Move from fragmented signals to earlier action with AI, real-time intelligence and dynamic risk management.​

Safety leaders are responsible for preventing serious incidents, standardizing performance across sites, and giving teams the visibility to act sooner. But fragmented systems, aging assets, changing geopolitical conditions and uneven data can make it difficult to see where risk is building or whether critical controls are working in practice. ​

Join safety and EHS leaders for a focused, three-hour virtual forum on the forces reshaping operational safety. Hear perspectives from analysts, process safety experts, product leaders, practitioners and peers on the trends and technologies changing how organizations anticipate and respond to risk. Explore practical ways to connect risk signals with action, use AI to make sense of complex operational data and strengthen safety performance across your enterprise​

2026 Virtual Safety Forum ​
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 ​
9AM CDT/4PM CEST | 3-hour virtual forum

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Attendees will walk away knowing: ​

  • How real-time operational intelligence can help teams recognize emerging risk signals earlier. ​
  • Where AI can support faster, better-informed safety and process-risk decisions. ​
  • Why Dynamic Risk Exposure Intelligence (DREI) is becoming a market necessity. ​
  • How digital approaches can strengthen process safety amid aging assets and external disruption.​

The agenda reflects the current lineup. Additional speakers and session details will be announced as the lineup continues to take shape. ​

Chris Sayers​​
Senior Manager, Verdantix​

9:05 AM CDT​
Moving towards dynamic risk management: From invisible risk to proactive intervention​

Workforce attrition, loss of institutional knowledge, more complex operations, aging infrastructure, and a gap between risk goals and real outcomes all show that operational risk management needs a new approach.​​

​​AI is emerging as the layer that can integrate data from across complex operations, including hazard assessments, safe work authorizations, incident management, and barrier management, into a real-time, holistic view of risk, rather than a set of disconnected data points.​​

Scott Lehman

Scott Lehmann​
GVP Product Management, Sphera​

9:30 AM CDT​
Sphera AI in process safety: Dynamic Risk Exposure Intelligence ​​

Learn how Sphera’s Dynamic Risk Exposure Intelligence enables Operations and Process Safety teams to detect operational drifts by comparing live operating conditions against HazOp studies to identify emerging risk before it escalates. Identify where barrier impairments, weak critical controls, and high-risk work are converging so teams can prevent serious injuries and major accidents. ​

Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor​
Managing Partner, EHS and Sustainability Strategy​, ERM​

10:00AM CDT​
Reshaping EHS leadership to achieve safe & sustainable operations

As operational safety risk, regulatory complexity, and workforce expectations accelerate, the role of EHS leadership is being redefined. The most forward-thinking organizations are no longer treating EHS as a compliance function; they’re turning it into a strategic engine for resilience, innovation, and value creation. ERM safety experts reveal how top-performing companies are transforming their EHS programs to meet the moment.​​

Ramesh Narasimhan

Ramesh Narasimham​
Global Service Leader – Safe and Sustainable Operations, ERM​

10:00AM CDT​
Reshaping EHS leadership to achieve safe & sustainable operations

As operational safety risk, regulatory complexity, and workforce expectations accelerate, the role of EHS leadership is being redefined. The most forward-thinking organizations are no longer treating EHS as a compliance function; they’re turning it into a strategic engine for resilience, innovation, and value creation. ERM safety experts reveal how top-performing companies are transforming their EHS programs to meet the moment.​​

Justin Naik

Justin Naik​
GVP Product Management, Sphera​

10:25AM CDT​
Sphera AI in hazard prevention and chemical safety ​​

A first look at what’s coming next, including AI agent use cases for health and safety management and chemical management, plus new capabilities in chemical risk assessments. The session closes with a short demonstration of these product launches.​​
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11:05AM CDT​
Prevent toxic release inventory compliance risks ​​

Join us for a look at Sphera’s new TRI reporting capability, designed to help organizations simplify Toxic Release Inventory reporting and improve compliance confidence. In this session, we’ll show how threshold management and streamlined reporting workflows can help teams better understand reporting obligations, reduce manual effort, and prepare more efficiently for TRI submissions.​

Archana Shah

Archana Shah
Senior Director, Client Services, Sphera​

10:40AM CDT​
Five signs your environmental compliance process is failing you ​​

In this session, Sphera experts will walk through five warning signs that indicate an environmental compliance process is putting your organization at risk — from scattered data and inconsistent or opaque calculations and thinning expert capacity. You’ll learn how leading industrial organizations are transforming these vulnerabilities into a resilient, transparent, and audit-ready environmental data foundation and what kind of return on investment that transformation can deliver.​​

Trevor Bronson​
VP Product Strategy, Sphera​

11:10AM CDT​
From the field: Real-world safety challenges and lessons learned​

A moderated fireside chat exploring practical, on-the-ground perspectives on safety, featuring insights from customers navigating real-world challenges, lessons learned, and the technology and process improvements driving progress.​​

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