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1 CPE

How to get fit for ESG Audit Assurance?

1 CPE

2025 Audit Challenge Conference | Lior Segal

1 CPE

2026 Audit Challenge Conference | Dr. Hervé Gloaguen

1 CPE

2025 Audit Challenge Conference | Hervé Gloaguen

5 CPE

How can you identify the most important IT risks for integrated audit approach?

3 CPE

How can I achieve a great audit performance even under pressure? How to manage stress in a better way?

4 CPE

How do I manage to convince the auditees of my proposed solutions?

4 CPE

How can I learn to improve my assertiveness in order to constructively resolve conflicts during audit interviews and final audit meetings?

1 CPE

General Data Protection Regulation

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.

4 CPE

How to work more efficiently and goal-oriented in audit remote teams?

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

5 CPE

How can you increase audit team awareness for IT-Security and Defence against social engineering risk?

1 CPE

2026 Audit Challenge Conference | Severine Beroard & Sami Elleuch

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.