Registration and welcome coffee

Plenary Session 4: Making business in a Digital World

Digitalisation and technological disruption are at the top of the agenda for many businesses and sectors across the globe more and more every day. They are opening up manifold opportunities and at the same time are throwing up multiple challenges.

The new COSO ERM. Integrating with strategy and performance

This presentation will help internal auditors understand their role in managing risk in uncertain times. In this session, participants will:

• Learn about the five components and twenty principles that make up the updated Framework.
• Understand how the framework can be used to identify, assess and manage specific groups of risks, such as environmental, social and governance-related risks (ESG).
• Identify how the Framework impacts internal audit’s assurance and advisory roles, including assessing the effectiveness of enterprise risk management.
• Explore ways to advance risk management in their organization.

Networking Break

How to use Data Analytics to massively change your Audit approach. The SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE experience

In the strongly regulated banking environment, the challenge of managing a global audit team used to be: deliver in time, maintain a high level of rigor in the works, and ensure the quality of each report produced.

Internal Audit of the future

Disruptive forces are causing organizations to consider transformation plays. Businesses must deal with challenges caused by the digital revolution: the move to digital processes and business models; complex regulatory oversight; proliferation of social media and disruptive new technologies that promote increased connectivity and a demand for new skills.

Networking Lunch

Plenary Session 5: Discussion Panel. Future challenges for Audit Committees

Audit committees from different business agree with the fact that they face several threats from political and economic uncertainty, as well as regulatory compliance (especially aligning local and general laws and regulations).

Plenary Session 6: You too should think like a hacker

Ymir has grown up as hacker and currently helps some of the world's largest organizations grapple with cybersecurity through his two startup companies (Syndis and Adversary.io). He will address this question by focusing on how companies can improve their defenses by helping people understand the offense – “to think like a hacker"; Including showing you how to hack (!) He will also provide relevant context for internal auditors in the GDPR era since most of the data currently managed by companies is digital.

Networking Break

Plenary Session 7: What Living in Space Taught Me About Life on Earth

The success of every mission at NASA starts with procedures and verification - from vehicle processing, to the launch sequence, to the cockpit checklist. Everything is checked and double-checked. This methodology is applicable to every project where failure is not an option, and is a recipe for success in any business endeavor.

Closing Remarks