Richard F Chambers, Senior Internal Audit Advisor at AuditBoard shares insights from his fourth book: Agents of Change: Internal Auditors in an Era of Disruption. The session will explore why internal auditors must embrace change and strive to create value within their organizations. Chambers will share data from a global survey of chief audit executives, as his perspectives from more than four decades of learning, observation and experience. Chambers will lay out the necessary steps for internal auditors to improve processes, mindsets, and skill-sets. Finally, he will explore the four characteristics that successful internal audit change agents share in common, and offer his views on the attributes that agents of the future will need to possess.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Communication

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

In this session, I will first discuss the importance of using external and oftentimes non-financial data in data analytics for internal audit. Following that, three illustrative examples will be demonstrated. These three examples include the use of Twitter data for revenue prediction, the use of LinkedIn profile information when forming a cybersecurity risk exposure index, and the consideration of ESG in internal audit. The session will conclude with highlights of using external data in internal audit data analytics.

The learning objectives for this session are:

• The role played by external data in auditing
• Three illustrative examples
  • Twitter data for sales performance assessment and error detection
  • LinkedIn data for security risk assessment
  • Audit data analytics and ESG

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Every one of us has to deliver tough news sometimes, and we all know it’s easier to do when we’ve built up enough political capital. But what if you haven’t built those trusted relationships or are in a new role that requires you to be the de facto bearer of bad news? Join Amii Barnard-Bahn, former Fortune 5 compliance officer, workplace culture expert, and executive coach, for a fascinating and practical discussion that will help anyone learn to share difficult messages without damaging political capital.

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Overcome the human tendency to dislike and distrust bad news messengers
• Effectively prepare to deliver the news in a way that preserves and builds trusted relationships
• Maintain the sense of urgency and action required to respond to crisis and lead change

CPE: 1.5 hours

Field of Study: Communication

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Whether implicit or conscious, bias is the number one threat to humanity and any company’s success. If your company’s goal is to create cohesiveness within your organization, increase revenue, be innovative and/or elevate your reputation- the bias in your workforce and community is a roadblock. You know the problem. Permission::Granted is your answer.
Throughout this session, Risha allows attendees to authentically express their biases, while giving them easily applicable tools to get over them, however screwed up they may be. Although diversity can often be an uncomfortable topic, Risha’s approach helps attendees to easily understand the concept, without feeling bored or judged.
Risha Grant teaches Diversity & Inclusion through the lens of humanity using terms like B.S. or Bias Synapse as a way to explain our brain’s involvement in the processing and validation of bias.

Attendees will leave this talk with:
•    An understanding of Diversity & Inclusion
•    A thorough awareness of their biases
•    A realization of how their biases originated
•    A recognition of the symptoms and results of bias
•    Tools to address bias internally and externally
•    Tips to navigate the “hot spots” of workplace diversity

CPE: 1.5 hour

Field of Study: Information Technology

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Agenda:

o Traditional Approach

o Arcelormittal Approach

o How to execute it

o How to measure it

o How to report it o Benefits

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

The pandemic challenged organizations to rapidly adapt and be more agile. Internal auditors have responded, shifting mindsets and serving as leaders of change. Internal audit functions are fostering a culture of agility, supporting agile methodologies and strategically focusing on agile practices. These changes will improve collaboration, enhance reporting and proactively manage change throughout the audit process. In this session, we address the meaning of agility and how to add value as an internal audit function now, for tomorrow.

The learning objectives for this session are:

- Identify current-state internal audit practices that may hinder the timely delivery of insight in a dynamic operating environment
- Increase internal audit’s value to stakeholders through adjustments to mindsets, goals and internal audit activities
- Anticipate challenges in adoption through real world stories of success, and failure
- Continuously incorporate innovation and automation within the internal audit function

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: None

Security protocols are often built on trust -- trust which is exploited by cyber criminals. From email to phone communications, attackers study how to insert themselves within your trusted circle and protocols to leverage that trust against you. This keynotes dives into the anatomy of trust exploitation in real world social engineering attacks, walks through step-by-step examples of attacks happening during COVID-19, and the steps you can take to protect your data, money, security, and privacy from real world attackers, even during a global crisis.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None