In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, regulatory complexity, and evolving stakeholder expectations, internal auditing stands at a crucial crossroads. This session offers a comprehensive and strategic look at the profession's current relevance and future trajectory. Drawing on her experience across diverse industries, Linh San Truong will explore how internal auditing can elevate its role as a trusted advisor and catalyst for change.

The session will address topics such as AI governance, agile auditing, and enterprise risk and compliance transformation. Through case studies and real-life examples, attendees will learn how the profession can adapt and thrive in a dynamic risk environment. The presentation will also highlight emerging trends and the necessary skills internal auditors require to meet future challenges.

Additionally, participants will discuss how the activity can innovate and strategically align its functions to add value to the organization. Best practices and technological tools that can transform internal auditing, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of its processes, will be explored.

Finally, Linh will share success stories and lessons learned from her extensive experience, inspiring attendees to implement significant changes in their professional profiles and in their own organizations.

Key Learning Points:

• Relevance of Internal Audit: Understand the current and future importance of internal auditing in a dynamic risk environment.
• AI Governance: Explore how internal auditing can effectively manage and govern artificial intelligence, implementing agile methodologies to improve efficiency and adaptability.
• Business Risk Transformation: Identify and manage business and compliance risks in a complex regulatory environment.
• Innovation and Strategic Alignment: Discover how internal auditing can innovate and strategically align to add value to the organization.

As organizations navigate increasingly complex and fast-paced business environments, internal audit and compliance functions are under pressure to evolve and embrace the digital transformation era. In this keynote session, Trent Russell, a recognized leader in audit innovation, will present a strategic and practical perspective on how artificial intelligence (AI) agents are redefining standards of efficiency, accuracy, and value creation in these critical disciplines.

This high-impact session will explore how intelligent agents—powered by advanced language models and cognitive automation—are being integrated into audit processes to perform tasks such as real-time data analysis, risk assessment, continuous monitoring, and automated reporting. Russell will share real-world use cases and key lessons learned, demonstrating how these technologies not only optimize resources but also enhance strategic decision-making.

The session will also address the ethical, regulatory, and operational challenges associated with implementing AI in control functions, emphasizing the importance of the “human-in-the-loop” approach to ensure human oversight and validation at every stage of the process. Additionally, participants will gain insights into the key criteria for selecting, training, and scaling AI agents within robust compliance frameworks aligned with corporate governance.

Designed for audit leaders, compliance officers, data analysts, and professionals seeking to stay at the forefront of digital transformation, this session offers a unique opportunity to understand how AI not only complements but also elevates the strategic role of internal audit in the organizations of the future.

Key Learning Takeaways

• Understand the role of AI agents in automating critical audit and compliance processes.
• Identify real-world use cases where AI has delivered measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and audit coverage.
• Explore the “human-in-the-loop” model as an ethical and operational framework for overseeing automated decision-making.
• Learn the technical and strategic criteria for selecting and implementing AI agents in corporate environments.
• Envision the future of internal audit as a hybrid function driven by artificial intelligence and human leadership.

Internal audit is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the need to deliver more agile, precise, and risk-aligned responses. In this session, Joseph Gonski, Senior Vice President and analytics innovation leader at Northern Trust, will provide a practical roadmap for implementing a continuous assurance model that enables organizations to maintain proactive and ongoing oversight of their key processes.

Throughout the session, participants will be introduced to the essential components for establishing a continuous monitoring system—from the integration of advanced analytics technologies to the automation of controls and early detection of deviations. Joe will illustrate how these capabilities allow internal audit to shift from periodic reviews to real-time surveillance, significantly enhancing its strategic impact.

The session will also address common challenges in adopting this approach, such as data quality, resistance to change, and the need to redefine the auditor’s role. Attendees will receive actionable recommendations to overcome these barriers and foster an organizational culture that supports transparency, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.

This session is designed for professionals seeking to evolve their audit function into a more dynamic, predictive, and digitally aligned model. Attendees will gain practical tools and a clear vision to successfully lead this transformation.

Key Learning Takeaways

• Understand the principles and benefits of continuous assurance as a modern audit model.
• Apply real-time monitoring and analytics technologies to proactively detect risks and anomalies.
• Identify critical success factors for effective implementation of continuous assurance across various organizational contexts.
• Overcome cultural and technical barriers that hinder the adoption of continuous auditing models.
• Transform internal audit into a strategic partner for continuous oversight and organizational improvement.

Inclusive leadership is one of the most powerful drivers of innovation, collaboration, and trust. Yet, only 31% of employees strongly agree that their leaders foster inclusive environments. For internal auditors—whose work is grounded in objectivity, neutrality, and ethical professionalism—developing inclusive leadership capabilities is not just a cultural priority, it is a professional imperative.

Indeed, internal auditors need to cultivate inclusive leadership to strengthen their ability to remain neutral and impartial, as required by international standards, while building trust across all levels of the organization. Inclusive leadership strengthens this objectivity by equipping auditors to recognize and mitigate unconscious biases, foster equitable environments, and build trust across diverse stakeholder groups.

Directly aligned with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) priorities, this session leverages the Deloitte 6 C’s of Inclusive Leadership to help participants explore how implicit biases and assumptions can subtly influence decision-making, team dynamics, and audit outcomes. Through strategic exploration and case-based insights, participants will enhance their self-awareness and learn tools for leading diverse teams. This is especially critical when auditors are tasked with evaluating sensitive issues, navigating complex interpersonal dynamics, and communicating findings with clarity and fairness.

Participants will leave with actionable strategies to challenge assumptions and lead with cultural intelligence; foster high-performing, collaborative teams that leverage diverse perspectives; promote innovation through inclusive practices; and build trust and psychological safety—key conditions for ethical and effective auditing.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the Deloitte 6 C’s framework for inclusive leadership and its impact on organizational innovation and audit integrity.
• Increase self-awareness of implicit biases and assumptions that influence professional judgment and leadership behavior.
• Learn techniques to lead diverse, high-performing teams while maintaining objectivity and neutrality.
• Apply tools to promote inclusion and equity in leadership practices, aligned with the ethical standards of internal auditing.

In today’s complex and fast-paced business environment, fostering a culture of integrity requires more than robust controls and periodic audits. This session explores the critical role of behavioral science in enhancing compliance effectiveness and organizational ethics.

Drawing on the latest research from behavioral economics, psychology, and organizational studies, Adam will examine the cognitive patterns and decision-making tendencies that influence ethical behavior in the workplace.

Grounded in a robust and expanding body of interdisciplinary research, this session will delve into the cognitive, emotional, and contextual drivers of human behavior—factors that often operate beneath the surface and elude traditional audit and compliance mechanisms.

Rather than relying solely on deterrence or punitive frameworks, the discussion will emphasize how organizations can design and implement more intelligent, behaviorally informed checks and balances that align with how individuals actually perceive, decide, and act in real-world environments.

This behavioral perspective is especially timely and aligned with the strategic priorities of today’s compliance and audit functions, including fraud prevention, ethical leadership, and risk mitigation. By challenging outdated assumptions and integrating evidence-based insights from behavioral economics and psychology, participants will be equipped with practical, forward-looking tools to strengthen ethical culture, enhance decision-making, and drive sustainable compliance outcomes across their organizations.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the psychological and behavioral factors that make individuals more susceptible to lying, cheating, and drawing flawed conclusions—often more frequently than we assume.
• Identify more effective, research-based methods for encouraging ethical behavior and decision-making in the workplace.
• Learn how behavioral economics reveals the conditions that increase the likelihood of misconduct—and how to design checks and balances that mitigate these risks.
• Radically improve long-term compliance outcomes by integrating behavioral insights into auditing, training, communication, and organizational design.

This session provides practical advice to conduct cybersecurity assessments. It details the end-to-end process including: scoping, 15 steps to develop work papers, scheduling, on-site assessment, report preparation and presentation.

The first assessment example leverages the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for coverage across security domains. Sample scoping questions are provided, with tips and examples to create testing procedures based on cyber threat intelligence, business processes, insider threat and fraud.

The scoping methodology is risk opportunistic to adapt assessments year-over-year. There is focus on areas that have not been evaluated recently and areas that may require enhanced controls due to the presence of valuable data. Attendees are encouraged to evaluate lines of business and to take deep dives into critical functions.

The session provides an assessment report framework. There are tips for briefing executives including a slide deck framework covering the threat landscape, assessment methodology, high and moderate-high findings; Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) and next steps.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a practical approach to conduct cybersecurity assessments.
• Address the end-to-end process of a cybersecurity assessment.
• Provide tips to adapt assessments year over year.
• Provide information the audience can leverage upon return to work.

The future of internal audit lies not just in testing controls—but in creating value. And that requires a deeper understanding of behavior. As organizations face rising complexity and disruption, internal audit must evolve to address cultural blind spots, behavioral risk, and the human factors that can quietly undermine performance and increase exposure.

Today’s auditors must look beyond what’s documented to what’s tolerated, incentivized, or ignored. This session unpacks the most common—but often overlooked—conditions that sabotage strategy, erode trust, and stall execution. Drawing from the Culture Killers series and over a decade of transformation experience, Tracey Keele will equip internal audit professionals with a sharper lens to recognize and respond to these cultural threats.

This session will strengthen audit’s ability to create, protect, and sustain value by integrating culture into assurance, advisory, and governance activities. Attendees will gain actionable tools to expand audit scope, elevate influence, and increase strategic impact across the enterprise.

Ultimately, this is a call to action—for internal audit unlock a powerful tool in the toolkit: behavioral insight. Done right, this expands audit’s influence, strengthens brand, and positions it as a trusted partner in navigating complexity, unlocking performance, and building resilience.

Key Takeaways:

• Demystify Culture: Understand what culture is—and what it’s not—and how to use it as a lever for risk mitigation and performance.
• Recognize the Culture Killers: Identify how behaviors like ambiguity, tribalism, and toxic positivity quietly derail strategy and inflate risk.
• Evolve Your Audit Program: Walk away with practical steps to transform your audit approach, strengthen strategic influence, and embed cultural considerations into how your internal audit team operates.

As data becomes the most strategic asset within organizations, internal audit is challenged to evolve into a more predictive, automated, and evidence-based function. In this high-level session, Matt Galvin will share his vision and experience on how to build and scale an advanced analytics capability that fundamentally transforms how audits are conducted, risks are detected, and value is delivered to the organization.

Galvin will outline the key components required to develop a robust analytics architecture within internal audit, including the integration of data analytics tools, artificial intelligence, and process automation. Through practical examples and real-world case studies, he will demonstrate how these capabilities enable a shift from retrospective audits to continuous monitoring models, achieving 100% transaction coverage and unprecedented capacity to detect anomalies, fraud, and emerging risks.

The session will also explore the critical success factors for adopting advanced analytics—ranging from organizational culture and talent development to data governance and alignment with strategic business objectives. Galvin will emphasize how a well-designed analytics function not only enhances operational efficiency but also positions internal audit as a strategic partner in enterprise decision-making.

Targeted at audit leaders, compliance officers, analysts, and risk executives, this session will provide a clear roadmap for those seeking to modernize their control functions and stay ahead of the challenges posed by the digital landscape. It is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the foremost global authorities in the field.

Key Learning Takeaways

• Design an effective strategy to build an advanced analytics function within internal audit.
• Apply data analytics and AI tools to achieve full and continuous coverage of audited processes.
• Identify cultural, technical, and organizational factors that drive or hinder the adoption of analytics capabilities.
• Transform internal audit into a predictive function, capable of anticipating risks and generating early warnings.
• Align the analytics function with strategic business objectives to maximize its impact and relevance.

Economic volatility, accelerated regulatory change, technological disruption, and geopolitical uncertainty have reshaped the risk landscape organizations must navigate. In this session, Gerry Zack, internationally recognized expert in audit, compliance, and risk management, will deliver a strategic and practical perspective on how internal audit functions can strengthen their risk assessment processes amid high levels of uncertainty.

Gerry will present updated approaches to identifying, prioritizing, and monitoring emerging risks, emphasizing the need for dynamic and adaptive models that keep pace with rapid change. Through real-world examples and proven tools, he will demonstrate how organizations can enhance operational resilience and foresight by adopting more agile, collaborative, and data-driven risk assessment practices.

The session will also explore the importance of integrating external factors—such as climate change, cybersecurity, digital disruption, and regulatory pressure—into traditional risk assessment frameworks. Gerry will highlight how internal audit can position itself as a strategic partner in decision-making by providing timely and comprehensive insights into critical organizational risks.

Targeted at internal auditors, risk leaders, compliance officers, and control executives, this session will offer concrete tools to strengthen the risk assessment function in increasingly complex environments. It will be a valuable opportunity to gain actionable knowledge aligned with international best practices.

Key Learning Takeaways

• Update risk assessment approaches to effectively respond to volatile and rapidly evolving environments.
• Incorporate emerging and disruptive risks into traditional internal audit frameworks.
• Apply practical tools and agile methodologies to prioritize risks based on impact and likelihood.
• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration in the identification and monitoring of strategic risks.
• Position internal audit as a key partner in enterprise-wide risk management.

In a corporate environment marked by volatility, regulatory pressure, and digital transformation, business sustainability has become a strategic imperative. This conference offers an in-depth reflection on how compliance, risk management, and internal audit, when integrated, can become drivers of organizational resilience, value, and longevity.

Through a joint presentation, the speakers will share practical experiences, proven methodologies, and real-life cases that demonstrate how these disciplines, far from operating in silos, must collaborate strategically to anticipate threats, strengthen internal control, and foster a culture of ethics and continuous improvement.

Specialized risk-focused audit methodologies will be analyzed to anticipate problems, strengthen internal controls, and make smarter decisions, enhancing organizations' responsiveness to complex scenarios. The role of leadership in consolidating corporate governance structures that promote sustainability as a cross-cutting theme will also be highlighted.

This session is designed for audit, compliance, and risk management leaders and members of senior management seeking to transform their roles into true strategic business partners.

Key Learning Takeaways

• How to integrate internal audit and risk management to strengthen organizational sustainability.
• Strategies to anticipate emerging risks and strengthen internal control.
• Use of technology and GRC systems to improve efficiency and traceability.
• Fostering an ethical, resilient, and continuous improvement-oriented culture.

In an era of digital transformation, internal auditing faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this presentation, CP Luis Moya poses the question: Can We Trust Artificial Intelligence? and shows us how the role of internal auditing in the digital age remains irreplaceable. Through practical examples, he will demonstrate how AI can be a powerful tool for auditors, but will also highlight common errors that can arise and how to identify them using advanced audit platforms.

The session will explore how auditors can employ AI to perform data analysis more safely and efficiently and will include practical demonstrations of audit platforms for data analysis, enabling auditors to identify errors and anomalies more accurately. Additionally, it will discuss how AI auditing and the rest of the annual audit plan can benefit from a comprehensive and integrated internal audit management platform.

By addressing best practices for implementing management and analytics technologies in internal auditing, the speaker will share his extensive experience and knowledge on how these technologies can transform internal auditing, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of processes. Attendees will learn how to integrate these tools into their own organizations to maximize the benefits.

Key Learning Takeaways

• AI Reliability: Evaluate the reliability of artificial intelligence in the context of internal auditing.
• AI Pitfalls: Identify and analyze common AI pitfalls using audit platforms.
• Data Analysis Security: Implement new, secure forms of data analysis with AI.
• Benefits of Integrated Management: Leverage a comprehensive and integrated internal audit management platform to enhance the annual audit plan.
• Audit Innovation: Explore how management and analytics technology can transform internal auditing.

In an era of digital transformation, internal audit faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this panel, Louis Garcia and Jorge Rodriguez Ferreiro will explore how a comprehensive methodology, combined with advanced automation capabilities, can revolutionize the internal audit function.

The speakers will discuss the activities that make Internal Audit a more comprehensive function, increasing its relevance and strategic contribution within the company. Louis Garcia will highlight workflow optimization through intelligent automation systems, while Jorge Rodriguez Ferreiro will address the implementation of comprehensive methodologies, including the identification of key risks and the validation of policy and procedure manuals.

The conference will also cover best practices for implementing management and analytics technologies in internal audit. The speakers will share their extensive experience and knowledge on how these technologies can transform internal audit, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of processes. Attendees will learn how to integrate these tools and methodologies into their own organizations to maximize the benefits.

Key Learning Takeaways

• Workflow Optimization: Strategies to improve efficiency and accuracy in internal auditing through intelligent automation.
• Implementing Comprehensive Methodologies: How to develop a comprehensive internal audit approach, including identifying key risks and validating policy and procedure manuals.
• Data Analytics Security: Implement new, secure forms of data analysis with AI.
• Audit Innovation: Explore how management technology and analytics can transform internal auditing.

In an environment where fraud risks are evolving rapidly and with increasing sophistication, Internal Audit faces the challenge of anticipating threats through more agile and accurate tools. This conference addresses how continuous auditing, supported by advanced analytical models, becomes a strategic ally for detecting irregularities, strengthening controls, and increasing organizations' preventive capacity.

Through a practical, results-oriented approach, the key elements for designing a continuous audit framework that integrates analytics as an essential component will be explored. The fundamentals of an effective fraud risk assessment will be reviewed, as well as the minimum requirements that an organization should consider to successfully implement these types of models.

The session will include case studies illustrating how data analytics can identify suspicious patterns, atypical transactions, and early signs of fraud. This example will serve as a guide to understanding the real-world applicability of these tools in different sectors and organizational contexts.

Finally, the role of the internal auditor as an agent of change will be reflected upon, capable of integrating technology, strategic vision, and business knowledge to build more robust and dynamic control systems.

Key Learning Points:

• Understand the value of Data Analytics as a tool for early fraud detection.
• Identify the technical and organizational requirements for implementing Continuous Audit models.
• Learn practical methodologies for assessing fraud risk and designing effective controls.
• Recognize the transformative role of the Internal Auditor in the digital age.