Session Year: Second Day
July 27, 2026
Emerging Risk Leaders Roundtable
Are you new to a nonprofit risk management role or looking to expand your risk leadership skills? Join this interactive roundtable designed specifically for emerging risk leaders. Facilitated by an experienced nonprofit risk professional, this session provides a welcoming environment to ask questions, share early-career observations, discuss challenges, and learn from peers navigating similar experiences. Participants will gain practical guidance, fresh perspectives, and valuable connections while exploring the opportunities and complexities of building an effective risk management program and growing as a risk leader.
July 27, 2026
Experienced Risk Leaders Roundtable
Join fellow seasoned nonprofit risk professionals for an engaging peer-to-peer roundtable discussion focused on the realities of leading risk management in today's complex environment. This interactive session is designed for experienced risk leaders to openly share challenges, successes, lessons learned, and emerging concerns with colleagues who understand the unique demands of the role. Through candid conversation and collaborative problem-solving, participants will gain fresh perspectives, practical insights, and valuable connections with peers facing similar opportunities and risks across the nonprofit sector.
July 27, 2026
Data Access and Privacy: Safeguard Your Mission
Learn how simple steps to strengthen data privacy at your nonprofit can build trust with constituents, prepare your organization for AI and digital transformation, and reduce compliance risk. You'll leave with practical steps you can take on access controls, data collection and retention, and opt-outs.
July 27, 2026
Express Yourself: Mission Stewardship Through Risk Appetite
How much risk is our nonprofit actually willing to take? This is the question that nonprofit leaders and board members ask when it’s time to develop and apply risk appetite. Living by your organization’s risk appetite is a form of high-level mission stewardship, with goals including: Aligning risk-taking and risk management with the nonprofit’s mission and strategic priorities; Distributing accountability for risk-aware decision-making, while offering decision-making guidance to staff across the organization; Empowering staff to take more risk–particularly higher-risk, mission-advancing ventures–by teaching them to interpret and apply leadership’s vision for risk appetite when making day-to-day decisions. This session explores these topics and more.
July 27, 2026
Fraud Risk Management in the Age of AI
Some fraud schemes and techniques are as old as time. Others appeared moments ago as scammers discover new ways to employ AI capabilities in their quest. Learn practical approaches and actions that can help nonprofits strengthen fraud detection and deter...
July 27, 2026
How to Stay Cognitively Engaged While Using AI
Have you ever had the feeling when using AI for a routine task that it was just too easy? Alarmingly frictionless? Congratulations! That’s your very human brain reminding you that while you may not see the risks of AI in every standard query, they’re always present. Those risks include losing key human skills and zoning out when you should be making important human judgment calls. Join us for learning and hands-on practice to work with AI in an engaged, risk-aware way.
July 27, 2026
ERM Master Class: Help Your Risk Management Program Take Wing
Author Michael Power says a great enterprise risk management program should take a bird’s-eye view of the organization, addressing risk holistically. But how do you get team members and departments working together to do that, while understanding and delivering on their own risk management responsibilities? Hear from experienced risk champions insights and takeaways from their journeys as nonprofit ERM architects and champions.