Agenda Day 2, Wednesday, April 22, 2026: (see Agenda Day 1) (back to GRC EMEA Event Summary)
09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair
09.00 – Bringing GRC, Ethics and Integrity to the 1st Line of Defense: The How
· How GRC, leadership and integrity can be best cascaded from the top, while reflecting the tone from the other levels
· Communications and trainings strategies
· Culture, behavior and human factors to address that reflect the reality of today’s workforce
· The use of various platforms, tools and technologies to reach the first line of defense in a meaningful way
John Murphy, Director Ethics & Compliance, Rio Tinto
09.40 – 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. Nikolaj Laschko, Deputy Regional Chief Compliance Officer, Schaeffler
10.20 – Building a Transformative Risk Organization: Quantification and Validation
· Setting up a quantitative risk function to generate risk insights
· Comparing forecasted risks with materialized events: known biases and blind spots
· How practical modelling helps drive better decisions
Maya Wellig, Director, Head of Global Risk Management, Sunstar Global
11.00 - Morning Coffee and Networking
11.30 – Panel discussion: Organising a Centralized Centre of Excellence for Ethics
· A central ethics channel repository: How to use this to spot trends from reported ethics violations
· Using AI to analyze, predict and identify ethics violations, red flags or potential weak points
· Comparison of ways to set up a CoE, governance structures and workstreams
Geerte Hesen, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Ferrovial
Rohan Kapoor, Head – Risk & Operations, Novartis
12.00 - Walk the Talk: ESG in a Multinational Corporation
· Outside Services and Inside Commitment at TÜV SÜD
· ESG Governance, Materiality and KPI Framework
· Readiness, Roll-Out and Data Collection & Verification Process
· Global Implementation Verification Audit
Beatriz Bottner, Internal Audit - Global Lead Compliance, TÜV SÜD
12.40 – Developing Internal Control Systems to Support ESG
· A Sustainability ICS: features and requirements
· CSRD, CSDDD, EU Omnibus, COSO and other regulatory components
· Double Materiality Assessment: the cornerstone of IC over sustainability reporting
· Leveraging on existing IC over Financial Reporting
· The importance of strong governance and control ownership
Aymen Ben Guirat, Director Internal Control, Essity
13.20 – Lunch Break
14.20 – Navigating Risk, Compliance, and ESG in a Complex Geopolitical Environment
Nicolas Riffard, Head of Global Assurance, Oriflame Cosmetics
15.00 - How to Conduct a Fraud Risk Scenario Assessment in your Business and also Comply with ISO37001
· Apply a practical methodology to conduct a comprehensive fraud risk scenario assessment
· Recognise strategies to reduce exposures to fraud risk and mitigate associated financial impact
· Assess the effectiveness of existing policies, guidelines and controls to prevent, detect and deter fraud in the workpace
· Design and build an ISO37001 anti-bribery compliant framework
Pritesh Dattani, Global Head of Internal Audit, Swissport
15.40 - Internal Investigations: GRC Resource Allocation
· Handing Compliance and Fraud investigations
· Best practices in an in-house investigations function and the success factors
· People and resource management in investigations
Dr. Anastasia Berger, Director Group Investigations, Bilfinger
16.20 - Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Forum