Welcome and Opening Remarks

Paul Kurtz, Director of Third-Party Risk Management
Merchante

Maneuvering the Regulatory Landscape of Third-Party Risk Management

• Assess the legal landscape and ramifications for your organization 
• Identify safeguards in your risk management processes to ensure compliance 
• Outline the necessity for strategic corporate governance 

Amy Mertz Brown, Former Chief Compliance Officer 
Independent consultant/attorney

Ellen Hunt, Principal Consultant and Advisor, 
Spark Compliance Consulting 

Linda Tuck Chapman, CEO 
Third Party Risk Institute 

Deep Dive: Forming Risk-Based Approaches to Due Diligence

• Discuss how to tailor your approach based on the unique challenges posed by each vendor 
• Discover how to integrate a risk ranking strategy into your compliance systems 
• Address the challenges in completing a third-party risk assessment 

Josh Bryant, Senior Data Privacy Analyst 
J.B. Hunt 

Ramsey Kazem, Regional Compliance Officer 
ANDRITZ 

Rob Seibel, Former Associate Vice President, Global Ethics & Compliance 
Bath & Body Works 

The ABCs of an Effective Third-Party Risk Management Program

• Explore methods of ensuring vendors maintain a secure environment 
• Discuss how a risk management framework can improve your compliance systems  
• Examine how to take a proactive approach in assessing the financial risks of your vendors 

Steve Naughton, Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies and Clinical Professor 
School of Law | Loyola University 

Michael Volkov, CEO 
The Volkov Law Group 

Cybersecurity Essentials in Third-Party Relationships

• Receive guidance on how to complete security reviews of your vendors across multiple platforms  
• Discuss how third-party collaborations can help protect against cyber threats 
• Review risk-tolerance related strategies to contain potential threats 

Melissa Thomas, Senior Manager of Information Security 
Intuit 

David Kessler, Vice President and Associate General Counsel | IT & Cybersecurity 
BAE Systems, Inc. 

James Goepel, General Counsel and Director of Education and Content 
FutureFeed 

Best practices for Third Party Compliance Audits

• Review strategies aimed at ensuring vendors' compliance standards align with those of your organization 
• Examine how to align your third-party audits with SOC2 reporting for accurate results on data tracking 
• Discuss how creating a vendor risk scorecard can help prepare for an audit 

Virgene Foreman, Director VMO of Internal Controls 
Lincoln Financial 

Lila Acharya, Partner 
Crawford & Acharya LLC 

Renica Hamilton, Assistant Vice President 
Lincoln Financial 

Excelling at Vendor Management

• Discuss methods of conducting proper due diligence on your vendors 
• Outline how to efficiently collaborate with your legal department on creating forms and templates for vendor contracts 
• Review options for developing contingency plans for when a vendor fails to meet compliance standards 

Paul Kurtz, Director of Third-Party Risk Management 
Merchante 

Michael Rickman, President 
Bear Lake LLC 

Adrene Maria Odom, Vice President, Risk and Vendor Management 
Lafayette Federal Credit Union 

Closing Remarks

Paul Kurtz, Director of Third-Party Risk Management
Merchante