English – Arabic translation facility available

Day 1 – Wednesday, December 9th, 2020

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07:30 - 09:00

Lobby

Registration & Activities

Welcome to the 9th CAE 3D Virtual Conference. Kindly register and mark your attendance. Browse through the 3D virtual platform.
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09:00 - 09:02

Auditorium

Welcome Note

Welcome to the 9th CAE 3D Virtual Conference. Kindly register and mark your attendance. Browse through the 3D virtual platform.
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09:03 - 09:10

Auditorium

Welcome Speech

By Abdulqader Obaid Ali, Chairman of the UAE IAA Board

Abdulqader Obaid Ali, Chairman of the Board of UAE IAA will formally welcome the dignitaries, speakers, delegates and guests to the event.
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09:10 - 09:25

Auditorium

Inauguration Speech

By H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri – Minister of Economy & Cabinet Minister

H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy & Cabinet Minister will address the conference delegates and formally inaugurate the conference.
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09:30 - 10:20

Auditorium

Opening Keynote Session

H.E. Dr. Talal Abu Ghazeleh – CEO & Founder of Talal Abu Ghazaleh Group

The Internal Control System: Before the Internal Audit and the External Audit.

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10:20 - 11:10

Auditorium

Implementing a sustainable Continuous Controls Monitoring Solution – Case study of a large Telecommunications Group

By Abdullah S. Alanizi, Group Chief Audit Executive at Saudi Telecom & Amit Ray, Managing Director & Solution Leader, Data Analytics & Digital Transformation.

This session is sponsored by PROTIVITI.

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
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11:10 - 11:15

Lobby / Exhibition Area

Short Break

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11:15 - 12:05

Auditorium

“In Conversation with Doron Rozenblum and Sudhir Kumar – Internal Auditing as the fortress walls protecting the company”

  • Doron Rozenblum, Managing Partner – Kreston IL Group, Israel
  • Sudhir Kumar, Senior Partner & Head – Corporate Communications – Kreston Menon, UAE

This session Sponsored by KRESTON

The Internal Control System: Before the Internal Audit and the External Audit.

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12:05 - 12:55

Breakout Hall

Concurrent Sessions

Track 1: 5 Robotics, Analytics and Visualization, Integrated platforms for new line of Defense

By Apoorva Yatindra, Head – Telecom and Automation vertical

This session is Sponsored by ANB

Track 2: التحدیات المستقبلیة لمھنة التدقیق الداخلي في ظل المتغیرات التكنولوجیة الحدیثة
Dr. Mervat Hussein El Sayed, Member of the E. Committees, Ain Shams University
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13:00 - 14:00

Prayer & Lunch Break

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14:05 - 14:55

Breakout Hall

Concurrent Sessions

Track 1: The Internal Audit Scope in the COVID-19 Era

By Fahem Almusa, Director- Internal Audit & Accounting Advisory

This session is Sponsored by Crowe.

Track 2: LPIA TEDx session
  • Capt. Mohammed AlMarri, Internal Audit Deputy CFE at GDRFA
  • Tariq Isaksson, Quality & Performance (Audit) at Etisalat and  Kazi Shahabuddin, Director at
    Etisalat
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15:00 - 15:55

Auditorium

Building a Lifetime of Career Success in Internal Auditing

Nancy Haig, IIA Chairman of the NA Board, 2020-21

Main objectives of the session

  • The personal qualifications that are essential
  • Why relationships are more important than connections
  • How to cut through the “noise” on social media and
  • How to build resiliency

The speaker will discuss, from her experience and perspective, the qualifications that have proven to be important over time for those enjoying or choosing a career in the exciting and rewarding profession of internal auditing. Also, building relationships throughout a career is essential, and it starts by making connections, which should not only lead to opportunities for you, but for others as well – a true secret to success.

End of Day 1

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.

Day 2 – Thursday, December 10th, 2020

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08:30 - 09:00

Lobby / Exhibition Area

Networking & Welcome Breakfast

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09:00 - 09:05

Auditorium

Opening Notes

By Samia Al Yousuf, General Manager – UAE IAA

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09:10 - 10:00

Auditorium

Navigating Through Turbulent Times in the Travel and Tourism Industry

Panel Discussion

  • Derek Blaney, Senior Vice President at Emirates Group
  • Ritesh Lalwani, Head of Group Internal Audit & Investigations at Etihad Aviation Group
  • Aldrin Sequeira, SVP Dubai Holding Internal Audit
  • Pritesh Dattani, Head of Audit at SalamAir
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10:05 - 10:55

Auditorium

“From Whistleblower to Court” – Escape from Dubai

By Abdulqader Obiad Ali, Chairman of the Board of UAE IAA

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11:00 - 11:10

Lobby / Exhibition Area

Networking and Coffee Break

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11:10 - 12:00

Auditorium

“The Vital Role of a Compliance Program in an Effective GRC Framework”

Panel Discussion

  • Dr Khalid Al-Faddagh, Member of PIF Board Risk Committee
  • Achraf El Zaim; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Compliance and Ethics Sub-Group of the UAE IAA
  • Matthew Nobles, Chief Compliance Officer for GE Gas Power
  • Hicham Slim, Vice Chairman of Compliance & Integrity Subgroup UAE IAA

“The Vital Role of a Compliance Program in an Effective GRC Framework”

  • What are the key components and best practices of a leading Compliance Program?
  • Leading innovations and digital developments tools to enhance Compliance Programs
  • How Compliance can be a partner to the business and not a bottle neck?
  • What are the consequences of not having a Compliance program?
  • What are the latest developments in auditing Compliance function?
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12:00 - 1300

Prayer & Lunch Break

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13:05 - 13:55

Auditorium

The Toxic Chief Audit Executive

By Mohamad Kaissi, Head of Internal Audit at Banque Misr Liban (BML) in Beirut, Lebanon

Three main objectives behind the session:

  • Identify CAE toxic traits that could impede the mission and vision of Internal Audit.
  • Identify healthy cultural habits CAEs can infuse within their internal audit team.
  • Becoming a better CAE personally and professionally.

Pursing a professional career as a Chief Audit Executive brings with it many challenging tasks that requires a mix of skills encompassing industry knowledge, leadership  and communication. The biggest of challenges is how to utilize these skills to maintain a solid and productive relationship with those who the CAE is hired to oversee and provide recommendations on how they can improve their operations . In pursuit of these difficult challenges, CAEs are vulnerable to lose focus as to the main reason behind their presence in the organization and may end up finding themselves stuck in inter-organizational conflicts, gaining many toxic habits along the way.

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14:00 - 14:55

Auditorium

“Safe from Start: Leveraging Internal Audit in Fraud Risk Management”

By Manoj Agarwal, Leading Internal Audit and Risk Management Department of Metro Brands Limited

3 Key Objectives

  • How to identify areas where Internal audit can help promote Fraud Awareness
  • How to leverage Internal Audit in establishing basic ingredients of fraud prevention policies, procedures.
  • How to involve everyone in fraud prevention.

 

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15:00 - 15:55

Auditorium

“Ready and Relevant”

By Tim Berichon, Internal Audit Leadership Engagement at The IIA

Audit What Matters is now Ready & Relevant
The 2018 IIA Pulse results show that less than half of internal audit department leaders consider their internal audit functions to be very or extremely agile, and stakeholder engagement could be improved.

In this session, participants will:

  • Understand how to build a more agile internal audit function that allows them to say yes to what matters most.
  • Be able to deliver on “on-traditional” management requests that matter.
  • See the top strategies that allowed, Tim to build a more agile and relevant internal audit function.

End of Conference

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.