2017 Conference Program
Educational Tracks
Pre-Conference Workshops
2017 Keynote Sessions
 General Session Keynote 1
Internal Audit in a World of Change
Larry Harrington, CIA, QIAL, CRMA
Vice President, Internal Audit of Raytheon Company
Change — self-driving vehicles, nano-technology, artificial intelligence, geopolitical changes, etc. — is impacting the world at an accelerating pace which impacts organizations, stakeholders, and internal auditors. Are we adapting? To be relevant and add value requires we audit at the speed of risk, and that means assessing risks in a world of change disrupters will become a new must-have competency.
In this session, participants will:
- Discuss key disrupters of change affecting internal audit.
- Identify what to audit and when in a world of change and disrupters.
- Review competencies needed to adapt to change.
- Explore strategies to retain those with the needed range of skills to conduct audits at the speed of risk.
 General Session Keynote 2
Using Multiple Guidance Systems for the Governance of Enterprise IT
Mark Thomas, CGEIT, CRISC
President of Escoute Consulting
As an internationally known governance, risk, and compliance expert in the areas of Cybersecurity, IT Service Management, Assurance and Audit, and IT Controls, Mark’s background spans leadership roles from CIO to Management and IT Consulting in several Federal and State Agencies, Private Firms, and Fortune 500 Companies. With over 25 years of professional experience, Mark has led large IT teams, conducted information governance/risk activities for major initiatives, managed enterprise applications implementations, and implemented cybersecurity and governance processes across multiple industries. Additionally, Mark has forged a reputable competency as a consultative trainer and speaker receiving exemplary evaluations and earned the ISACA John Kuyers award for Best Speaker.
As GRC activities are increasingly integrated into enterprises, it is critical to ensure a healthy balance between performance and conformance. This session will discuss how it is crucial to use multiple GPS-like systems to effectively steer GRC activities and focus on creating value. Using multiple viewpoints can help improve decision-making and strengthen an enterprise.
In this session, participants will:
- Recognize the importance of having multiple guidance systems to navigate GRC efforts in a holistic manner.
- Learn how to leverage multiple perspectives and techniques in balancing performance and conformance when determining GRC priorities.
- Gain insight into how to implement tactics and apply them to create value for your enterprise.
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2017 Keynote Sessions
Introducing 2017 GRC keynote speaker John Sileo!
 Opening Keynote Address
The Cyber Blacklist: Top Threats and Countermeasures for Data Security
John Sileo, CSP
CEO of The Sileo Group
John Sileo’s identity was stolen by a business insider and used to embezzle $300,000 from his clients. The exposure destroyed John’s company and consumed two precious years as he fought to stay out of jail. Combining real-world experience with years of study, John became an award-winning author, trusted advisor and leading speaker on managing privacy and reputation in an economy plagued
by digital overexposure.
John leverages his story of transforming risk into reward and the emotional connections it creates to evoke the skills of instinct, inquiry, and initiative that empower his clients to take control of their data exposure before it’s too late. John is the CEO of The Sileo Group, which advises clients on balancing risk, defending privacy and multiplying profits by building a culture of deep trust.
At the heart of most data theft is lax cybersecurity: a broad term that will cease to intimidate you after this presentation. This crash course forges a high-level, non-technical path through the sometimes confusing web of human decision making, computer security, mobile technology, internet connectivity, online privacy, and cloud computing and will leave you with an actionable list of steps to protect your sensitive data, mobile devices, social identity and, ultimately, your wealth and profitability.
In this session, participants will:
- Learn techniques to overcome or at least deal with the fear of falling behind the digital curve.
- Discuss why staying vigilant is key in helping you protect the data that underlies your organizational and personal wealth.
- Hear a real-life case study on the long road to recovery from an unfortunate incident and how to transform risk into reward.
Closing Keynote Address
Which Leadership Quality Matters Most With Stakeholders and Employees
Dick Finnegan
CEO of C-Suite Analytics
We usually hear leadership qualities in bunches with no established top one. Coaching? Career Development? Communication? Or might recognition come in first since we hear so much about it? There IS a clear leader: building trust. Think of it like this. Did your best-boss-ever build trust but your worst-boss-ever did not? And did your best boss have weaknesses you easily accepted? And might your worst boss have had strengths which were invisible to you? This pattern is clear: Once anyone in our lives crosses the boundary to trustworthiness, they can do little wrong. And the opposite is true once they cross the other way. Trust-breakers are hard to forgive.
These same trust-building skills apply to our stakeholders, too, as small-but-strong indicators go a long way to believing in our competence and integrity. And those two words — competence and integrity — are (or should be) in the first sentence of any auditor job description. Leaders who build trust excel at our two most important goals: create respected relationships with stakeholders and produce more work from their teams.
In this session, participants will:
- Understand why trust is the key leadership attribute in building relationships.
- Review which trust skills matter most to your stakeholders.
- Discuss strategies to build and implement these skills.
- Evaluate the value of trust to your company.
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