RAW 2023 — Take More Risk

RAW 2023 inverted the usual conference framing. Instead of asking 'how do we reduce risk?', the programme asked 'how do we take the right risks better than competitors?' — a deliberate echo of the strategic-risk literature and a clear rebuke to compliance-centric risk practice.

Michele Wucker delivered a headline session on the Gray Rhino — highly probable, high-impact risks ignored despite obvious warning. Steven Schwarcz (Duke University), Carolyn Kousky (Environmental Defense Fund) and Anjali Rudrappa (Danske Bank) extended the strategic argument into legal scholarship, climate-policy economics, and quantitative banking-risk respectively.

More than 30 risk-management experts contributed workshops on integrating risk into corporate decision-making, planning, budgeting, project management and risk-adjusted performance management — at a fraction of the cost of traditional risk conferences. Douglas Hubbard, Sam Savage, Norman Marks, Hans Læssøe and Grant Purdy returned.