Room: Centennial E

Ashley Lewis, Associate Manager, Internal Audit, Tempur Sealy International

Ricardo Pellafone, Founder & CEO, Broadcat

Understand how engaging with your peers, stakeholders and employees are critical to the success of your program:

• Cross-functional partnerships: who to connect with, how often, and why.
• Engaging employees: why engagement is key to proving E&C is not the enemy
• Rebranding your hotline solution: why words matter and how you can use words and Convercent to connect with your employees

Room: Centennial F

Keturah Pestel, Director, Business Ethics at Thrivent

What does this mean for your E&C team? How are leading teams adjusting to bring the new skills required to be effective in the age of Data Science, AI, Social Media, Data Privacy and Data Sovereignty? Are legal skills still the key need of an ethics and compliance team, or are new skills coming to the fore? Hear from an ethics & compliance practitioner on how best to build your future team, as well as creating the business case for more budget and resources to accomplish your compliance program’s goals.

Room: Private Dining Room

Rob Sacasa, Former SVP & Chief Compliance Officer, General Cable

Greg Thompson, Director, Advisory, KPMG

The relationship between Compliance and Internal Audit is vital to the success of both functions, the shareholders and organizations they are tasked with protecting. Hear two practitioners discuss how to leverage these two functions to identify and manage risk in an organization.

Room: Pine

Rebecca Rehm, Compliance Business Partner Manager, Olympus Corporation of the Americas

Matthew Doherty, Lead Compliance Officer, Operations-Legal and Compliance, Mercer

Learn how Olympus and Mercer are transforming their E&C training from annual, long-form LMS modules into year-long campaigns using microlearning, innovative animation tools, and drip marketing for better retention, user experiences, and business outcomes.

Room: Spruce

Dan Chapman, CEO, Presyse

Jonathan Marks, Global Fraud & Forensic Investigations and Compliance, BakerTilly

Jay Rosen, Vice President Business Development & Monitoring Specialist, Affiliated Monitors

The new DOJ guidance contained some subtle but impactful messages for the E&C community. This session will explore these key messages, the impact they are having and how you can best align your program with this guidance. For example, the emphasis on culture is a clear indication of the elevation of E&C, the impact you have on your business and the expectations that regulators now have that go way beyond pure regulatory adherence. You will leave this session better armed to elevate your programs to align with this new guidance and the emerging trends in our industry.

Room: Fir

Michael Rasmussen, GRC Research Analyst & Pundit

The greatest challenge for Ethics and Compliance is keeping up with change, and then keeping all that change in sync. This session provides a SWOT Analysis of the CECO role as a powerful technique for identifying strengths and weaknesses, and for examining the opportunities and threats a CECO faces in managing and maintaining organization integrity. A SWOT analysis can help a CECO develop his or her career in a way that takes the best advantage of one’s talents, abilities, and opportunities.

Room: Centennial E

Scott McCleskey, Senior Vice President, Eukleia North America

Elizabeth Simon, Director of Compliance, Cox Communications

The level of ethical risk is not uniform across an organization or over time – it varies by role, by geography, and by incentive structure. In this presentation, we’ll look at how you can systematically identify and classify the risk across your organization. We’ll also consider the use of the resulting ethical risk heat map as a predictive analytics and how it can be used to take a risk-based approach to allocate controls and how it can be used as a key resource for reporting to the C-suite and the Board.

Room: Centennial F

Nichole Pitts, Ethics & Compliance Expert, Ethintegrity

Struggling with employee engagement? In this session, participants will learn how to effectively increase employee participation and facilitate discussions on complex ethics topics across cultures and educational levels. This will lead to a better understanding of the compliance program as well as the identification & mitigation of risks from all levels of the organization. Explore the benefits of using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology to promote fruitful discussions to help the individual and the organization embed integrity into daily activities.

Room: Private Dining Room

Katherine Norris, Director, Corporate Compliance & Risk Management, Berkeley Research Group LLC

Lexie Pitney, Global Investigations Counsel, Xylem Inc

How to efficiently operationalize the internal investigations process, standardize workflows and outputs, and improve upon accountability mechanisms.

Room: Pine

UB Ciminieri , CEO & Co-Founder, Jobber Group

Joe Thurman , Chief Talent Officer & Co-Founder, Jobber Group

We are all biased, we are just not always aware of those biases. This session will help create tools, methods and strategies that systematically change an organization’s ability to drive diversity and inclusion. Drive action behind the conversation of Conscious Inclusion and Unconscious Bias. What better way to start driving ethics than by first confronting our own biases and behaviors that prevent us from driving ethics through our business.

Room: Spruce

Cheryl Wahl Forino , Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Metro Health

No need to start from scratch when evaluating the effectivenes of your program! Participants will have the opportunity to explore various industry guidelines such as the DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, World’s Most Ethical Companies, HCCA and KMPG survey to use as a roadmap in understanding best practices and how their program stacks up.

Room: Fir

Valerie Towery, VP Global Compliance – CCO, Visa

It may not take a village, but it definitely takes collaboration over a common goal to build a truly robust compliance program. A strong compliance program engages more than just a firm’s compliance officers; be prepared to interact and collaborate to find ways that you – whether your compliance department is large or small— can work best with peers in legal, human resources, sourcing, audit, and risk, as well as the internal clients that you serve. Review real word strategies to find your way through the Collaboration Game and commit to actions to strengthen your program.

Room: Centennial E

Terry Stringer, Head Ethics and Compliance Center of Excellence, HP

Jacki Cheslow, Director, Business Ethics & Compliance, Avis

Do your employees feel safe speaking up? Do your employees believe that the company is not only listening but that their concerns are being taken seriously? Do they feel that sense of “organizational justice” that is so important to instilling trust and maintaining an ethical culture? Hear from two ethics & compliance experts as they share how they have instilled trust in their ethics & compliance programs by building a compliance leader network, increasing transparency into their program, and driving creativity and innovation into how the ethics & compliance program connects with employees.

Room: Centennial F

Eric Feldman, Senior Vice President and Managing Director Corporate Ethics & Compliance Programs, Affiliated Monitors

Employee incentives, bonuses, and promotions are all great motivators, right? Wrong! An innocent incentive program can bring down a company. Perverse incentives are at the root of so many misconduct cases. Learn how you can play a value-added role in corporate performance management processes.

Room: Private Dining Room

Michael Williamson, Chief Compliance Officer, Pacific Dental

Hear from a CCO how to animate your organization’s values and create alignment behind them to foster a self-governing culture of ethics and compliance. Learn how to inspire employees through purpose and values to act as individual leaders based on shared beliefs and bring your organization’s purpose and values to life in support of an ethics and compliance culture that, minimally, will pivot your Program to a posture of proactive risk mitigation.

Room: Pine

Matt Kelly, Editor and CEO, Radical Compliance

Most compliance functions are on the low end of the maturity curve when it comes to effective data security when it comes to third parties. Participants in this session will explore recent regulatory enforcement of data security risks related to third parties, and what regulators are saying about the issue generally; how this is a challenge of risk assessment and data management capabilities, what a ‘mature’ compliance or audit function would need to do for these risks; and some practical ideas to implement at your own business.

Room: Spruce

Jane Arnott, Director, Institute of Business Ethics

It takes leadership along with a culture of trust and fairness to sustain employee loyalty and motivation. When misconduct occurs, that same culture must encourage speaking up or whistleblowing to both enable early intervention and prevent loss. Jane will draw on country-based surveys that explain why employees don’t speak up, the steps companies can take to improve this and how technology such as a Speak Up App can work to overcome employee fears and guide an effective speak-up process.

Room: Fir

Jessica Sanderson, Counsel, The Volkov Law Group

Seems like not a week goes by where there is not a headline highlighting a company coming up short with OFAC regulations. Is your compliance program equipped to comply with the US Treasury Department’s new guidance on building an effective sanction compliance program? Get up to date information on the changing regulatory landscape of sanction compliance and how to build an effective sanction compliance program.

Room: Centennial E

Barbara Petitti, Ethics & Compliance Officer- Policy Enforcement and Investigations, Alstom

Karin Johnson, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Group Chief Compliance Officer, 21st Century Fox

Working in an organization with constant flux? We’re often faced with numerous challenges including regulatory enforcement actions, financial stress, mergers, and re-organization. How can Ethics and Compliance Officers navigate these changes while staying focused on helping their organization prevent and detect misconduct?

Room: Centennial F

Wies Wagenaar, Head of Conduct & Ethics, ABN AMRO

Wies will share her knowledge and experiences with respect to “what we know from integrity & ethics management, behavioural sciences and behavioural economics:
– How this is relevant in preventing internal misconduct and fraud and inspiring good conduct
– How ABN AMRO made mistakes and did not prevent our employees from committing fraud: two live cases
– What we’ve learned, and hopefully you will too!

Room: Private Dining Room

Jessica Brunelle, Product Manager, Convercent

Luka Stanic, Compliance Counsel, Avanos Medical

Emily Frank, Program Coordinator, Ethics & Compliance, Newmont Goldcorp

Hear from your peers how they have used the power of targeted campaigns, paired with rich online content and insightful analytics to dramatically change the level of engagement with their ethics and compliance programs. Learn how you can elevate ethics and compliance from an afterthought to a proactive essential part of the business processes.

Room: Pine

Grant Burns, Vice President and General Counsel, AFL

Tedra Foster, Senior Director Ethics & Compliance, Herbalife

Keith Read, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer EMEA, Convercent

Want to know how to take your speak-up culture to a higher level? Join this session to hear from other organizations who have transformed their speak-up culture and are now living examples of how higher reporting rates drive better business performance. Learn how they have used the power of targeted awareness campaigns to bring more voices to the fore.

Room: Aspen

Phil Knight, Product Manager, Convercent

Michael Hanson, Data Scientist, Convercent

Data science seems very technical and somewhat mysterious, and many people profess to not really understanding it. Ultimately, while the ability to have a data science team analyze data, design algorithms and identify technical solutions sounds powerful, it will all be in vain if the team does not understand what problem they are trying to solve.

Working with your peers and our data science team, you will step through a series of interactive exercises designed to surface the most pressing E&C problems that data science can help address. You will be able to re-use the exercise and the results when you leave Converge and head back to your office. Our data science team plans to use the results as input into our evolving data strategy.

Room: Spruce

John Arendes, Vice President and GM Global Compliance Solutions, Skillsoft

As anti-harassment training is top of mind for almost all companies, many of which have robust policies and procedures to address the issue. We still have a substantial challenge in the workplace around harassment. We will look at and discuss how creating an emotional response during one’s training could have a positive effect on changing one’s behavior.

Room: Fir

Stephen Martin, Partner, StoneTurn

Stephen will share his perspective as a board member to discuss:
– Techniques to help facilitate an effective and open dialogue between you and the board
– Common questions that board members will ask about your program
– How to compile critical compliance program data to accurately benchmark.

Room: Centennial E

David Childers, Senior Vice President at Ethics & Compliance Initiative, ECI

There is a lot of talk about what it means to have an “effective” ethics and compliance program? The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) cut through the chatter and established a definitive measurement framework of maturity and effectiveness of a High-Quality Ethics & Compliance Program assessment (HQP). Learn the key findings as well as take the assessment so you can define areas of improvement and see where you stack up against your peers.

Room: Centennial F

Steve Priolo, Sr. Manager, Corporate Compliance, Rackspace

In this interactive discussion, participants will discuss emerging trends in identifying and managing conflict of interest with a workforce that is changing. Hear from a practitioner on innovative ways to encourage COI disclosure reporting.

Room: Private Dining Room

David Hackett, Partner, Baker McKenzie

Corporate social responsibility is a company-wide strategy that should have ethics & compliance at the center. What are you doing to help drive that strategy? Hear from an industry expert on the changing compliance requirements of CSR and how to get a seat at the social responsibility table.

Room: Centennial F

Rae Hinton, Ethics & Compliance Project Manager, LinkedIn

This session uses practical lessons learned from work within Microsoft product teams to achieve an end-user centric approach. Participants will learn how to build an accessibility program that meets regulatory requirements but also delights employees, practical steps to putting yourself in your employees’ shoes and how that influences your initiatives, and hear about tried and tested programs that have won broad recognition.

Room: Aspen

Phil Knight, Product Manager, Convercent

Michael Hanson, Data Scientist, Convercent

Data science seems very technical and somewhat mysterious, and many people profess to not really understanding it. Ultimately, while the ability to have a data science team analyze data, design algorithms and identify technical solutions sounds powerful, it will all be in vain if the team does not understand what problem they are trying to solve.

Working with your peers and our data science team, you will step through a series of interactive exercises designed to surface the most pressing E&C problems that data science can help address. You will be able to re-use the exercise and the results when you leave Converge and head back to your office. Our data science team plans to use the results as input into our evolving data strategy.

Room: Spruce

David Lefort, Editor In Chief, Compliance Week

Katie Smith, EVP, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Convercent

Bill Brierly, Vice President, Head of Compliance & Ethics, Liberty Latin America

Compliance Week will share the results of their landmark “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey, which gets at the motivations and challenges of today’s chief compliance officers, how they adapt to an ever-changing business landscape, and how they weigh decisions in an ethical climate awash in gray areas. It also pulls back the curtain on other curiosities like their risk appetite, average salaries by gender, age, and education, and much more.

Room: Fir

Jessica Brunelle, Product Manager, Convercent

Hear from your peers how they have used the power of targeted campaigns, paired with rich online content and insightful analytics to dramatically change the level of engagement with their ethics and compliance programs. Learn how you can elevate ethics and compliance from an afterthought to a proactive essential part of the business processes.

Room: Centennial E

Kurt Stitcher, Vice President, Global Compliance, DJO Global

How do you take a US ethics & compliance program and globalize it? Hear from an expert in the trenches with practical tips on operationalizing a program, from policies and standards, anticorruption processes, and risk management and taking a US program to a modern global program

Room: Centennial F

Anna Aster, Principal, Heidrick & Struggle

As the field of ethics & compliance continues to evolve, what does it take to be a CECO in the future? Hear from the world’s top executive recruiting firm on the hiring trends in the compliance field, what recruiters are looking for, and tips on how to get your LinkedIn profile and resume noticed by headhunters.

Room: Private Dining Room

Stewart Maurer, VP Marketing, Convercent

Tired of trying the same old tactics to market and brand your ethics & compliance program? Get inside the mind of a professional marketer and learn cutting-edge tips and best practices to engage your workforce.

Room: Pine

George “Ren” McEachern, Managing Director, Exiger LLC

Are you getting a comprehensive risk picture on your third parties? Join Exiger’s Managing Director and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, George “Ren” McEachern to learn how moving your organization from reactive to proactive risk management can give you a real business advantage.

Room: Spruce

Tom Fox, Managing Director, The Compliance Evangelist

Matt Kelly, Managing Director, Radical Compliance

Jay Rosen, Managing Director, Affiliated Monitors

Sarah Hadden, Managing Director, Corporate Compliance Insights

Everything Compliance is the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Join the Everything Compliance gang for our first-ever live podcast recording at CONVERGE19. Be a part of podcast history!