With almost two years of negative growth of various public and private companies due to COVID-19, the idea of a "v-shaped recovery" has become a buzzword in boardrooms and meeting sessions, specially when the vaccines have become available. Moreover, the gradual loosening of government restrictions and the continuous downgrading of the alert levels have become avenues for individuals and families to revert to their customary habits and activities. These events, which were also prevalent in other countries, have caused the sudden spike in the demand of goods and services and the shortage of supply.

This session will highlight how the Philippines fare, its ups and downs, in the global economic landscape.
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Being able to R.A.I.S.E from the challenges of these turbulent times require combined effort of the whole organization. Gone are the days of silo thinking, as we need to emerge and be more upside than downside.

Our speaker will give his insights on how working together through combined assurance practices benefited the organizations towards a more resilient and renewed organization. The reinvention and creative reconstruction of strategies with respect to traditional 3-Lines of Defense Model will be discussed.

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Track 1: Auditing While You Sleep
Track 2: Driving Resilient Third Party Eco-System in Cyberspace
Track 3: Integration and Collaboration in Risk Transformation

As a result of the disruptions brought about by COVID-19, various Internal Audit functions were forced to adapt to the present circumstances. Suddenly, Internal Audit was barred from conducting the procedures needed to make the appropriate attestations regarding governance, risk management and internal controls. While the government agencies, various public and private companies focused on the welfare of its employees and workforce, the amount of work required remains the same. With this predicament, the need to implement the necessary change in the way to conduct business were highly emphasized.

This session will highlight the various innovations and practices spearheaded by selected C-Suites and the Internal Audit organization to continue rendering the same level of service towards the Board and Management.
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With the change in the country’s leadership, we explore the latest analysis on geo-political fronts including the potential impact of recent global events to the Philippine economy.

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Risks doesn’t sleep but it doesn’t mean that auditors should not sleep too. In fact, technology and digitalization has transformed many organizations including internal auditing to automate areas in their audit lifecycle that lets them audit while they “sleep” and focus on more relevant risks. In this topic, internal auditors will be introduced to new ways of conducting more audits in less time using automation and dynamic workflows, eliminating repetitive tasks and duplication and continuous auditing among others.

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At this time, the age of information has no signs of slowing down. The world has been more connected than ever, and this revolution is apparent in our personal lives, businesses, and institutions. Organizations that need to do more with less are turning to third parties to stay competitive. Third parties help companies to drive efficiency and cost savings but pose complex, ever-evolving risks. These risks include cybersecurity, privacy, business continuity, and resiliency risks.

In this topic, we will discuss how third parties can be responsible as part of the Cyber ecosystem and how we ensure that they comply with the requirements, including the safeguards we can implement to protect the organizations from these risks.

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The growth of businesses also comes with a widened and more complex risk landscape that moves in a rapid pace. As these risks evolve, businesses demand audit teams deliver valuable insights at the speed of risk. This is where the adoption of agile methodologies, underpinned by strong, collaborative risk assessment is fundamental. This is where concept of convergence enters as we try to identify and examine risks from every angle. With a broad range of functions within an organization, how do we collaborate to better understand changes in risks? Can we take advantage of collaboration in order to simplify and streamline the risk assessment process. How can internal auditors re-examine their current process, to identify opportunities of improvement, and implementing best of breed solutions to become more risk-driven, more data driven, fully-integrated, digital, agile and resilient, in order to help protect and add value to their organizations?

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The talk will explore the promise of a tech-enabled Risk Management process and its relationship with Internal Audit. What are typical organizational and process issues that need to be dealt with ahead of time and factors that allow for successful integrations.

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Track 1: Metaverse: Virtual Universe Auditing
Track 2: Data Governance: Providing a Framework for Structuring, Accessing and Optimizing Big Data
Track 3: Procurement and Project Spending: Most Vulnerable Areas for Integrity & Fraud Risk

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The audit profession has in recent years been experiencing unprecedented changes brought by multiple factors --- legal considerations, business disruptions, technological transformations and regulatory changes. Audit committees play a critical role in providing cofidence to different stakeholders to make better informed decisions and stay out of trouble.

In this session, we will have an opportunity to hear insights from Audit committee representatives and/or experienced Risk Management practitioners on how they are helping reframing the future of their organizations, what their priorities are and big issues on the table boardrooms that keeps them on their toes.

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Ever felt helpless and losing that drive to be at your best? Unlike common illnesses, many are unsure on how to look after their mental health and most often, this is ignored until they reach their breaking point. As advisors, Internal Auditors face many challenges and stressors that can affect their mental health and impact their professional, social and personal life. In this session, the focus will be on you, your Mental Health and Well-being. Our speaker will deep dive on understanding Mental Health and Well-being, the factors that lead to distress, determining one’s personal level of mental health, identifying effective personal psychological resources and most importantly practicing self-care activities to increase well-being.

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Track 1: Acting with Power
Track 2: Negotiation Skills and Conflict Resolutions
Track 3: Telling a story using your data

Imagine if you could take real-world activities such as interactions, work, meetings, classes, and even events to an immersive online space. The amalgam of augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, and artificial intelligence technologies will unfold such a digital reality space -- the Metaverse.

This session intends to demystify metaverse, how it is taking shape in the Philippines and explore how it can become a technological revolution, changing the way everyone operates.

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Power exists in every business relationship, that is, by the roles we play in every situation. Power is about how we fulfill our responsibilities regardless of what comes with our given circumstances. In this topic, you will learn more about how to use that power well.

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As we enter the digital age, more and more data are processed and coursed through the enterprise resource planning systems and through the web. These data are transformed to information as a support to management in decision making. It is then incumbent upon them and other processors that appropriate controls and governance frameworks are in place to ensure integrity and accuracy of data when it is at rest and in motion.

As Audit professionals, we always aim to add value. The role of negotiation and conflict resolutions poses a great impact in getting ahead of our professional relationships to achieve our objective. In this topic, you will learn about how to develop and execute negotiation techniques and understand conflict resolution management.

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The 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) revealed that remain a global challenge with 131 of 180 countries have made no significant progress against corruption in the last decade despite multiple commitments. And most often than not, procurement and high ticket project spending are significantly vulnerable areas for fraud and corruption. To address this, and within the context of procurement policy, project management, and good governance, adopting an effective risk assessment can help organizations or institutions identify and evaluate the problems and risks so that measures in the form of policies, programs, and strategies can be implemented to effectively manage integrity & fraud risks in procurement and project spending.

In this Session, let us explore the measures in these highly vulnerable areas that require scrutiny under a magnifying glass. How can the internal audit function systematically identify the priority areas in addressing corruption vulnerabilities and integrity violations within the organization? How can internal auditors help build or strengthen an integrity-driven control environment?

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Presenting nowadays can be overwhelming as we are living in a world dominated by data. In this topic, you will learn about the strategies for communicating with your audience in a more informative and engaging way by telling a story using data.

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In an age characterized by challenges, the capability or superior capacity to reinvent, adjust, and R.A.I.S.E with resilience has a great advantage. Being able to R.A.I.S.E from a crisis requires an ability to produce a plethora of possibilities, as the organizations and their IA Teams are compelled to re-assess existing strategies. Continuous reconstruction is a must in resiliency.

In this topic, the Chief Audit Executives of the organizations, whose strategic resiliency was challenged because of past and existing events will share their experiences, learnings, and techniques on how they were able to achieve such strategic resiliency.


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Track 1: Being Ethical in a Digital Environment
Track 2: Unlocking the Value of ESG and the Role of IA
Track 3: Is Your Company Social Media Risk Ready?

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All of us have a role and contribution in building our nation. As Internal Auditors, we are agents of change in our respective organizations. When we provide insights and recommendations during audits, we are helping the people we work with become better, we help our organizations operate effectively, efficiently and economically to achieve their goals and when organizations thrive, we are fueling growth to our nation and the economy. In this session, we will be looking at Internal Auditors in a new light as nation builders and how we can contribute more to the nation and the community.

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The world has experienced a series of disruptive black swan events and disasters in the recent years, and experts say that we are expecting more of these catastrophes. As the disruption landscape continues to evolve in a rapid pace, organizations must adapt to keep up. Now more than ever, organizations must assess and adapt their Business Continuity programs and initiatives to address emerging disruption threat and scenarios.
In this session, we will discuss Business Continuity practices, initiatives, and strategies we have observed in the industry that would be beneficial to internal audit professionals.

ESG has been the emerging basis for institutional investors when deciding to invest, withdraw, or maintain their stockholdings and ownership in publicly-listed companies. These metrics provide a snapshot of the Company's compliance to promoting best practices in environment, social and governance dimensions. This session will provide internal auditors with various means where they can lend support in the assurance and compliance to these best practices.

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Social media usage is growing and evolving at a fast pace. It has become a platform to showcase opinions and varying information in a way that instantly influences the way individuals behave. It also posed a challenge to organizations as they asess how to better utilize social media platforms to reach their respective clients while at the same time continuing to be pragmatic in its approach to avoid related risks.

With this, we will explore different perspectives on social media risks, how companies are anticipating and addressing them including common practices implemented to increase awareness across the organization.

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