Day One: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
10:00 EST
15 min
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
10:15 EST
45 min
Internal Controls in Agile Transformations
Brian Bost, Partner-in-Charge, Risk Consulting Ottawa, KPMG LLP
Role of Internal Controls on the success of major transformations:
- The role of internal controls in 1st, 2nd and 3rd lines of defence in major transformations
- AGILE – What it is, and what it is not
- The importance of internal controls in agile transformations
- Case Studies – Why internal controls are even more important than ever
11:00 EST
45 min
How Covid Changed Workplace Culture and How We Have Responded: Monitoring and Mitigating Changes in “Culture Risk” with an Internal Control Framework
Impact of Covid-19 on:
- The system of values, beliefs and behaviours that shape how things get done within an organization
- The activities used to reinforce culture and the employee behaviours that have an impact on an organization’s culture
- The qualitative and quantitative indicators that support a healthy organization
- Practical frameworks used to identify linkages between leader’s actions, business strategy, organization systems and employee behaviours
11:45 EST
45 min
The Evolving Financial Management Landscape: Adapting your Management Control
Framework and Internal Controls Assessments for Changes in Financial Management Policies
Claire Lake, Baiame Consulting
Becky Drummond, Senior Manager, Risk and Financial Management, Baiame Consulting
- Impact of Covid-19 on financial management policies in the public sector
- Flexible transfer payments and evolving transfer payment programs
- Risk-based focus
- Sustainable operations and resiliency
- Upcoming changes to financial management policies that may affect your organization.
- Implementing and revising a management control framework, internal control assessments and supporting processes in alignment with financial management policy changes.
- Case Study: Redesigning Transfer Payments and Grants and Contributions management practices
12:30 EST
45 minBreak
13:15 EST
45 min
Stewardship, Internal Controls and The Three Lines of Defence
- What is stewardship?
- The relationship between stewardship and Internal Controls?
- The importance of the three lines of defence
14:00 EST
45 min
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Financial Risk
John Colthart, Senior Vice President, Strategic Insights and Marketing, MindBridge
- How machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are transforming risk management
- The main machine learning and AI techniques of benefit to risk management
- Current practice and empirical evidence of the application of AI techniques to the risk management fields
- Current limitations
- How the field is likely to develop in the short- to medium-term
- Practical limitations around suitable data management policies, transparency, necessary skill sets
14:45 EST
15 minBreak
15:00 EST
60 min
Don’t Just Survive, Thrive: Reliable Financial Reporting For the Public Sector in the Era of Covid
Mike Goodfellow, Global Operations Advisory Leader, Deloitte
Conducting a thorough review of your organization’s internal control environment is now more crucial than ever. This session will cover considerations related to business processes, technology, and control testing practices that will allow you to thrive even in this challenging time.
- Anticipating challenges in internal control over financial reporting
- Business control implications
- IT Control implications
- Internal Control framework and governance
- Testing activities
16:00 EST
End of Day One
Day Two: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
10:00 EST
15 min
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
10:15 EST
45 min
Focus on Fraud: New and Emerging Risk Governance Insights for Internal Controls
Richard Leblanc, Professor of Governance, Law & Ethics, York University
The impact of Covid -19 has ricocheted throughout every organization and the result is new and emerging governance risks and necessary changes to internal controls. This session will include a deep dive into the Internal Controls over:
- Employee wellness and safety
- Cyber-security
- Fraud
- Working from home
- Climate and “Environment, Social and Governance” (ESG)
- Recent legal changes to fiduciary duty
- Acceleration of digitization and impact on business models
- Assurance over the design and testing of internal controls
- Linking executive pay to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)
- Independence of internal audit, risk and compliance functions
11:00 EST
45 min
Threat Hunting Techniques and More - The Intersection Between Fraud Detection, Cyber Security and Data Analytics
- Where cyber security and fraud detection converge
- Strategies for detecting internal and external fraud
- Detecting and alerting for fraud
- Using Threat Hunting techniques for fraud detection
- Platforms for rapid analysis
- Analytics for large scale analysis
- Putting it all together A.K.A -Finding the needle in the haystack
11:45 EST
45 min
Remote Work and the Effects of Dispersed Workforces The Case for Evolved Strategies Improving Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance Performance
- How organizations have demonstrated agility and creativity in adapting to new realities affecting connectivity and workloads since the global pandemic alert was issued,
- How remote work and the effects of dispersed workforces have now transformed into a race towards digital transformation (hybrid-cloud).
- Important gaps in that innovative leap.
- How the effects of these gaps are being felt in areas of security, privacy, and compliance.
- How these elements represent a journey, not a destination,
- How “perimeterless” environments have put an end to legacy security postures,
- The need for rapidly evolving strategies to protect organizations
12:30 EST
60 minBreak
13:30 EST
45 min
The Threat From Within: Recognizing the Risk of an “Insider”…
Insider risk relates to people working within an organization to subvert the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information contained within the walls of that entity. Public Safety Canada is pleased to provide an informative and insightful talk where participants will hear case studies of related events and learn what organizations can do today to protect their systems from the “threat from within”.
- What if the keys to the castle were in the hands of those that you were trying to defend against?
- What if the contractor building your IT infrastructure was working for your competitor?
- What if your most important asset was also your biggest vulnerability?
14:15 EST
60 min
System Implementation and Control Transformation
Nicole Dufresne-Baker, Director, Risk Advisory, Deloitte Canada
- Many public sector organizations are currently or will be moving from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 HANA in the coming years.
- With any new system implementation, there are important internal control considerations
- Find out how to see this as an opportunity for business process transformation and internal control optimization.
15:15 EST
30 minQ & A
15:45 EST
End of Day Two