Risk, Governance and Leadership Conference 2023 (ROI)

Format

This virtual conference will take place on Wednesday 8 November from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. The format of the event will enable audience engagement and we look forward to welcoming professionals from Ireland, UK and beyond joining us for the highly relevant discussions and insights.

Who should attend

All professionals involved in corporate governance, risk management and/or compliance roles, including members in business and in practice, current and future business leaders, management, executives, non-executive directors, advisors, and consultants.

Course overview

The conference will bring together a diverse range of expert speakers and business leaders to share practical insights and key updates on emerging challenges and opportunities impacting governance, risk and/or compliance in listed, private and public sector organisations. Speakers will provide practical insights and discussion on important topics including:

• Emerging challenges impacting anti-fraud and anti-corruption measures and insights on how to equip risk and compliance functions to tackle the impact of 'Grand Corruption' on all organisations (Richard Bistrong, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC)
• The future of internal audit and the latest developments on International Internal Auditing (IIA) Standards (Pascale Vandenbussche, Meilleurs Conseils Financiers)
• Insights on progressing sustainability initiatives and achieving goals within an organisation and tackling risk of greenwashing (Jill Shaw, A & L Goodbody)

Panel discussion:

• Jill Shaw
• Deirdre Ryan
• Neil Menzies

• A discussion on Individual accountability versus collective responsibility and what it means for governance and compliance frameworks of any organisation. (Speakers TBC)
• Deploying AI machine learning and Data Analytic tools in your business (Robert Farrell, Digital Transformation Institute)
• How leaders can tackle the various issues above, and to explore some of the challenges and how these might be overcome.

Key learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to: Have an appreciation of the key updates and emerging challenges and opportunities impacting governance, risk and/or compliance in listed, private and public sector organisations.

Speaker Bios

Pascale Vandenbussche

• Pascale Vandenbussche is Managing Director of Meilleurs Conseils Financiers.
• She was Senior Manager with the global consultancy Accenture for the Finance and Performance Management Product Line.
• She started work as an External Auditor at KPMG before moving to a division of the industrial conglomerate Union Minière as an Internal Audit Manager.
• Pascale teaches Finance in several business schools in Belgium and France. In 2010, she was appointed Secretary of the Board of ECIIA. Since October 2011, she has been Secretary General of ECIIA.

Robert Farrell

• Robert is on a mission to develop the next generation of digital leaders. Through the Digital Transformation Institute, he provides training & consultancy to clients including state agencies, banks, manufacturers and colleges/universities.
• He also manages the MSc in Digital Transformation with Innopharma Education.
• Robert has delivered training to audiences in North America, the Middle east, Singapore and Europe including Google, HubSpot, Citibank, DocuSign, BT and more. He holds a postgraduate diploma in digital transformation and a masters in strategic management.

Jill Shaw

• As ESG & Sustainability Lead, Jill supports A&L Goodbody's clients and practice groups on ESG and sustainability matters.
• She has a particular focus on sustainability reporting and disclosure requirements.
• Jill has extensive experience advising clients on legal and regulatory matters, principally in the asset management and investment funds sector.
• In addition, she has worked as a senior knowledge lawyer with a focus on compliance with the various European sustainability initiatives applicable to the asset management sector.
• Jill is also a lecturer on the Law Society of Ireland's Diploma in Finance Law, including on sustainable finance.

Deirdre Ryan - Director of Sustainability and Quality Assurance, Origin Green at Bord Bia.

Richard Bistrong

• Richard started his career as a successful international sales vice-president of a global corporation & ended with my pleading guilty to violating the FCPA & UK trade offenses.
• As part of his cooperation agreements, he worked in an undercover capacity with the FBI & City of London Police, before serving a 14-month federal prison term, returning home in 2013.
• Since 2014, he has been working with organizations through his consultancy, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC.
• In-person & virtually, he has presented to hundreds of diverse global multinationals, focusing on anti- bribery, ethics, & compliance challenges, sharing, his front-line experience & perspective on real-world corruption & compliance risk.

Níall Fitzgerald, FCA. Head of Ethics and Governance, Chartered Accountants Ireland

• Níall brings together technical expertise, experience and insights from his role with the Institute and his roles as a non-executive director for an Irish Charity and chair of its governance and risk committee, Trustee for an occupational pension scheme, co-founder of Chapter Zero Ireland, advisory member on several global professional accountancy committees/task forces, and Institute of Banking faculty member with focus on financial service governance, risk, sustainability, culture and ethics.

Neil Menzies

Neil Menzies is Director of Sustainability with the real estate company Hibernia Real Estate Group Ltd.
• With over 15 years working in the area of sustainability, he now has responsibility for managing the sustainability efforts across Hibernia's €1.3bn property portfolio, all of which is in Dublin. and planning for future ESG trends and regulations.
• Before joining Hibernia, Neil worked as Environment and Sustainability Manager with Luas operator Transdev. He has also worked extensively in consultancy and in the waste industry.
• He has experience of working internationally having managed large-scale projects in the UK and the Middle East and has a wealth of knowledge across sustainability, infrastructure and facilities management/operations, QEHS Management Systems, energy management and business development.

Contact us

If you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930