When Risk Reaches the Community: Governance, Essential Services and Cascading Consequences

When Risks Cross Systems: Cross-Sector Perspectives on Governance, Accountability and Action When Risk Reaches the Community: Governance, Essential Services and Cascading Consequences 18th September 2026 The organization may not have controlled the system. But it may still have carried the risk. Technology. Infrastructure. Essential services. Supply chains. Institutions. Communities. Strategic risk increasingly moved across the boundaries we used to govern it. This September, the WiSR Global Strategic Risk Roundtable brought together leaders from different sectors and disciplines to examine what happened when dependencies, decision-making, accountability and consequences no longer sat in the same place. Speakers: Veda Woods Maman Ibrahim Kristin King Patrizia Coppola Funso Kale www.theisrm.org