Akolade’s 10th Annual Fraud and Risk Management Summit 2021 galvanises national and international senior fraud, risk management, and cyber security professionals to prepare for, and tackle intrusions in a hyper-connected, and increasingly vulnerable corporate environment.
The Summit addresses many of the challenges facing fraud, risk management, and cyber security professionals – with 40+ speakers sharing timely, relevant and cost-saving techniques to tackle illegal activity at all levels of business.
Strengthen your fraud, risk management and cyber resilience strategy
Protect your reputation and brand from fraudulent activity
Invest in agile and forward-thinking programs
Enhance your investigation, surveillance and tracking capability
Prevent organisation-wide identity theft and digital fraud
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption*
Australian Securities, and Investment Commission (ASIC)
PenFed Credit Union, USA
Department of Home Affairs
ANZ Bank
Transparency International
Department of Premier and Cabinet VIC
Australian Digital Health Agency
Macquarie Bank
Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria)
National Australia Bank
NSW Department of Customer Service
NSW Police Force
MLC Life Insurance
Veolia Australia and New Zealand
Transgrid
NSW Fire and Rescue
CBHS
BPay
Healthscope
RACQ
Silver Chain
Canon & Australian Online Fraud Council
La Trobe University
AcademyGlobal
IFW Global
AMP
Best-Selling Author: 7 Rules
to Influence Behaviour
and Win at Cyber Securit
IoT Sec Australia
AusCyber
Anti-Corruption Consultants Australia
UNSW Canberra Cyber
Optus
ABM Risk Partnership
ABM Risk Partnership
*Subject to change
8:00am
Registration opens
8:45am
Opening remarks from the Chair
Dr Verity Greenwood
Faculty Member, Financial Crime and Governance Specialisation
Academy Global
9:00am
Keynote
Strengthening your fraud and corruption control policy
• Sharing clearly defined responsibilities to manage fraud and corruption
• Investing in risk-based preventative and detective controls
• Reviewing the fraud and corruption control framework and reporting
The Honourable Peter Hall
Chief Commissioner
NSW Independent Commission against Corruption* Subject to change
9:30am
Planning against cyber attacks: Are you ready?
• Understanding the threat environment
• What to expect when a cyber attack occurs
• Preparing your organisation to respond effectively
David Cullen
Head – Victorian Government Cyber Incident Response Service
Department of Premier and Cabinet VIC
10:00am
Technology Solutions
10:30am
Panel Discussion
Streamlining the information-sharing, fraud detection and risk management channels
• Taking an integrated approach to governance, risk, and compliance
• Streamlining the internal control frameworks, and risk management strategies
• Protecting your lines of defence in a fast-changing world
Panellists:
Anthony Rizzo
Records Management Program Lead
Macquarie Bank
Nishanth Chandran
Chief Information Officer
MLC Life Insurance
Uttam Mukherjee
Chief Risk Officer
CBHS
Mitra Minai
Chief Information Security Officer
Healthscope
11:00am
Morning tea
Stream A:
Fraud and risk management
Stream B:
Cyber security and resilience planning
Tackling organisation-wide fraud and risk in a fast-changing environment
Securing your IT networks, platforms and infrastructure in cyber space
Stream Chair:
Dr Verity Greenwood
Faculty Member, Financial Crime and Governance Specialisation
AcademyGlobal
Stream Chair:
Lani Rafiti
Chief Executive Officer
IoT Sec Australia
11:30am
11:30am
‘Deep dive’ into the operational risk management, compliance, quality assurance and control frameworks
• Developing, implementing, and embedding new business risk and compliance systems, policies and processes
• Providing risk management and compliance solutions that support the strategic business objectives
• Delivering value for clients and customers
Anthony Rizzo
Records Management Program Lead
Macquarie Bank
Enhancing your information-security capabilities
• Why information-security is critical to fraud detection and risk management
• How to build dialogue with law enforcement and industry stakeholders
• Why streamline data sharing across the organisation
Mitra Minai
Chief Information Security Officer
Healthscope
12:00pm
12:00pm
Leveraging business intelligence to tackle fraud and corruption
• Using forensics and data to reduce the risk of fraud
• Assessing best-practice models in a service delivery environment
• Meeting the compliance and governance requirements
Emmanuel Richard Roberts
Senior Intelligence Analyst
NSW Department of Customer Service
Building your organisation’s cyber security capabilities
• What comprises a good cyber security policy?
• How do you build cyber awareness across your organisation?
• Why gain buy-in with executives and boardrooms with your action plan?
Linda Cavanagh
National Network Lead
AustCyber
12:30pm
Technology insights
1:00pm
Networking luncheon
2:00pm
2:00pm
Tackling criminal activity with best-in-class investigations
• Building high-performance investigative teams to tackle criminal activity
• Maximising the impact of anti-crime programs
• Taking a resilient and innovative approach to problem-solving
Darren Jameson
Detective Chief Inspector
NSW Police Force
Integrating the operational and cyber security risk
• Pooling your operational and cyber security risk into an integrated plan
• Working across silos to share knowledge and corporate data
• Taking a coordinated approach to cyber security planning
Jo Stewart-Rattray
Chief Security Officer
Silver Chain
2:30pm
2:30pm
Navigating the maze of accountability in a risk-averse environment
• How do you ensure the right focus for risk management?
• What is needed to streamline operational and stakeholder risk?
• Why does branding and reputational risk matter
• Where is the right balance between business sustainability and community confidence?
Andrew Bornhorst
Head of Risk and Insurance
Transgrid
Protecting networks, internet access and IT systems
• Clarifying the parameters for IP network and security planning
• Managing your security architecture, auditing, penetration testing and risk assessment
• Securing the core and mobile networks, together with the routing and gateway design
Udaya Wijesinghe
Senior Cyber Security Architect
Optus
3:00pm
Afternoon tea
3:30pm
Thought Leadership Roundtables
Quantify the ROI for anti-fraud, risk management and cyber security technologies.
During these interactive sessions, delegates will be invited to join three 20 minutes preselected roundtables prior to the conference. These roundtables enable attendees to delve into issues that concern them. The roundtable sessions will provide participants with personalised take-aways for their own organisation.
Pick 3 out of 6 roundtables:
1. Assessing the role of artificial intelligence to detect and manage fraud
2. Mapping the potential of data analytics for real-time business intelligence
3.Investing in biometrics technology to track the profile of fraudsters
4. Tracking the future of digital forensics for online transactions
5. Deploying identity management tools for verification and authentication
6. Building the cyber security framework to protect against state-sponsored or malicious attacks
4:30pm
Securing your billing and payment systems against intrusions
• Ensuring information assets and critical infrastructure is fully protected
• Securing connectivity with customers, partners and service providers
• Integrating information management and security planning
Trevor Cushen
Head of Information Security
BPay
5:00pm
Closing remarks from Chair and end of day one
8:00am
Registration opens
8:45am
Opening remarks from the Chair
Asaf Ahmad
Chief Information Security Officer, ICT Governance, Security and Risk
NSW Fire and Rescue
9:00am
Managing fraud and scams during Covid-19 – an ASIC update
• Tracking the rise of investment scams during Covid-19
• Lessons learned from fraud and scams for 2021
• Assessing the risk to consumers and investors
Brendan Facey
Senior Executive Leader, Misconduct and Breach
Australian Securities, and Investment Commission (ASIC)* Subject to change
9:30am
Developments in identity theft and how organisations can protect their business
• Mapping the red flags for identity theft
• Clarifying the techniques fraudsters use in the digital space
• Protecting against identity theft and intrusions
10:00am
Mapping developments in enterprise fraud management
• Clarifying the parameters for fraud and managing the impact on business
• Assessing the scale of problems for financial services providers
•Managing the risk across the payments systems
Dr Naureen Ali
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Fraud Management,
PenFed Credit Union, USA
*virtual
10:30am
Technology Solutions
11:00am
Morning tea
Stream A:
Next step to fraud and risk management
Stream B:
Outlook for cyber resilience and security planning
Growing the tactical defences to detect, tackle and manage fraud
Drivers for cyber security in a post Covid-19 world
Chair:
Ken Gamble
Executive Director and Chairman
IFW Global
Chair:
Asaf Ahmad
Chief Information Security Officer, ICT Governance, Security and Risk
NSW Fire and Rescue
11:30am
11:30am
Why collaboration is key to fighting fraud
• Tackling fraud attacks that leave organisation and employees more vulnerable
• Balancing the rate of digital adoption with fraud-fighting capabilities
• Using the right tools and techniques to manage incidents
Anthony White
Manager Oceania – Fraud and Counterfeit (Legal Department)
Canon
Chairperson
Australian Online Fraud Council
Securing software applications to detect and manage security breaches
• Improving the coding behaviour to secure software applications
• Managing the access and control functions
• Establishing the identity upfront to protect against unauthorised access
• Building the logging and intrusion detection capability
Dr Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage
Senior Research Fellow (Research Associate Professor) – Cyber Security
La Trobe University
12:00pm
12:00pm
Understanding the human factors for risk management
• Tackling enterprise risk within a service delivery organisation
• Ensuring clients’ needs are protected
• Investing in risk mitigation in a dynamic environment
Peter Pierre
Chief Audit and Risk Officer
Department of Health and Human Services VIC
Protecting information assets in the cloud
• Managing enterprise data security in the cloud
• Ensuring your organisation adapts to cross-border data storage arrangements
• Clarifying cloud sovereignty parameters involving cloud service providers
Bilal Ahmed
Cloud Solutions and Security Architect
National Australia Bank
12:30pm
12:30pm
Panel discussion: Pooling resources to tackle risk, security breaches and intrusions
• What does it take to pool corporate knowledge to tackle fraud?
• How does risk management, fraud detection and information security play out?
• Why streamline your knowledge-sharing capabilities?
Panellists:
Technology insights
Glenn Rower
Manager, Counter Fraud and Investigations
RACQ
Nigel Phair
Director
UNSW Canberra Cyber
Serena Lillywhite
Chief Executive Officer
Transparency International
1:00pm
Networking Luncheon
2:00pm
2:00pm
Tracking Australia’s performance to tackle corruption
• How Australia fares on the global corruption index
• Clarifying Australia’s National Integrity Systems: the blueprint for Action
• Mapping business integrity and bribery prevention across high-risk sectors
Serena Lillywhite
Chief Executive Officer
Transparency International
Building cyber resilience for healthcare providers
• Building your cyber resilience, compliance, and risk management capabilities
• Protecting the security architecture and inter-connected platforms
• Securing service delivery platforms in the digital age
Dr Rani Yesudas
Cyber Security Architect Australian Digital Health Agency
Joanne Fisher
CISSP, Risk and Compliance Clinical Lead
Australian Digital Health Agency
2:30pm
2:30pm
Tackling fraud in the consumer space – perspectives from the insurance sector
• Estimating the cost of financial fraud involving consumers
• Investigating and acting on insurance applications or claims
• Countering fraud with a speedy response time and turnaround
Glen Rowe
Manager, Counter Fraud and Investigations
RACQ
Reducing cyber risks through influencing user behaviour and awareness programs
• How the human factor plays out with cyber security planning
• Why some cyber resilience programs fail and what you can do about this
• What is needed to influence behaviour and create a cyber safe culture within large, complex organisations
Chirag D Joshi
Business Information Security Officer
AMP
Best-selling Author: 7 Rules to Influence Behaviour and Win at Cyber Security
3:00pm
Afternoon tea
3:30pm
Tackling retail and financial fraud – milestones and challenges
• Assessing the e-commerce and retail fraud challenges
• Integrating transactional data, retail decisioning and financial crime reporting
• Streamlining the technology architecture and integration between banking and retail
Sandip Patil
Tech Area Architect, Financial Crime and Retail Decisioning
ANZ Bank
4:00pm
Building a smarter security system to tackle ‘intelligent’ cyber threats
• Understanding new threats and how this impacts your organisation
• Why the threat landscape is constantly changing and how to prepare
• What is needed to be proactive and pre-empt emerging threats
Raghu Gandhy
Head of Infrastructure and Cyber Security
Veolia ANZ
4:30pm
Keynote
Strengthening Australia’s cyber security strategy
• Mapping the escalation of state-based cyber attacks
• Why tackling cyber security is a central priority for tactical response and planning
• Assessing the volume and belligerence of cyberattacks and planning for the future
Louise Bechtel
Assistant Secretary Cyber Policy and Strategy
Department of Home Affairs
5:00pm
Closing remarks from the Chair and end of day two
9:00am – 12:00pm
Workshop A:
Managing your organisation’s appetite for risk
For business, the focus is to understand organisation’s appetite for risk, and why investments in risk mitigation matters. The goal is to protect against any adverse effects and take a balanced approach to handling the different types of risk. This workshop offers a practical guide to the levels and types of risk your organisation can realistically take. The key learnings will help you establish a sound risk management framework, while routinely reviewing the effectiveness of your programs.
Benefits of attending:
• Develop, set, and own the appetite for risk
• Clarify the different types of risk and how to
manage these
• Understand the appetite for risk that is set by the
board
• Design a risk appetite framework that aligns with
corporate goals
• Manage the nature of risk in a complex business
environment
Anthony Wilson
Founding Partner
ABM Risk Partnership
Brett Palmer
Founding Partner
ABM Risk Partnership
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Workshop B:
Tackling fraud during the procurement process
and managing vendor relationships
During the procurement process, fraud or corruption may incorporate illicit rebates, kickbacks, or dubious vendor relationships. This procurement risk may not be fully addressed but companies benefit from implementing the best controls, at the
outset. This workshop offers a practical guide to planning for potential fraud while procuring goods and services, and ensuring your organisation protects its interests in a vendor relationship, or when going to market.
Benefits of attending:
• Mitigate fraud at all levels of the procurement
process
• Assess the psychology and triggers driving
potential fraudsters
• Identify the red flags within your organisation
• Invest in early fraud detection strategies to
mitigate fraud risks
• Understand the business risks involving fraud in
procurement
Mick Symons
Managing Director
Anti-Corruption Consultants Australia
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Venue
The 10th Annual Fraud and Risk Management Summit 2021 will take place at the Mercure Hotel, Sydney. You may choose to attend in-person or virtually as the event will also be live-streamed.
Address:
818-820 George Street
Sydney NSW 2000
The event will be conducted following a COVID-Safe plan to safeguard the health and safety of all attendees.
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