
7th Annual Internal Audit Forum
Welcome!
A great excitement to organize year by year the Audit Masters conference. This time the 7th Annual Internal Audit Forum will take place in the lively Barcelona. As usual the attendees will be presented with a number of sessions on today’s current issues and trends. Our expert speakers will provide an insight into their experiences throughout interesting keynote presentations, and the Q&A and networking sessions will give the opportunity for knowledge-sharing.
Audit Masters 2019 is a great platform to discuss common challenges. We are convinced that the conference is going to give a great value to the attendees this time as well.
We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona.
On behalf of GLC,
Aletta Lemak
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Event schedule
Day one
08:15 Registration & Networking with Welcome Coffee
08:45 Greeting from the Project Lead & GLC Icebreaker Session
08:55 Opening Remarks from the Chair
09:00 Auditing Culture: Challenges and Proven Techniques
09:40 Slot reserved for Akquinet
10:20 Tea, Coffee, Networking & Exhibits
10:50 “Re-invent” agility at Allianz
11:30 Business Agility in Internal Audit
12:10 Operational Resilience as planning priority
12:50 Luncheon & Networking
13:50 Brexit – The role of Internal Audit
14:30 How should we audit robots and automated controls?
15:10 Group photo
15:20 Tea, Coffee, Networking & Exhibits
15:50 Audit in the age of AI: the experience of BBVA
16:30 Assessing risk in Blockchain
17:10 Closing Remarks from the Chair
17:15 End of Day 1
17:30 Interactive communication session accompanied by a Cocktail reception
Day two
08:30 Meet, Greet & Networking with Welcome Coffee
08:55 Opening Remarks from the Chair
09:00 Data Analytics within Audit – a practical guide how to implement data analytics within an audit department
09:40 Digital and Cyber Agenda & New Audit Practices in Today’s World
10:30 Tea, Coffee, Networking & Exhibits
10:50 Life after GDPR implementation
11:30 Effectiveness of Governance: An Internal Audit Perspective
12:10 Three lines of defence: A first line view:
12:50 Luncheon & Networking
13:50 IA External Quality Assessment and Improvement Program
14:30 Auditing Reputation Risk
15:10 Open Panel Discussion – The synergy between risk management and internal audit
15:50 Closing Remarks from the Chair
16:00 Farewell Tea, Coffee and Networking
16:30 End of Day 2
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• Group Conduct Information Management
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• Money Laundering Reporting Quality Assurance
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• Security Security and Investigations
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