The Event


Gold Sponsor

LRN

Co-sponsor

SAI Global
Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil
WorldCheck
CMS
SGS

Exhibitors

interactive dialogues
Dow Jones

Speakers

akzo nobel tyco eads ferring transparency international roshan oecd world bank yara european investment fund greco tnt hermes ge oil and gas bae systems monsanto motorola Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil astrazeneca UK serious fraud office

Agenda

Day 1 - October 20th 2009

Plenary Session 1

Legislation or Ethics: Which should define a company's actions?

The Siemens corruption scandal resulted in multi-million dollar fines and a reputation in tatters. How can you make sure the same thing never happens to your business? This session discusses ways and means to ensure employees stick to the straight and narrow.

  • Find out whether companies be guided by legislation or by solid values and principles
  • How does business strike the right balance?
  • Learn what value CSR programmes have for compliance professionals and what value they have in your future work
  • Discover how much you can save by linking training at one end with fewer investigations at the other
  • The power of persuasion: Understand what the key messages are that show people why even low-level non-compliance hurts your business and society – and how to get them across
  • EADS, Chief Compliance Officer, Pedro Montoya
  • Motorola, Corporate & Supply Chain Lead Counsel, Sian Hughes
  • Transparency International, Head of Private Sector Programmes, François Valérian

Plenary Session 2

Understand your investors: What do they want from you - and why?

Global standards, transparency and risk mitigation strategies have all been largely driven by investor groups. It's no different where anti-corruption policy is concerned - and your investors' concerns will always impact on your bottom line.

In this session:

  • Hear why investors are so deeply concerned about corruption
  • Understand what investors expect from companies like yours
  • Learn what disclosure it's essential to provide - and what investors want to know
  • Get up-to-speed with the Statement & Guidance on Anti-Corruption Practices issued by the International Corporate Governance Network, and evaluate its importance to your business
  • Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd. (HEOS), Director - Corporate Governance and Engagement - Asia and Europe, Dr. Hans-Christoph Hirt

Coffee

Plenary Session 3

Enforcement Update: Who's leading? And who's lagging?

Transparency International's recent progress analysis of the OECD Convention on Bribery delivered alarming results... only 4 of 38 OECD countries are considered to have 'active enforcement'. Lack of political will combined with limp enforcement has lead to an uneven commitment to the cause. Yet, at the same time new international quasi enforcement agencies are enforcing their anti-corruption rules often with significant effect. Find out in this session what is really going on:

  • Hear what the leading enforcement agencies are saying about the state of European enforcement
  • What is being done to tackle uneven enforcement between countries?
  • Understand what is likely to change when the new EU Commission takes office
  • How should you be adjusting to the United States' FCPA - and what's on the horizon that will raise the EU game
  • Hear about the new growing force: anti-corruption enforcement by multi-lateral development banks
  • OECD, Chairman - Working Group on Bribery, Mark Pieth
  • OLAF – European Commission, Advisor to the Director General, Paul Lachal Roberts
  • GRECO (Council of Europe’s Group of States Against Corruption), President, Drago Kos
  • The World Bank, Director of Operations for the Integrity Vice Presidency, Stephen Zimmermann
  • The World Bank, Sanctions Evaluation and Suspension Officer, Pascale Dubois
  • UK Serious Fraud Office, Deputy Head of Anti-Corruption, Anthony D. Farries

lunch

Break Out Sessions Set 1

Track 1: Business Partnerships

Legitimate Partners: Essential best practice in conducting due diligence

Due diligence is a key aspect of any business deal. While thorough preparation is vital to mitigate risk, ensuring your checks are watertight is easier said than done.

In this interactive session evaluate how best practice from leading companies compares to your own:

  • Vetting suppliers: How do you make procedures robust - and free from conflicts of interest?
  • Due diligence: Who is responsible for making sure it happens?
  • Ethical contracts: What should they say - and how easy are they to enforce?
  • Assessments: Can you - and should you - consider a values or ethics assessment of your key suppliers?
  • AkzoNobel, Senior Legal Counsel, Roland Van Weelden
  • GE Oil & Gas, VetcoGray, Director of Global Due Diligence, Thor Lovland
  • SGS, Project manager, Bribery Prevention Services, Céleste Cornu

Track 2: in-house tarining & structure

Training Strategies: Embedding ethics in your organisational culture

Communicating your code of ethics is one thing. But what else can you do to encourage employees to carry their corporate values with them on a day-to-day basis - and stick by them when making key business decisions?

This session answers all the key questions on ethics training, including:

  • When you train on values, how do you make it work?
  • Who should you train, and who should deliver the training?
  • What's the best method of communicating your compliance strategy?
  • Hear how the tone from the top be made to appeal to the grassroots
  • Internal social media: Where the water cooler meets Twitter. Which informal networks can you tap into to effectively communicate internal ethics and values?
  • Yara International, Vice President and Global Head of Compliance, Tormod Tingstad
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Global Ethics Officer, Susanne Korsgaard

Break Out Sessions Set 2

Ethical Standards: How to keep them high in your supplier network

Ensuring compliance and maintaining an ethical relationship is essential to every supply chain. The real challenge lies in maintaining standards across the board. What are the secrets of doing this effectively?

This session will brief you on the essential do’s and don’ts:

  • Learn how to monitor third party activities effectively
  • Find out the best way to ensure everyone consistently delivers the same high standards
  • Understand the extent to which you should be responsible for supplier behaviour
  • Tyco, Senior Regional Counsel - Northern Europe, Joost Wiebenga

A comprehensive Compliance Programme : What does it look like?

This session delivers a series of practical case studies and in-depth analysis from leading organisations to show how you can profit by saving time and money when fine-tuning your own compliance programmes.

  • Measuring the effectiveness of a compliance programme: What are the most effective tools for self-assessment?
  • Discover who - and what - you should benchmark your compliance programme against
  • Learn how to link people power, budgets and departments to create front-to-back training: What's the likely payoff in terms of fewer investigations?
  • What’s the best way to spell out your compliance strategy to key suppliers – and ensure that their strategies align with yours?
  • Transparency International, Head of Private Sector Programmes, François Valérian
  • SAI Global, Global Head of Client Services, Paula Davis
  • AstraZeneca, Training & Communications Manager, Global Compliance, Louise McEveley

Coffee

Break Out Session Set 3

Emerging Markets: How to compete without compromising your business integrity

Branching out into emerging markets is a huge opportunity. But often, it increases pressure to compromise business integrity - especially when people are faced with uneven enforcement.

How do you operate, and compete, on a global scale whilst overcoming cultural challenges?

In this session you'll focus on Case Studies examples from companies operating in high risk areas.

Come and hear their views on enforcement, procurement rules and understand how these exciting new markets are changing:

  • Case Study 1:
    Telecommunications in Afghanistan
    Roshan, General Counsel & Head of Government Affairs, Samir Satchu
  • Case Study 2:
    Government perspective in Brazil - Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Office of the Comptroller General, Vice-Minister, Luiz Augusto Fraga Navarro de Britto Filho
  • Case Study 3:
    Russia
    Julia Fedorova, Senior Associate, CMS Russia

Global versus Regional Compliance Programmes: Understanding the pros and cons

It’s one thing to draw up compliance programmes and communicate them from a central location – but what are the realities of operating from a regional perspective? In this session, you’ll be comparing and contrasting two companies with very different compliance models in place – and assessing the pros and cons of each in relation to your own company.

  • What works best: Communicating from a central location, or communicating through regional groups?
  • How can companies successfully balance local norms with global trends?
  • Best practice - and key mistakes: What are the 'golden rules', and what should be avoided at all costs?
  • Monsanto, Associate General Counsel EMEA, Natalia Voruz
  • Motorola, Corporate & Supply Chain Lead Counsel, Sian Hughes
  • World Check, Sales Director EMEA, Patric Marshall

Day 2, October 21st 2009

Plenary Session 1

How to sell your compliance challenge in a resource-constrained environment

In the current client, it's often seen as mission impossible to ask your board for more money and more people. But it can be done - provided you know the key messages they'll respond to, and the big risks they'll be wary of.

In this session, you'll get the tools you need to keep compliance where it belongs, at the top end of the corporate agenda:

  • Board pressure points: What are they scared of, and how can you spell out the true risks?
  • Selling across middle management: What's the key message you need to deliver?
  • Cost versus compliance: How do companies maintain momentum in an economic downturn?
  • With increased pressure on sales and profitability how can companies mitigate the increased risk of adverse behaviour?
  • Create your own business case: How can you take what's happened to others to build a risk - and opportunity - profile for your company.
  • European Investment Fund, Head of Compliance & Operational Risk, Jobst-J. Neuss
  • LRN, Senior Knowledge Leader, Sandra Bograd

Coffee

Plenary Session 2

Anti-Corruption Dilemmas: What would YOU do?

This fascinating session brings all the theory vividly to life. It’s the moment when a group of business leaders are faced with real-life challenging business dilemmas and asked how they would handle the situation.

You’ll definitely be asking yourself: “What would I do?”

  • BAE Systems, Associate General Counsel, Jeffrey Cottle
  • Siemens, Head of Compliance Investigations, Rainer-Diethardt Buehrer

Lunch

Workshop 1

The Fragility of Reputation: Why you need to protect it – and how

What price your corporate reputation? Does a good reputation guarantee a higher share price? Will it bring in better people? Can it even get you the benefit of the doubt from regulators and procurement partners?

Hear from the experts how you can put a value on your reputation, and find out:

  • Exactly how transparent should your company be?
  • What tools are essential for successful ethical communication?
  • What triggers the media to portray your company in a bad, or better light?
  • How can you make sure your good behaviour gets noticed - and delivers competitive advantage?
  • In what circumstances is it better not to communicate?

Workshop 2

International Anti-Corruption Initiatives: Why bother getting involved?

A multi-company initiative is one way to ease the concerns of stakeholders and demonstrate active anti-corruption efforts. But with so many on offer, which project will boost your company's reputation? And is it enough simply to belong – or do you need to take a starring role? This session delivers authoritative answers and exclusive insights from people in the know:

  • Find out how much value international initiatives add to a corporate anti-corruption programme
  • Hear about the challenges in complying with an initiative
  • Understand your responsibilities as a member of a multi-company initiative
  • Are these initiatives a way of self-regulating?
  • TNT, Senior Counsel Integrity, Cecilia Garcia Podoley
  • Siemens, Compliance Operating Officer & Chief Counsel Compliance, Klaus Moosmayer
  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Partner, Tom Sprange
  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Senior Associate, David Lorello

Round Table Round-Up

Summary of the main takeaways, final brainstorm and Chairman's concluding remarks.