
Championing Excellence At The Intersection of Risk.
The #RISK Awards are the definitive recognition platform for the professionals, teams, and innovators navigating today’s complex, converging risk landscape.
Elevating success, celebrating community, redefining resilience.
Launched as the flagship climax to #RISK Expo Europe, these awards move beyond traditional silos to celebrate those who are successfully integrating cyber, privacy, ESG, and financial crime into a unified GRC strategy.
Anchored within Europe’s leading risk, GRC, Security and RegTech ecosystem, the #RISK Awards provide a credible, high-integrity benchmark for excellence, honoring the architects of organisational resilience.
Why the #RISK Awards?
The climax of Europe’s largest Risk, GRC, Security and RegTech Expo, the #RISK Awards are not a standalone event; they are the final chapter of the #RISK Expo Europe narrative.
After two days of deep-dive content and networking at Excel London, the community transitions from the expo floor to a spectacular evening of celebration in Excel’s premier banqueting facilities.
Integrity at our core, produced by the team behind the Women in GRC Awards, the #RISK Awards are built on a foundation of transparency, rigorous judging, and long-term commercial value.
This is where the community gathers to set the standard for what "excellence" looks like in modern GRC.
Award Categories

GRC Program Excellence
To honour organisations that have implemented integrated, innovative and enterprise-wide Governance, Risk & Compliance programs that position risk as a strategic enabler rather than a functional obligation.

Enterprise Integrated GRC Architecture
To honour organisations delivering market-leading, end-to-end GRC architectures that unify risk, compliance and governance workflows.

Identity & Access Governance Excellence
To recognise outstanding achievement in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and governance programs that protect organisational systems, ensure secure access, and strengthen digital trust across complex environments.

Procurement Risk & Supplier Governance
To honour excellence in supplier governance and procurement risk management, recognising teams that proactively oversee third-party relationships and ensure resilience, transparency, and compliance across the supply chain.

Physical Security & Asset Protection
To recognise exceptional achievements in physical security and asset protection, ensuring the safety and integrity of people, facilities, equipment, and critical infrastructure.

Young Risk Professional Award
To recognise rising stars shaping the future of enterprise risk management.

Audit Management, Analytics & Assurance
The Audit Management, Analytics & Assurance Award honours teams that leverage predictive models and advanced data analytics to move beyond traditional compliance toward a real-time, risk-led assurance model.

Ethics & Compliance Champion
The Ethics & Compliance Champion Award honours senior leaders and "architects of organisational resilience" who move beyond "tick-box" compliance to successfully embed ethical behaviour and mission integrity into their organisation's DNA.

Operational Risk Excellence
To recognise organisations with exemplary operational risk frameworks and resilience programs.

Regulatory Reporting & Change Management
To recognise outstanding teams or solutions managing regulatory reporting, compliance transformation, or major regulatory frameworks.

Risk Manager of the Year
To celebrate senior risk leaders who demonstrate exceptional professional capability, measurable impact, and leadership excellence.

Cybersecurity & Data Protection
To highlight world-class cyber governance, resilience, and data protection programs.

Operational Resilience & Business Continuity
To recognise organisations with exemplary operational risk frameworks and resilience programs.

Financial Crime Prevention
To recognise robust fraud, AML, sanctions, and wider financial crime programs at scale.

ESG Risk Management / Climate Leadership
To honour organisations delivering outstanding ESG and climate risk programs.

Third-Party Risk Management
To celebrate outstanding programs managing vendor, supply chain, and extended ecosystem risk.

Diversity & Inclusion in GRC
To spotlight initiatives that embed diversity and inclusion into GRC teams or risk culture.

Technology Innovation in GRC
To honour exceptional deployments of new technologies - for example: AI, automation, regtech - that materially upgrade GRC capabilities.

Credit or Liquidity Risk Management
To recognise exceptional credit or liquidity risk frameworks enabling organisational stability and resilience.

Market Risk Management
To highlight excellence in managing market risk exposures across complex portfolios.

Catastrophe Risk or Disaster Response
To celebrate organisations or teams showing outstanding capability in catastrophe risk modelling or disaster response.

Insurance and Re/insurance Excellence
To honour advanced risk practices that deliver business impact within insurance or reinsurance operations.

Analytics or Modelling Innovation
To award the best use of analytics, AI or modelling to solve complex risk or compliance problems.

Regulatory Reporting & Change Management
To recognise outstanding teams or solutions managing regulatory reporting, compliance transformation, or major regulatory frameworks.
The Experience
The Banqueting Suite, Excel London
11 November 2026 (Day 2 of #RISK Expo Europe)
The Evening:
- Welcome Drinks: Network with the industry's elite.
- Gala Dinner: A high-end culinary experience designed for networking.
- The Ceremony: The unveiling of the 2026 winners.
- The After-Party: Celebrating with the wider GRC community.
Recognising the leaders who navigate the intersection of risk.

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From expo floor to center stage: Honoring excellence in integrated risk!
The final chapter of the #RISK Expo Europe narrative.





















































