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

ESG has gained prominence as public, private, non-profits and government agencies look to redefine themselves in the marketplace.  Clients, employees, investors and communities now expect more from their organizations beyond revenues and employment.  Organizations are expected to make the case for their values and how they compliment and support the communities they serve.

Internal Auditors have a key role in the Governance component of ESG in providing assurance on their organization’s internal control environment not just on financial health and operational effectiveness.  Internal Audit needs to widen their scope by providing insights on an organization’s stewardship of nature; relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities; executive pay, etc.

The learning objectives for this session are:

1. Assessing the impacts of ESG on the risk profile of your organization
2. How investors view ESG
3. ESG Standards and Frameworks
4. How to include ESG in an audit
5. ESG and the Audit Committee

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

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

Web3 is the buzzword of 2022 and yet many are not sure what it means and how it will impact business.  This presentation will go through the philosophy of Web3, how it integrates with the Metaverse and blockchain.  Finally, Web3 will have a big impact on the structure of companies (i.e. stock and equity) and we will cover the risks and changes to think about in this space.

Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:

1. Understand what Web3 is
2. Understand the business impacts Web3 will have in our corporate environments
3. How to assess risk in a Web3 Internet World

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

The implementation of the Auditing Standards Board, Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 145, Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement.  A new modernized risk assessment standard and approach to risk assessment models.

Understanding the implications of a new risk assessment model; evaluating the use of information technology and the consideration of IT general controls; evaluating significant organizational risks and the approach to identifying and responding to significant classes of transactions, account balances and disclosures through the internal auditor lens.

Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:

1. Understand the implications of a new risk assessment model
2. Evaluate the use of information technology and the consideration of IT general controls
3. Evaluate significant organizational risks and the approach to identifying and responding to significant classes of transactions, account balances and disclosures through the internal auditor lens

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Advanced

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