Agenda Day 1, November 5, 2025: (see Agenda Day 2) (back to Fraud Event Summary)
(time zone used is CET)
08.30 – Registration and Coffee
09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair
09.20 – Keeping Compliance Agile to Keep up with Increasing Regulatory Pressure
· Challenges – increasing amount of compliance and regulatory topics, tasks and expectations
· Strategic and structural approach to keep compliance agile
· GRC model of thyssenkrupp and specific examples
Sebastian Lochen, General Counsel, Head of Legal & Compliance, Chief Compliance Officer, thyssenkrupp AG
10.00 – How to Maintain a Culture of Ethics and Anti-Bribery/Corruption in a Shifting Enforcement Landscape
· Update on U.S. anti-bribery/corruption enforcement and focus areas
· Global trends in anti-bribery/corruption enforcement
· Keeping stakeholders engaged and aligned on key ethics principles in times of macro political and economic changes
Alexandra Gaugler, VP, Chief Compliance Officer, IDEXX
10.40 – Improving a Speak-Up Culture and Whistleblower Hotline
· New requirements across Europe for whistleblower systems
· Implementation of whistleblower protection
· Should whistleblowers be rewarded
· The use of 3rd party speak-up tools versus in-house
· Sustaining a speak-up culture in diverse cultures
Martijn Boone, Principal Solutions Consultant, SpeakUp
11.20 – Morning Coffee and Networking
12.00 – Improving your Practices to Align with the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
· Setting up a raise a concern mechanism for the supply chain
· Sustainability ownership and examining your governance and senior level responsibilities
· Reviewing your operations to improve and demonstrate due diligence
· Ensuring that you are conducting proper due diligence in your own operations, your subsidiaries and other places where you have direct and indirect business ties
· Having prevention action plans, and verified compliance and assurances from business partners
· Aligning with existing human rights and ESG standards
Frederic Gerniers, Group Compliance Manager, Bekaert
12.40 – Crisis Management in Compliance Matters: A Scenario Exercise
Jeffrey Cottle, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
13.20 – Lunch Break
14.20 – Internal Fraud and Managing Allegations
· Initial identification and escalation
· The stakeholder communication and engagement process
· Interviews, evidence and data acquisition
· Reporting to relevant authorities
Ioanna Lamprinaki, Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance Investigations Leader, Otis Elevators
15.00 – Managing Compliance with Workload and Budget Restrictions and Limited Resources
· Use of AI for a compliance officer, or ethics/integrity officer
· Team structure and collaboration with other departments
· Effective e-Discovery platform
· Reskilling team members
Weeshirl NG, Head of Business Integrity Office, Signify
15.40 - Best Practices and the Use of Data and AI in Compliance/Governance programs
Susan du Becker, Director Risk & Compliance, Microsoft
16.20 – Afternoon Coffee and Networking
17.00 - Horizontal Scanning for Fraud and Compliance in the Age of Automation
Sam Loturco, Senior Compliance Officer, Uber
17.40 – Post-Acquisition Compliance Integration
· Compliance: getting involved in the due diligence
· The integration plan: cultural challenges and other compliance considerations
· Governance/communications tactics for the first 100 days
Hanno Hinzmann, Global VP for Global Field Compliance, SAP
18.20 - Closing Remarks of the Chair and End of Day 1
Networking Reception