Day 1

• This session will explore how changes in accounting and auditing standards can alter a corporation's strategic operations as well as its financial reporting.
• Focus on revenue recognition, leasing, financial instruments, and more

• How to develop a program for collecting metrics on your organizations GRC efforts and what to presents to the board.
• What should directors and senior management report and inform, based on their vast array of data and concerns, to what boards of directors truly need to know, understand, and act upon.

• Explore all the nuts-and-bolts of the Bribery and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and how to put the various permissible Bribery Fraud and Corruption theories to the test. Muster the BA and FCPA concerns as they have developed during the past couple of years.

• A common Corporate Governance challenge is in finding fresh ways to make important topics mentioned below to be relevant by engaging individual contributors and management in the conversation and creating a willingness to discuss these tough subjects.
• The sessions on Corporate Governance topics will include interactive exercises, small-group work, facilitated discussion, and multimedia to showcase how to create conversation, gain stronger insights, and make all elements of Corporate Governance relevant for your global workforce.
• Executive Compensation
• Sustainability and CSR
• Ethics & Codes
• Transparency
• Whistleblowing & Hotlines
• How to implement the new whistleblower protection rules.
• How companies can encourage employees to report misconduct internally.

• How to encourage employees to embrace ethical conduct and shun non-compliant actions at large dynamic companies.
• How to manage the regulatory compliance in various trades’ and operations and to gain valuable benchmarking data. This session will offer a wide-ranging discussion on what that data tells us about the state of regulatory compliance in the various trades today.
• How to create a culture of zero tolerance to non-compliance. A case study on how to drive a culture that embraces the company's ethics and compliance values.

• Managing the policies and procedures and processes that govern a corporation's day-to-day operations brings its own set of challenges. How to keep these policies current, communicating them to employees, addressing exception requests and violations, and much more. Effective policy management brings insights on how they can apply those lessons to your own organization

Day 2

• Implement a International Compliance program using a holistic GRC model that takes into consideration a wide range of Risks incl. cultural differences, disparate regulatory regimes, new business environments etc.
• Learn how to develop a strategic approach to risk management, controls, and assurance processes, to ensure compliance programs are aligned with corporate strategy—improving performance, mitigating risks, and achieving compliance goals all in one stroke.
• The holistic approach to GRC can promote ethical behavior and encourage a more resilient global risk-management program.

• How to do a better job of assuring compliance and
• Spotting risks before they metastasize into something that threatens the enterprise
• How can you revamp your IT systems to confront that new world
• How organizations can leverage technology and data analytics across borders to drive compliance and risk monitoring
• How to respond properly if a IT compliance failure occurs while managing the related data privacy and security risks frequently created through these efforts

• Disclosure and reporting demands placed on the organization both from regulators and from business partners, are extensive. We review the business intelligence software that can improve your ability to demonstrate effective compliance—if the system is properly crafted
• Reporting and visualization tools can provide you with full visibility into and across GRC operations, including your controls, policies, and attestations your company or your employees make to ethical conduct

• How to rationalize compliance and risk-management initiatives with a unified model, use automation to facilitate controls validation, and embed contextual controls within business processes to achieve operational efficiency

• How to comply with vendor compliance risks and demands that your customers, resellers, or joint-venture partners impose on you?
• How compliance departments can take a cohesive approach to all your supply-chain risks and compliance needs, both upstream and downstream from your company's particular point in the chain

• How to implement GRC software systems to reduce redundancy and repetition, improve efficiency and consistency, and keep everyone aware of what's going on across risk, compliance, and audit functions.
• How to unify governance, risk, and compliance initiatives that deliver an integrated program that empowers decision making and enables cross collaboration across different business units as they tackle diverse key initiatives such as
• Anti-Money Laundering
• Anti-Bribery
• Third-party risks
• Compliance issues such as HIPPA, Dodd-Frank, PCI and many more
• Other key government and international oversights and regulations