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The ideal entry point for internal audit functions taking their first structured steps with artificial intelligence to automate core phases of the audit lifecycle.

Scope: Includes 11 essential use cases from the professionally designed ARC prompt library. Complex AI interactions are transformed into intuitive business forms, requiring absolutely no prompt engineering skills from your auditors.

Core Modules Included:

• Audit Preparation & Planning: Best-Practice Process Design and Industry Benchmarking, Regulatory and Normative Framework Analysis, Development of Audit Criteria & Benchmarks, Process-Oriented Risk Analysis, and Fraud Risk Analysis.
• Audit Fieldwork & Reporting: Audit Scope Definition, Development of a Risk-Based Audit Questionnaire (Audit Guide), Audit Interview Guide & Walkthrough Plan, Control Design Analysis for an Audit Object / Process, Assessment of IT Systems and Controls, and Creating a High-Quality Audit Finding (5C Methodology).

Your Value Proposition: Instantly automate repetitive audit documentation tasks, freeing up valuable resource capacity while establishing a consistently high quality standard across your audit engagements.

All profiles are delivered via secure, browser-based cloud hosting. Continuous software updates, new audit use cases, and methodology enhancements are fully included in your annual subscription.

The comprehensive package for established internal audit departments running the full engagement lifecycle, including advanced data analytics, sampling, and specialized IT audits.

Scope: Contains all 11 use cases from the BASIC profile plus 17 additional specialized modules (totaling 28 professional use cases).

Key Additional Modules:

• Advanced Planning: Review and Assessment of Existing Audit Reports, Typical Audit Findings, Analysis of Strategic Priorities and Audit Objectives, and Strategic Audit Alignment.
• Advanced Fieldwork & Analytics: Data Analytics Audit Concept, Comparison of Internal Policies, Process Documentation and Control Frameworks, Kick-Off Meeting Presentation & Communication Guide, Business Process Efficiency Analysis, Sampling Strategies (Standard Population), Sampling Strategies (Small Population with Finite Population Correction Factor), COBIT-Based IT Audit, and ITIL-Based IT Audit.
• Reporting & Closure: Root Cause Analysis for Audit Findings, Determining the Materiality of an Audit Finding, Management Summary for Audit Reports, and Guideline for the Audit Closing Meeting.

Your Value Proposition: Drive an increase in audit productivity of up to 30% across the entire engagement lifecycle. Automate fieldwork bottlenecks and deliver deep, root-cause-driven insights directly aligned with corporate strategic objectives.

All profiles are delivered via secure, browser-based cloud hosting. Continuous software updates, new audit use cases, and methodology enhancements are fully included in your annual subscription.

The Agentic Revolution & Human Superpowers in an AI World
Redefining the Internal Audit Operating Model for a Hyper-Volatile Decade
Moving from Manual Execution to Governing Autonomous Audit Ecosystems

The 2027 Audit Challenge Conference Series is your definitive call to action to move beyond being a “Monday-Morning Quarterback” and become a strategic “Navigator” of the future. This is not just a conference; it is a collaborative laboratory for internal audit leaders and professionals to redefine their value proposition through technology-enabled human judgment.
Join us to bridge the gap between legacy thinking and future-state reality, ensuring your audit function delivers foresight and decision intelligence at the speed of business. Don’t wait for the future to be decided for you!
Help lead it.

Save-the-date: Wed. 21st / Thu. 22nd April 2027

The high-end workspace for mature internal audit functions requiring rigorous quality management, advanced methodology frameworks, and executive-level reporting support.

Scope: The complete ARC AI Audit Assist ecosystem containing all 40 professional use cases, integrating a comprehensive quality management, review, and executive sparring layer.

Key Premium Modules:

• Audit Quality Management & Review: Clustering of Audit Findings into a Management Summary, Chief Audit Executive Sparring Partner for Audit Reports, Business Executive Review of an Audit Finding, Executive Review of the Audit Management Summary, and Quality Assurance Review of Audit Documentation.
• Strategic Planning & Methodology: Integration of IIA Topical Requirements into the Audit Scope, Development of a Risk & Control Matrix (RCM), and RACIVS-Based Control Analysis.
• Advanced Frameworks & Psychology: COSO-Based Audit Interview Guides, COSO-Based Criteria for Operational Audit Procedures, and the Behaviour-Adapted ARC HiANCA Audit Interview Guideline and Walkthrough Plan.

Your Value Proposition: Maximize professional and methodology compliance with the latest Global Internal Audit Standards. Equip the CAE with an automated, strategic sparring partner to sharpen executive reports and deliver flawless "Decision Intelligence" to the Audit Committee and Board.

All profiles are delivered via secure, browser-based cloud hosting. Continuous software updates, new audit use cases, and methodology enhancements are fully included in your annual subscription.

Next-Level Audit Communication Techniques: Using HiANCA Neuroscience to Drive Impact

Leverage the power of neuroscience to enhance your audit communication. Transform the way you communicate with business counterparts and team members by leveraging the latest insights from brain research. Learn how to structure your language, adapt your behaviour, and engage stakeholders effectively, ensuring your audit findings are accepted and drive meaningful organizational change.

Suggested training duration: Three half‑day sessions (total 1.5 days)

Target Group: Training for Internal Auditors as Team Members

Training Description
Internal auditors are often at the frontline of critical discussions, navigating challenging conversations with business counterparts and team members. This training equips internal auditors with neuroscience-based communication techniques to enhance their interactions, improve collaboration, and strengthen audit outcomes.

By understanding how the brain processes information and emotions, participants will learn to adjust their communication style for greater impact, gain buy-in on audit findings, and resolve conflicts with ease. This course focuses on practical tools that auditors can apply immediately, from conducting interviews and gathering information to presenting audit results. The techniques covered will help auditors foster stronger relationships with business units, handle pushback effectively, and ensure their audit insights are implemented.

This training ensures that auditors develop communication skills that are aligned with the latest cognitive research, making them more persuasive, adaptable, and effective in their roles.

Learning Objectives:

1.        Understand the principles of brain-based communication and their impact on audit interactions.

2.        Master the art of presenting audit findings in a way that resonates with business counterparts, senior management.

3.        Learn to influence decision-making by aligning your communication with how the brain processes information.

4.        Gain conflict resolution techniques to handle pushback and disagreements with business units.

5.        Develop active listening skills to gather deeper insights during interviews and audit discussions.

6.        Tailor your communication style to the specific needs and emotional triggers of different stakeholders.

7.        Learn to build trust with auditees by understanding the cognitive and emotional factors influencing their behavior.

8.        Improve collaboration within audit teams through enhanced interpersonal communication techniques.

9.        Develop skills to ensure audit recommendations are accepted and implemented by business units. 

Audit Training Agenda:

1. Introduction to Brain-Based Communication for Auditors

• Understanding how the brain processes communication
• The link between emotions, behaviour, and decision-making
• Aligning communication with cognitive processes for better audit outcomes

2. Presenting Audit Findings with Impact

• Techniques for structuring and delivering audit results effectively
• Tailoring communication to resonate with business counterparts
• Engaging stakeholders through neuroscience-backed strategies

3. Communicating with Senior Stakeholders and Audit Committees

• Techniques for presenting audit findings to strategic stakeholders
• Engaging senior management with neuroscience-backed methods
• Structuring audit reports and presentations for maximum impact

4. Emotional Intelligence in Audit Communication

• Understanding the role of emotions in decision-making
• Building trust and rapport during audit discussions
• Applying emotional intelligence to defuse conflicts and manage difficult conversations

5. Managing Pushback and Resolving Conflicts in Audits

• Techniques for handling resistance to audit findings
• Neuroscience-based conflict resolution strategies
• Ensuring collaboration even during challenging discussions

6. Customizing Communication for Different Audiences

• Tailoring your communication to different stakeholder types
• Adapting your message to resonate with operational teams, middle management, and executives
• Case studies: How customized communication leads to better audit outcomes

7. Building Trust with Business Units

• Applying emotional intelligence to foster trust
• Using brain research to understand and address emotional triggers
• Creating long-term positive relationships with business counterparts

8. Improving Team Collaboration Through Communication

• Enhancing communication within audit teams for better collaboration
• Techniques for managing interpersonal dynamics within teams
• Aligning team communication strategies with audit objectives

9. Practical Applications and Case Studies for Internal Auditors

• Real-world scenarios where brain-based communication improved audit outcomes
• Hands-on exercises to refine communication strategies with auditees
• Feedback sessions to enhance communication skills in audit environments

17th November, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET
18th November, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET

Fundamentals first – before bad habits and AI shortcuts set in.

An audit report is internal audit’s business card – for many stakeholders, it’s the only contact with audit they will ever have. Yet most new auditors learn testing first, documentation second, and writing on the job – if at all.

This workshop builds the foundation in the right order: what audit reports are for, who actually reads them, and what those readers need – because stakeholders drive what auditors write. From there, it moves to the audit finding, the building block of every report, and what makes a finding effective.

AI will happily draft a finding for anyone. But a writer who doesn’t yet know what a good finding looks like cannot judge what AI hands them. This workshop builds that judgment – brains first, then AI.

This is a working workshop: activities build the skill of constructing effective findings step by step, with group and trainer feedback – participants leave having written real findings, not just heard about them.

What changes:

–     New auditors understand the why before the how – reports exist to change something, not to document effort.

–     Stakeholder thinking starts on day one – who reads audit reports, and what each reader needs from them.

–     Findings stop being intimidating – writers know the pieces, how they fit, and where to start.

–     First drafts become usable drafts – reviewers inherit workable material instead of blank-page struggles.

–     Confidence arrives early – before the fear of the empty page sets in.

For: New internal auditors – and anyone writing their first audit reports, whatever path brought them to audit.

Next step: Deep Dive: Findings, when they’re ready to go deeper.

Working material: Everything is provided – no prior audits, findings, or reports needed. Participants learn what a good finding looks like from the start – not from past reports sitting in the archive.

Trainer:
Tracie Marquardt is a 2024 and 2025 Beacon Award recipient and sought-after Audit Results Strategist. She helps Chief Audit Executives and their teams transform audit results through communication, leadership, and productivity.

As an audit reporting expert, Tracie addresses audit's core challenge: deriving and communicating results that add value to stakeholders. She guides teams in redesigning outdated audit report templates and builds their capability to deliver exceptional reporting at the intersection of human judgment and AI-driven communication.

Tracie has trained 13,000+ international internal auditors across industries. She is a keynote speaker at audit conferences worldwide.

She launched Inspiring Women in Audit in 2024, the industry podcast amplifying women's voices in internal audit around the globe. The podcast has a supporting LinkedIn community of over 600 internal audit professionals.

24th November, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET

Objective

Most major governance failures are not caused by missing controls, but by how people behave under pressure, incentives, and organizational silence. This seminar introduces Behavioral Risk Analytics as a structured approach for making the human dimension of risk observable, measurable, and auditable. Participants will learn how behavioral drivers, leadership tone, psychological safety, and incentive systems influence decisions and control effectiveness. The seminar explains how Behavioral Risk Indicators can complement traditional Key Risk Indicators by identifying conditions for failure before an incident occurs. It also demonstrates how behavioral analysis can be integrated into audit planning, fieldwork, root cause analysis, and Board reporting. Practical cases and an implementation roadmap help participants transfer the approach to their own organizations.

Agenda

• Why traditional control testing often fails to identify behavioral risk
• Behavioral Risk Analytics, Behavioral Risk Indicators, and maturity models
• Integrating behavioral analysis across the Internal Audit lifecycle
• Lessons from major international corporate failures
• Behavioral Risk Dashboards, AI, and practical implementation

Trainer
Torben Hilbertz is an international Board Member, Chair of several Audit Committees, and an experienced Governance, Risk, Finance, and Internal Audit leader with close to 30 years of international experience across Europe and the Middle East.

He currently serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of a publicly listed healthcare group, chairs the Audit Committees of two leading FinTech entities, and is an Audit Committee Member of a growing airline.

Previously, Torben held senior Internal Audit leadership positions at SWISS International Air Lines, Abu Dhabi Airports, and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company. He has built and transformed Internal Audit, governance, and risk management functions across aviation, healthcare, financial services, logistics, and international corporate groups.

He began his career with Arthur Andersen and combines extensive Board and executive experience with deep expertise in Corporate Governance, Behavioral Risk Management, data analytics, and the future development of Internal Audit. Torben holds the CIA, CFE, and CC professional certifications.

17th November, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET

Objective

Corporate Governance must increasingly move beyond compliance and periodic oversight. This seminar introduces Corporate Governance 5.0 as a future oriented framework based on trust, resilience, adaptability, and sustainable value creation. Participants will explore how artificial intelligence, cyber threats, geopolitical fragmentation, platform economies, and ecosystem dependencies are changing the responsibilities of Boards. The seminar expands the governance perimeter beyond the legal entity to include strategic partners, suppliers, platforms, infrastructure providers, and other critical stakeholders. It also examines the competencies required by the Board of the future and the transition from quarterly reporting to continuous governance information. Participants will gain a practical perspective on how organizations can begin their journey towards continuous value stewardship.

Agenda

• The evolution from Corporate Governance 1.0 to Corporate Governance 5.0
• Trust, resilience, and adaptability as foundations of sustainable value creation
• New governance requirements arising from AI, cyber risk, and geopolitical change
• Ecosystem Governance and the Board of the future
• Continuous Governance and the transformation journey towards Governance 5.0

Trainer
Torben Hilbertz is an international Board Member, Chair of several Audit Committees, and an experienced Governance, Risk, Finance, and Internal Audit leader with close to 30 years of international experience across Europe and the Middle East.

He currently serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of a publicly listed healthcare group, chairs the Audit Committees of two leading FinTech entities, and is an Audit Committee Member of a growing airline.

Previously, Torben held senior Internal Audit leadership positions at SWISS International Air Lines, Abu Dhabi Airports, and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company. He has built and transformed Internal Audit, governance, and risk management functions across aviation, healthcare, financial services, logistics, and international corporate groups.

He began his career with Arthur Andersen and combines extensive Board and executive experience with deep expertise in Corporate Governance, Behavioral Risk Management, data analytics, and the future development of Internal Audit. Torben holds the CIA, CFE, and CC professional certifications.

Unlocking Audit Excellence through Operation Audit Toolset

Suggested training duration: Two half‑day sessions (total 1 day)

Training Description
In The IIA’s Global Internal Audit Competency Framework, critical thinking is identified as one of the key required personal skills –  an indispensable competence for internal auditors. Critical thinking leads to improved decision-making and better organizational performance. In this comprehensive ARC audit training, we will explore the vital role of critical thinking alongside root cause analysis in driving audit excellence.

Effective critical thinking involves collecting and analysing information, drawing compelling conclusions, and providing recommendations. It is essential for personal and organizational success, enabling auditors to better manage risk and create a sustainable control environment.

This ARC audit training course will demonstrate how critical thinking techniques can be integrated into key elements of the audit process, from risk assessments to reporting, enhancing audit effectiveness and delivering measurable value to stakeholders. 

Learning Objectives:

1.        Understand the fundamental principles of critical thinking and its significance in audit operations.

2.        Develop an understanding of critical thinking principles, tools, and techniques.

3.        Practice applying critical thinking skills in various scenarios encountered during internal audit engagements.

4.        Learn about the purpose, importance, and key terms of critical thinking in the context of internal auditing.

5.        Explore relevant Global Internal Audit Standards and guidelines for embedding critical thinking into audit documentation and reporting. 

Agenda

Introduction to Critical Thinking

• Understanding the importance of critical thinking in internal audit
• Overview of key concepts and principles

The Role of Critical Thinking in Audit Preparation

• Integrating critical thinking into risk assessments and audit planning
• Critical Thinking in the Audit Process

Tools and Techniques for Critical Thinking

• Exploring practical tools and techniques for effective critical thinking
• Hands-on exercises and case studies

Applying practically Critical Thinking in Fieldwork

• Conducting effective process analysis of control designs
• Conducting interviews, testing, and analysis with a critical mindset
• Documenting processes and testing with an emphasis on critical analysis
• Hands-on exercises and case studies
• Presentation of results and common discussion for Best-Practices

Reporting and Communication

• Formulating impactful recommendations
• Embedding critical thinking into audit reports

Implementation and Continuous Improvement

• Leveraging critical thinking to drive organizational change and improvement
• Identifying opportunities for continuous enhancement of audit practices

Conclusion and Next Steps

• Recap of key learnings and takeaways
• Developing a roadmap for implementing critical thinking in audit practice
• Developing a personal action plan for applying critical thinking in audit practice

1st December, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET
2nd December, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET

Connect the dots – don’t hand your board a puzzle.

For your most senior stakeholders, the executive summary is the audit report – it’s all they read. Too many executive summaries are still a list of findings, and a list is not a message.

This workshop is dedicated entirely to the executive summary: what belongs there, what doesn’t, and how to write an audit conclusion that delivers a message – insight the reader can act on, not a recap of the fieldwork results. Guidance, language, and exercises from the audit conclusion through the key issues, including tone, balance, and formality for the most senior readers in the organization.

The bar: a senior reader – audit committee member, board member, C-suite – understands the message in one pass, unaided. What happened, why it matters, and what happens next, without ever flipping back to the detail. That’s when the executive summary starts doing its job.

This is a working workshop: concepts are explored through discussion and exercises, with writing practice and live critique from the group and the trainer, ensuring participants leave able to turn any set of findings into one clear message.

What changes:

–     Executive summaries deliver a conclusion – one clear message, not a findings recap.

–     Insight replaces repetition – readers get the what, the why, the so what, and the now what.

–     Senior readers act after one reading – no clarifying emails, no “what does this mean for us?”

–     Writing the executive summary gets faster – the hardest page in the report stops being written last, worst, and under the most pressure.

–     Conversations at the top change – less explaining the report, more discussing the risks in it.

For: Auditors-in-charge and above – whoever writes, assembles, or owns the executive summary.

Recommended prerequisite (not required): Deep Dive: Findings. The executive summary is distilled from the findings – if the findings are weak, no summary can save them.

Working material: The strongest results come from working on your own writing – participants ideally bring an anonymized report from their own audits to work with; realistic practice material is provided as an alternative. For in-house deliveries, the team works on its own reports in its own confidential environment.

Trainer:
Tracie Marquardt is a 2024 and 2025 Beacon Award recipient and sought-after Audit Results Strategist. She helps Chief Audit Executives and their teams transform audit results through communication, leadership, and productivity.
As an audit reporting expert, Tracie addresses audit's core challenge: deriving and communicating results that add value to stakeholders. She guides teams in redesigning outdated audit report templates and builds their capability to deliver exceptional reporting at the intersection of human judgment and AI-driven communication.
Tracie has trained 13,000+ international internal auditors across industries. She is a keynote speaker at audit conferences worldwide.
She launched Inspiring Women in Audit in 2024, the industry podcast amplifying women's voices in internal audit around the globe. The podcast has a supporting LinkedIn community of over 600 internal audit professionals.

23rd November, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET
24th November, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET

Give your readers findings they never have to decode.

Stakeholders judge internal audit one finding at a time. A strong finding builds credibility and gets action – a weak one wastes the reader’s time, and audit pays for it in trust.

This workshop is squarely focused on writing audit findings: guidance, language, and exercises for each attribute in line with the IIA’s Global Internal Audit Standards – one red thread from the finding title to agreed actions that mitigate the identified risk and pave the way to achieving the organization’s objectives.

The bar is high and specific: findings the reader understands in one pass and answers with “got it – we’ll do it.” When findings hit that bar, the conversation with audit clients changes – less negotiating over words, more discussion of the risk and what it means to the business. And the benefit travels upward: the executive summary is distilled from the findings – stronger findings make a stronger summary.

This is a working workshop: concepts are explored through discussion and exercises, with writing practice and live critique from the group and the trainer in every round – ensuring participants leave writing stronger findings, starting with the very next finding they draft.

What changes:

–     Findings are complete and coherent – nothing missing, nothing padded, every element pulling in the same direction.

–     Risks resonate – readers feel them and see what they mean for the business.

–     Readers finish each finding knowing exactly what happens next – and why it’s worth doing.

–     Writing gets faster – writers know what goes where and why, so the circling stops.

–     Review rounds decrease – findings arrive closer to final, and the wording holds when audit clients push back.

Working material: The strongest results come from working on your own writing – participants are encouraged to bring anonymized findings from their own audits, and realistic practice material is provided as an alternative. For in-house deliveries, the team works on its own findings in its own confidential environment.

Trainer:
Tracie Marquardt is a 2024 and 2025 Beacon Award recipient and sought-after Audit Results Strategist. She helps Chief Audit Executives and their teams transform audit results through communication, leadership, and productivity.

As an audit reporting expert, Tracie addresses audit's core challenge: deriving and communicating results that add value to stakeholders. She guides teams in redesigning outdated audit report templates and builds their capability to deliver exceptional reporting at the intersection of human judgment and AI-driven communication.

Tracie has trained 13,000+ international internal auditors across industries. She is a keynote speaker at audit conferences worldwide.

She launched Inspiring Women in Audit in 2024, the industry podcast amplifying women's voices in internal audit around the globe. The podcast has a supporting LinkedIn community of over 600 internal audit professionals.

The Agentic Revolution & Human Superpowers in an AI World
Redefining the Internal Audit Operating Model for a Hyper-Volatile Decade
Moving from Manual Execution to Governing Autonomous Audit Ecosystems

The 2027 Audit Challenge Conference Series is your definitive call to action to move beyond being a “Monday-Morning Quarterback” and become a strategic “Navigator” of the future. This is not just a conference; it is a collaborative laboratory for internal audit leaders and professionals to redefine their value proposition through technology-enabled human judgment.
Join us to bridge the gap between legacy thinking and future-state reality, ensuring your audit function delivers foresight and decision intelligence at the speed of business. Don’t wait for the future to be decided for you!
Help lead it.

Save-the-date: Wed. 21st / Thu. 22nd April 2027

25th November, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET

The Future is today! The Way To Audit Excellence! Unlock the Power of Internal Audit, Generative AI and Agentic AI to Transform Your Internal Audit Function

What is your audit team development strategy for the effective use of AI in internal auditing? Did you already start to create your virtual AI Audit Team?
In this exciting presentation, we show you how you can further develop your internal auditing along a 5-stage maturity model based on the roadmap of the so-called Magnificent Seven. We guide you through the different phases of AI integration along the audit process with practical examples.

Each CMMi level is designed to increase your team's productivity, improve audit quality and drive continuous improvement.

Whether you are just getting started or looking to optimise your existing process architecture for internal audit or your AI tools, the CMMi Audit Development Map provides you with the strategic insights and leverage you need to best realise the full potential of AI in your audit function.

Discover how practical AI solutions can help you achieve greater productivity in your audit team. Learn how you can improve your team's performance step by step in this presentation. Ready to elevate your internal audit team’s performance? Discover how practical AI solutions can help you achieve more. Learn more about our 5-Level AI Audit Approach in this presentation and see how you can transform your audit function.

AI transformation of internal audit processes | Daily quality and productivity improvements

Scalable and practical implementation of artificial intelligence

• First things first – feature engineering, audit methodology expertise as a baseline
• Creation of scalable and practical AI implementation processes
• AI Audit Agents transform daily procedures
• Next Level Auditing: Multi-Agents help manage your daily audit work routine
• The new AI reality: Continuous Audit Risk Assessment finally becomes a reality 

Trainer:
Dr. Dominik Foerschler, PhD, CIA, CRMA, MD Audit Research Center | ARC Institute
awarded by Richard Chambers as Internal Audit Beacon Award Winner and Top 10 Global Thought Leader for Internal Audit.

In over 30 years of professional experience at Deutsche Bank, Canadian Imperial Bank CIBC and BMW in responsible management positions, with international assignments in Toronto, Chicago, New York, Madrid and London, Dominik is today the author of numerous expert books and articles in the field of Internal Audit, GRC and human resources development in renowned professional journals as well as the editor of a book series.

After holding various management positions and working as executive assistant to the President of the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany and faculty member of the Management Research Center; Dominik now heads the Audit Research Center | ARC Institute as Managing Director. As Chairman of the Digital Transformation Board, he is also responsible for the development of new learning methods such as Gamified Training or the developed AI Digital Transformation Audit Stress Test as an audit methodology concept.

Get 12 month access to all of our 70+ gamified trainings and obtain over 350+ CPE points.

10th November, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET

Objective

Internal Audit should not be viewed merely as a cost center, but as a Confidence Center for the Board and the organization. Based on the Global Internal Audit Standards 2024, this seminar explains how Internal Audit strengthens confidence in governance, risk management, decision making, and organizational oversight. Participants will examine how purpose, integrity, professional courage, independence, and strategic alignment create the institutional foundations for reliable assurance. The seminar also demonstrates how disciplined, evidence based audit work turns findings into insight, foresight, and sustainable improvement. Particular attention is given to what Boards and Audit Committees genuinely expect from a modern Internal Audit function. Participants will learn how to articulate and demonstrate the value of Internal Audit as a source of justified organizational confidence.

Agenda

• From Cost Center to Confidence Center
• Purpose, integrity, objectivity, and professional courage
• Independence, mandate, and Board oversight
• Strategic planning and evidence based audit execution
• How Internal Audit creates justified confidence and sustainable impact

Trainer
Torben Hilbertz is an international Board Member, Chair of several Audit Committees, and an experienced Governance, Risk, Finance, and Internal Audit leader with close to 30 years of international experience across Europe and the Middle East.

He currently serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of a publicly listed healthcare group, chairs the Audit Committees of two leading FinTech entities, and is an Audit Committee Member of a growing airline.

Previously, Torben held senior Internal Audit leadership positions at SWISS International Air Lines, Abu Dhabi Airports, and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company. He has built and transformed Internal Audit, governance, and risk management functions across aviation, healthcare, financial services, logistics, and international corporate groups.

He began his career with Arthur Andersen and combines extensive Board and executive experience with deep expertise in Corporate Governance, Behavioral Risk Management, data analytics, and the future development of Internal Audit. Torben holds the CIA, CFE, and CC professional certifications.