Conference Description
Key Takeaways
- Major risk management conference for senior financial services professionals, including CROs, C-suite executives, and heads of risk and compliance
- Covers AI safety and security, cyber resilience, geopolitical risk, regulatory compliance, and climate risk integration
- Draws over 1,300 attendees from 60+ countries, including representatives from Europe’s top 20 banks and 80% of the top 10 US and global banks
- Features summits, technical workshops, and closed-door discussions designed for executive-level participants
- CPD certified event taking place 16-19 November 2026 at the InterContinental O2, London
About the Event
RiskMinds International is a four-day conference focused on risk management challenges facing banks, insurers, and asset managers. The event brings together senior risk managers, regulators, and academics to examine how financial institutions can strengthen risk frameworks amid market volatility, technological disruption, and shifting regulatory requirements.
The programme combines summits and technical workshops with interactive sessions and networking opportunities. Content is structured around practical challenges such as stress-testing portfolios for extreme scenarios, integrating ESG considerations into financial decision-making, and building governance structures that support ethical conduct.
Core Risk Themes
Sessions address the intersection of geopolitical tensions with financial stability, examining how sanctions and supply chain disruption affect risk exposure. AI safety and model risk management feature prominently as institutions deploy machine learning across trading, credit, and operational functions. The programme also covers market liquidity stress-testing, cyber risk, and technology resilience.
Climate risk and sustainable finance sessions explore how environmental factors are being incorporated into risk models and investment strategies. Regulatory compliance discussions address evolving requirements across jurisdictions.
Who Should Attend
The event is designed for Chief Risk Officers, C-suite executives, and senior practitioners responsible for risk, compliance, audit, investment, and technology functions within financial institutions. Regulators and academics working on risk management research also participate. Attendees typically come from banking, insurance, and asset management sectors.