Agility 2025: Momentum Built, GRC Elevated

There’s a moment in every movement when things shift. When vision turns into velocity. When dreamers turn into believers. For risk professionals, compliance innovators, and governance visionaries, Agility 2025 was that moment. 

This wasn’t just a conference; it was a catalyst. It marked the turning point where GRC stopped being a reactive necessity and became a strategic driver of innovation, growth, and resilience. This wasn’t a conference about what might happen. It was about what’s already happening. Real innovation. Real outcomes. Real momentum. 

From cutting-edge product launches to transformative keynotes and bold customer stories, Agility 2025 delivered a clear signal: the next era of GRC isn’t coming, it’s already here.

Innovation with Impact

From day one, Risk Cloud was designed to be flexible, connected, and intelligent. The platform was built to grow with organizations, evolve with modern challenges, and empower teams to lead through uncertainty. But moving beyond static processes and siloed data requires more than just software. It requires Dynamic GRC.

“Dynamic GRC means integrations with systems like Tenable, Black Kite, Asent, and Crowe will pull data into a centralized ecosystem to fuel smarter decisions,” proclaims Jon Sielger, LogicGate Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer. Siegler continues, “Spark AI will map the data to the right control in your library, update the associated risk score, and alert when it nears a threshold. Then, without lifting a finger, a workflow will kick off, complete with recommended actions to bring the risk back into tolerance”. 

That’s Dynamic GRC in motion. And the innovations shown at Agility 2025 are how we’re getting there. 

First, Spark AI, Risk Cloud’s opt-in embedded AI copilot, made the leap from reactive helper to proactive driver. Now generally available, Spark AI can generate text, recommend controls, cross-reference related items, and soon, auto-fill forms from unstructured data. AI wasn’t a buzzword at Agility, it was a built-in capability already changing how Risk Cloud customers get work done.

Next came a smarter, simpler way to manage risk across the enterprise. Enhancements to Risk Cloud’s reporting, relationships, and taxonomy tools brought new clarity and control to even the most complex environments. In addition, “recent performance optimizations improved large Visual Report times up to 90%,” boasts Sam Seo, LogicGate Associate Product Manager.

The introduction of the new Operational Risk Management Solution was on full display in a hands-on breakout session. With real-time dashboards, KRI tracking, and integrations with trusted content providers like Crowe, organizations can move beyond managing risk in silos and start managing it holistically. 

On the compliance side, the spotlight was on scale and automation. With Risk Cloud’s Automated Evidence Collection, customers can now pull evidence directly from over 75 systems, including HRIS platforms, ticketing systems, file repositories, and more. But it was the Automated Control Gap Analysis that got the most attention. This capability automatically maps and identifies gaps across frameworks and control sets. Combined with continuous monitoring and dynamic audit trails, evidence changes from something you chase to something you trust.

And across every session, one theme kept surfacing: connection. Risk Cloud underwent a user experience glow-up built to reflect how real teams work today. New access management features will allow for zero-touch provisioning and group-level permissions, while updated navigation and record relationships give users a clearer picture of how everything fits together. Tasks can be assigned to teams, not just individuals, and improved dashboards make it easier for both power users and business users to get what they need, fast. 

“It’s all about meeting our customers where they are today, while building growth paths for their future,” says Andy Ruse, President of Field Operations at LogicGate. “We’re not interested in just selling software - We’re building relationships and a community that grows with our customers, evolves alongside their challenges, and empowers them to lead through uncertainty with tangible results”. 

Stories of Transformation

While the Innovation Showcase painted the vision, it was the customer stories that made it real.

Take Robinhood, whose small but mighty GRC team built one of the most mature and scalable governance models in the industry. Using Risk Cloud, they streamlined business processes across their organization and automated hundreds of workflows. But their story wasn’t just about efficiency. It was about how a modern GRC strategy can help a business grow faster and smarter.

Vinted, Europe’s largest online marketplace for secondhand fashion, shared how their GRC team moved from spreadsheet-driven processes to a fully integrated Risk Cloud implementation in just months. But what made their story truly resonate wasn’t just speed; it was purpose. LogicGate Senior Product Marketing Manager, Elice Chan, worked closely with Vinted and noted, “By focusing on fit-for-use workflows, clear stakeholder engagement, and an intentional rollout strategy, they proved that you don’t need a massive team or budget to build something meaningful. You just need clarity and a platform that adapts as you do”.

Then came Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where GRC professionals are managing one of the most complex and compliance-intensive risk environments in healthcare. Their move to a hybrid risk model, blending third-party and internal risk assessments under a single control framework, helped the team reduce redundancies, improve visibility, and make their risk data actually actionable. Grouping systems into “Security Domains” based on shared compliance requirements allowed them to scale faster and standardize reporting across departments—a win for both their risk team and their regulators.

For LogicGate Co-Founder and CEO Matt Kunkel, one theme stood out across every story. “Transformation isn’t about buying a tool. It’s about building a program that evolves with your business, supports your people, and positions risk as a strategic function. And that’s what we’ve built here at LogicGate.”

Reimagining the Role of Risk

Throughout the event, the keynotes reminded everyone just how far we’ve come as an industry. Cody Scott, Principal Analyst at Forrester, took the audience beyond the boundaries of conventional frameworks with a provocative session titled “Why Conventional Risk Management Has Failed.” He opened with hard truths: only 21% of organizations are capable of continuously monitoring risk and controls, and fewer than 1 in 5 say their risk teams effectively coordinate across business units. These numbers aren’t just concerning, they’re unsustainable in a world where risk is constant and change is exponential.

Scott made the case that the frameworks many organizations rely on, such as COSO, ISO 31000, and even the classic three lines of defense, weren’t built for today’s environment. They’re static. They’re slow. And they were never meant to support real-time decision-making. What’s needed now, he argued, is a shift toward Continuous Risk Management. This approach aligns risk insights with value creation and treats adaptability as a core competency. 

That message found powerful reinforcement in Nick Kathmann, LogicGate’s Chief Information Security Officer, whose keynote, “Stop Throwing Money at the Problem,” zeroed in on cybersecurity’s growing complexity and its diminishing returns. In a landscape increasingly defined by tool sprawl and reactive spending, Kathmann urged leaders to rethink their approach to security architecture from the ground up.

“70% of organizations undergo major IT upgrades every 3-5 years,” according to Kathmann. More vendors and more software, he argued, don’t always mean more safety. Instead, Kathmann shared how to redefine security as a foundation that is woven into infrastructure through principles like zero trust, microsegmentation, and ephemeral infrastructure. His approach reframes compliance as a design challenge, not just a checklist, and positions the GRC team as a partner to engineering, not a bystander.

The impact of these sessions rippled far beyond the keynote room. Throughout the week, conversations shifted. Teams weren’t just asking “How do I manage risk better?” They were asking, “How do I build smarter from the start?”

Celebrating Champions of Change

As much as Agility was about looking forward, it was also a moment to recognize the incredible progress already being made. For Jen Renna, Chief Customer Officer, “the Agility Awards were a time to honor the individuals and organizations pushing the boundaries of what GRC can achieve. From Power User of the Year to GRC Champions, and the coveted GRC Program of the Year, these winners are setting the new standard worldwide”.

And then, of course, there was Build Bash, our friendly (and fierce) bonus workshop. Build Bash is part competition, part creativity sprint, and 100% LogicGate community at its best. Teams went head-to-head in a live challenge to create impactful Risk Cloud solutions in record time using the latest product features! The result? Dynamic dashboards, clever configurations, and a showcase of just how dynamic the platform and its users can be.

Midway through the event, the unexpected became unforgettable with a special appearance from Andy Buckley, best known for his role as CFO of Dunder Mifflin, David Wallace, on The Office. But Buckley didn’t just show up for photos, he showed up with perspective. Drawing on his experience working with top-tier actors and crews, he shared how the dynamics of a film set mirror those of a high-performing business. 

Jonathan Skinner, LogicGate Chief Marketing Officer, shares, “Andy’s perspective was interesting. Through comic quips about Channing Tatum and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, he highlighted how celebrities are just like business leaders. They shine brightest when the whole cast and crew are aligned, communicating, and working toward the same story”. His keynote was as humorous as it was heartfelt, and a perfect reminder that great outcomes come from great collaboration, no matter the industry.

That spirit of human connection continued in an energetic keynote delivered by John Sileo, cybersecurity expert and best-selling author. In a powerful and deeply personal session, Sileo shared how his identity was stolen by someone he trusted and how that betrayal upended his life and business. His story went beyond policy or platform. Skinner notes, “he spoke to the why behind everything we do in GRC: protecting people, preserving trust, and preparing for the unexpected”. It was a message that resonated far beyond the ballroom after Sileo cracked an audience member’s cell phone passcode live on stage! 

As the lights dimmed and the final applause echoed, Agility left behind more than ideas, it delivered real value. Nearly 600 CPE credits were issued to attendees, marking LogicGate’s first event as an official NASBA sponsor and solidifying Agility’s role as not just a product roadshow but a meaningful professional development experience.

Want to see more highlights and insights? Check out our Agility 2025 Recap video, and stay tuned for details on Agility 2026!