The AntiCheckbox Virtual Summit
by the GRC Engineering Club
A free, six-hour, hands-on day with the people who build GRC. Six hours of demos you can repeat, labs you run yourself, and talks from members who did the work.
- US window: Tuesday, March 30, 2027, 12:00 to 6:00 PM ET (starts 9:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM CT, 5:00 PM London)
- International window: Wednesday, March 31, 2027, 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET (starts 11:00 AM London, 1:00 PM Nairobi, 3:30 PM Bengaluru, 6:00 PM Singapore, 9:00 PM Sydney)
Save your seat
Free. Pick a day, or both, and the calendar invite lands in your inbox.
Built by the people who were tired of the other conferences
Most virtual summits are a day of slides and a vendor booth. You leave with a CPE certificate and nothing you can run on Monday. This one is members showing members what they actually built, ending every session on evidence, and handing you the lab to do it yourself.
AJ Yawn opens the day with a keynote on why GRC engineering exists and where it goes next, then takes questions live in the summit Slack.
What the day looks like
Demo, then do. Every block is built so you leave able to repeat it.
Live evidence demos
Every demo ends on the evidence an auditor would accept, then points you at the club lab or course that teaches it.
Hands-on segments
After each demo you run the matching club lab yourself, in your browser, while the room is still on the call.
Member talks
Short, hard-stop talks from members on what they built. The schedule gets built from what you propose, not the other way round.
Member stories
Before, what you applied, what changed. Real receipts from people who moved their program or their career.
Closing panel
Where people get stuck moving to AI GRC, from the people who got unstuck.
A Slack built for the day
A dedicated summit workspace for questions, the scavenger hunt, speed networking, and a live AMA with AJ during a break.
CPE credit, earned by showing up
Every attendee gets a CPE letter after the summit. We check attendance throughout the day and participation in the summit Slack, so the letter reflects the hours you were actually there.
Self-report the hours to ISC2, ISACA, IAPP, or GIAC under each body's own rules. The Club is not an accredited CPE provider.
Three rules
Set by the founder. Not up for debate.
Free for everyone
No ticket, no paywall. Members and non-members attend the whole day.
Members speak
Every speaker is a Club member. That is the one place membership is required.
Every speaker does a dry run
A rehearsal with the summit lead and one more club leader before the day. Demos keep a recorded backup.
Speakers and schedule
Confirmed talks land here as the summit team accepts them.
The schedule is built from what members propose. Accepted talks show up here as the summit team confirms them.
Built something? Show it.
Fifteen minutes, a hard stop, and a room full of people who will go run what you showed them. Proposals are open to every Club member.
Questions
Yes. The summit is free for everyone, member or not. The only thing that requires a Club membership is speaking.
Two live windows. The us window is Tuesday, March 30, 2027, 12:00 to 6:00 PM ET (starts 9:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM CT, 5:00 PM London). The international window is Wednesday, March 31, 2027, 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET (starts 11:00 AM London, 1:00 PM Nairobi, 3:30 PM Bengaluru, 6:00 PM Singapore, 9:00 PM Sydney). Register for either or both.
Every attendee gets a CPE letter after the summit. We check attendance throughout the day and participation in the summit Slack, so the letter reflects the hours you were actually there. Members self-report the hours to ISC2, ISACA, IAPP, or GIAC under each body's own rules.
Submit a proposal on the Speak page: a title, an abstract, the format, and the length. The summit team reviews every proposal and replies by email. Accepted speakers do a dry run before the event.
Things you built and can show: risk registers as code, controls and evidence pipelines, testing AI controls, AI tooling in real GRC work, and the career moves that came out of it. If it is something else, propose it anyway. The schedule is built from the proposals.
Sessions are recorded and shared only with the written consent of the speaker, which is part of the proposal form.
Something else? Ask the team.