With the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government is at the centerstage to act swiftly and boldly ramping up spending as a response to curtail the virus, protect its citizens, and keep the economy afloat. The impact of the private sectors may not be of the same magnitude as a country, but both are significantly on the same boat. And to successfully rise above and beyond the crises, requires a robust internal control environment. This is to ensure sound business decisions and establish effective mechanisms to address and manage risks resulting from actions taken by the organizations.

Being in the desperate times as they say, prompted for desperate measures. For that, assurance providers are on the backstage to review and examine. Are we doing the right thing? Together, let us reassess the internal control environment and identify why the country seems to be failing, especially in these critical times. Are we blundering or plundering our way through the pandemic? How Can internal and external auditors work together to promote and inculcate a culture of accountability and transparency?

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An analysis of the rising fraud in the country brought about by the increase in the use of ecommerce platforms by businesses to sustain viable operations and efficiently deliver the products & services to customers amidst the pandemic and despite limitations in physical movements.

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Today, internal auditors face many challenges which impact their effectiveness and efficiency.

In some cases, these challenges impact the ability of internal audit to meet its basic objectives of assessing governance, risks and controls. These challenges also limit the value added by internal audit, making it impossible for internal audit to become a “trusted advisor” in their organizations.

In this session, we will discuss these challenges, and how technology can address them. In addition, we will demonstrate some of the key features of TeamMate+ audit management solution, and how this particular technology can address these challenges.

Section 27 of the 1987 Constitution requires all in PH government to maintain honesty and integrity in the public service and take positive and effective measures against graft and corruption. But despite best efforts to communicate the achievements and/or performance of government (as a whole or at agency-level) something gets lost in translation.

How can the Internal Audit Service (IAS) help achieve and preserve the good reputation of the Agency/Institution. Where is IAS in the big picture, towards having good reputation? What could the greatest contribution of IAS to achieve or even strengthen the Sector's reputation.

Cybersecurity practices continue to evolve and so do cybersecurity risks. With the world going fully digital, how can organizations protect itself and its employees from cyber attacks? What are the leading practices to prevent phishing, social engineering, vishing, ransomware, and other cyber crimes? What are the local statistics for these cybercrimes?

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One of the main factors generating operation risk is the company's people. At its core, the psychology of risk pertains to emotions, framing, personality, attitude, and judgment.

Risk management practices have devoted a great deal of attention to developing standard frameworks and controls: in terms of design, existence, and operating effectiveness. This year, IIA aims to shed light on the role of behavioral science in risk management and the trends, opportunities, and threats in using this approach.

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In a dynamically changing landscape, which is growing in complexity, audit teams are continually striving to add value, whilst balancing resources, and skills. Limited capacity is often the roadblock to how much value audit teams can add. However, increasing resourcing to create more capacity is the often the most difficult battle to win. To successfully grow capacity audit management can embark on growing skills especially digital skills, and embracing new agile work practices.

Very often, not every team or every team member is ready to grow new skills, swiftly adopt to new ways of working and understand and embrace emerging technologies used by organisations. Success requires a shift in mindset. During this session we will explore the digital skills maturity and how a digital, growth and agile mindset, will help you grow your audit team’s success in this digital age.

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Dissecting the results of the survey and understanding the shifting paradigms in the workplace and how IA can address this.

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The pace of change in the organization's business is increasing as the environment is moving towards digitalization. Management functions such as corporate governance, risk management and internal audit are expected to cope with the rapid change to cater to the needed support of the operational management. Internal audit is no longer expected to perform audits to provide insights of the past but rather internal audit is expected to provide a snapshot of the future that will be relevant in decision-making. Internal audit is expected to cope with the pace of change in the environment through innovation in practices. Incorporating the key stakeholder's expectation to the strategic plans of the internal audit function is imperative to ensure alignment of direction.

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In today’s always-on world, executives and directors must tackle the significant challenges, increasing competition, complex regulatory environments, and remote work - means leaders need accurate information from across their organization to make faster decisions and meet business goals.



Governance is no longer just a boardroom practice. It’s an organization-wide mandate. That’s why Diligent created the Modern Governance platform - one innovative platform to simplify and digitize your governance practices from audit, compliance, risk, and sustainability.

With the rise of digital transformation of the internal audit function of organizations, is internal audit ready for new solutions? How can your internal audit functions ride this wave?

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As we become more powerful because of technology, we have to learn how to voluntarily constrain our actions by our judgment - our ethics. What is the role of developers in defining what is morally acceptable features of an application rather than just being a mere technical requirement?

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Publicly Listed Companies (PLC) prepare sustainability reports to comply with the SEC's requirement on sustainability reporting for PLCs. Apart from mere compliance, why are companies encouraged to prepare sustainability reports? Does embedding sustainability improve financial performance? Can it be quantified and used as a tool for decision-making? What can stakeholders expect to read from sustainability reports that have significant impact on the economy, environment and society?

Adapting to the new normal and the drastic change in working arrangement presented significant challenges in communicating with an organization's internal & external customers. Finding the right tools and looking for innovative and creative ways to speak to the Board, the C-Suites, or senior management to ensure the message gets across and achieves intended impact has become imperative. In this session we hope to equip internal auditors on how to communicate, report, and present to executives that will effectively resonate and be relevant in making sound decisions for the organization wherever they are in the digital space.

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As different factors such as technology, unforeseen events disrupts and transforms business models, organizations need to adopt and implore new approaches to business development.

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We are all engaged in a strange new battle for survival in some form or another – physical, mental, business, and livelihood. We all heard about how to defend ourselves physically, but what about mentally? Mental toughness is a trait you can cultivate in order to thrive in this new reality. Learn from this session some specific and practical frameworks and tools to help increase mental toughness when confronted with fast-paced, complex, ever-changing, and ambiguous situations.

Learning objectives:
-Identify the impact of stress and crisis on one's personal life and health
-Dealing and coping with changes (environment, social, emotional)
-Maintaining mental wellness in a multitasking environment
-Identify strategies on how to be mentally resilient.

Design thinking assists organizations in focusing on their goals and developing a solution around them. It initiates innovation that lets the people work together more effectively and efficiently to solve issues. The focus is to introduce and be able to incorporate the concept of design thinking to the existing processes and activities of the internal audit function.

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With cryptocurrency becoming more prominent in the digital age, what does the future holds for cryptocurrency? What will be its use for customers? What are the existing and new BSP regulations that will relate to cryptocurrencies?

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The pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges, forcing many organizations to digitize and to seek creative ways to reduce cost, directly impacting the cost of compliance. However, functions and business areas – both internal and external – that provide assurance are still siloed, making it difficult to obtain a complete picture of the risk posture and control effectiveness, thus leading to inefficiencies. Integrated Risk Management helps by effectively coordinating management and assurance providers. This increases collaboration, develops a more holistic view of the organization’s risk, and reduces duplication of efforts.

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As we continuously transition from the new work setup and improvise on the tradition, we see changes in the employee lifecycle and its driving factors. The culture of inclusiveness built on trust is now being recognized as one of the competitive advantage. Different approach are being applied to support the growth of their employees and to leverage on their unique contribution while promoting an inclusive culture in a diverse work environment. In this session, we explore on how organizations can be more effective in providing the best experience to their members, maintaining their people, keeping them engaged, productive, and dedicated to deliver. See how we can turn a compliance-driven mindset to a trust-based workplace relationship.

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