| Time | Program |
| 7:30am | REGISTRATION DESK OPENS |
| 7:30-8:45am | NETWORKING BREAKFAST & EXHIBITION VIEWING |
| 8:45-9:00am | OPENING REMARKS & WELCOME |
| 9:00-9:50am | KEYNOTE 1 |
| Will the sun rise tomorrow? Yes, but……. Organisations today must take a contemporary approach to address the challenges of successfully doing business in an era of advancing technology, climate change, increasing globalisation, consumer and employee activism and increasing transparency and governance requirements. Drawing on her experience from the corporate, public and sporting sector, Sam Mostyn will share her perspectives of what all organisations need to do to in order to be successful and remain in business in this century and beyond. Key areas of focus will include:
• Understanding the impacts of a globally connected and vocal market place
• What are the emerging risks areas that should be on the minds of the Board?
• The importance of corporate communication, internally and externally
• Developing business success through corporate sustainability
• How the role of the Board and corporate management needs to change to ensure their organisations don’t get left behind
Sam Mostyn, Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions at the University of Sydney and Non-Executive Director, Virgin Australia |
| 9.55-10.45am | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 |
| TECHNICAL | 1A National Greehouse & Energy Reporting (NGER) Demystified
• Overview of the NGER legislation and its core requirements
• Managing the complexity of data validation – procedures and strategies and the role of internal audit resources in the validation process
• Overview reporting process and audit requirements for NGER and the Clean Energy Future legislation
• Integrating sustainability and financial reporting
David Barton, Manager Sustainable Development Assurance, Rio Tinto |
| THE COMPLETE
PRACTITIONER | 1B Demystifying risk appetite
• The definitions of risk appetite and risk tolerance
• Problems in defining risk appetite
• Developing risk criteria for risk-based decisions
• What is the relevance of risk criteria to audit planning
Grant Purdy, Associate Director, Broadleaf Capital International and Chair, Standards Australia and Standards NZ Risk Management
Committee Head of Delegation, ISO TC 262 (Risk Management) |
| PROFESSIONAL
EXCELLENCE | 1C Developing your EQ (Emotional Intelligence)
• Connecting with your team, clients and stakeholders
• Recognising the impacts of emotions in the business environment
• Building influence through EQ to achieve better outcomes
• How being a ‘people person’ can make a real difference
Dominic Siow, Trainer - Speaker - Coach, EQ Strategist, People Empowerment Solutions |
| SECTOR SPECIFIC
ISSUES | 1D Tackling syndicated crime – Stopping the big dollars leaving your organisation
• Recent cases – lessons learnt
• Emerging areas of risk, and tools of the trade for syndicated crime - Facebook; social media; identity fraud; e-fraud
• Expectations of internal audit and reporting obligations of companies – Legal obligation vs cultural obligation (right thing to do)
• Role of the police, the company and internal audit
Colin Dyson APM, Detective Superintendant Commander, Fraud and Cybercrime Squad, State Crime Command, NSW Police Force |
| STRATEGIC AUDIT | 1E Governance, Risk and Controls (GRC) – Internal audit driving “quality” organisations
• Understanding the GRC framework for organisational decision making
• Structuring the internal audit function to play an integral role across the GRC framework
• Designing an audit program to deliver real value in driving better governance, risk management and internal controls
• Methodologies and practicalities in auditing the GRC framework to ensure you are getting it right
• The relationship factor – Internal audit working with the business and the Audit Committee
Alan N. Siegfried CIA CCSA CFSA CGAP, Auditor General, Inter-American Development Bank |
| 10:45-11:15am | MORNING TEA |
| 11.15-12.05pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2 |
| TECHNICAL | 2A What the workplace harmonisation laws mean for you
• Understanding the definitions and impacts of being: a worker; a volunteer; a contractor; on work experience from High School
or a person doing vocational training while at Uni or TAFE
• The growing significance of employment risk
• Understanding fiduciary duties
Brian Williamson, Director, WilliamsonLegal |
THE COMPLETE
PRACTITIONER | 2B Disaster Recovery – Queensland floods case study
• The declaration of four natural disasters in Queensland
• Suncorp’s Business Continuity - four days of crisis management
• How Suncorp has responded to the natural disasters
• The three State and Federal Inquiries
• Overview of Suncorp’s Insurance Fraud Mitigation Strategies
Jimmy Higgins, Executive Manager – Fraud and Investigations (General Insurance) Suncorp Metway |
PROFESSIONAL
EXCELLENCE | 2C Managing the recruitment lifecycle
• Overview and trends in the internal audit recruitment market
• Understanding the real reasons why internal auditors change jobs
• Insights into what attracts internal auditors to stay or to move to other roles and organisations
• Building an internal audit career plan - how to develop a career health-check for yourself and your staff
Tania Barnard, Adam Bell, Donna Read, Kim Thompson – Audit & Professional Services Practice, Ethos Corporation |
SECTOR SPECIFIC
ISSUES | 2D Risk based capital –Basel III Impacts
• Review of Basel III requirements
• Impacts on the composition of capital
• Areas of changes in risk tolerances
• Implementing the new compliance regime
• Interaction of the assurance functions in managing liquidity risk
Andrew Harmer, Partner, Financial Services & Risk Management, Ernst & Young and
Megan Holt, Executive Director, Financial Services & Risk Management, Ernst & Young |
| STRATEGIC AUDIT | 2E Regulator round table – Compliance update
This interactive panel session will provide you with the latest regulation updates form Australia’s key regulators.
• What is on the horizon in 2012 and beyond
• Areas of regulation risk
• Key areas of focus for the regulators going forward
• Expectations from the internal audit function
Robert Sharma, Head of Accounting Regulation, APRA
Peter Jenkins MIIA(Aust), Director Internal Audit (NSW) Australian Taxation Office, and
John Price, Director, Strategic Policy, ASIC |