Women in Compliance Conference

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks and Welcoming Networking Ice Breaker

Join this networking ice breaker exercise to maximise your opportunity to make connections with your compliance peers from around the globe. Instructions for the exercise will be given on the day.

THE COMPLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW

Noteworthy Developments & Updates Impacting Businesses and their Compliance Efforts

This session will provide attendees with the big picture of the most critical developments, trends, initiatives, updates and geopolitical risks that are impacting the world of compliance today and beyond.

Networking and Refreshment Break

THINK TANK: Law Firms vs. the Corporate World

The Unwritten Rules for Driving Compliance: How to Manage Costs, Budgets, Resources in Law Firms vs. the Corporate World Today

This session will offer an “inside look” at the real-life challenges and best practices for tailoring a programme to drive compliance to the specific context of your organisation, be a law firm or corporate organisation. The speakers will discuss their approaches to difficult decision-making, common roadblocks including resource allocation, programme structure and implementation. The panel will include a special focus on concrete examples.

• When and how to re-evaluate your risk ranking approach and associated costs of a robust programme
• Budget: How much you need to spend and mitigating the risk of spiralling costs
• How to select vendors: Understanding your organisation-size, risk profile, budget and more
• Case study-Quantifying the Compliance Effort: How investing in a global compliance programme let to tangible cost-savings for an organisation

DELIBERATION

Building a Culture of Integrity in the Workplace to Drive Value

During this highly anticipated session, the speakers will share their experiences and lessons learned for fostering an ethical corporate culture during challenging circumstances, including an enforcement action, merger, uncertainty in emerging markets and more.

• Why the culture of integrity remains important today?
• What does it mean to be “ethical” in real life: Evaluating what is on paper vs. practice
• The new take on “investor value” and what that means for efforts to sustain a strong ethical culture: Value built on IP and other assets vs. talent
• How to convince business colleagues of its importance: what has worked and what has proven ineffective
• The role of the CCO/GC in exploiting legal uncertainty vs. guardianship role
• Trends in board of directors’ expectations for culture, and where it sits on their lists of priorities
• How to align the board and audit committee’s focus on integrity issues

Networking During Lunch and Mentor/ Mentee Circles* Luncheon

*Mentor/ Mentee Circles and Networking Luncheons

Take part in our highly demanded mentor/mentee luncheons on both days of the conference. The mentor/mentee luncheons pair leaders in compliance, legal, ethic and audit careers with those wishing to further develop in their career. Gain lessons learned from those who have been through the ropes.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

For mentees: When registering for the conference, please indicate two areas you are looking mentoring on and whether you’d prefer to be paired with someone in a similar role or industry

For mentors: If you are interested in the role of mentor at the conference, please contact C5 or Yvette Lingom at [email protected] for further discussion about expectations.

C5 will place participants into the most suitable 101 or groupings to meet their individual needs, where possible. Attendees will be contacted by C5 prior to the conference to let them know which luncheon tables to attend.

ROUNDTABLES & EXCHANGES

How to participate in the roundtables

Break out into smaller groups to join the roundtables for discussions among your peers on new, innovative compliance successes, lessons learned, and experience shared. Nothing if of the table! Bring your ideas, get feedback, benchmark and network. Each roundtable has a focus topic, a host or co-host facilitator and is scheduled to 45 minutes to allow up to three rounds.

CRDT #1 Building your Brand and Confidence

Elizabeth Wilks-Wood
Vice President Compliance
Carlsberg Group, Denmark
Past WICA Winner

• The connection between your personal brand, your skills and achievements and your confidence
• Identifying the strong skills, you want to project in the office and matching your job performance to meet this goal
• Learning how to be – perceived as – confident and cultivating that quality
• Tips to getting recognised as a credible candidate for internal promotion
• Effectively using women’s networks and personal networks to help achieve your career aspirations
• How to promote yourself in a positive and constructive way
• How do you take the next step from managed to manager and from senior management to the board?

CRDT #2 Bridging the Generational Gaps: Working Across the Divide to Move Everyone Forward – How to maximise assets and overcome challenges

• Overcoming stereotypes for your generation and learning what connects us all
• Distinguishing between being a remarkable boss and being a remarkable leader
• Mastering communication skills at any level
• Learning each generation’s strengths and weaknesses
• Leveraging the strengths of your group to move all women forward
• Making millennials an asset in the workplace

CRDT #3 Hiring Compliance Talents and Retaining Women in the Workplace

Michelle Dyer
Vice President – Risk & Compliance
EMEA, Corporate Development & Responsible Business
American Express Global Business Travel, UK

• Where to find the pool of talent for recruitment
• Techniques to identify the best people to carry out the compliance role successfully
• Identifying the leadership qualities to look for when developing your compliance team
• What core skills are involved?
• Unravelling the psychology behind what makes an individual more ethical than others
• To find the specialists in compliance vs. to train a candidate from scratch
• Giving women crucial tools to use to be successful and keep moving their careers forward
• Is mentorship, coaching, sponsorships or other work-life balance schemes enough to retain female talent in the workplace? If not, what else?

CRDT #4 Reducing Workplace Discriminations: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Retaliation, Bullying, and Related Challenges

Maja de Vibe
Senior Vice President Corporate Responsibility and Compliance
Chief Compliance Officer
Statkraft

Nilay Akgerman, PhD
Head of Ethics & Integrity, International Region
LivaNova PLC

• How effective are the policies companies have in place to prevent discrimination in the workplace?
• How to overturn the “culture of silence” and/or toxicity and embrace a culture of open communication, reporting and accountability
• Defining and providing relevant training on what is “consent”, “bullying” and subtle threats…
• How equipped are the investigators to avoid poor investigations on sexual harassment, retaliation or bullying?
• Common elements and imbalances that can influence the investigation
• Processes in place to support and believe complainant as well as reducing the potential negative impact of social media pressure on the respondent
• Cases of retaliation – how to manage the potential backlash of speaking up, blowing the whistle…

CRDT #5 The Faces of Unconscious Gender Bias: How Organisations are Addressing and Controlling the Risks Posed by Discriminations in the Workplace

• Why does unconscious bias still matter today?
• Where are problems and challenges being identified?
• Recognising unconscious gender bias that surrounds us to take the next steps in tearing it down
• How to raise awareness of biases and train staff to overcome unintentional gender prejudice
• Tackling unconscious gender bias from management including women
• Understanding what the senior executives look for when shortlisting for promotions
• Steps you can take to challenge discrimination
• Tips and techniques to ensure women receive the same respect and reward in the workplace as their male colleagues

CRDT #6 Avoiding a Car Crash in Your Third-Party Due Diligence Programme

Kristy Grant-Hart
Chief Executive Officer
Spark Compliance, UK
WICA Nominee

• How to deal with the most critical part of your program – scope
• How to handle policies and procedures in a sane way
• How to manage the business and create partnerships for tackling red flags
• How to deal with attestations, due diligence questionnaires and nasty fights over “critical” third parties that refuse to participate
• The Eight Commandments of a successful due diligence program

You don’t want to miss this information-packed program that will help you take your due diligence program to the next level in an integrated way.

Networking and Refreshments

CONVERSATIONS AND BENCHMARKING

Managing and Leading Different Skills Sets in the Compliance Office

How to Get the Best out of your Lawyers and non-Lawyer Team Members

Co-chairs’ Closing Remarks and End of Day 1

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks

NEW - COUNTRY BRIEFING

US-China Trade War – The DOJ’s “China Initiative”: What Industry Needs to Know about New Compliance Expectations in China

• Interplay of geopolitical tension, the trade war and national security with anti-corruption risk and compliance
• What do you need to know about enforcement risks for local vs. multinational companies
• How the key local agencies communicate with companies, and approach regulatory approvals and investigations
• Gifts & Entertainment: How to support your business development, sales and marketing in the wake of China’s Anti-Unfair Competition Law

SPECIAL FOCUS

The Neuroscience of Persuasion

• How the human brain is designed to predict what it needs to keep us alive
• Our thinking and decision-making systems
• How we see and judge information we receive
• The importance of context in how we guide people’s behaviour
• The biases we all use and how we are persuaded to act because of them
• The psychology of language and nudge theory
• How attitudes are contagious and how to manage ourselves better

Networking and Refreshment Break

LITIGATION STRATEGIES

Top Tips and Tools to Succeed in Litigations and Avoid Regulatory Enforcement

FIRESIDE CHAT

Integrating Compliance on the Board or Executive Level: The Top 5 Expectations on CCOs

What companies are looking for when appointing a Member of the Board? How the role of compliance is viewed today? What are the top skills chief compliance officers must have to seat on the board and meet expectations?

Networking During Lunch and Mentor/ Mentee Circles* Luncheon

*Mentor/ Mentee Circles and Networking Luncheons

Take part in our highly demanded mentor/mentee luncheons on both days of the conference. The mentor/mentee luncheons pair leaders in compliance, legal, ethic and audit careers with those wishing to further develop in their career. Gain lessons learned from those who have been through the ropes.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

For mentees: When registering for the conference, please indicate two areas you are looking mentoring on and whether you’d prefer to be paired with someone in a similar role or industry

For mentors: If you are interested in the role of mentor at the conference, please contact C5 or Yvette Lingom at [email protected] for further discussion about expectations.

C5 will place participants into the most suitable 101 or groupings to meet their individual needs, where possible. Attendees will be contacted by C5 prior to the conference to let them know which luncheon tables to attend.

DIGITAL COMPLIANCE DEMO

Staying Ahead of the Future of Compliance

How can the technology foster a partnership between compliance and the business?

New for 2020, this unique session features data analytics, artificial intelligence technologies and robotics tools specifically designed for improving compliance activities. Through real life examples and testimonies, this session is an opportunity to understand and explore what existing and new technologies are available, what they can resolve, what tangible impact they make, how the tools work and how to leverage them to prevent and detect bribery and corruption.

“What If …?”

Hypotheticals and Practical FAQs on Compliance Dilemmas on the Ground

During this practical, interactive session, the speakers will work through a series of hot button, sensitive hypothetical scenarios, and what decision they would do or not under the circumstances. Participants will be able to compare their approaches and benchmark through discussion and Q & A. Scenarios will include:

• Speaking up
• Gifts & Hospitality
• Unconscious bias
• Sponsorship and donation
• Third party vendors
• Commission payments, petty cash activity and cash advances

Co-Chair’s Closing Remarks and End of the Conference