
What you will learn
IIA Armenia presents 3rd international conference on internal auditing and risk management, which gives participants a unique opportunity to hear powerful keynote speakers and international presenters representing the global internal audit profession. The conference will bring together auditors working in public and private sectors which will give knowledge-sharing opportunities for participants.
Conference will have 2 concurrent sessions: Technological Challenges for IA and Challenges of GRC in Modern World to address common challenges and today’s current issues and trends.
What we will do
Several Panel Session with the great panelists from all over the world. We will discuss
- Cyber risks.
- CyberSecurity governance challenges
- How to assess cyberSecurity maturity of your organization

PARTICIPANTS
SPEAKERS
SESSIONS
Schedule
Registration and Welcome Coffee/Tea
Opening Remarks
Role of Internal Audit in Public Sector
Turning audit and compliance into competitive advantage
Digital Transformation in Banking
New Challenges of Internal Auditors
Techs and the Human Dimension
Staying Relevant in the Digital World
Networking lunch
Track 1: Challenges of GRC in Modern World
Telecom. Cost of compliance and its importance to business continuity
Julia will talk generally about costs and benefits of corporate compliance programs, will go through examples of what compliance risks telecom companies face and how they mitigate them; and will talk about how they set up compliance function in MTS group and its importance to business continuity.
Julia Romashkina, Compliance Director at MTS GroupRisk Management: Methodologies & Best Practices in Economy Crisis Times: to DO or not to be
Risk management has been around for thousands of years. In recent years, we witness an accelerated development, growth and popularity in corporate and IT governance that is applied to strategic, financial, operational, compliance and IT risk. A part of this development derives from local and international regulatory requirements. Another part derives from BOD and management approach of achieving the organizational goals in economy crisis times and the need to adapt the organization’s resources accordingly.
The session will explore common concepts and approaches concealed behind different organizations cultures, taking risk management global to derive values of strategic, financial, operational, compliance and IT risk, so organizations can manage risks.
The session will focus on risk management as a frontline governance tool and discuss the most appropriate manner in which to select and implement a risk management strategy. The session will explain why implementing a risk management process within a framework encourages participation from all employees and can mature into a corporate discipline.
Doron Ronen, Deputy President and Professional Committee chair at IIA-IsraelPanel Discussion: Future Challenges of Audit Committees
Track 2: Technological Challenges for IA
Auditing Cyber Governance: Putting the Elephant in the Fridge!
Cybersecurity is more about people and less about technologies. Although there are plenty of important, highly recommended technical fixes, new tools and techniques to adopt and implement, however if organizations and individuals are not willing to invest in securing themselves, they will remain insecure.
Komitas Stepanyan, Deputy CAE at CBAPanel discussion: What does New Techs Mean for Internal Audit
Gala Dinner
Morning Coffee/Tea
Corporate governance in the changing world
Growing a University Fourfold in 4 Years
Internal Audit in a Digital World
- How to analyze BigData? Challenges for internal audit;
- BigData analysis methods and tools;
- Process mining – new form of internal audit.
Learning from the Best: Matching Actual Technical Security Towards Regulations and Audits
In this informal talk, we will walk through a typical IT systems audit process in an average organization, and will try to look at it from the auditable technical team perspective. How the internal IT sees that ? Is it always a nightmare for them ? Will they ever say “hi” to an auditor, if they are not obliged to ? Put it the other way around: once we cut the usual politeness, technically speaking, is there a way, internal IT can benefit from an onsite systems audit ? May it ever happen, that the internal IT is happy to see an auditor ? In fact, it may, and in fact – in many cases, external and internal audits become actual partners for technical teams. It’s just about the way, how you focus your trigger. In this short and informal walkthrough, we will try to see by real life examples, yours truly has been a part of, how things may be done differently, and maybe, if we are lucky, pick up a point or two.
Viktor Larionov, Advisory Committee Member at CyberCentralNetworking break
The C-Suites View: RegTech Challenges and Promises
Challenges of Internal Audit in Public Sector
Closing Remarks
Event tickets
Hurry up and get the Early Bird tickets while they are available
For Members
Early Bird CLOSED!
For NON Members
TESTIMONIALS
what people say
I had a blast of a time in Armenia -my very first time- and I am looking forward to the opportunity of being back!”
Gallery - 2016
Take a look at a last year’s conference photos, and get a taste of what you will experience in 2018.
General sponsors
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Location
- Italy 1 str., Yerevan, Armenia
- info@iia.am
- (374) 10-592-580
- 09:00 - 18:00