What we're listening for at #RISK Expo Europe 2026

On November 10 and 11, the European risk and compliance community will gather at ExCeL London for #RISK Expo Europe, organized by GRC World Forums. Free to attend, the event brings together around 120 exhibitors, more than 200 expert speakers and over 6,000 senior decision-makers across five content streams: Information Security, BFSI, TPRM, GRC and Protective Security.

The exhibitor line-up offers a rare side-by-side view of the GRC market, with established platforms alongside compliance-automation and AI-native challengers. It comes at a time when regulation such as DORA, NIS2 and the EU AI Act keeps pushing risk and compliance up the agenda.

For our team, the event is a field checkpoint for our GRC coverage. We are not attending to present: we are going to listen, test our existing market views against what vendors and practitioners actually say, and capture the signals that do not show up in reports.

What we're watching

• Established suites versus challengers. How do established GRC suites position against platforms built around continuous compliance and AI, and where could consolidation follow?
• AI governance and AI in GRC. With the EU AI Act putting AI governance on the agenda, how are vendors packaging it, who owns the budget, and how much is real demand versus positioning?
• Regulation as a demand driver. How do DORA, NIS2 and third-party risk requirements translate into purchasing decisions, and which buyer segments are moving first?

How we'll capture it

Through direct conversations on the floor with vendors and risk and compliance practitioners. The sentiment and takeaways we collect will feed our GRC research and the Dedale platform.

Explore our research

• Riskonnect: A PE-Backed Leader in a €3 Billion GRC Software Market
• Riskonnect Private Market Leader 360 report
• AI, Value Creation, and the PE Playbook in Software with Anna Amadio

On-site at #RISK Expo Europe 2026

Flavie Voyer, from our GRC research team, will be attending #RISK Expo Europe and speaking with GRC vendors, risk and compliance practitioners and technology providers.

If you are attending and have a view on where GRC is heading, whether on platforms, AI governance or how regulation turns into purchasing decisions, we would be glad to hear it. Reach out on LinkedIn to exchange directly on-site.