ISACA 2027 North America Conference

Date

May 5–7, 2027

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Organizations rarely become fragile because of a single bad decision. Fragility develops over time as reasonable decisions create dependencies, exceptions, complexity, and assumptions that become harder to see as the business changes. In Governance Decisions That Determine Business Survivability, Patrick M. Hayes examines governance through the lens of Business Survivability and explores how decisions made long before a disruption can determine whether an organization is able to continue operating when conditions change. The session moves governance beyond policies, oversight, and compliance to focus on how leaders make decisions about risk, technology, AI, resilience, accountability, and operational dependencies. The discussion will help leaders recognize how governance choices can either reduce hidden fragility or allow it to accumulate. The objective is to make governance more useful to the business by connecting decisions made today to the organization's ability to adapt, respond, and continue operating when something unexpected happens.