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#### 📅 10 September 2026
##### 📍Monzo HQ, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street, London, EC2A 2AG
**About the event**
WiRC returns this September in partnership with Monzo's Women's Network, bringing together risk, control, and compliance professionals for an evening of expert insight, honest conversation, and meaningful connection.
Co-sponsored by CUBE and Monzo, this event is designed for practitioners who want more than a panel discussion. The agenda tackles the questions that matter right now: how AI is changing the role of risk and controls professionals, how operational resilience is reshaping risk functions, and what it takes to lead through complexity in an increasingly demanding regulatory environment
This evening brings that conversation into the right room: senior practitioners, cross-industry perspectives, and the space to connect directly with speakers and peers who understand the weight of the work.
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## Agenda
**17:30 - 17:45:** Arrival and registration
**17:45 - 17:50:** Welcome & Opening Remarks
**17:50 - 18:10:** Keynote by Kate Ireland, Monzo's Chief Internal Auditor and Co-Sponsor of the Women's Network
**18:10 - 18:35:** AI Thought Leadership: *From Reviewer to Builder - Bringing Risk and Controls Professionals into AI System Design*, delivered by [Kieran Baker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieran-baker-ds/), PhD, Lead Data Scientist at CUBE and Visiting Research Associate at King's College
**18:40 - 19:25:** Panel discussion: *Risk & Resilience: Building the Organisations of Tomorrow*
Chair: Emma MacDowall, Executive Head, Customer EMEA, CUBE
Panellists:
- Lucy da Piedade, Head of Group Controls Office, Deutsche Bank
- Andrew Pym, Monzo's Operational Resilience Director
- Ann Roughead, Chair at Handelsbanken, Senior Independent Director, Non-Executive Director and former CEO
- Robert Taylor, Head of Enterprise and Non-Financial Risk, LSEG
**19:25 - 19:30:** Closing Remarks by Rupal Patel, WiRC Founder
**19:30 - 20:30:** Networking drinks
## Our Speakers
### Kate Ireland
**Chief Internal Auditor, Monzo**
Kate joined Monzo as Chief Internal Auditor in January 2026, and is currently the Executive Co-Sponsor of Monzo's Women's Network. She previously served as Chief Audit Officer at Rothesay, and at Yorkshire Building Society where she was Exec sponsor for DEI. Her career also includes five years at Vanguard in senior SMF5, governance, and financial controller roles.
## Lucy da Piedade
**Head of Group Controls Office, Deutsche Bank**
Lucy is a Risk Management and Compliance leader with over 25 years' experience across global financial services, risk advisory, and external audit. She brings significant expertise in enterprise-wide risk management across multi-jurisdictional environments, with experience spanning both first and second line of defence roles.
## Ann Roughead
**Chair at Handelsbanken, Senior Independent Director, Non-Executive Director and former CEO**
Ann Roughead brings more than 35 years of experience across financial services, including senior roles at JPMorgan, Citi, Columbia Threadneedle and LV=. Her expertise spans governance, business transformation, regulatory change and M&A. Increasingly, her board work also focuses on the opportunities and risks created by AI, cyber security and rapidly evolving technology platforms. Ann is a strong advocate for organisational culture, customer protection and greater diversity in leadership.
## Andrew Pym
**Operational Resilience Director, Monzo**
Andrew Pym leads the Operational Resilience function at Monzo, where he has spent over seven years shaping the bank’s approach to managing operational disruptions. As Monzo’s Operational Resilience Director, he is responsible for safeguarding critical services, coordinating bank-wide incident management and business continuity, and ensuring a consistent approach to resilience across multiple jurisdictions. Prior to this he spent 6 years working at Deloitte as an operational resilience consultant, working with a range of financial services clients.
### Kieran Baker, PhD
**Lead Data Scientist, CUBE | Visiting Stats Research Associate, King's College London**
Kieran joined CUBE in July 2025 following the acquisition of Acin, a RegTech and operational risk AI provider. He is responsible for building and deploying various AI and Machine Learning models that power CUBE products, as well as leading internal process automation and improvement. Kieran holds a PhD in Statistics, and moved into language modelling on joining Acin in 2018. Today, his work spans a broad range of AI and ML disciplines, from designing GenAI and agentic systems through to model training for natural language tasks.
## Emma MacDowall
**Executive Head, Customer EMEA , CUBE**
Emma MacDowall is Executive Head, Customer EMEA at CUBE. With a background spanning global regulatory change management and AI-driven compliance innovation - including her tenure as Global Head of Regulatory Change Management at Manulife, Head of Regulatory Developments at Jupiter Asset Management - Emma now leads CUBE's EMEA customer team. She is a passionate advocate for women in the risk and controls profession and is delighted to be speaking at this year's Women in Risk and Controls event.
### Robert Taylor
**Head of Enterprise and Non-Financial Risk, LSEG**
Rob is an experienced senior leader and Head Of Enterprise, Capital and Operational Risk Management and departmental COO, with regular Board and Regulatory interactions. He has a strong track record of delivery including significant Pillar 2 capital savings, implementing entity risk management and governance frameworks and delivery of significant departmental efficiency gains and cost savings.
## Rupal Patel
**Head of Sales N. Europe, CUBE & Founder of WiRC**
Rupal Patel is a Risk Management executive, Board member, and founder of Women in Risk & Control (WiRC). With over 20 years of experience at G-SIBs including Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Goldman Sachs, she is currently Head of Sales, Northern Europe at CUBE. A regular speaker at leading industry events, Rupal has twice been named in the Women in Fintech Powerlist (Senior Leaders).
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