Agenda Day 2, Wednesday, April 21, 2027: (see Agenda Day 1) (back to GRC EMEA Event Summary)
09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair
09.20 – Corporate Policies - How to Successfully Embed those in your Operations to Foster a Good Compliance Culture
Sebastian Goebel, Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer, George Fischer AG
10.00 – How to Deliver Value with Compliance, Risk and Audit in your Company
· Making GRC the DNA of your org: to allow your org to be proactive and ready to mitigate risks
· The value of building a truly integrated GRC function without silos
· Addressing value to executives
· How to “sell” GRC early on
Caroline Thöress, Global Head of Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance, RHI Magnesita
10.30 – Structuring Compliance and Investigations: Governance, Resources and Decision-Making
· Handing Compliance and Fraud investigations
· Best practices in an in-house investigations function and the success factors
· People and resource management in investigations
Darya Shatova, Chief Compliance Officer, Solvay
11.00 – Morning Coffee and Networking
11.40 – 3rd Parties: The Full Partner Lifecycle and Where AI Agents are Used
Hanno Hinzmann, Global VP for Global Field Compliance, SAP
12.10 - Setting up an Effective 3rd Party Due Diligence Program
Practical experiences and lessons learned from building and operating a global risk-based third-party due diligence function, including program design, risk assessment methodologies, operational challenges, effective compliance audits, process simplification, and the use of AI and automation to improve both effectiveness and customer experience
Emile Letema, Head of Third Party Due Diligence, Kongsberg Maritime
12.40 - From Static Dashboards to Conversational Audit Analytics
· AI use to identify business and compliance risks \
· AI to support effectiveness measurement and assessment of the quality and improvement of the compliance/GRC program
· AI Agents: how we use them in GRC : what new opportunities they bring and how to balance against human work
Lucy Platts, SVP, Internal Audit, Uniper
Karan Sanan, Data Analyist, Uniper
13.10 – Lunch
14.10 - Data-Driven Compliance Programs:
How you can design your Compliance Management System to gather the data to continuously improve it
· Risk assessments, monitoring and KPIs
· The current options for improvement through AI and automation
Elena Garcia Guado, Head of Compliance, RWE Renewables
14.40 - Closing the Risk Loop - An Integrated Approach to KRIs, Internal Controls and Forecasting in ERM
Thomas Glassl, Director Compliance & Risk, Jenoptik
Frederic Büchner, ERM and IC System Expert, Jenoptik
15.10 – 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
Rajib Banerjee, UK & Ireland Compliance Officer, SAP
15.40 – Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Forum
Networking at the Radisson Bar