Auditors & Assurance 2025 Day 1

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.