Risk Appetite Dinner: Chicago

Identity Governance as Enterprise Risk: An Executive Identity GRC Summit for CISOs

Risk Appetite Executive Dinners are an invitation-only global thought leadership series for senior governance, risk management, cybersecurity, and compliance executives who are responsible for navigating uncertainty, protecting enterprise value, and enabling the organization to take the right risks.

This special Chicago edition is curated on the theme Executive Identity GRC Summit, focused on one of the most urgent and under appreciated enterprise risks today: identity.

Dinner Focus

Identity sprawl, fragmented access controls, cloud adoption, third-party access, and increasing regulatory scrutiny have transformed identity into the primary enterprise attack surface. At the same time, boards and regulators are asking harder questions about accountability, governance, and assurance over who has access to what — and why. This dinner convenes senior leaders to explore identity governance not as a technical issue, but as a core enterprise risk, governance, and resilience challenge.

Why Attend

Hosted by Michael Rasmussen, Founder of GRC 20/20 Research, analyst at GRC Report, and host of the Risk Is Our Business and Hitchhiker's Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy podcasts, this invitation-only dinner brings together a carefully curated group of CISOs, risk leaders, and GRC executives for candid, off-the-record discussion. This is not a vendor pitch, conference panel, or marketing event. It is a high-trust forum for peer-level dialogue among executives facing real-world board pressure, regulatory expectations, and identity-driven risk exposure.

Dining Experience

Hosted at The Alston, one of Chicago's most refined dining venues, this seated executive dinner is intentionally designed to slow the pace, encourage open dialogue, and foster meaningful peer connections. Attendance is strictly limited to ensure depth of discussion and a shared level of seniority and experience around the table.

Discussion Focus

This executive dinner will explore:

• Why identity has become a systemic enterprise risk, not just a security control

• The convergence of identity governance, enterprise GRC, and operational resilience

• Regulatory and audit expectations around identity, access, and accountability

• How organizations are redefining ownership, oversight, and assurance for identity risk

• What boards expect CISOs and risk leaders to do next

Sponsor

SafePaaS

SafePaaS is the policy-based access governance platform that automatically detects and prevents access risks, security incidents, and audit findings across the entire enterprise in one single platform. Built from the ground up, our organic, agile cloud platform allows organizations to adopt and extend identity security and access governance solutions efficiently and effectively when required. SafePaaS supports any enterprise application, any cloud infrastructure, and any IAM or ITSM system for complete governance. Policies sit at the center of our platform architecture delivering immediate value without the complexity of role-based IGA solutions.