Speaking and Industry Engagements
Practical Perspectives on Risk, Governance, and Emerging Technology
Katherine E. Avery, Founder and Principal Advisor of Chimayo Consulting, speaks on the governance challenges shaping financial services, capital markets, and commodity markets. Drawing on more than two decades of experience across banking, structured finance, commodities, securities, and foreign exchange, Katherine brings a practitioner’s perspective to conversations about regulatory change, emerging technology, and increasingly interconnected operational risks. To learn more about speaking engagement topics, click here.
Where Chimayo Is Presenting
The 26th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum
Katherine Avery joins payments and regulatory-technology leaders to discuss operational resilience and third-party risk across the payments supply chain, including critical dependencies, concentration risk, accountability, incident response, and continuity planning.
Global Trade Review USA
Panelist
True, false, or ‘it’s complicated’: Talking tough on AI and trade tech
Katherine joins a panel exploring the enterprise AI conversation’s shift from excitement to measurable business value. As skepticism grows around the limitations of large language models and AI agents, capabilities continue to advance rapidly. The discussion will examine how organizations can assess the business case, manage risk, and make sound investment decisions amid competing expectations for AI’s future.
PRMIA Webinar
Katherine Avery presents a lifecycle approach to classifying operational risk events in physical commodity trading, showing where banking taxonomies obscure causes, ownership and control gaps. This PRMIA webinar draws on a practitioner design case and includes an exercise attendees can apply to their own risk frameworks.
Link to webinar
Marcus Evans GFMI Conference
Evaluate the next generation of AI capabilities shaping the future of risk management
Katherine Avery will explore how AI is evolving from traditional analytics and machine learning to generative and agentic capabilities, and what this means for risk management. She will examine applications in risk detection, scenario analysis, forecasting and decision making, alongside the governance implications of the EU AI Act and evolving European regulation. Attendees will gain a strategic approach to AI adoption aligned with their organisation’s risk priorities, maturity and long term objectives.
Vendor & Third Party Risk USA
Operational Risk & Resilience. The Real Cost of Third-Party Operational Failure (a case study)
Katherine Avery presents a case study examining the operational and financial consequences of third-party failure and how organizations can strengthen resilience by identifying critical dependencies, concentration exposure, escalation requirements, and recovery priorities.
GTR Commodities 2026
Katherine Avery joins commodity and trade-finance leaders at GTR Commodities 2026 to examine multi-modal AI across trade operations, including data synthesis, counterparty assessment, working-capital decisions, and appropriate limits on autonomous execution.
Finovate Fall 2026
Katherine Avery joins financial-services leaders at FinovateFall 2026 for a power panel on trust, risk, and financial crime, examining how banks can strengthen fraud defenses, govern AI-enabled tools, and translate effective risk management into durable customer trust.
Additional Industry and Innovation Events
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FIA Expo
FIA Member and Conference Participant
Chicago, IL
November 2-4, 2026
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University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Business Model Competition Judge
Oxford, MS
November 5, 2026
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Ole Miss Banking & Finance Symposium
Conference Attendee and Sponsor
Oxford, MS
November 6, 2026
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FIA BOCA
FIA Member and Conference Participant
Boca Raton, FL
March 8-10, 2027