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September 3, 2026
How to Map and Mitigate AI Risks in a Nonprofit
Attend this session to delve into AI risk categories relevant to nonprofits and learn how to map and mitigate AI risks through a case study approach. Leave with a practical risk framework and taxonomy, completed example risk map, and self-assessment tool to adapt and use in your nonprofit.
August 18, 2026
Meeting Fatigue? How to Master Meetings and Make Them Count
This interactive, hands on workshop equips risk leaders with practical facilitation skills to make meetings more engaging, productive, and impactful. Whether you're working with front-line, mid-level or executive teams or board committees with risk governance responsibilities, you'll learn techniques to spark collaboration, navigate challenging discussions, and drive better decisions. The best part? You don't have to lead the meeting to make it better.
August 7, 2026
Business Income Coverage for Nonprofits: Determining the Right Limit and Completing a Worksheet Accurately
Have you ever looked at a Business Income worksheet and felt like you were guessing how to complete it? This hands-on workshop will take the mystery out of determining the right Business Income limit for your nonprofit organization. Learn what goes into Business Income and Extra Expense, when ordinary payroll should be included, and how to estimate the additional costs an organization may reasonably incur to continue operations after a covered event. Explore how each aspect of a nonprofit’s funding should be incorporated, so you can provide accurate information to your insurance company—and secure coverage at the level your organization needs.
August 3, 2026
Using the Anti-Futures Triangle to Build Organizational Risk Resilience
In this session, participants will begin building a new dimension of organizational risk resilience by working through the "anti-futures triangle." This construct will challenge participants to think critically and surface orthodox beliefs—the deep-seated assumptions we make about how the world works—that pull their organizations back toward the past, intensify the growing weight of the present, and 3) create a sense of vulnerability about the push from undesirable futures. By surfacing and questioning the orthodox beliefs that underpin these three conditions, participants can help their organizations develop a deeper understanding of disruptive possibilities, strengthen risk resilience, and shift attention toward a more beneficial anticipation of plausible futures. IMPORTANT NOTE: A link to a brief preparatory presentation for this session will be included in the conference Welcome Email sent to all registered attendees prior to the event. Participants planning to attend this session are encouraged to view the presentation in advance.
July 27, 2026
Under Pressure: How to Transform Board Risk Briefings from Data Dumps to Strategic Risk Conversations
Risk briefings to nonprofit boards are too often filled with dense operational data that leads the board to want more of the same. Yet this familiar approach is at odds with the board’s strategic role. This practical workshop is designed for risk leaders looking to break the cycle of unproductive risk reporting. Learn how to move past compliance-driven reporting and reframe risk data into topics for engaging conversations. And learn what you need to do—and stop doing—to inspire proactive, constructive board dialogue rather than passive head-nodding, and how to connect operational vulnerabilities directly to your mission resilience.
July 27, 2026
When the Government Comes Knocking: A Nonprofit Readiness Workshop
Recent developments show that both federal law enforcement agencies and Congress are increasing scrutiny of nonprofit organizations, with investigations spanning compliance, fraud, political activity, and potential links to extremism – how prepared is your organization if investigators come knocking? Drawing on experience as former federal attorneys and investigators – including as the former head of two federal offices of investigations – this fast-paced, interactive session will help demystify the investigative process through mock governmental inquiries and practical real-world examples. Attendees will leave with strategies to effectively identify and mitigate risk early, and how to respond effectively when issues arise.
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
Build (or Enhance) a Nonprofit AI Policy
Using artificial intelligence thoughtfully can help your team members spend more time on high-impact work. But AI presents safety, security, environmental, and ethical risks to nonprofit teams and constituents. Learn how to build an AI policy, or enhance the policy you have, to support your team’s decisions on AI use as your needs and the technology evolve.
July 27, 2026
Nonprofit Risk Jeopardy!
This engaging workshop in the spirit of the popular TV show "Jeopardy!" will equip risk management newbies with the foundational knowledge to be effective in their roles—and spur deeper curiosity. Hosted by nonprofit insurance broker Scott Konrad and featuring three risk champions as contestants, this session—a new and improved reprise of Konrad's game at the 2016 Risk Summit—will prove that risk and insurance can be fun.
July 27, 2026
How to Inspire and Support Timely, Risk-Aware Decisions
Many nonprofits deliver support and services that are truly urgent. This session explores ways to inspire and support risk-aware decision making when protracted processes are not possible. Learn from experienced leaders who have worked in challenging and dynamic environments around the world. They’ll share how they approach decision-making that reflects risk awareness and due care without causing undue delay.