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

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

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 – Practical Use of AI for a Compliance, Ethics and Integrity Function

Use of AI for a compliance officer, or ethics/integrity officer

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

(see agenda Day 2)     (back to Fraud Event Summary)