The Consequence Chain
How a single incident becomes an operational, workforce, regulatory, and reputational event before the first board call, and where the handoffs between functions break.
Private Executive Dinner | Washington, DC
The Risk Apogee
Dinner Series
An evening for the executives who carry enterprise risk together. One table, one guided conversation, held under the Chatham House Rule.
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Seats are confirmed individually.
DateWednesday, December 2, 2026
Time6:00 PMReception, then seated dinner
VenueMastro's Steakhouse600 13th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005
At the Table
- Chief Executive Officers
- Chief Operating Officers
- Chief Human Resources Officers
- Chief Compliance Officers
- Chief Risk Officers
The Evening's Question
The Risk No One Owns Alone
Cyber, physical, and human risk now move through an enterprise as one consequence chain. A single event becomes an operational stoppage, a workforce crisis, a regulatory disclosure, and a reputational test, often inside the same day. The executives accountable for each link sit in different chairs. This evening puts them at one table.
The Risk Apogee, off the record.
Ownership Across the C-Suite
Where accountability sits when risk crosses the lines between the CEO, COO, CHRO, compliance, and risk, and what a governed answer looks like.
Steadiness at the Top
What leaders need from one another when the event is live, and why steadiness is an engineered outcome rather than a temperament.
The Evening
- 6:00 PMReception
- 6:45 PMSeated dinner and guided conversation
- 9:00 PMClose
The Format
A private, seated dinner for chief executives and the officers who carry enterprise accountability alongside them. One guided conversation under the Chatham House Rule. No presentations. No vendor pitches. Nothing recorded.
Guests Leave With
- A candid read on how peer executives structure ownership of cross-domain risk
- A non-attributed executive brief of the evening, delivered after the dinner
- For selected guests, an invitation to record a conversation on The Risk Apogee during the Washington recording week
Hosted By
Host, The Risk Apogee
M.K. Palmore
Founder & Principal Advisor, Apogee Global RMSHost, The Risk Apogee
M.K. Palmore has spent more than three decades leading where the stakes are operational and the clock is running: as a U.S. Marine Corps officer, as the FBI's Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Cybersecurity in San Francisco, and in field security leadership at Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud.
He founded Apogee Global RMS to govern cyber, physical, and human risk as one discipline, and he hosts The Risk Apogee, where senior leaders speak candidly about the decisions that never make the case study. He is a Professor in Practice at Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Apogee Global RMS is a practitioner-led integrated enterprise risk management firm. Its Nexus of Risk framework governs cyber, physical, and human risk as a single discipline, grounded in COSO ERM and ISO 31000.
Request Your Seat
Join us at the table.
Submit your request and the Apogee team will be in touch. Once your seat is confirmed, you will receive a confirmation and a calendar invitation with arrival details for Mastro's Steakhouse.
Guests attend as guests of Apogee Global RMS.
- When Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 6:00 PM
- Where Mastro's Steakhouse, 600 13th Street NW, Washington, DC
- Contact mkp@apogeeglobalrms.com
Request your place
Under a minute. Confirmation and a calendar invitation follow once your seat is confirmed.