Strengthening Internal Audit's Role in Strategic Risk Leadership

Don't miss the 2026 Enterprise Risk Management Virtual Conference—a vital gathering designed to enhance your effectiveness in overseeing risk, managing compliance, and providing strategic guidance to your organization. This virtual event combines thought-leadership sessions, practical examples from real organizations, and frameworks rooted in The IIA's Three Lines Model to equip you with actionable approaches for navigating the modern risk environment.

Why Attend

This conference serves chief audit executives, internal audit leaders, risk management professionals, compliance specialists, and senior organizational stakeholders seeking to build stronger ERM capabilities and enhance their influence on risk management and supply chain oversight. As internal audit's involvement in broader risk management and oversight functions deepens, this conference explores how to address disconnects between where audits focus and where actual organizational risks reside while building stronger risk-informed decision-making capabilities.

Key Topics Covered

Participants will develop a deeper understanding of contemporary risk challenges and strengthen their approaches to audit planning and execution. Key focus areas include:

• External risks that interconnect across organizational systems and strategy

• Digital infrastructure vulnerabilities and strategies for maintaining cyber resilience

• Supply chain vulnerabilities and economic pressures from global trade dynamics

• Preparation for high-impact but lower-probability events and tail risks

• Misalignment between traditional audit priorities and actual enterprise risk exposure

• Organizational transformation driven by AI technologies and capability requirements

• Environmental, social, and governance priorities alongside climate and regulatory evolution

• Insights drawn from significant organizational failures and recovery experiences

What to Expect

This virtual gathering convenes internal auditors, CAEs, risk professionals, and organizational leaders addressing how to strengthen enterprise risk management. Through expert presentations on contemporary risk landscapes, digital and operational security, supply chain resilience, technology-driven transformation, sustainability considerations, and how organizations apply risk-based thinking, participants gain practical tools for deepening audit's strategic value while ensuring risk perspectives align with organizational realities using The IIA's framework.