Agenda Day 2, Thursday, April 10, 2025: (see Agenda Day 1) (back to GRC EMEA Event Summary)
09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair
Jeffrey Cottle, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
09.00 - Leadership Compliance Accountability: Addressing Workforce Expectations
· Compliance and the ‘employee experience’
· Generational and cultural compliance considerations
· Leadership and the compliance landscape: a complex relationship
Virginie Liautaud, Head of Compliance –Europe and Latin America, Ericsson
09.40 – The Journey of Developing an Integrated Risk Control Framework on Non Financial Risks
· Case for change
· Guiding principles used for the journey
· Building blocks of the integrated Risk Control Framework
· Integrated roadmap of the journey
· Integrated Risk Control Framework facilitated and enabled by Archer
· How technology can support
Liesbeth Brantjes, Tribe Lead Operational Risk & Integrity Solutions, Rabobank
Julian Hirsch, Advisory Sales Engineer, Archer
10.20 – Driving Regulatory and Financial Benefits from Customs and Sanctions Compliance
In this presentation will be shared the journey of trade compliance maturity for Braskem and how this brings both financial and regulatory benefits around sanctions adherence, customs optimization and HS classficication.
Part of the presentation will be calculated benefits and the methodology as well as most recommended trade compliance KPI’s for a global company.
Ruud Altena, Regional Head of Compliance, Europe and Asia, Braskem
11.00 – Morning Coffee and Networking
11.40 – Intersection of GRC and Economic Sanctions
Jeffrey Cottle, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
12.20 - Launching an Internal Ombuds Office: The Culture Change Factor
· Speak-up universe: people sharing ideas, concerns, etc.
· Culture change needed to give people a voice that the company hears
Danny Mayhew, Global Head of Organisational Justice and Smart Assurance, Sanofi
Estelle Ghyselinck, Head of Investigations and Monitoring AEME, Asia, JPAC, Sanofi
13.00 – Lunch Break
14.00 - Setting up an Effective 3rd Party Due Diligence Program
· Your “KYC/KYP”: Implementing a comprehensive KYC/KYP program that addresses broad compliance risks, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption, etc.
· Ensure that your 3rd party compliance program is flexible to withstand the dynamic regulatory landscape
Dr. Dominik Becker, Chief Compliance Officer, Grohe
14.40 – Managing Governance in a Storm of Regulatory Change
· How we are managing (inter alia) EU Taxonomy, CSRD, CS3D, EU AI Act, EU Data Governance Act, etc., and their UK and US equivalents, in a decentralized, multinational organization
· Regulatory real time mapping of relevant legislation
· Promote a healthy corporate compliance culture to respond to the oversight authorities demands.
· Ensure independence for governance programs to perform and power to comply while effectively collaborating with multiple compliance functions across the organisation
Mark Lemon, SVP, Assurance & Control, Skanska
15.20 - Integrated GRC in a Complex Ecosystem
· Introduction setting the stage - Briefly introduce CGIAR, its mission, and the complexity of its ecosystem, which includes partnerships, research centres, and a commitment to sustainable development goals
· The case for integrated GRC in CGIAR - Explain how an integrated GRC framework helps to align objectives, standardise processes, and maintain oversight across entities, enhancing decision-making and resilience
· Internal Audit role in Enabling integrated GRC - Assurance beyond compliance, Promoting accountability and transparency, importance of a quality Internal audit function (new GIAS standards), relationship with governance bodies
· Key takeaways: importance of a holistic overview and the value obtained
Elbert Hidding, Chief Audit Executive, CGIAR
16.00 – Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Forum