Event Speaker
Henning Snyman
Senior Security Director, Americas
International SOS
International SOS
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ISO 31030 has not changed. The risk environment has. Organizations are no longer struggling with the framework itself, but with applying it in a landscape that is changing faster than their policies can adapt.
About this session
Henning Snyman, Security Director for the Americas at International SOS, is joined by Alan Friedman, Vice President of Crisis Response at Vital Voices, for a working conversation about what a travel risk management program actually has to do in 2026.
They argue that the standard is not the problem. ISO 31030 remains the recognized global framework, and it is mature. What has broken is the set of assumptions organizations have been planning against: border enforcement, device searches at crossings, public event risk, the collapse of the line between international and domestic travel, and a risk count growing faster than any security budget.
The session covers how to prioritize when you cannot do everything, why so many well-written policies fail on contact with a real trip, what Friedman calls the shift from an age of uncertainty to an age of rupture, and how to prove a return on investment to a C-suite that still finds travel risk abstract.
In this session - 21 chapters
- 00:00 Introduction and speakers
- 01:13 Why does ISO 31030 still matter in 2026?
- 02:55 The standard has not changed. The risk environment has.
- 05:28 How do you understand your organization's risk culture and appetite?
- 08:04 How do you prioritize risk when resources are limited?
- 11:21 What geopolitical shifts are reshaping travel risk?
- 12:24 Why does travel risk management now cover domestic travel?
- 14:44 Do you know where your people are?
- 18:07 Why do controls have to be in place before travel?
- 19:24 How are border crossings and device searches changing employee risk?
- 22:30 Why do travel risk policies fail in practice?
- 26:16 Should travel policies be requirements or recommendations?
- 30:06 What is the age of rupture?
- 33:39 You cannot risk-assess every trip. How do you decide which ones?
- 35:40 What does a baseline travel risk system look like today?
- 38:38 Is travel risk management now a dedicated function?
- 40:48 Who is accountable for duty of care when employees travel?
- 42:13 How do you prove ROI on travel risk management?
- 45:51 How do you benchmark your travel risk program?
- 49:07 Is your program actually making people safer?
- 51:45 Certification is not implementation. Are you walking the walk?