Welcome to the 2nd UAE IAA 3D Virtual Virtual Conference. Kindly register and mark your attendance.

Welcome to the 2nd UAE IAA 3D Virtual Conference. Kindly register and mark your attendance.

Abdulqader Obaid Ali, Chairman of the Board of UAE IAA will formally welcome the dignitaries, speakers, delegates and guests to the event.

H.E. Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology, will address the conference delegates and formally inaugurate the conference.

Inauguration Speech by H.E. Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri – Minister of State for Advanced Technology (Video)

In this session, we’ll explore the latest ACFE research into how fraud is perpetrated, how it is detected, and who the perpetrators are in a COVID-19 world. We’ll also discuss trends in what organizations are doing to protect themselves from would-be fraudsters, including how they employ various anti-fraud technologies and what anti-fraud controls have the greatest impact.

Opening Keynote Speech “Global Fraud Studies in a Pandemic” (Video)

Protiviti and Saudi Telecommunications Company have been partners for over three years in envisioning, prototyping, building and operationalizing a leading edge Continuous Controls Monitoring Solution for their Internal Audit function that covers 200+ KPIs across a dozen process areas. The session will narrate the journey of how this came about, the challenges along the way and how Protiviti and STC jointly navigated those challenges to create a sustainable CCM story that is now on a continuous improvement mode. The speakers will highlight the common pitfalls, the aspects of people, process, technology and culture that one needs to be mindful of to drive success in programs of such scale. The presentation will also touch upon the benefits and outcomes of the program and the way forward for STC Group in their Next Gen Internal Audit Journey.

• Implementing a sustainable Continuous Controls Monitoring Solution – Case study of a large Telecommunications Group
• Share the lessons learnt during the course of the program
• Share the outcomes and upsides from the journey and the way forward

Technology & Digital Risks in the Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) Era (Presentation)

Technology & Digital Risks in the Fifth Industrial Revolution (5IR) Era (Video)

In this session the panelists will research the effectiveness of technology in managing an enterprise compliance program and will shed the light on how compliance and internal audit professionals will make use of technology to achieve their objectives.

“Embracing Technology to Super-Charge Compliance Outcomes” (Video)

By Rabih El-khatib, Lead Design and Implementation Specialist – Agile Governance at Mobili Dissertus LLC

The 3 key takeaways from the session are:

1. An illustrated diagnosis of risks and better practices related to human capital.
2. Digitization is not the enemy, and should be encouraged.
3. Internal Audit’s role in supporting the entity in protecting its most valuable resource, Human Capital, while playing a key role for the digitization of activities whose automation is the only way forward.

Human Capital Diagnosis in a Digitized Environment: An Internal Audit perspective (Presentation)

“Human Capital Diagnosis in a Digitized Environment: An Internal Audit perspective” (Video)

By Fahem Almusa
Director- Internal Audit & Accounting Advisory, Crowe UAE

أعتقد أن ما يلي سيكون مقدمة موجزة جيدة عما سنتحدث عنه: “تخطيط المخاطر في الوضع الطبيعي الجديد“.

 

قلق المدققين الداخليين بشأن المستقبل آخذ في الازدياد ، حيث أن:

1. انخفاض الطلب في العديد من الصناعات والخدمات ،
2. مواجهة مشكلات التدفق النقدي ،
3. التعامل مع ضرورة تقليل عدد الموظفين للحفاظ على الأعمال التجارية ،

ليست سوى أمثلة قليلة على تحديات السوق العالمية الحالية.

كيف يتوجب علينا كمدققين داخليين ، مواجهة هذه التحديات ومحاولة أن نكون جزءًا من الحل؟

خبرة المدققين الداخليين سوف تلعب دورًا رئيسيًا في مثل هذه الظروف إذا تم استخدامها بشكل صحيح.

تخطیط المخاطر في الوضع الطبیعي الجدید (Presentation)

تخطیط المخاطر في الوضع الطبیعي الجدید (Video)

The topic will include following key trends :

1. The emergence and rise of Health-care on demand
2. Growth of medical wearable device
3. Role of Artificial intelligence

 

• On emergence of Insuretech & Eductech”

1. How Insuretech has gained rapid traction in last 2- 3 years, transforming the customer journey in Insurance industry
2. While Edutech companies were playing key role in the Education industry, however ith children unable to go to school to Covid restriction in last one year, how Edutech companies have helped in engaging students, teachers and parents.

Digitization in Healthcare industry (Presentation)

Digitization in Healthcare industry (Video)

3 main objectives of the session

 

During this presentation I’m going to reveal 3 core secrets.

• Secret #1 – How a whopping 78% of small businesses are being targeted by cyber criminals.
• Secret #2 – Why %60 of Small to Medium Businesses Fold Within 6 Months of a Cyber Attack.
• Secret #3 – What the best cybersecurity experts know that you don’t.

A brief description about the session

 

“Insider Secrets” to HOW hackers are getting in, and WHY

This particular session will show attendees a “behind the scenes look” at how hackers harvest as much information on you before launching a targeted attack.

At the end of this talk, the audience will be more alert as to what they’re posting online and how it can be used against them.

Topics include:

• The problem with modern day security
• Threat agents
• Essential terminology
• The phases hackers use to target you
• Social Engineering awareness
• Real-World hacking demonstration
• Defensive tools
• Much more…..

“Insider Secrets” to HOW hackers are getting in, and WHY (Presentation)

“Insider Secrets” to HOW hackers are getting in, and WHY (Video)

A defendant can rob more money by using a computer than with a gun and a ski mask.  The harm, especially to vulnerable victims like seniors, can be very traumatic and hidden by shame which hurts the reporting of these cases. Other times, it is a betrayal of trust by an employee or family member. The penalties for these financial crimes are also far less harsh at the time of sentencing than violent crime like armed robbery.  This gives more savvy defendants further incentive to choose this means of exploitation and they often amass many victims over several years before being caught.

Once great auditors and investigators catch them, the real work begins–convincing prosecutors like me that it is worth the time and resources of their offices to go after these defendants (who frequently reside far away in other jurisdictions).  By thinking like a prosecutor, participants will not only be far more effective at catching scammers, they will be far more likely to have them convicted of their crimes because they will speak the same language as the person analyzing their case to see if it should be brought into a courtroom.

Main Objectives

1. Introduce the FIRAC method for assessing a case and presenting evidence to a prosecutor
2. Provide case studies that analyze the five defenses to any crime
3. Present different types of evidence (Direct, Circumstantial, Testimonial, Physical and Other Crimes) and give real life examples of what we look for when following the paper trail of these cases

Speaking the Language of Prosecutors – Taking a Case from Investigation to Verdict (Presentation)

Speaking the Language of Prosecutors – Taking a Case from Investigation to Verdict (Video)

We hope you had a wonderful first day at the conference and look forward to your presence tomorrow. Thank you and have a great evening.

As the pandemic put the whole Finance & Banking environment beneath stress, in spite of expanded income in a few cases, the require for personalized digital arrangements got to be more pivotal than ever. The quick development of monetary get to over the developing world has spiked request for digital keeping money. However, not all banks have a committed development innovation group and as it were a little percent have begun utilizing the ditalization as a arrangement to realize their targets.

Actions: How organizations between Innovative financial  services teach and develop fintech’s, as well as vital ventures in fintech new companies, can help reimagine the monetary industry for the better.

How the Pandemic is Driving Innovation in Finance (Video)

3 main objectives of the session

• The new future _ digitalization
• Importance of security
• Recommendations about securing your digital future

A brief description about the session:

This session is all about securing your digitized professional future, Dr Ozkaya will share the importance of cybersecurity with the expert tips you need to “secure” your future.

Securing your Digitized Professional Future (Presentation)

Securing your Digitized Professional Future (Video)

3 main objectives of the session

1. Importance of life-long learning enabled by technology
2. Transformation of Education – disrupting inequality of education
3. Recommendations

 

A brief description about the session:

This session is about your development as a life-time commitment and the outlook in education. How executive education helps you to keep producing excellence professionally and personally.

Executive Education: What is the Future Transformation? (Presentation)

Executive Education: What is the Future Transformation? (Video)

3 main objectives of the session

1. Adapting technology to meet the demands and changes in working conditions
2. Supporting employees’ wellbeing
3. Curate clear learning paths that develop skills for future need
4. Grow and deliver business results

 

A brief description about the session

COVID has disrupted the way we live and work; adapting to change requires resiliency, agility, and rapid transformation. How HR can drive positive employee experience in a high performing culture with changing work and employee expectations? It is beyond providing services and support; it’s about leading at the front, embedding an adaptive technology to enable the organization to deliver its results, and having care and concern for your people’s wellbeing.

The Future of Work and HR among Technology Inflation (Presentation)

The Future of Work and HR among Technology Inflation (Video)

Auditors have heard of COSO but do they really know how to apply it in their audits.  Using interactive social media examples, this practical and entertaining session will use current events in business and even in our social lives to demonstrate how to“See Fraud through the COSO Lens.”   You can apply this new view in your risk assessments at a ERM and individual audit level.

The session will open the eyes of internal auditors to look at fraud in a different manner. Most audit departments do consider fraud, but are they seeing beyond the tip of the iceberg? 47% of CFOs say they could justify unethical behavior to help their organization survive the economic downturn. Nearly half of those surveyed stated that they would be willing to cut ethical corners to meet performance targets, particularly in the last four years. 40% of those surveyed stated that their companies do business in countries in which bribery and fraud occur frequently. Moreover, the Pandemic, technology, downsizing, reorganization and globalization have contributed to ignorance of fraud exposures. This is what audit departments are up against. Internal auditors use COSO, but do they really know how to apply it in their fraud risk assessments?

 

Learning Objectives: 

• Provide a practical understanding and application of the COSO Framework and how to use it for fraud considerations in fraud risk assessments and the execution of planning, fieldwork and reporting
• Consider appropriate anti-fraud governance activities and fraud risk identification processes, knowing the most common types of fraud in your industry.
• Determine the types of fraud your company is susceptible to within specific business functions

Fraud through the “Eyes” of COSO (Presentation)

Fraud through the “Eyes” of COSO (Video)

High-Tech v-s Low-Tech Crime Recognition for Auditors (Presentation)

High-Tech v-s Low-Tech Crime Recognition for Auditors (Video)

We hope that you had a very productive conference and enjoyed the sessions presented. We look forward to hearing from you and request you to please submit your feedback via the survey forms which are available on the UAE IAA Events app. Thank you once again for your presence.