Agenda Day 1, Wednesday, April 9, 2025: (see Agenda Day 2) (back to GRC EMEA Event Summary)
08.30 – Registration and Coffee
09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair
09.20 – Setting up a Governance, Risk and Compliance Function in a Complex Business
· Dealing with a decentralized structure: several disparate systems/datasets
· GRC at the HQ level versus the local level: bridge the gap
· How we bring GRC to the 1st line of defense under challenging conditions
Dr. Johannes Dittrich, Chief Compliance Officer, Vitesco Technologies
10.00 – An Integrated GRC Approach and Mature Risk & Resilience Strategy
· Develop a mature risk and resilience management capability aligned with strategy, performance and objectives
· A framework, architecture and shared processes to manage risk and resilience, increase efficiencies and to be agile in responsiveness
· Taking a risk-based approach to resilience and continuity of operations and services: ongoing risk monitoring
· Knowing your third-party relationships deeply to support a viable risk and resilience framework
· Preparing a statutory resilience report
· Watching for any material changes to your operational resilience
Thom Schiltmans, Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Corporate Security, Signify
10.40 – Implementing an Integrated Governance Model: A New Approach
· Challenges and opportunities of having Ethics & Compliance (Corporate Integrity and Whistleblower Channel) and Internal Audit areas under the same structure
· Necessary safeguards to ensure an integrated model that abides by the Three Lines principles
· Making good use of valuable information, synergies and data analytics to boost your influence agenda
Guilherme Rios, Head of Audit & Compliance APAC & EME, Vale
11.20 – Morning Coffee and Networking
12.00 – A Compliance in the Spotlight: Strategies for Keeping Compliance Front & Center
Karin Griggel, Chief Compliance Officer, Linde
12.40 – Building a Risk Assessment Strategy: Case Study and Sustainability Perspective
· Elevating Compliance Maturity through Risk Assessments
· Creating a Fit-for-Purpose Risk Assessment Process
· Identifying and Analyzing Sustainability Risks
Irina Barmina, Ethics & Compliance Director EUANZ, Reckitt
Ricardo Gomes, Ethics & Compliance Senior Counsel: Global ESG, Reckitt
13.10 – Lunch Break
14.10 – ESG Reporting and The Use of an ESG Materiality Assessment
· Why you need an ESG Materiality Assessment: How it becomes a blueprint and business case for your group’s ESG strategy
· Define the goals of the assessment, the outcomes and include your organisation’s corporate and ESG leadership
· Identify the most important risks and opportunities for your organisation and ranking them by relative importance
· Identify a range of stakeholders (board, investors, employees, vendors, NGOs, etc) and interviewing them to gain insights and tailor your communication strategy
· Capturing long-term risks in advance & taking a proactive approach within your ESG strategy
Laura Sata-Leinonen, Head of Internal Control, Neste
14.50 – AI Governance and Ethics: a 5 Year Journey
· How to start on the journey
· Key requirements and things to look for
· Challenges, hints and tricks
· Leveraging AI within compliance
· The impact of AI on compliance functions , different businesses and their business models
Susan du Becker, Director Risk & Compliance, Microsoft
15.30 – Sponsor Session
16.10 – Afternoon Coffee and Networking
16.50 – Addressing Conflicts of Interest
· Cases of discovering conflicts of interest among employee hires, 3rd parties and strategic alliance partners
· Implementing a conflict of interest disclosure system
· Innovative ways to uncover bias in decision-making in the business that is driven by a conflict of interest
Dr. Nikolaj Laschko, Deputy Regional Chief Compliance Officer, Schaeffler
17.30 – Compliance Training Best Practices
· From training needs to learning objectives leveraging data analytics
· Learning how to best combine live and online compliance training,
· Assessing effectiveness of compliance training.
Guillem Casoliva Cabana, Compliance Manager, Training & Education, Booking.com
18.10 – Anti-Corruption Compliance as an Integral Part of ESG Reporting
Alexandra Levchenko, Acting Head of Compliance, DTEK Group
18.40 - Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Day 1
Reception