Opening Remarks: Making Uncertainty Something We Can Decide On | ERQI Summit 2026

Opening remarks: making uncertainty something we can decide on Speakers: Andrew Shea & David White. Recorded at the ERQI Global Virtual Risk Summit, September 22 to 23, 2026. Join ERQI: https://www.entriskquant.org/contact Speakers: Andrew Shea David White Chapters: 0:00 Welcome, logistics, and attendee profile 3:30 Origin story of ERQI 6:51 Purpose: guidance, not a standard 10:32 Trust and defensibility in numbers 13:00 Year one progress and co-founders 17:07 Sponsors 20:51 Work products, toolkits, and community 25:55 2026 risk reports: geopolitics and third parties 33:00 AI disruption, sovereignty, and climate 36:20 Governance exists, decision use lags 39:54 From heat maps to loss exceedance curves 47:01 Signals, scenarios, and Monte Carlo output 55:23 Agenda thanks and the five-scenario challenge Blog: https://www.entriskquant.org/blog/wha... Transcript: https://www.entriskquant.org/recordin... Watch next:    • How Do You Like My Guard Rails? An AI Love...   About ERQI: The Enterprise Risk Quantification Institute (ERQI) is a vendor-neutral, non-profit community supporting risk quantification practitioners globally. Website: https://entriskquant.org LinkedIn:   / enterprise-risk-quantification-institute   Join ERQI: https://www.entriskquant.org/contact Subscribe for more ERQI videos:    / @erqinstitute   Summit sponsors: Axio, Citalid, Cyentia Institute, and Ostrich Cyber-Risk. © 2026 Enterprise Risk Quantification Institute, all rights reserved.