From the former Navy fighter pilot and current ESPN analyst who upended 100 years of the status quo around managing real-time risk, Brian Burke shares lessons learned from sports for risk & compliance leaders working to better adapt to change. As an analytics consultant for several NFL teams, Brian performed various risk assessment and compliance functions including reviewing all the decisions that were made. Today, he draws from that and many other sports experiences to add lessons learned to his talk. Brian uses humor while engaging the audience, and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any text to read. The story of how football’s 4th down problem was solved is a focus for this talk. It involves the (in)famous 4th and 2 decision by Bill Belichick and takes off from there. Brian was personally in the center of the controversy due to my analysis in the NYT. The talk would describe how ESPN and the NFL teams themselves actually do the analysis during games today, which is somewhat related to his experience as a fighter pilot as well. The audience would learn from Brian's real-life entertaining examples drawn from his experience at the center of the analytics revolution in the NFL, and his relevant experiences as a fighter pilot. They'd leave with a framework for analyzing data to make real-time, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, that can also account for the human element. Brian adds humor to his talks to engage the audience and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any text to read. The story of how football’s 4th down problem was solved is a focus for this talk. It involves the (in)famous 4th and 2 decision by Bill Belichick and takes off from there. Brian was personally in the center of the controversy due to my analysis in the NYT. The talk would describe how ESPN and the NFL teams themselves actually do the analysis during games today, which is somewhat related to his experience as a fighter pilot as well. The audience would learn from Brian's real-life entertaining examples drawn from his experience at the center of the analytics revolution in the NFL, and his relevant experiences as a fighter pilot. They'd leave with a framework for analyzing data to make real-time, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, that can also account for the human element. ...less

Brian Burke adds humor to his talks to engage the audience and his overall style is narrative (trying to make talks into a story with a beginning, middle and end) with vibrant visuals without any text to read. The story of how football’s 4th down problem was solved is a focus for this talk. It involves the (in)famous 4th and 2 decision by Bill Belichick and takes off from there. Brian was personally in the center of the controversy due to my analysis in the NYT. The talk would describe how ESPN and the NFL teams themselves actually do the analysis during games today, which is somewhat related to his experience as a fighter pilot as well. The audience would learn from Brian's real-life entertaining examples drawn from his experience at the center of the analytics revolution in the NFL, and his relevant experiences as a fighter pilot. They'd leave with a framework for analyzing data to make real-time, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, that can also account for the human element. ...less