18th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute 2019

#DG01

DG01: Secrets from In-House Ethics & Compliance Buyers: How to Keep the Gate and Your Sanity Jay Rosen, VP, Business Development and Monitoring Specialist, Affiliated Monitors, Inc. View Description

• Learn how to manage vendor relationships to maximize their value proposition and minimize persistent and time consuming sales pitches.
• Vendors believe they can make a buyer's life easier, but they must listen for "buying or non-buying" cues and modulate their contact proportionately.
• While the compliance community has seen that tomorrow's solutions for today's E&C issues come from the vendor community, in-house buyers respond to authentic vendor relationships as they easily can separate salesy bluster from those who really care.

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#DG02

DG02: Being Comfortable with Discomfort Meric Bloch, Vice President, Global Investigations, Booking Holdings, Inc. View Description

• Discuss some of the common friction points and speed bumps you encounter during workplace investigations and how to address them.
• Be prepared to respond both as a member of management and as the investigator when issues arise. Thinking in advance about these issues allows you to be prepared when they arise. And they will arise.
• Learn that the investigation process, by its nature, prevents us from being all things to all people. Learn how flexible you can be in accommodating management, colleagues, and investigation participants.

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#DG03

DG03: Engaging your Board- The Importance of Relevance Paige Shannon, Compliance Officer and Corporate Counsel, ATI Adelle Elia, Chief Integrity Officer, Louis Berger View Description

• How do you as a Compliance Officer tap into your Board's current priorities to engage them?
• How compliance connects to the "hot topics" for Board members in 2019
• How does your organization's compliance function impact the Board's actions related to how culture impacts performance; cyber security; sexual harassment; board diversity; and shareholder activism.

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#DG04

DG04: Retaliation: Real or Imagined in the Age of Speak-Up Cultures Albert Gagne, Former Director Ethics & Compliance, Retired View Description

• This Advanced Discussion Group will identify what exactly constitutes retaliation. -The group will discuss methodologies for identifying various forms of retaliation and how to deal with them.
• Finally, the group will address strategies for communicating a "Speak-Up" Culture for their respective organizations.

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#DG05

DG05: What Keeps You Up at Night? How to Control Potential Travel and Expense Fraud Connie Hoen, Director - Global Audit Services, SAP - Concur Caroline Butterfield, Senior Program Manager, SAP Concur View Description

• Attendees will work alongside their colleagues to discuss what controls each have in place for Travel and Expense policy compliance. Discussing employee education, policies and responsibilities of your employees, managers and internal Audit teams.
• Ensuring compliance across Travel and Expense policies and regulations. Attendees will learn ways to identify the common fraudulent expenses included mileage, FCPA and Sunshine Act violations.
• This session will identify next steps after you have discovered non-compliant and fraudulent spend. Discussion will occur around how to measure fraud and anomaly compliance success.

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#DG06

DG06: AMP IT UP: Move Your Compliance Program from Good to Great Jacki Cheslow, Director, Business Ethics & Comp, Avis Budget Group View Description

• Now that the building blocks for a good compliance program - policies, training, assessments, remediation, and more - are in place, what more is needed to move your program from good to great?
• This session is designed to be a fun and interactive open discussion among peers. The goal is to get and keep your creative juices flowing and help you to identify best practices and strategies for elevating your program to the next level.
• Join us as we tap into the wisdom of the crowd rather than rely on a "sage on the stage".

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#DG07

DG07: Cultures of Integrity - We Know What They Are and What They Should Look Like, but How Do We Get There? Mary Shirley, Senior Director, Ethics and Compliance, Fresenius Medical Care North America View Description

• Discussion of behaviors that define a good culture and what initiatives compliance can lead to inspire those behaviors
• Mood in the middle - how to get middle management to buy into demonstrating a culture of compliance and integrity
• Examples of what other companies just like yours are doing to build and establish a strong culture

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#DG08

DG08: Building Ethics and Compliance Programs with Public-Sector Employees