The creativity and the savvy of today’s risk professional has become critical to organizational success and, as such, the tradition of honoring their work annually must live on. RIMS has stepped in to continue to honor those deserving practitioners with the prestigious Risk Manager of the Year Award. The Society acquired the program from Crain Communications this September and we will be ready to celebrate this year’s winner at our Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia (April 23-26, 2017).
Congratulations are certainly in order for the organizers of RIMS Canada Conference and our host, RIMS Southern Alberta Chapter. In addition to sitting in and learning from the conference’s outstanding program, I had the opportunity to join a lively panel discussion on the future of enterprise risk management. The conference was capped off by hono(u)ring Mark Day, one of the Government of Alberta’s leaders in risk management, with the Donald M. Stuart Award, Canada’s highest honor within the risk management field.
Registration opened this month for RIMS second Risk Forum Middle East and we’re hoping to see the same success that we just experienced at our second Forum in Latin America. The Risk Forum Middle East is in Dubai on December 13 – 14 and we’re excited and honored to work, once again, with the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai (GDRFA) to help coordinate the event.
And, while registration is just opening for one event, another one is about to commence. RIMS ERM Conference is just around the corner and I’m excited to join practitioners in Atlanta at the end of the month. RIMS has a long history of encouraging student involvement at its events and, with the support of the Spencer Educational Foundation, we’re proud to be able to provide funds to 16 students from seven universities.
In-person networking at our events is just one of the ways we support the world’s risk management community. Online learning is another. In October, RIMS has two webcasts lined up, Workplace Violence and Active Shooter: Develop a Culture of Preparedness and How to Boost Company Valuation with the RIMS Risk Maturity Model for ERM. Joining the webcasts live allows participants the chance to interact with presenters, and all of RIMS webcasts are also available on our website after their completion.
In print, the Society issued its very first RiskPAC Quarterly, a resource that allows us to deliver information to members about our government affairs initiatives, current risk management issues surfacing in government, as well as some helpful tips and best practices for engaging elected officials. The next edition is scheduled for December 2016.
Also, the Society recently published a new executive report titled, “Risk Management’s Role in Mergers & Acquisitions.” The report shares the experiences of several risk professionals – including myself – and how we were able to add value to our organizations during complex merger and acquisition processes. It is now available in RIMS Risk Knowledge library, along with several other recently released publications and articles.
As always, it is an honor for RIMS to promote the value of risk management and we look forward to doing so for years to come.
Sincerely,
Julie Pemberton
RIMS 2016 President