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TRUST IN AI – LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY AND REGULATION

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TRUSTED AI AGENTS IN INTERNAL AUDIT

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TURNING INTEGRATED ASSURANCE INTO PRACTICE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

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Understanding and Auditing "Digital Communication"

€890,00

19th October, 2026 | 13:00 - 16:30 CET
26th October, 2026 | 13:00 - 16:30 CET

Communication today takes place across a growing number of different channels, ranging from social media to messaging services to more traditional approaches such as a company's own website. In addition, technologies such as artificial intelligence already have a major influence on communication today and in the future, and it is to be expected that technological approaches such as smart glasses or similar will further change communication going forward. This situation means that every organization must revise and further develop its existing communication structures, and above all its communication strategy. This affects both internal and external communication. From internal audit's perspective, this means that it must develop a new understanding of digital communication and expand its audit strategies in this area. This is happening at a time when the speed at which new communication models emerge is steadily increasing.

Core Topics and Guiding Questions

Understanding: Communication Strategies and Structures in the Digital Age

How is communication changing today, what new platforms, channels, and forms of communication are emerging?
What technological developments are changing communication, and what role does artificial intelligence specifically play in this area?
How are the business models of the providers of the communication platforms used changing, and what consequences does this have for the organization?
What effects do these changes have on an organization's communication strategy and communication structures?
How is the relationship between centrally managed and decentralized communication changing, for example through employees or third parties?

Auditing: Consequences for Audit Work

How does internal audit assess whether an organization has an explicit, up-to-date communication strategy and structure at all?
What audit methodology is needed to capture communication strategy and structure as a whole, rather than looking at individual channels or technologies in isolation, and how can this be connected to existing governance structures and the Internal Control System (ICS)?
How does internal audit assess whether an organization is prepared for risks arising from the interplay of communication channels and technologies such as artificial intelligence?
How does internal audit audit a continuously changing communication landscape, when a snapshot of the current status quo is not sufficient for this purpose?

The Approach of This Seminar

This seminar treats digital communication neither as a list of individual platforms nor as a purely artificial-intelligence topic, but as a question of an organization's communication strategy and structure in the digital age. Artificial intelligence and other digital technologies are treated as influencing factors, not as the sole subject. For internal audit, this means: audits capture the organization as a whole in terms of its communication strategy and structure, rather than treating individual channels or technologies separately. For participating auditors, this provides a methodology that can also be applied to future new channels and technologies.

Target Audience

All auditors, particularly those with a focus on IT, communication, or governance.

Trainer:
Christoph Deeg has spent more than 20 years working on the design of the digital-analog living environment and helps organizations develop comprehensive digital-analog strategies. For 13 years, he has been applying this expertise for the Audit Research Center (ARC-Institute), translating it specifically into the logic of internal audit. In doing so, he has worked with a large number of international audit functions of varying size. His focus is on thinking beyond classic audit logic, he is brought in when it comes to restructuring an audit function or developing new audit and internal control strategies. His approach is consistently systemic, while remaining closely oriented toward audit practice. The value for participants accordingly lies not in classic audit knowledge, but in the ability to precisely identify and assess scope, strategy, and new topics, particularly digital ones. In this way, he connects the perspective of digital transformation as a whole with the concrete requirements of audit practice.

Understanding and Auditing "Digital Transformation"

€890,00

27th October, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET
28th October, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET

Organizations today face a growing number of challenges whose underlying issues are increasingly interconnected and, taken together, are changing the way organizations work. This development raises the fundamental question of whether classic, project-based transformation processes can still meet these demands, and what alternatives exist. For internal audit, this is significant: its task is not to audit a single transformation process in isolation, but to identify and assess opportunities and risks across all levels of an organization affected, and to do so, it is necessary to understand what transformation, both today and in the future, actually entails. This is exactly where this seminar begins.

Core Topics and Guiding Questions

Understanding: Transformation as a Whole

Is the classic, project-based view of transformation still sufficient to capture the challenges organizations face today, and what alternatives exist?
How can an organization's option space be systematically captured — what already exists, what is possible with today's means, what is conceivable in principle, and how does this systematic approach help identify previously unknown or future risks within the Internal Control System (ICS) at an early stage?
What different models and analytical approaches enable different perspectives on the transformation of one's own organization, and help audit today's and future transformation processes more effectively?
What further factors, structures, competencies, decision-making logics, influence an organization's ability to transform?
How might the demands placed on organizations and their capacity for transformation evolve in the coming years?

Auditing: Consequences for Audit Work

What new audit topics arise once transformation is understood not as a single project, but as an ongoing, multidimensional process?
What audit methodology is needed to identify and assess opportunities and risks across multiple levels simultaneously, structure, culture, competencies, technology, and how can established frameworks such as COSO be extended for this purpose?
How does internal audit assess whether an organization has actually recognized its own option spaces and interdependencies?
How must internal audit's audit strategy evolve as the understanding of transformation processes in practice changes?

The Approach of This Seminar

This seminar does not address transformation through a single model or a linear process, but within the framework of the digital-analog option space, as an interplay of multiple perspectives on the organization as a whole. For internal audit, this means: audits become more precise, because they capture the organization as an overall system rather than as a sequence of individual processes. For participating auditors, this also means more efficient auditing, because it is clear from the outset at which levels transformation risks and opportunities may appear.

Target Audience

All auditors, in particular those who audit or support transformation initiatives and programs.

Trainer:
Christoph Deeg has spent more than 20 years working on the design of the digital-analog living environment and helps organizations develop comprehensive digital-analog strategies. For 13 years, he has been applying this expertise for the Audit Research Center (ARC-Institute), translating it specifically into the logic of internal audit. In doing so, he has worked with a large number of international audit functions of varying size. His focus is on thinking beyond classic audit logic - he is brought in when it comes to restructuring an audit function or developing new audit and internal control strategies. His approach is consistently systemic, while remaining closely oriented toward audit practice. The value for participants accordingly lies not in classic audit knowledge, but in the ability to precisely identify and assess scope, strategy, and new topics, particularly digital ones. In this way, he connects the perspective of digital transformation as a whole with the concrete requirements of audit practice.

Understanding and Auditing Megatrends

€890,00

13th October, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET
14th October, 2026 | 09:00 - 12:30 CET

In the context of digitalization, new technologies keep emerging, some entirely new, some further developments of existing technologies, and some arising from the interaction of existing technologies with one another. Organizations need to be able to identify, analyze, and assess these technologies. For internal audit, this means: it must likewise identify, analyze, and assess these technologies, in order to understand the associated risks, and to be able to judge whether the organization's strategic approach to these technologies is sound and what risks arise from it.

Core Topics and Guiding Questions

Stage 1: Discovering and Identifying Future Technologies

What future technologies currently exist, and how can an overview of them be gained?
How does an organization identify new or emerging technologies early, before they become widely known?

Stage 2: Classifying Technologies

Is this a completely new technology, a further development of an existing technology, or does it arise from the interaction of already existing technologies?
How can a new or extended technology be systematically classified and assessed?

Stage 3: New Processes and Needs

What new processes arise from the use of this technology within the organization?
What new needs, in terms of competencies, resources, structures, arise as a result?

Stage 4: Consequences for Audit Work

What new audit topics arise from these new processes and needs?
What audit methodology is needed to trace this chain from discovery and identification through classification to processes and needs in a comprehensible way?

The Approach of This Seminar

This seminar does not provide a list of current trend topics that would become outdated after a short time, but an analytical framework that can be applied to any new or extended technology: from discovery and identification, through classification and the resulting processes and needs, to the consequences for audit work. Artificial intelligence is just one example among several here, the framework can equally be applied to technologies such as quantum computing or distributed ledger technologies. For internal audit, this means: it gains a repeatedly applicable methodology instead of a body of knowledge that becomes outdated as soon as new technologies emerge.

Target Audience

All auditors, particularly those with responsibility for risk and technology monitoring.

Trainer:
Christoph Deeg has spent more than 20 years working on the design of the digital-analog living environment and helps organizations develop comprehensive digital-analog strategies. For 13 years, he has been applying this expertise for the Audit Research Center (ARC-Institute), translating it specifically into the logic of internal audit. In doing so, he has worked with a large number of international audit functions of varying size. His focus is on thinking beyond classic audit logic - he is brought in when it comes to restructuring an audit function or developing new audit and internal control strategies. His approach is consistently systemic, while remaining closely oriented toward audit practice. The value for participants accordingly lies not in classic audit knowledge, but in the ability to precisely identify and assess scope, strategy, and new topics, particularly digital ones. In this way, he connects the perspective of digital transformation as a whole with the concrete requirements of audit practice.