IA Webinar: From Regulation to Reinvention: DORA, FCA Day 2, and the Future of Operational Resilience

As of 31^st March 2025, the transition period for PS21/3 has officially ended, and with it, the era of grace for firms to align with the UK’s operational resilience rules. At the same time, DORA has moved from anticipation to enforcement, setting a new bar across the EU for ICT risk, third-party resilience, and incident reporting. But while the compliance deadlines have passed, the real work of embedding resilience has only just begun.

In this session, we unpack what comes next. We will explore how leading firms are shifting from regulatory checklists to continuous operational readiness by drawing on post-deadline supervisory insights from the FCA and PRA and early DORA enforcement observations from across Europe. We'll cover how key areas such as impact tolerance, third-party mapping, scenario testing, and board governance are evolving in light of CrowdStrike-level disruptions and increasing scrutiny.

This session goes beyond compliance to examine strategic resilience and how financial services firms can rearchitect their programs for a volatile, hyperconnected, AI-driven future. Whether you're still refining your operational resilience framework or scaling DORA across business services and vendor ecosystems, you’ll gain a clear view of what strong looks like going forward.

What we hope members get out of it

• Learn how UK firms are adjusting to Day 2 supervisory expectations now that PS21/3’s transition period has closed.
• Hear early lessons from DORA implementation and how they are shaping operational resilience practices across the EU.
• Understand how regulators are reacting to systemic disruptions like the CrowdStrike outage and what this means for scenario testing and third-party oversight.
• Explore how to operationalize resilience as a continuous capability, not a one-time compliance project.
• Benchmark your own resilience posture against emerging regulatory and industry expectations for 2025 and beyond.

• Chief Risk Officers
• Chief Operating Officers
• Heads of Operational Resilience
• Heads of Operational Risk
• Heads of Business Continuity Management
• Anyone interested in the topic

In collaboration with 

Tejas Katwala, Co-founder and CEO, CLDigital

Tejas Katwala is the co-founder and CEO of CLDigital, a leading software company that transforms risk, compliance, and resilience management. He partners with enterprises to maximize the ROI of risk management software by enhancing risk visibility, operational efficiency, and compliance. Under his leadership, CLDigital 360 has become a game-changing platform, integrating GRC, business process management, no-code automation, and AI-driven insights to modernize enterprise risk and resilience strategies. By leveraging AI and no-code technology, Tejas helps organizations streamline audits, optimize risk decision-making, and drive measurable business value, without the complexity of traditional software development.

Previously, he pioneered the first cloud-based business continuity platform at Recovery Planner and developed the C|3 Platform at Westhill Technologies, forging key industry partnerships. Tejas holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from NJIT and continues to lead the charge in applying AI-driven insights and no-code innovation to make risk and resilience smarter, faster, and more effective.