
Tobias Scholtis
Senior Director Corporate Procurement & Vendor Management, Hamburg Commercial Bank
2:10 pm - 2:45 pm
CAPABILITY, CAPACITY AND THE ROLE OF THE HUMAN IN MODERN TPRM
Keeping people, processes and tools aligned with expectations
- Assessing organisational capability gaps in TPRM and AI oversight
- Balancing automation with skilled human oversight
- Strengthening tool adoption to embed technology intro daily processes
- Keeping first-line teams aligned with regulatory and operational expectations
3:50 pm - 4:40 pm
THE FUTURE OF TPRM – PANEL DISCUSSION
Repositioning TPRM from vendor oversight to a strategic function at the centre of enterprise risk and resilience
- Reframing TPRM as a strategic enabler with clearer accountability and closer alignment to business decision‑making
- Anticipating regulatory shifts and embedding forward‑looking, resilience‑focused risk management
- Managing unclear ownership of AI risk, detecting supplier AI activation, and responding to supervisory scrutiny
- Using AI and agentic workflows to streamline processes, improve quality, and accelerate supplier decisions
3:00 pm - 3:35 pm
CAPABILITY, CAPACITY AND THE ROLE OF THE HUMAN IN MODERN TPRM
Keeping people, processes and tools aligned with expectations
- Assessing organisational capability gaps in TPRM and AI oversight
- Balancing automation with skilled human oversight
- Strengthening tool adoption to embed technology intro daily processes
- Keeping first-line teams aligned with regulatory and operational expectations
4:45 pm - 5:35 pm
THE FUTURE OF TPRM – PANEL DISCUSSION
How innovation is reshaping third-party risk management
- Identifying signs of market fragility, over-reliance and unsustainable supplier models
- Assessing the impact of supplier failure and market consolidation on critical services
- Anticipating supervisory and regulatory response to market disruption and systemic risk
- Repositioning TPRM from a compliance function to a strategic enterprise risk control
