Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming internal auditing by automating processes, enhancing fraud detection, and delivering predictive insights. This session will examine the ethical, technical, and operational challenges auditors face in implementing AI, ensuring unbiased systems, and harnessing these tools to strengthen organizational assurance frameworks.

Somikazi Hlumela Madolo

As ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) factors dominate corporate priorities, internal auditors must ensure sustainability efforts go beyond compliance. This session delves into auditing sustainability initiatives, measuring carbon footprints, assessing supply chain impacts, and ensuring accountability in achieving organizational sustainability goals.

With cyber threats escalating, internal auditors play a critical role in assessing cybersecurity strategies. This session highlights techniques for auditing organizational data protection frameworks, identifying vulnerabilities, ensuring incident response readiness, and aligning with evolving cybersecurity regulations to safeguard enterprise assets.

Agile auditing is transforming the way internal audits are conducted, emphasizing speed, collaboration, and adaptability. Learn how to integrate agile principles into audit planning, execution, and reporting, fostering real-time assurance and delivering actionable insights in rapidly changing business environments.

Blockchain's transparency and immutability present unique opportunities and challenges for auditors. This session covers auditing blockchain applications, verifying smart contracts, and ensuring the security of decentralized systems, equipping auditors with the tools to address this rapidly growing technology.

Internal auditors are increasingly relying on big data analytics to derive actionable insights. This topic explores techniques for extracting, analyzing, and interpreting complex datasets to uncover risks, improve decision-making, and enhance audit quality, transforming traditional assurance practices.

Faith Burn

As AI adoption grows, organizations face ethical dilemmas around bias, transparency, and accountability. This session discusses the auditor’s role in assessing AI models, ensuring ethical implementation, and safeguarding organizational reputation through compliance with ethical standards and regulations.

Remote work presents unique risks related to data security, employee productivity, and regulatory compliance. This session highlights internal audit strategies for evaluating remote work policies, assessing cybersecurity controls, and mitigating risks associated with hybrid and fully remote work environments.

Auditing third-party relationships is critical in mitigating operational, financial, and reputational risks. This session focuses on assessing vendor compliance, cybersecurity protocols, and performance metrics while ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regulatory expectations.

As digital fraud becomes more sophisticated, auditors must adapt to detect and prevent it. This session covers innovative techniques, such as AI-driven anomaly detection, real-time monitoring, and forensic analytics, to uncover fraud and protect organizational assets.

Modern governance frameworks demand proactive assurance. This session discusses how internal auditors can strengthen corporate governance by evaluating board effectiveness, ethical practices, and risk management frameworks while promoting a culture of accountability and transparency.

Cloud adoption introduces complexities in data security and compliance. This topic provides insights into assessing cloud providers, auditing data protection measures, and ensuring compliance with global standards to mitigate risks and maintain business continuity in cloud ecosystems.

Digital transformation projects are reshaping organizations, but they carry risks. This session explores how internal auditors can evaluate the success of digital initiatives, assess ROI, identify risks, and ensure alignment with strategic goals, enabling organizations to maximize their investments.

Integrating ESG risks into audit frameworks is crucial for organizational sustainability. This session focuses on identifying ESG-related risks, assessing reporting accuracy, and aligning audit practices with global ESG standards to enhance accountability and investor confidence.