In-person & Livestream Events
GRC World Forums runs in-person and digital events for governance, risk and compliance professionals.
Upcoming:
#RISK Expo Europe (10 to 11 November 2026, ExCeL London)
PrivSec AI Governance (11 November 2026, ExCel London)
#RISK Awards (11 November)
AI Governance Executive Forum (24 November)
#RISK BFSI Executive Forum (25 November).
10–11 November 2026 · ExCeL London
#RISK Expo Europe — Risk. It's everyone's business.
Europe's Leading Risk, GRC, Security & RegTech Expo. Free to attend for senior risk, compliance, security and audit professionals.
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The show, in numbers
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Stages — BFSI, GRC & Risk
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200+
Speakers
100+
Exhibitors
5,000
Attendees
10
Workshops
GALA NIGHT
Awards Evening
DAY 2
PrivSec AI Governance breakout conference
Featured speaker line-up
Lord Chris Holmes
Member of the House of Lords
Sven Dobler
Chief Compliance Officer, Cover-More, Zurich
Emma Hurrell
HSBC Bank UK
Arcangelo Leone de Castris
AI Data Governance Lead, Aviva
Gordon Malcolm
CRO, Investec
Christopher Mason
Founder and CEO, Woodhorn Global
Phillip Davies
CISO, Equifax
Gill Loisel
Chief Compliance Officer, Euroclear UK & International
Thomas Niven
Responsible AI Managing Director, Accenture
Alex M.
Head of Financial Services, Cyber, National Cyber Security Centre
Duncan McDonald
CISO, NCC Group
Aaron Kalvani
Independent AI Strategist & Advisor — UN & Global AI Governance, United Nations
Stefan Gershater
Risk Director, National Grid
Ben Gibbins
Head of Financial Services & Insurance, Orange Cyberdefense UK
Annie Ruler
Head of Compliance & DMLRO, P&O
Emma Price
Former Deloitte Partner, BRAVE
Justin Crump
CEO, Sibylline
Daniel Tor
Senior Compliance & Assurance, Sky
Manish Aggarwal
Chief Risk Officer, Zenith Bank (UK)
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Presented by #RISK Expo Europe · Day two
Privacy, copyright and AI governance. One room, one day.
Day 2 of #RISK Expo Europe, built for the people personally accountable for getting AI governance right. Wednesday 11 November 2026, ExCeL London.
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Two keynotes, four practitioner-led panels
Keynote
Lord Chris Holmes
Member of the House of Lords
The UK must introduce cross-sector AI legislation. Author of the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, making the case for binding duties on transparency, auditing and data rights.
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Steve Higham, OBE
National security and resilience
How hard is Britain to break? Resilience, business and the changing character of national security — and the part business now plays in keeping the country running.
10:00
Agentic AI and the death of the static data inventory
Moderated by Michael Borrelli, AI & Partners
11:10
AI vs AI: cyber threats, defences and the governance gap between them
Moderated by Annick O’Brien, CybSafe
12:50
Shadow AI and the extended vendor chain
Auditing third-party AI tools and sub-processors
14:30
The National Centre for Information Defence
Britain’s new frontline against AI-enabled disinformation
Moderators and panellists
Michael Borrelli
AI & Partners
Annick O’Brien
CybSafe
Steven George-Hilley
Centropy PR
Dr Nathalie Moreno
Kennedys
Marilia Aires
Lifebit
Philipa Jane Farley
XpertDPO
Vicky Owen
IVC Evidensia
Patrick Sullivan
A-LIGN
Jiawen Hu
GlobePay
Nik Kozlov
LioraEngine
Campbell Cowie
iProov
Elizabeth Anderson
Digital Poverty Alliance
Charlotte Wilson
Check Point Software
Free livestream · DORA & NIS2
Building resilience beyond compliance
Follow one disruption scenario from first alert to full recovery. Risk, resilience and security leaders test how operational, cyber and third-party risk connect, and what it takes to prove recovery to two regulators.
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Thursday 3 December, 09:30 GMT
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- 09:30–09:40Welcome and live poll: the resilience challenge and disruption scenario
- 09:40–10:20From deadline to proof: market maturity, regulatory direction and supervisory expectations
- 10:20–10:55DORA and NIS2: can you prove recovery? One disruption, two regulatory lenses and a connected evidence chain
- 10:55–11:05Break
- 11:05–11:40The critical third-party blind spot: cloud concentration, supplier dependencies and continuous assurance
- 11:40–12:20Connected resilience in action
- 12:20–13:10Recovery when the whole chain matters
- 13:10–13:30Actions, key takeaways and next steps
London · 25 November 2026
New date · moved from 23 September
Board-level risk, discussed behind closed doors.
A closed-door meet-the-buyer day for 150 senior risk, compliance, audit and security leaders from Europe's banks, insurers and asset managers — built around who owns AI risk, where the CRO ends and the CISO begins, and what DORA now demands in practice.
- AI governance & model risk
- The CRO–CISO boundary
- DORA & operational resilience
Already confirmed
HSBC · Barclays · NatWest · Santander · Lloyds Banking Group · Deutsche Bank · JP Morgan Chase · Morgan Stanley · ABN AMRO · AXA · Revolut · John Lewis Financial Services
