Agenda

Internal Controls: Tuesday, October 27, 2020

11:45 EDT ( 08:45 PDT )

60 min

Leveraging ERM and Control to Support Business Strategies and Objectives

Leon Bloom, Consultant, Deloitte

  • ERM as a capability framework to support achievement of business strategies and objectives and performance management
  • Control assurance frameworks, regulation and common threads
  • Governing principles
  • Where are the control frameworks heading?
  • Continuous alignment of ERM and internal control with the ‘extended enterprise’
  • Sound practices and insights

12:45 EDT ( 09:45 PDT )

45 min

Break

13:30 EDT ( 10:30 PDT )

60 min
Mark E.S. Bernard

Cyber Control Integration

Mark E.S. Bernard, Founder, The Bernard Institute for Cybersecurity Excellence

The Cybersecurity program will control costs while improving employee and customer engagement by reducing interruptions to services created by the loss of information confidentiality, integrity, or availability in addition to mitigating the risk of a breach the would lead to reputation damage and unplanned expenses.

  • Governance and risk management of Cybersecurity
  • The crazy 8s of Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities
  • Compliance risks associated with Cybersecurity regulation
  • The integration between internal control frameworks and Cybersecurity
  • The relationship between operational risk and Enterprise risks

14:30 EDT ( 11:30 PDT )

60 min

Updating Risk Governance to Strengthen Internal Control Effectiveness

Leon Bloom, Consultant, Deloitte

  • Risk governance objectives
  • Growing risk governance, control requirements and expectations
  • Guiding principles for risk governance and control effectiveness
  • Shortcomings in the traditional risk governance and control model
  • Updating and evolving risk governance and control
  • Management and board oversight
  • Key questions to ask

15:30 EDT ( 12:30 PDT )

45 min

Break

16:15 EDT ( 13:15 PDT )

60 min
Suzanne Dunn

Establishing Organizational Buy-In to Internal Audit and Internal Controls

Suzanne Dunn, Manager, Internal Audit, Pacific Blue Cross

  • How do you shift the paradigm away from “police officer” to “strategic partner”
  • Common pitfalls that cause an Internal Audit & Internal Controls department to lack organization buy-in
  • Ways to create, deploy and provide “value” to business functions
  • How to bridge the gap between compliance and operational improvement

Writing a Great MD&A: Wednesday, October 28, 2020

11:45 EDT ( 08:45 PDT )

60 min
Eric Lung

MD&A In-Depth – Legal and Regulatory Developments

Eric Lung, Partner, Dentons Canada LLP

  • Overview of MD&A Legal Framework 
  • Latest Developments in MD&A Regulatory Requirements
  • Recent Regulator Comments on MD&A Disclosure
  • Indicators of a Poor MD&A Process
  • Critical analysis of sample MD&A Disclosure

12:45 EDT ( 09:45 PDT )

45 min

Break

14:30 EDT ( 11:30 PDT )

60 min

Leveraging MD&A for Shareholder Value and in Response to Broader Scrutiny

Leon Bloom, Consultant, Deloitte

  • MD&A and shareholder objectives
  • Why should management develop a ‘great’ MD&A?
  • MD&A stakeholders, interested parties and divergent self-interests
  • Shareholder value levers
  • Leveraging risk and capital management, good governance, conduct and reputation
  • Governance and regulatory expectations
  • Understanding and developing effective processes for MD&A
  • Maximizing stakeholder and interested party feedback on MD&A
  • Ongoing assessment, refinement and enhancement of existing disclosures

15:30 EDT ( 12:30 PDT )

45 min

Break