, and ability to help teams move forward without second-guessing what might go wrong. A side-by-side analysis of the functional capabilities of these six software programs and their key differentiators are discussed in the article. 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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