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Friday Thoughts - Week 7

Fri, 15 May 2026 15:00:19 GMT

Week 7: Culture and Antifragility

This week explores the role of culture in antifragility. Organizations become stronger when teams are encouraged to surface issues, take ownership, and adapt quickly—driven by leadership signals that prioritize transparency, accountability, and learning.

Friday Thoughts - Week 6

Fri, 08 May 2026 06:00:28 GMT

Week 6: Learning Loops

This week’s Friday Thoughts focuses on learning loops—how organizations improve over time. By embedding continuous feedback, visibility, and structured learning into operations, organizations can turn stress into progress and drive stronger performance.

Friday Thoughts - Week 5

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:00:30 GMT

Week 5: Optionality Creates Strength

This week highlights optionality as a key driver of antifragility. By creating flexibility and alternative paths, organizations reduce dependency on single approaches and improve their ability to adapt in uncertain environments.

Friday Thoughts - Week 4

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:00:05 GMT

Week 4: Reducing Fragility

This week focuses on reducing fragility as a foundation for antifragility. By identifying where small issues can lead to larger consequences—such as reliance on individuals or lack of visibility—organizations can strengthen weak points and reduce unnecessary risk.

Friday Thoughts - Week 3

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:00:43 GMT

Week 3: Small Stress, Big Strength

This week’s Friday Thoughts explores how antifragility is built through small, frequent stress—not major disruption. By surfacing and addressing issues early through testing, feedback, and open dialogue, organizations can continuously strengthen and improve.

Friday Thoughts - Week 2

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:10:07 GMT

Week 2: Beyond Resilience

This week’s Friday Thoughts builds on antifragility by moving beyond resilience. Instead of simply surviving disruption, organizations are challenged to treat pressure and uncertainty as opportunities to improve—embedding learning into how they operate so they can adapt, strengthen, and grow.

Friday Thoughts - Week 1

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:41:36 GMT

Week 1: Antifragile Thinking in Business

This week’s Friday Thoughts explores the concept of antifragility—the idea that organizations can grow stronger through stress and disruption, not just survive it. The focus is on building teams and systems that learn, adapt, and improve in the face of challenges, using structured intelligence to drive resilience and continuous growth.

Financial Reporting, Controls & Compliance Leadership Forum 2026

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:58:03 GMT

Join us for the Inaugural

Financial Reporting, Controls & Compliance Leadership Forum 2026

Join Calgary’s leaders for a practical forum on strengthening oversight, controls, and governance to build more resilient organizations.

Why Attend

Hear from leading industry experts and leave with actionable insights into how your organizations can stay ahead of today’s evolving landscape of emerging risks, rising regulatory expectations, and new technologies.

What's Included

Teams receive 30% off when purchasing 6 tickets.
Eligible attendees may earn CPD hours, subject to their professional body’s requirements.
Lunch will be provided.

Forum Sessions

Featuring top experts across the industry, the forum will explore key issues affecting financial reporting leaders today, including:

Cybersecurity in financial reporting and how leaders can strengthen governance before risks escalate.
Resilient control environments that adapt to disruption, technology, and emerging risks.
Lessons from reporting failures , including litigation trends and real-world control breakdowns.
Benchmarking ICFR programs with peer insight into how organizations structure and govern controls.
AI in finance and reporting , including its impact on audit, controls, governance, and ethical oversight.

Speakers

Cheryl Wilks | Manager, Finance Systems & Data, Tourmaline Oil
Chris Day | Partner, Purpose Benefits
Chris Sorensen | Founder & President, Iteration Insights
Jinu Varghese | Founder & CEO, CyAlpha Cyber Solutions
Lori Caltagirone | President & CEO, Sunesis
Melissa Stoesser Young | Partner, McMillan
Michael Alguire | Head of Information Security, Servus Credit Union
Raj Aujla | VP Energy, Axis Insurance
Tonya Fleming | Manager, Private Markets & Innovation, Alberta Securities Commission

Who Should Attend

This forum is for professionals responsible for financial reporting, governance, compliance, audit, risk, and internal controls.

Reserve Your Seat

Register now to secure your spot and be part of the conversation shaping the future of financial reporting, controls, and compliance.

Agenda

9:00 AM

Opening Remarks & Acknowledgements

9:05 AM

AI is the Weapon Now: Cybersecurity in an Era of Accelerating Threat

10:05 AM

Beyond Resilience: Building Control Environments That Get Stronger Under Pressure

| B R E A K |

11:05 AM

When Non-Compliance Becomes Costly: An Insurance Perspective on Financial Reporting Risk, Fraud & Governance Failures

11:35 AM

What the Regulator Sees: Emerging Rules, Enforcement Trends & What They Mean for You

| L U N C H & N E T W O R K I N G |

1:05 PM

Mind the Gap: Mental Health’s Economic Toll and How Your EAP Can Close It

1:35 PM

ICFR in Transition: Benchmarking Where You Are, Understanding Where This Is Heading

2:35 PM

AI Across the Organization Panel: Exploring, Adopting & Overseeing

| B R E A K |

4:05 PM

Getting Ahead of It: What Organizations Need to Know Before AI Liability Lands

4:50 PM

Closing Remarks

| N E T W O R K I N G - D R I N K S & A P P E T I Z E R S |

Our Sponsors & Community Partners

The Financial Reporting, Controls & Compliance Leadership Forum is made possible through the generosity of our sponsors and community partners, whose commitment reflects a shared dedication to advancing excellence across our industry.

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Forum 2026

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:35:00 GMT

Join us for the Inaugural

Financial Reporting, Controls & Compliance Leadership Forum 2026

Join Calgary’s leaders for a practical forum on strengthening oversight, controls, and governance to build more resilient organizations.

Why Attend

What's Included

Teams receive 30% off when purchasing 6 tickets.
Eligible attendees may earn CPD hours, subject to their professional body’s requirements.
Lunch will be provided.

Forum Sessions

Featuring top experts across the industry, the forum will explore key issues affecting financial reporting leaders today, including:

Cybersecurity in financial reporting and how leaders can strengthen governance before risks escalate.
Resilient control environments that adapt to disruption, technology, and emerging risks.
Lessons from reporting failures , including litigation trends and real-world control breakdowns.
Benchmarking ICFR programs with peer insight into how organizations structure and govern controls.
AI in finance and reporting , including its impact on audit, controls, governance, and ethical oversight.

Speakers

Cheryl Wilks | Manager, Finance Systems & Data, Tourmaline Oil
Chris Day | Partner, Purpose Benefits
Chris Sorensen | Founder & President, Iteration Insights
Jinu Varghese | Founder & CEO, CyAlpha Cyber Solutions
Lori Caltagirone | President & CEO, Sunesis
Melissa Stoesser Young | Partner, McMillan
Michael Alguire | Head of Information Security, Servus Credit Union
Raj Aujla | VP Energy, Axis Insurance
Tonya Fleming | Manager, Private Markets & Innovation, Alberta Securities Commission

Who Should Attend

This forum is for professionals responsible for financial reporting, governance, compliance, audit, risk, and internal controls.

Reserve Your Seat

Register now to secure your spot and be part of the conversation shaping the future of financial reporting, controls, and compliance.

Agenda

9:00 AM

Opening Remarks & Acknowledgements

9:05 AM

AI is the Weapon Now: Cybersecurity in an Era of Accelerating Threat

10:05 AM

Beyond Resilience: Building Control Environments That Get Stronger Under Pressure

| B R E A K |

11:05 AM

When Non-Compliance Becomes Costly: An Insurance Perspective on Financial Reporting Risk, Fraud & Governance Failures

11:35 AM

What the Regulator Sees: Emerging Rules, Enforcement Trends & What They Mean for You

| L U N C H & N E T W O R K I N G |

1:05 PM

Mind the Gap: Mental Health’s Economic Toll and How Your EAP Can Close It

1:35 PM

ICFR in Transition: Benchmarking Where You Are, Understanding Where This Is Heading

2:35 PM

AI Across the Organization Panel: Exploring, Adopting & Overseeing

| B R E A K |

4:05 PM

Getting Ahead of It: What Organizations Need to Know Before AI Liability Lands

4:50 PM

Closing Remarks

| N E T W O R K I N G - D R I N K S & A P P E T I Z E R S |