Format
This course will be delivered online on 5 November 2025, from 9:30am to 1:30pm. Further information including joining instructions will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Who should attend
This year’s conference will explore how strategic leadership can foster trust in an increasingly uncertain and disrupted global landscape. The sessions are tailored for senior professionals in compliance, governance, and board-level roles.
Course overview
- Strategic keynote on building trust through leadership
in uncertainty, featuring lessons from national economic decision-making and
real-world trade-offs for long-term value.
- Industry insights on how shifting regulatory
frameworks and geopolitical uncertainty are reshaping governance risk
appetite.
- High-level panel of business leaders and advisors on
corporate resilience amid global disruption, regulatory retreat, and rising
stakeholder expectations.
- Cybersecurity and AI governance briefing — key risks,
evolving threats, and the essential questions boards and management teams
should be asking.
- Internal Audit Standards update — practical insights
and recommendations on implementing the revised standards and enhancing
assurance value.
- Case studies from leading organisations on how
internal audit functions are tackling today’s cross-cutting risks, from
sustainability to cyber resilience.
- Governance and compliance insights — strategies for
aligning culture, purpose, and control in an era of changing regulation and
expectations.
- Interactive discussions on restoring and maintaining
public and investor trust through transparency and ethical leadership.
- Focus on data integrity and ethical AI use,
reinforcing the trusted role of Chartered Accountants as guardians of
responsible governance.
- Closing address: Gaining an Edge with Good Governance — how ethical, evidence-led decision-making drives long-term success for business and society.
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this conference, participants will be well positioned to:
- Identify the emerging risk and governance challenges
shaping business resilience in 2025 and beyond.
- Evaluate the strategic questions boards should be
asking about cybersecurity, AI, and technological disruption.
- Apply practical insights from the updated Internal
Audit Standards to strengthen assurance and control frameworks.
- Understand how leadership and trust intersect in times
of uncertainty and economic complexity.
- Recognise the evolving expectations of stakeholders
and regulators and their impact on compliance and culture.
- Leverage good governance to build sustainable advantage and reinforce organisational integrity.
Speaker Bios
- Simon Coveney –
Founding Partner of Fulcrum, Senior Consultant with EY Geopolitical Strategy
Advisory team, Former Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), Former Government
Minister, and TD (Member of Parliament).
- Níall Fitzgerald FCA – Head of Ethics and Governance for Chartered Accountants
Ireland, Non-Executive Director, Consultant, and former Auditor with PwC.
- Karen Morall FCA
– Co-founder and CEO of Lockdown Cyber Security.
- William Taaffe –
Co-Founder and COO of Lockdown Cyber Security.
- Dawn Holland –
Director - Economic Research, Moody’s Analytics.
- Garrett Quinn –
Group Chief Sustainability Officer, Smurfit Westrock plc.
- Marian Barry FCA – Director - Internal Audit, PwC.
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
Note for Legacy CPA Members
Members who joined Chartered Accountants Ireland following1 September 2024,
please continue to book on the CPA Portal here to ensure you receive your membership
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