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The new frontier for internal assurance: sustainability, AI, and Geopolitics

The new frontier for internal assurance: sustainability, AI, and Geopolitics

£15.00
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Internal Audit
Sep
11
Thu
14:00
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15:00 BST
Schedule Type Title: 1st of the Month
Schedule Description: Stay ahead of the curve in internal assurance.
Sessions: 1
Session Hours: 1.00
Zoom Link: https://icaew.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k5miZouLSjyLqFdoxmsUeg
CPD hours: 1 hour
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Stay ahead of the curve in internal assurance.

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11/09/2025 14:00 - 15:00 BST Zoom

Event information

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, internal assurance functions are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. This webinar will explore the intersection of sustainability, artificial intelligence (AI), and geopolitics, and how these factors are reshaping the internal assurance landscape.

Key topics:

  • Strategies for managing diverse stakeholder expectations
  • Best practices for transparent and effective reporting.
  • Understanding the latest regulatory changes and their impact on internal assurance.
  • Preparing for future regulatory trends.
  • Implementing robust material controls to ensure compliance and sustainability.
  • Integrating ESG criteria into internal assurance processes.
  • Role of First, Second, and Third Line:
    • Defining the roles and responsibilities of the first, second, and third lines of defence.
    • Enhancing collaboration and communication among these lines to strengthen internal assurance.

Objectives:

  • To provide a comprehensive understanding of the current and future landscape of internal assurance.
  • To equip attendees with practical strategies for managing stakeholder expectations and reporting obligations.
  • To highlight the importance of evolving regulatory expectations and how to stay ahead of them.
  • To emphasise the role of material controls and ESG in achieving sustainable business practices.
  • To clarify the roles of the first, second, and third lines of defence in internal assurance.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this webinar could contribute up to 1 hour of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the webinar booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. You will need to save the email as a JPEG or PDF before uploading it to your record. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

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ICAEW MemberNo Charge
Non-Member£15.00
Retired MemberNo Charge
Life MemberNo Charge
StudentNo Charge
Affiliate MembersNo Charge
Community Subscriber - Internal AuditNo Charge

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. This event is organised by the Internal Audit Community. Please click here to join online.

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About the speakers

Moya Hayhurst, Experienced Co-Sec and Researcher for Centre for AI in Board Effectiveness
Moya is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute with over 25 years’ experience in corporate governance across sectors including mining, financial services, and insurance. She specialises in using technology to enhance governance efficiency and has led teams through major organisational and regulatory change at firms such as Barclays, Royal London, Canopius, and AXA UK. Currently Head of Governance at the Nucleus Group, Moya works with boards and governance teams to deliver practical, tech-enabled solutions that support effective decision-making. She also contributes to the Centre for AI in Board Effectiveness, helping boards adopt emerging tools with confidence.

Tracy Woods, Co-founder of Conversations on AI
Tracy is passionate about the transformational potential of data and AI technologies; however, having spent all of her career at the vanguard of driving technology change within organisations across the private and public sector, she is realistic about the challenges to success, and the imperative to embrace the human aspects in this current wave of digital transformation.

Originally a trained musician, she completed her MSc in Business Administration (IT) at University of Lancashire and moved into corporate IT management in construction, then pharmaceutical industries before latterly becoming a consultant advising all sectors. She co-founded the Conversations on AI initiative to encourage cross discipline/background dialogue on the impact of new technologies on society and industry, following her MA in Philosophy and AI at Northeastern University London during lockdown. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Iain Swan, Brave Within
Ian is a former Big-4 partner with over 30 years experience in consulting and industry.
A specialist in corporate governance - particularly the UK Corporate Code and Provision 29 - internal audit, enterprise risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley, and providing leadership in situations of control transition and assurance. An ACA qualified accountant accustomed to working directly with executive management and non-executive directors, and well versed in Audit and Risk Committee matters.
Experienced across multiple sectors with a recent focus on power & utilities, telecoms, media and technology, and manufacturing. Clients include some of the largest global companies, through the FTSE350 to private equity owned businesses, as well as 15-months seconded to National Grid as Group Head of Controls.
Led Centrica's Risk and Controls Upgrade Programme designed to meet UK Corporate Code changes and Provision 29 in particular.

Chris Tall, CAE, Deliveroo Plc
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