A Preview of ProSight’s GCOR Conference

ProSight Financial Association’s annual Governance, Compliance, and Operational Resiliency (GCOR) conference goes live June 8 and runs through June 11. To help attendees and prospective viewers navigate the packed agenda, ProSight spoke with the conference’s programming leaders, Sylwia Czajkowska, associate director of ORM/ERM, and Chris Boersma in learning & development, about the philosophy and practical approaches guiding this year’s conference design.   

What was the central idea guiding your team as you designed the 2026 GCOR conference agenda?

CZAJKOWSKA: GCOR is built around a simple but pressing reality for banks: as the industry and institutions respond to rapid change, managing risk remains essential. Institutions are simultaneously adapting business models, transforming technology and operating processes, increasing reliance on third parties, responding to escalating cyber and fraud threats, and navigating an evolving regulatory and supervisory landscape, all while facing rising customer expectations. Those converging and overlapping pressures shaped every aspect of the conference design.

How did you decide on which topics to address and how to address them?

BOERSMA: ProSight councils and committees spanning compliance, enterprise and operational risk, technology risk, third‑party risk, culture and conduct, and community and mid‑tier banking guide our topic selection. That practitioner‑led governance ensures the agenda reflects real, current challenges across institutions of all asset sizes and maturity levels. The emphasis is not just on identifying emerging risks, but on managing them more effectively and efficiently, cutting through complexity, strengthening operational resilience, and simplifying risk governance without diminishing rigor.

Tell us about the keynote sessions.

CZAJKOWSKA: The GCOR keynote sessions are intentionally designed around themes, reflecting ProSight’s “industry‑for‑the‑industry” approach. Each keynote features multiple senior leaders and practitioners who bring diverse perspectives from across large, regional, mid‑tier, and community institutions.

Keynote sessions focus on:

• Risk Strategy and Transformation in a Rapidly Evolving Banking Environment, addressing how institutions can refine governance frameworks, improve decision‑making, and respond to accelerating change.
• Chief Compliance Officers’ Best Practices for an Effective Compliance Program, examining how compliance leaders are adapting to emerging technologies, shifting enforcement priorities, and increasing expectations around accountability and resilience.
• The Economy, offering a macro‑level view of economic, geopolitical, and market forces shaping strategic risk decisions.
• Board and Senior Management Reporting, exploring how risk and compliance leaders can deliver clearer, more actionable insights to executive leadership and boards.

Together, these sessions ground strategic discussion in real‑world experience and peer insight.

How can attendees dive deeper into the programming around these, and other, specific themes?

BOERSMA:

• Regulation and the Economy

The Economic Update keynote is a must‑see for attendees looking to understand how macroeconomic volatility, geopolitical risk, and market uncertainty are shaping strategic decision‑making. For insights into industry consolidation, sessions addressing bank M&A, transformation risk, and enterprise governance explore how uncertainty around the economy, regulation, and execution risk is complicating deal activity.

Rather than speculating on regulatory outcomes, GCOR focuses on practical preparedness, or how institutions can plan for multiple scenarios in an uncertain environment.

• Risk Strategies

Risk strategy sessions emphasize prioritization in a world of constant change. Panels such as “Cutting Through the Noise: Prioritizing What Matters in a World of Constant Change” help risk leaders assess where to focus limited resources for maximum impact. Other sessions explore AI’s growing role in risk identification, RCSA automation, and governance, highlighting both opportunities and oversight challenges.

The focus is on evolving risk frameworks in ways that enhance clarity, effectiveness, and resilience rather than adding complexity.

• Compliance

The compliance track, anchored by the Chief Compliance Officers panel, examines what an effective compliance program looks like in today’s environment. Discussions cover emerging technologies, examination expectations, shifting enforcement dynamics—including the interplay between federal and state authorities—and how institutions are adapting their compliance operating models while maintaining safety and soundness.

Attendees can expect practical insights into building compliance programs that are both adaptive and durable.

• Cybersecurity & Fraud Fighting

Cybersecurity remains an evergreen priority, and GCOR sessions go well beyond headline events to address broader digital vulnerabilities. Topics include AI‑enabled fraud, identity risk, third‑party exposures, data governance, and strengthening detection and response capabilities.

The emphasis is on operational resilience—how institutions can proactively defend against increasingly sophisticated threats while improving collaboration across risk, compliance, fraud, and technology teams.

With ProSight’s mission expanding to include Fraud Prevention, how did you gather this community together and how are they responding to this new programming?

CZAJKOWSKA: Fraud prevention has emerged organically as a critical component of operational resilience, making its integration into GCOR both natural and necessary. The community began with the ProSight Research Fraud Subcommittee and expanded through sustained engagement via conferences, webinars, working groups, and practitioner‑driven content—including the launch of the Fraud Alert Network.

The response has been strong, particularly as fraud risk is increasingly intertwined with cybersecurity, data governance, third‑party risk, and AI. Members value the collaborative, cross‑institutional approach, especially as fraud threats grow faster and more technologically sophisticated. GCOR provides a forum where fraud, compliance, and risk leaders can address these challenges together rather than in silos.

Is there programming better suited for large banks and some better suited for regional and community banks?

BOERSMA: GCOR is intentionally designed to be relevant across institution size and complexity. The agenda reflects input from ProSight councils representing large, regional, mid‑tier, and community banks, and sessions are structured to address shared challenges such as governance complexity, regulatory priorities, AI adoption, fraud, and operational resilience—while allowing for variation in scale and implementation.

Rather than separating content strictly by asset size, GCOR emphasizes peer learning across the industry, recognizing that institutions can benefit from understanding how others are approaching similar risks at different levels of maturity.

Which panels cover topics that are universal to the industry, regardless of the size of the institution?

CZAJKOWSKA: Many GCOR sessions address foundational issues that affect all banks, including:

• Building and sustaining risk culture
• Clarifying roles and accountability across governance frameworks
• Cybersecurity and digital resilience
• Fraud trends and collaborative response strategies
• Third‑party risk management
• Data governance and risk appetite alignment

These topics are central to safe, sound, and resilient operations regardless of institutional size.