Last month, nearly 500 top compliance and risk executives gathered in Washington, D.C., for Compliance Week’s annual conference. The event, which took place at The Mayflower Hotel, was extraordinarily successful, and much ground was covered (except during the open-bar cocktail reception, during which some ground was apparently lost).

For readers who didn’t attend, here is a quick briefing on comments heard and overheard at the event, some of which, I suspect, may sound familiar, or may impact your job over the next 12 months: