May 2–3 / Jersey City, NJ

Sessions

TECHNOLOGY

What’s Up with What’s App?  Ephemeral Messaging and BYOD

In this session you’ll learn why ephemeral messaging and personal devices create a risk for your company and how regulators and enforcement agencies view the issue, and what you can do about it.

Here today . . . gone tomorrow!  Regulators and internal document retention policies typically require that business records be retained in accordance with a retention schedule and available for review if needed.  Ephemeral messaging enables users to create and send self-destructing messages that automatically disappear from conversation threads after a set period.  In this session you’ll learn why ephemeral messaging and personal devices create a risk for your company – particularly if your operation is international in scope – how regulators and enforcement agencies view the issue, and what you can do about it.

David Berman, Director of Compliance and Ethics, Lyft 

Jay Holtmeier, Partner, WilmerHale 

Futures of Ethics: How Big Data & AI Drive your Strategy*

Leverage big data and AI today at the right time and prepare for multiple futures in your organization.

If big data and AI are not central to your organization’s business strategy now, they will be soon!  The Volkswagen Group is relying on Big Data Analytics and Autonomous Intelligence to drive ethics and compliance strategy.  Learn how you can leverage these analytical tools and algorithms today to tap the right data at the right time and prepare for multiple futures in your own organization. 

Paul Hunecke, Head of Strategy and Principles for Legal Affairs and Integrity, Volkswagen 

Quantum Ethics: Social Implications of Quantum Computing and Devices*

Learn how quantum computers will transform our lives, as well as the unique ethics and compliance challenges they are likely to present. 

Have you ever wished you were better prepared for a disruptive technology before it broke into the mainstream?  Quantum computers and devices will soon usher in the next technological revolution, helping us solve complex problems that are beyond the capability of traditional processors.  Learn about the exciting ways quantum computers will transform our lives, as well as the unique ethics and compliance challenges they will present. 

Doug Dunham, Director of Ethics & Business Conduct, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control

Christopher Geiger, Vice President, Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk, Lockheed Martin

The Promise and Peril of ChatGPT

How does ChatGPT work, what should we be legitimately enthusiastic and cautious about when it comes to possible applications, and how might it transform not just ethics and compliance. 

ChatGPT – an AI chatbot auto-generative system – has created substantial excitement and concern across a wide range of potential users.  How does a system like ChatGPT work, what should we be legitimately enthusiastic and cautious about when it comes to possible applications, and how might it transform not just ethics and compliance, but how we work, live and play?  Fasten your seat belts for a fascinating and practical introduction to what may become your new best, but not necessarily most reliable, friend . . . 

Avi Gesser, Partner AI Practice, Debevoise & Plimpton  

The Future of Work . . . Is Already Here!

Take a deep dive into the future of work and how changes are already impacting ethics & compliance programs and organizations.  

The pace of change continues to increase exponentially and some of what’s coming has particular importance and relevance for E&C professionals and their programs.  In this session an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with deep experience in the practice of E&C will take us on a grand tour of the main developments that have already begun to impact our field, ranging from generational shifts and an increasingly mobile workforce to technological innovations.

Caterina Bulgarella, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Be Thread

Digital Transformation of E&C – title under construction

Jisha Dymond, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, OneTrust  

CORPORATE INTEGRITY

Managing Risk and Strategic Initiatives without Fear*

Learn about enterprise communication and training strategies that create a positive climate of trust around risk identification and business process reviews in ways that support transparency, psychological safety and reporting of concerns. 

In this session you’ll hear how San Diego County leverages business intelligence capabilities to automate risk management activities.  Learn about enterprise communication and training strategies that create a positive climate of trust around risk identification and business process reviews in ways that support transparency, psychological safety and reporting of concerns. 

Christy Carlson, Compliance Officer, Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego 

Jose Valenzuela, Privacy Officer, County of San Diego 

Applying Behavioral Science to Ethics and Compliance*

In this session you will learn about practical applications of small interventions called ethics nudges by building choice architecture and other strategies that lead employees to ethical choices and outcomes.  

Deloitte has been engaging with behavioral scientists and research to innovate new ideas on how to motivate and encourage ethical conduct. In this session you will learn about practical applications of small interventions called ethics nudges by building choice architecture that leads employees toward ethical choices and outcomes.  You will also hear how role-based ethics knowledge and skills training ensures greater engagement, requires less seat time, and promotes a psychologically safe team environment.

Dr. Myra Vandervelde, Deloitte Global Ethics Learning Leader, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu  

Suzette Lucarini, Deputy to the Global Chief Ethics Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu  

Know Your Culture: How to Conduct an Ethics Culture Assessment

Learn how one of the nation’s largest electric utility companies assesses the strength of its ethics culture and uses results to both inform their E&C program and support business strategy and outcomes. 

We know that culture is a key driver of ethical conduct in organizations, but the fact is that if you can’t define and measure it, you can’t change it!  Consider how one of the nation’s largest electric utility companies assesses the strength of its ethics culture and uses results to both inform their E&C program and support business strategy and outcomes. 

Jeff Kagan, Principal Manager, Corporate & Affiliate Compliance, Southern California Edison  

Toni-Lynne Langeveld , Senior Advisor, Corporate Compliance, Southern California Edison

Michael Chinn, Senior Advisor, Ethics & Compliance Office, Southern California Edison

Transformational Integrity: Integrating HQPs, SDGs & ESG at an Impact Organization*

See how a social impact organization leverages HQPs, SDGs & ESG frameworks to have a greater positive impact on poverty, health and education, and anti-corruption programs and outcomes through a nonprofit that serves families and children in Puerto Rico.

What do ECI’s High Quality E&C Program (HQP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) frameworks have to do with the emotional and physical well-being of thousands of children in Puerto Rico?  Hear how the Director of Integrity and ESG for Puerto Rico’s Platform for Social Impact (PSI) has leveraged these frameworks to create a new kind of hybrid social impact organization with a greater positive impact on poverty, health and education, and anti-corruption programs and outcomes.

Jose Javier (Jay) Guadalupe, Director of Integrity & ESG, Platform for Social Impact 

Andrea Bonime-Blanc, CEO/Founder, PSI Independent Integrity & ESG Advisor, GEC Risk Advisory

Jacqueline E. Brevard, Senior Advisor, GEC Risk Advisory

The Times They Are A’changing: CCO Certification and Rising Accountability

In March 2022, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite first publicly announced the potential prosecutorial requirement of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) Certification of corporate compliance programs in the aftermath of the resolution of enforcement matters.  What is CCO certification, how and when will it be applied by the DOJ, and what does it mean more broadly in the landscape of rising accountability for ethics and compliance professionals?  Join a seasoned former federal prosecutor to explore these and other related issues that will increasingly change the way you approach and manage E&C issues in your organization in the future.

Zane David Memeger, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

LEADERSHIP

E&C Board Notes:  What Your Board is Talking About Today

Secure your front-row seat to learn what E&C conversations your Board is having today to better prepare for and navigate regulatory and enforcement challenges.

There have recently been high profile issues in the news about failure to disclose significant issues such as frequency of sexual harassment or material misrepresentations of reasons for termination of highly placed executives in SEC filings.  Boards are monitoring these occurrences as well as other developments of concern and relevance to their oversight responsibilities.  Join this session for a front-row seat on what E&C conversations your Board is having or should be having today.

Benjamin Gruenstein, Partner, Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice, Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Looking Around Corners:  A Global View of What’s Next

Learn what major events unfolding today will change the future of business forever as it relates to ethics & compliance.

A leading E&C podcaster and futurist take a deep dive into the major events unfolding today that will change business forever.  You’ll learn how those events will impact third party risk management, cybersecurity, intellectual property and other areas of relevance to ethics and compliance.

Thomas R. (Tom) Fox, Founder, The Compliance Podcast Network

Dr. Ben Locwin, Vice President of Project Solutions, Black Diamond Networks  

Collective Action:  What We Can Do Together

Learn about the power of collective action and explore how we as an association can best collaborate internally and externally to meet challenges and take advantage of opportunities that lie ahead.

As the playwright said, our destiny in our profession is not in our stars but in ourselves . . . and how we work together to define and act on the future of E&C!  Join dynamic facilitators in a mind-bending and engaging dialogue about how as an Association we can best collaborate to meet challenges and take advantage of opportunities that lie ahead.

Andrew Blasi, C&M International Senior Director, Crowell & Moring 

Words of Wisdom:  Growing Your Career in E&C

Hear from luminaries in our field who have seen it all and get the inside scoop on table-top wisdom for managing your career in ethics and compliance for success in the long-term.

Many years ago, jobs in ethics and compliance were viewed as roles that marked the end of careers and not the beginning.  Today E&C as a practice has come into its own, offering not only professional rewards, but personal satisfaction, as well.  In this session you’ll hear from luminaries in our field who have seen it all and get the inside scoop on table-top wisdom for managing your career in ethics and compliance for success in the long-term.

Carrie Penman, Former Director, Ethics and Compliance Officer Association

Pat Gnazzo, Principal, Better Business Practices LLC

Katie Smith: Vice Chair, ECA Board of Directors and Vice President, Ethics Office, Assurant, Inc.

Becoming and Sustaining a High-Quality E&C Program

Learn from ECI Research staff and practitioners about the five HQP principles and how they can be applied and measured in ways that take you and your organization to the leading edge of our practice. 

There’s a framework for that . . . and it’s called HQP!  In 2015 ECI convened a blue-ribbon commission to define what it takes to be a high-quality ethics and compliance program.  The result was ECI’s widely acclaimed Blue-Ribbon Panel Report on High Quality Ethics and Compliance Programs (HQP).  In this interactive session you’ll hear from the ECI research and practice team and practitioners about the five HQP principles and how they can be applied and measured in ways that take you and your organization to the leading edge of our practice. 

Evren Esen, Vice President Research and Advisory Services, ECI

Annie Toro, HQP Program Manager, ECI 

Tim Rosebrock, Vice President, Compliance and Legal Services, The Biltmore Company 

Cooperating with Justice: A Practical Gameplan

Hear about what situations merit self-disclosure, the benefits of doing so, and the practical steps companies should consider to ensure they disclose the right situations at the right time.

In January 2023 the Department of Justice doubled down on the importance of timely self-disclosure and cooperation in revisions to the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy. This session will explore what kinds of situations merit self-disclosure, the benefits of doing so, and the steps companies should consider in order to ensure that they disclose the right situations at the right time.

Audrey Harris, Managing Director, Global Anti-corruption, Compliance, Ethics and Non-Financial Risk, Affiliated Monitors  

Cari Robinson, Founder, Black Dog Advisory, LLC

A Good Offense is a Good Defense: A Proactive & Practical Compliance Gameplan for DOJ Guidance

Two compliance leaders share practical guidance and a strategic approach to meeting DOJ expectations of “extraordinary’ cooperation and “immediate” voluntary disclosure.

In the last few years, DOJ has been prolific in announcing corporate enforcement directives and guidance modifications. The latest guidance has companies wondering what constitutes “extraordinary” cooperation and “immediate” voluntary disclosure, as well as, how to meet DOJ’s expectations in areas as diverse as messaging apps, compliance program testing, and compensation claw-backs.  In this session, two compliance leaders bring a 360-degree view of the field of play and share their guidance and strategic approaches.   

Audrey Harris, Former BHP Chief Compliance Officer, former Am Law 30 law firm partner, and current Managing Director, Affiliated Monitors Inc. (AMI)

Cari Robinson, Former Revlon General Counsel, former IBM Vice President & Assistant General Counsel for Investigations & Cybersecurity, and current governance consultant and Board Director

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TRACKSESSIONPRESENTER(S)
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CORP INTEGRITYTransformational Integrity: Integrating HQPs, SDGs & ESG at an Impact OrganizationJose Javier (Jay) Guadalupe, Director of Integrity & ESG, Platform for Social Impact
Andrea Bonime-Blanc
, CEO/Founder, PSI Independent Integrity & ESG Advisor, GEC Risk Advisory
Jacqueline E. Brevard
, Senior Advisor, GEC Risk Advisory

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CORP INTEGRITYCooperating with Justice: A Practical Game Plan Audrey Harris, Managing Director, Global Anti-corruption, Compliance, Ethics & Non-Financial Risk, Affiliated Monitors, Inc.
Cari Robinson, Founder, Black Dog Advisory, LLC
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CORP INTEGRITYManaging Risk and Strategic Initiatives Without FearChristy Carlson, Compliance Officer, Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego
Jose Valenzuela
, Privacy Officer, County of San Diego
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CORP INTEGRITYBecoming and Sustaining a High-Quality E&C ProgramEvren Esen, Vice President, Research and Analytics, Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI)
Annie Toro
, HQP Program Manager, Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI)
Tim Rosebrock
, Vice President, compliance and Legal Services, The Biltmore Company
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LEADERSHIPKnow Your Culture: How to Conduct and Ethics Culture AssessmentJeff Kagan, Principal Manager, Corporate & Affiliate Compliance, Southern California Edison
Toni-Lynn Langeveld, Senior Advisor, Corporate Compliance, Southern California Edison
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LEADERSHIPApplying Behavioral Science to E&CDr. Myra Vandervelde, Deloitte Global Ethics Learning Leader, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Suzette Lucarini, Deputy to the Global Chief Ethics Officer, Touche Tohmatsu LLC
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LEADERSHIPE&C Board Notes: What Your Board is Talking About Today Benjamin Gruenstein, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
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LEADERSHIPWords of Wisdom: Growing Your Career in E&CCarrie Penman, Former Director, Ethics and Compliance Officer Association
Pat Gnazzo, Principal, Better Business Practices LLC
Moderator:
Katie Smith, Vice Chair, ECA Board of Directors and Vice President, Ethics, Assurant
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LEADERSHIPLooking Around Corners: A Global View of What’s Next Thomas R. Fox, Founder, The Compliance Podcast Network
Dr. Ben Locwin, Author, Healthcare Executive, and Futurist
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TECHNOLOGYThe Future of Work…Is Already Here!Caterina Bulgarella, Ph.D., Co-founder and Managing Director, Be Thread
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TECHNOLOGYThe Promise and Peril of ChatGPT & AIAvi Gesser, Partner, AI Practice, Debevoise & Plimpton
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TECHNOLOGYWhat’s Up with What’s App: Ephemeral messaging and BYOD David Berman, Director of Compliance & Ethics, Lyft, Inc.
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TECHNOLOGYQuantum Ethics: Social Implications of Quantum Computing and Devices Christopher A. Geiger, Vice President, Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk, Lockheed Martin
Douglas Dunham, Director of Ethics & Business Conduct, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
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TECHNOLOGYFutures of Ethics: How Big data & AI Drive Your StrategyDr. Paul Hünecke, Head of Strategy and Principlesfor Legal Affiars and Integrity, Volkswagen