Samikendra Ghosh
Global Head of Third-Party Risk Management, Howden
20+ Years’ Experience – Seasoned and dynamic professional with core experience in operational risk and internal control across varied functional and operational roles involving Operational Risk Management, Supplier Risk / Third Party/ Vendor Management, Operations & Project Management, Business Management covering Strategy and Financial Forecasting. Extensive experience in Enterprise Risk Management and leading teams.
GEOPOLITICAL DISRUPTION & CONCENTRATION RISK: MANAGING SYSTEMIC EXPOSURE ACROSS NTH-PARTY ECOSYSTEMS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Examining how geopolitical fragmentation and concentration risk amplify systemic exposure across multi-tier third-party ecosystems
- Identifying geopolitical risks across third- and Nth-party ecosystems, including sanctions, trade restrictions, and regional instability
- Managing concentration risk across jurisdictions, critical providers, and globally interconnected services
- Mapping multi-tier dependencies to uncover hidden concentration and systemic exposure across supply chains
- Understanding how geopolitical events propagate through shared infrastructure, cloud providers, and service hubs
- Embedding geopolitical intelligence into monitoring, scenario analysis, and strategic decision-making
CYBERSECURITY & AI-EXPANDED ATTACK SURFACES ACROSS THE THIRD-PARTY ECOSYSTEM – PANEL DISCUSSION
Increased cyber risk in a cloud-connected, AI-enabled landscape
- Understanding how cloud connectivity, API integrations and AI-enabled workflows are expanding third and Nth-party attack surfaces
- Examining how AI adoption by vendors introduces new cyber, data integrity and operational resilience risks
- Exploring professionalisation of threat actors and increasingly sophisticated attack methods
- Understanding failures caused by patching, software updates and configuration changes at 3rd and 4th parties
DATA QUALITY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Overcoming poor data quality to meet resilience and supervisory expectations
- Addressing fragmented vendor inventories and missing contacts
- Improving tagging, critical mapping between services, processes and suppliers
- Reconciling internal data sources to support regulatory reporting
- Enabling real-time situational awareness and decision-making during incidents
CONCENTRATION RISK THROUGH THE NTH PARTY LANDSCAPE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing risk propagation beyond direct contracts
- Mapping fourth, fifth and Nth-party dependencies to identify where a single supplier creates a critical concentration point
- Understanding risk propagation across multi-tier supply chains
- Identifying concentration risks within shared cloud infrastructure and service hubs
- Managing accountability and implementing mitigation strategies for risks beyond direct contracts
DATA QUALITY AND VISIBILITY: BUILDING TRUSTED FOUNDATIONS FOR TPRM AND RESILIENCE – PANEL DISCUSSION
How fragmented data is undermining TPRM and how firms are building real-time visibility to support decisions and resilience
- Fixing fragmented vendor inventories and incomplete data sets
- Improving tagging and mapping between services, processes, and suppliers
- Reconciling multiple internal data sources for regulatory reporting
- Enabling real-time visibility during incidents and disruptions
- Moving from data collection to decision-enabling insight sa