The highly anticipated MetricStream GRC Summit 2015 will bring together GRC executives, analysts, and practitioners as well as several distinguished CEOs, board directors and government officials
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The MetricStream GRC Summit, the industry's foremost conference for Governance, Risk, and Compliance executives, analysts, and practitioners, will be hosted by MetricStream from May 11-13, 2015 at the Ritz Carlton – Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia (Washington DC area). The must-attend GRC conference of the year will bring together prominent business leaders, experts, analysts, consultants, government officials, as well as MetricStream customers and partners from across the globe.
"The MetricStream GRC Summit 2015 has emerged as the premier platform for the best minds in government and business to come together to discuss, debate, and define the future of GRC," said Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream. "After a memorable GRC Summit 2014 in Las Vegas, we look forward to taking the event to the Washington D.C. area – the heart of decision-making, politics, security, and governance in the USA – where luminaries from around the world will convene to discuss their GRC journeys, successes, challenges, and opportunities. The focus of this event will center on sharing and learning from the success of MetricStream customers who have successfully leveraged GRC to guide decision-making and drive superior business performance."
The 2015 summit will feature a range of inspiring speakers, including Lowell C. McAdam – Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications; Rob Arning – Vice Chair of Market Development at KPMG LLP; Herman E. Bulls – Chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle's Public Institutions specialty and Board Director at Comfort Systems, USA, Inc., Rasmussen Inc., USAA, and Exelis Inc.; Linda Parker Hudson, Founder, Chairman & CEO of The Cardea Group, former President and CEO of BAE Systems, and Board Director at Bank of America and Southern Company; Margery Kraus, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of APCO Worldwide; and John J. Brown, Group Managing Director of Wealth Management Americas (WMA) and a Member of the Board of Directors at UBS Financial Services Inc. The event will also feature a fireside chat between MetricStream CEO, Shellye Archambeau and David Solomon, Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division (IBD) at Goldman Sachs.
The theme of MetricStream GRC Summit 2015 is "Maximize Business Performance Through GRC Journey" which will feature GRC practitioners, business executives, analysts, partners, government leaders, and more, who will share their experiences and lessons learned on their journey towards Pervasive GRC.
Pervasive GRC is MetricStream's vision for the future, enabling individuals, organizations, governments, and societies to:
- Adapt to changing technology interaction paradigms such as mobility, social collaboration, and cloud services
- Drive GRC adoption across the organization and extended enterprise with a focus on Generation-C users
- Layer GRC within core business processes and functions, and push GRC to the point of action
- Contextualize GRC to help support analysis and strategic decision-making
- Leverage GRC intelligence to drive superior business performance
Commenting on the event, MetricStream Executive Chairman Gunjan Sinha said, "Business operations are increasingly global, interconnected, socially networked, mobile, and cloud-based. Along with bringing new efficiencies and value, this landscape also creates new risks that we are just beginning to understand. Balancing risk with opportunity requires organizations to establish a pervasive GRC culture at every level of the enterprise, in a way that supports decision-making processes. The MetricStream GRC Summit 2015 will address the top of mind GRC-related challenges and opportunities facing business leaders today. Through this event, individuals and organizations will benefit from world class GRC content and community in order to design a blueprint for their own journey towards Pervasive GRC, leveraging the best practices and strategies derived from the successful GRC journeys of other leading organizations and experts across the world."
Registration for the MetricStream GRC Summit 2015 is now open. To receive the limited-time early bird offer, or to learn more about this event, please visit: http://www.grc-summit.com/2015/
About MetricStream
MetricStream is a market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management Solutions. MetricStream solutions are used by leading global corporations in diverse industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Energy and Utilities, Food, Retail, CPG, Government, Hi-tech and Manufacturing to manage their risk management programs, quality management processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and other corporate governance initiatives. MetricStream's customers include Procter & Gamble, UBS, Societe Generale, Pfizer, Philips, Cummins, Kellogg's, Mondelez International, SanDisk, and NetApp. MetricStream also owns and operates www.ComplianceOnline.com portal – the largest GRC advisory network and one of the largest GRC communities. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA (www.metricstream.com).
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