Event Details
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm AEST
Date: 29 July 2025
Venue: Online
Registration Fee: Free
About the Webinar
Join the RMIA ACT Chapter for an on-line Lunch and Learn Webinar. We have two great speakers:
Alice Richardson from Commonwealth Super Corporation (CSC) will present on ‘Bringing your organisation’s risk culture to ‘the next level’ – Tips from an organisation that has done it. CSC has an officer dedicated to Risk Culture: A Risk Engagement Specialist, who will speak about the ways CSC has improved risk culture over the last half a decade using an approach informed by the research of leading scholar Professor Elizabeth Sheedy, whose risk culture methodology utilises risk culture surveys to target areas for uplift. CSC has won three awards in the last three years, including RMIA Risk Team of the Year 2025 and an award at the Commonwealth Awards for Excellence in Risk Management, which makes CSC a great case study for your own organisation. You will hear from CSC various 'pearls of wisdom' re. what 'works', and what doesn't work, when uplifting risk culture. This session is sure to be educational and entertaining - don't miss out!
Shay Johnston will present ‘Practical AI use cases for Risk Managers to do more with less’. This session explores practical, real-world use cases where AI transforms risk management from a reactive function to a proactive force for business improvement. AI can bridge this gap, helping risk teams scale their impact, improve decision-making, and embed risk intelligence across the organisation.
We’ll cover how AI can:
Make risk-based thinking accessible with instant and accurate risk information based on the policies, procedures, controls and regulations already used in your business;
Expand oversight and reduce effort and prioritise control testing programs by monitoring control effectiveness in real-time;
Transform the control environment to automatically map obligations and controls to regulatory and policy requirements and prevent, detect, and mitigate risks at scale; and
Contextualise risk intelligence using dedicated AI-risk researchers to scan internal and external data and connect dots we may be missing.
This session is practical and hands-on, showcasing how risk professionals can use AI to do more with less—without major budgets or technical expertise. By mastering AI’s basics, risk managers can unlock new ways to enhance risk maturity, add more value and drive a smarter, more resilient organisation.
About the Speakers
Alice Richardson
Risk Engagement Specialist, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation
Alice Richardson is the Risk Engagement Specialist at Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. She has more than 16 years experience in risk and assurance.
Alice has also studied a Bachelors, Masters and PhD in law, and has worked as a Senior Manager in legal teams across Canberra.
She feels strongly that it's better to catch problems before they arise - rather than after they occur.
Alice is an educational and entertaining speaker. She worked as a magician to pay her way through law school and has spoken at many academic and professional conferences.
Shay Johnston
Problem Solver | Leader | Coach,
Bright Quest Consutling
Shay Johnston is a senior risk and compliance professional who brings over 20 years of experience in financial services to his work as a management consultant. Drawing on deep expertise in the Australian regulatory environment, Shay now works with organisations to explore practical, human-centred uses of AI for risk, compliance, and operations.
As the founder of Bright Quest Consulting, Shay brings a unique blend of domain knowledge and strategic insight to AI implementation projects. In his financial services career, Shay gained deep experience in risk & compliance functions across general insurance, personal insurance, banking, financial advice and superannuation, including in risk profiling, control assurance, quality assurance program design and ownership, risk appetite development and monitoring, risk and compliance framework design and ownership, business continuity management, outsourcing and offshoring, automation governance, committee governance, board reporting and regulatory affairs. Shay led divisional risk and compliance teams in both Line 1 and Line 2 risk roles, also playing significant leadership and oversight roles in functional and enterprise-wide risk, compliance, quality and customer remediation programs.
With an MBA and a career grounded in real-world operational risk, Shay specialises in helping teams with limited capacity translate AI potential into meaningful outcomes—without adding unnecessary risk or complexity.