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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This seminar does not provide a list of current trend topics that would become outdated after a short time, but an analytical framework that can be applied to any new or extended technology: from discovery and identification, through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internal audit, this means: it gains a repeatedly applicable methodology instead of a body of knowledge that becomes outdated as soon as new technologies emerge.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.
From Advanced Prompting to Agentic AI, Deep Research and AI-Powered Audit Workflows
Prerequisite/ Requirement: Completion of Parts 1 and 2 of the Audit Training courses, or passing our individual ARC front-up assessment test before the start of the training course
Suggested training duration: Three half‑day sessions (total 1.5 days)
Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly, and so is the way Internal Auditors need to work with it. The latest generation of AI models like ChatGPT capabilities is moving far beyond simple question-and-answer interactions. Advanced reasoning, large-context analysis, Deep Research, persistent Projects, connected data sources and increasingly agentic workflows are fundamentally changing what auditors can delegate to AI. As a result, professional Prompt Engineering is evolving from writing instructions into the systematic design of AI-supported audit tasks.
For Internal Audit professionals, this means that Prompt Engineering is becoming a strategic capability. The question is no longer simply how to formulate a good prompt. The real challenge is to understand how to structure a complex audit task, select the appropriate reasoning level, provide the right context, define evidence requirements, control the workflow and determine where human judgment must remain in the loop.
This advanced training provides an overview of the latest developments in teamwork with AI and translates them into practical Prompt Engineering techniques for Internal Audit. Participants will learn how to move from traditional prompting toward advanced approaches such as reasoning-effort prompting, plan-first prompting, context engineering, evidence-pack prompting, trusted-source research, prompt chaining, self-review and AI quality gates.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between traditional prompting, advanced Prompt Engineering and AI workflow design.
- Select an appropriate reasoning level for different audit tasks.
- Design prompts using advanced techniques such as plan-first prompting, context engineering and prompt chaining.
- Understand the latest developments in ChatGPT and their relevance for Internal Audit.
- Structure large evidence packages and complex audit contexts for AI-supported analysis.
- Design Deep Research prompts using source hierarchies, trusted sources and explicit research criteria.
- Apply outcome-based prompting to complex multi-step audit tasks.
Audit Training Agenda
1. Introduction – The New AI Reality for Internal Audit
- From GenAi, e.g. ChatGPT as a tool to AI as a working environment
- Why Prompt Engineering is evolving
- From individual productivity to AI-enabled audit workflows
- The changing role of the auditor in an increasingly agentic environment
2. AI Challenge – Test Your AI Knowledge
A dynamic and competitive Game to activate existing knowledge, identify learning gaps and introduce key concepts in an engaging way.
- Category 1 – AI Foundations & Key Terminology
- Category 2 – LLMs & Their Tells
- Category 3 – The Prompting Frameworks
- Category 4 – Advanced Prompting Techniques & Logic
- Category 5 – Agentic AI & External Data Integration
3. Advanced Reasoning – Prompting the “Thinking” Process
- Choosing the appropriate reasoning effort
- Matching reasoning intensity to audit complexity
- Plan-first prompting
- From “give me an answer” to “develop, challenge and validate the approach”
4. Context Engineering – The New Core of Prompt Engineering
- From clever prompts to high-quality context
- Working with large evidence packages
- 256K-token context and what it means for auditors
5. Projects, Memory and Persistent Audit Context
- Building a persistent audit knowledge environment
- Source once, reuse many times
- Maintaining methodology, prior analyses and reusable knowledge
6. Deep Research for Internal Audit
- Designing a research strategy instead of simply asking a question
- Trusted-source prompting
- Regulatory and supervisory research
7. From Prompting to Workflow Engineering
- Outcome-based prompting
- Defining goals, constraints, deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Prompt chaining versus the “Mega-Prompt”
8. From AI Assistant to AI Audit Workforce
- AI Agent prompting
- Specialised audit agents along the audit value chain
9. Multi-Agent Prompting & the Future Audit Workflow
- AI workforce orchestration
- Combining research, analysis and QA agents
- The future role of the auditor as AI Engagement Manager
10. From Training to Implementation
- Which techniques can be implemented immediately?
- Which audit processes are best suited for advanced prompting?
- Quick wins versus strategic AI initiatives
- Personal action plan
- Key takeaways
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.
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.
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.
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 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