April 9: Speakers and session
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PLATINUM SPONSOR: WORKIVA
GRAEME FLEMING
GRC INDUSTRY PRINCIPAL – EMEA, WORKIVA
TITLE: ASSURING ESG PROGRAMMES THROUGH GRC
Graeme is Workiva’s Industry Principal for GRC in EMEA, and as part of the GRC leadership team in EMEA he helps to steer growth and strategy for Workiva’s GRC solutions internally and within the market. Graeme has over 25 years of experience across Internal and External Audit, Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Internal Control Design. He has held senior roles in Deloitte, EY and PwC where he helped clients build and run effective Internal Audit functions, develop fit for purpose Risk Management approaches. He has also been in Internal Audit leadership roles in a number of Fortune 500 and FTSE 20 organisations. He is passionate about Internal Audit and Risk delivering impact and insight effectively in a way which helps business run better.
Graeme will highlight the evolution of ESG regulation, the associated assurance requirements, and the critical role that internal audit plays in establishing assured integrated reporting in an area where risk and control thinking is not part of their ‘bread and butter’. This will involve discussing how Internal Audit can:
- Keep up with the evolving regulatory environment and the impact on assurance requirements
- Understand the importance of identifying, assessing risk and establishing controls over ESG programmes and the underlying data
- Develop assurance readiness strategies for sustainability reporting with practical insights on the internal audit assurance programme
GOLD SPONSOR: SOLIDIFY
TITEL: HASTIGHET OCH KONTROLL, KAN MAN FÅ BÅDA?
Emelie Alftrén is the co-founder of Modern GRC at Solidify. She has almost 20 years of experience working in different GRC roles in all “three lines of an organization” as well as an external auditor. Emelie has in the past years focused on developing and integrating GRC in agile practices.
Magnus Juvas is the co-founder and CEO of Solidify. A company focused on helping companies accelerate digitalization in a secure and compliant way. He is also one of the founders of Transcendent Group, a consulting company focused on GRC. He has worked with the risks and opportunities that software provides for over 25 years and holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Colorado.
SILVER SPONSOR: ZURICH INSURANCE
TITLE: FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BUSINESS: MITIGATING CLIMATE RISKS WITH DATA INSIGHTS
Mikkel Stigaard is a climate risk specialist at Zurich Insurance with an academic background with focus on understanding and modelling natural processes in ecosystems, rivers, and coasts, with an emphasis on managing potential climate-related risks arising from changes in these natural processes. Mikkel support companies recognizing the potential risks posed by the climate crisis, not just to society but to their immediate and long-term business operations. He is specialized in building business resilience by anticipating, mitigating, and managing climate risks through data analysis, which also facilitates CSRD reporting.
Mikael Karlberg is Head of Zurich Resilience Solutions team in the Nordics, comprising a team of risk consultants covering risk management within property, liability, and construction, as well as climate change mitigation solutions. Mikael has 25 years’ experience in Risk Management from the insurance industry.
Join us as Mikkel and Mikael share their combined expertise and insights on how companies can transition from words to action in addressing the climate crisis, leveraging advanced data analytics and comprehensive risk managing strategies to ensure sustainable and resilient business practices.
SILVER SPONSOR: ADVISENSE
TITEL: AGIL IT-GRC
Tomas Munkby har tre decenniers erfarenhet av GRC och då särskilt inom IT, såväl i linjeroller och som konsult. Tomas har bred erfarenhet av olika typer av verksamheter och främst inom finansiell och offentlig sektor. Tomas arbetar som konsult vid Advisense med internrevision och rådgivning inom GRC.
Natasha Afsar-Nazari är gruppchef inom IT-avdelning på Pensionsmyndigheten. Natasha har erfarenhet från myndigheten mer än 10 år. Vidare har hon arbetat med verksamhetsutveckling, projektledning, strategifrågor inom myndigheten. Natasha har arbetat med varierade IT uppdrag sedan 2008 och innan dess arbetade hon främst inom Sourcing & Supply Chain.

STEPHEN FOSTER
FOUNDER, GENERATIVE AUDIT
TITLE: MEET YOUR NEW COLLEAGUE, ALLIE GORITHM – WHAT GENERATIVE AI MEANS FOR INTERNAL AUDIT AND GRC PROFESSIONALS
Stephen combines insights and practical know how gained from his extensive career, with his passion for modern technology and continuous improvement. With a passionate view that technology is now, more than ever a powerful enabler, he seeks to help teams and organisations transform their internal audit and governance functions through a combination of vision, strategy, awareness (professional and behavioural), and practical innovation.
Responsible for internal audit, risk management and code of conduct in listed multi-national corporations. Stephen has worked in a diverse range of industries and global businesses for more than 30 years. He is an experienced business controller, project director, CFO and CAE.
He provides consulting, coaching and training services in the fields of Internal Audit, Controls, GRC and Generative AI. He is the provider of Articial Intelligence for Internal Audit (“AI for IA”) training, directly to individuals, organisations, and via the Institute of Internal Auditors, for which he will also be serving as a mentor for members seeking the CIA qualification.

URSULA SCHMIDT
BOARD MEMBER, INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR, SPEAKER & AUTHOR
TITLE: GOVERNING ANTI-FRAUD MANAGEMENT ACROSS ALL DEFENSE LINES
Ursula Schmidt is former Executive Vice President in Audit & Compliance for RTL Group, having led for many years the international group´s Internal Audit and Compliance practice. She held senior positions in strategy and controlling at RTL Group and served as chairman of the audit committee of Channel Five in the UK.
Ursula is a Board member of the IIA Luxembourg and serves as an independent non-executive director on several boards in Luxembourg. She is a regular conference speaker and publishes extensively.
She received the Internal Audit Beacon Award. Earlier, Richard Chambers acknowledged her as one of the “top leaders in the profession to follow in 2023”.
Ursula will host a webinar prior to the conference on the topic of Ethical blindness. Read more and register here>>

KEVIN AYTAP
SEASONED CISO. INDEPENDENT ADVISOR.
TITEL: EN CISO’s DILEMMA
Kevin Aytap är en erfaren ledare inom säkerhet med över två decennier inom nischen. Tidigare CISO på Avanza, Sveriges Riksbank och banken SEB, har han arbetat med att utveckla och implementera säkerhetsstrategier för att möta det ökande cyberhot landskapet. Som sakkunnig och förespråkare för starkare cybersäkerhetspraxis har Kevin en unik inblick i de utmaningar och strategiska överväganden som dagens CISO står inför. Under sitt tal, “CISO dilemma,” kommer han att resonera kring hur CISO rollen utvecklats och diskutera balansen mellan ledarskap, affärsmål och de incitament som styr beslutsfattande i en snabbt digitaliserande värld.

JAN OLSSON
ÅRETS SÄKERHETSPROFIL 2022, KRIMINALKOMMISARIE, POLISEN
TITEL: CYBERKRIMINALITET – KAN MAN ENS SKYDDA SIG?
Jan Olsson, Kriminalkommissarie, Polisen. Jan har arbetat som polis i drygt 30 år och under 15 år med internetrelaterad brottslighet bl.a. som nationell expert inom bedrägerier. Han var med och startade Nationellt Bedrägericentrum, NBC, men arbetar sedan 6 år tillbaka med förebyggande insatser och som verksamhetsutvecklare på Nationellt IT-brotts Centrum (Noa) / Swedish CyberCrime Center (SC3).
Som expert inom cyberkriminalitet och annan internetrelaterad brottslighet samt hur man enkelt kan minimera riskerna som privatperson och företag från att bli angripet har Jan som talesperson för ämnena inom Polismyndigheten deltagit i bokstavligen 1000-tals intervjuer i allt från TV och Radio till tidningar de senaste 15 åren.

PARUL SHARMA
GENERALSEKRETERARE PÅ INSTITUTET MOT MUTOR
TITEL: FÖRHÅLLANDET MELLAN KORRUPTION OCH ESG/HÅLLBARHET
Parul är hållbarhetsexpert, människorättsjurist samt författare och kommer närmast från Academy for Human Rights in Business. Dessförinnan har hon bland annat arbetat vid Sandvik AB som Global Head of CSR Auditing Suppliers och vid Stora Enso som Vice President Sustainability. Hon har dessutom innehaft rollen som Head of CSR Compliance vid Advokatfirman Vinge där hon var ansvarig för att bygga upp antikorruptionsprogram samt lett regeringens Agenda 2030-delegation. Hon har lång erfarenhet av att stötta näringslivet i hållbarhetsfrågor. Idag är Parul Sharma Generalsekreterare på Institutet mot Mutor.

MATTIAS ENGSTRÖM
SENIOR MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT & ADVISOR, VERGENTA
TITEL: INSIDERHOT OCH HUR DU SKYDDAR DIN ORGANISATION
Mattias Engström arbetar idag som rådgivare inom totalförsvar och säkerhetsskydd, och har en lång bakgrund på personalsäkerhetsområdet. Han har tidigare varit kansliråd i Regeringskansliet, Statsrådsberedningen och chef för centrala Säkerhetsskyddssektionen. Mattias har även varit biträdande chef för Informationssäkerhetsavdelningen/Cyberavdelningen vid FRA samt officer i Försvarsmakten med inriktning mot underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänst. Mattias är specialiserad inom HUMINT – informationsinhämtning genom interaktion med mänskliga källor, och är bland annat certifierad förhörsledare. Mattias har även en bakgrund inom organisations- och verksamhetsutveckling och är idag vid sidan av operativa insatser verksam som föreläsare och lärare.

MATT BRONIAREK
HEAD OF OPERATIONS, SAFELLO
TITLE: CRYPTOCURRENCIES IN A REGULATED ENVIRONMENT
Matt is the Head of Operations at Safello, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the Nordics, registered with Finansinspektionen and publicly listed. Over the past five years, he has led the implementation of Swedish and European regulations, ensuring compliance in a rapidly evolving industry.
Matt collaborates with regulators, law enforcement agencies, and private sector stakeholders to enhance understanding and awareness of cryptocurrencies at both national and European levels.

NAM PHONG HO
CAE, ENTREPRENEUR, BOARD MEMBER, CFA, QIAL, CIA, CISA, CRMA
TITLE: USING THE POWER OF SCENARIO SIMULATION TO REMODEL CONTROL TESTING – A GAME CHANGER
Nam Phong Ho brings a depth of expertise in finance, risk management, and corporate governance. As a Swiss national with over two decades of leadership experience, he previously served as the Chief Audit Executive of Glencore PLC. In this capacity, he was entrusted with the critical role of overseeing the internal audit function, reporting directly to the board and senior management. His tenure at Glencore cultivated a robust understanding of governance, risk management and internal controls frameworks.
Beyond his corporate roles, Nam stands out as a beacon in ethics, integrity, innovation, and change management, reflecting not only his skills but also core values. As an entrepreneur and investor, he is at the helm of Alpha Fow Zenith, a Swiss enterprise, reinforcing his deep-rooted business acumen.
He actively serves on the boards of various organisations, providing them with strategic advice, innovative solutions and leadership to drive their success and growth.
SARA I. JAMES
PH.D, CIA, OWNER, GETTING WORDS TO WORK® AND AUTHOR OF RADICAL REPORTING
JOHN CHESSHIRE
FCIIA, QIAL, CMIIA, CRMA, CIA, CISA
TITLE: TO BOLDLY GO – COURAGEOUS INTERNAL AUDITING
With over 30 years’ teaching, writing, publishing and corporate experience in the US and Europe, Sara I. James provides report-writing training worldwide through her business, Getting Words to Work ®. She has written numerous articles on language and reporting, and spoken at national and international conferences. As a member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors’ Technical Guidance Working Group, Sara provides resources for members in the UK and abroad. She is the author of the bestselling Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports, and was one of Richard Chambers’ 2022 Internal Audit Beacon Award winners.
John Chesshire is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (FCIIA) and holds various other qualifications and relevant designations.
He has nearly 25 years’ experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. He lives in Oxford in the UK, but he is rarely at home as he works with internal audit and risk management teams across the world. John is an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair, has been Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey and runs his own training company, JC Audit Training Ltd.
John has delivered well-received training courses and seminars to 15 Institutes of Internal Auditors across the world and his other recent clients include UK-listed companies, banks, multinationals, central and local government, law enforcement, international charities, professional services companies, as well as international organisations such as NATO, the OECD, and UN Agencies.

JONAS MYRDAL
KAMMARÅKLAGARE, EKOBROTTSMYNDIGHETEN
TITEL: INSIDERINFORMATION OCH BÖRSBOLAGENS INFORMATIONSGIVNING – VILKEN ROLL OCH BETYDELSE HAR KONTROLLFUNKTIONERNA
Jonas Myrdal är kammaråklagare vid Ekobrottsmyndighetens finansmarknadskammare. Han har tidigare arbetat med finansiell reglering både på myndigheter och i finansbranschen, bl a som rättssakkunnig vid Finansdepartementet och som övervakningschef på Spotlight Stock Market.

LAURENCE EECKMAN
VICE PRESIDENT GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT, ATLAS COPCO GROUP
TITLE: DO WE NEED INNOVATIVE ERM APPROACHES TO ENHANCE BUSINESS VALUE?
Mrs. Eeckman is an experienced Risk Manager with a long history in the risk and insurance industry. The Risk Management department of Atlas Copco Group, headed by Mrs. Eeckman covers many areas, from Enterprise Risk Management, loss prevention, crisis management and business continuity, as well as group insurances. She is also the managing director of the Group’s captive domiciled in Sweden. Furthermore, Mrs. Eeckman is part of the Group Crisis Management Team.
Laurence Eeckman is also a FERMA board member since June 2021 and chairman of FERMA ERM Committee.



TITLE: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IMPACT
WHY NOW IS THE TIME TO CHANGE THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE IN GRC
ADAM KAVENEY
PARTNER, SIMPLE REVOLUTION
Adam is an international brand and communication consultant. From his early days as an advertising copywriter to a later ‘corporate gig,’ leading global brand messaging and communication for PwC, he’s always had a keen interest in helping people, teams and businesses make better connections by clearly communicating who they are and what they can help people achieve. At PwC, he worked regularly with audit, risk and compliance teams to increase the impact they had in their in their roles. By combining his knowledge of effective communication and their own subject-matter expertise, the teams learned how to structure and write reports clearly – always thinking as readers, not writers. Today, Adam’s consultancy, Simple Revolution, has partnered with the Internal Audit team at PwC Sweden to expand this idea, creating a training programme to improve communication and outcomes throughout the reporting process – from first meetings to final presentations. The only downside to all this is that he’s married to a governance and compliance professional, so he can’t even put all this behind him when it’s time to go home…
SOFIA SELSTAM HAGSTRÖM
PARTNER, PWC SWEDEN
Sofia is Partner at PwC Sweden, specializing in supporting clients within internal audit, risk management and internal controls. Prior to her consultancy career, Sofia spent 12 years in the medical device industry heading the risk management and internal controls domain, where the top priority was to ensure safe products and patients, while at the same time achieving business growth. Sofia is passionate about keeping the client’s wellbeing in mind and also ensuring practical ways of working to support the business. Sofia is a certified internal auditor, certified in risk management and part is part of the regional Swedish IIA network offering seminars in the Gothenburg area.
STINA WASSÉN
CONSULTANT, PWC
Stina is an internal audit consultant at PwC, with expertise in Corporate Governance, Risk Management, and the evaluation and enhancement of Internal Controls. In her daily work, she focuses on effective and efficient project management, ensuring successful execution to help clients achieve their strategic and commercial objectives. Her industry experience includes retail, finance, private equity, and life sciences.
Before joining PwC, Stina worked at Kroll Inc in London, a firm specializing in corporate investigations and risk management. There, she led compliance and due-diligence investigations, specializing in anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC).

JENNY GUSTAFSSON
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COUNCIL ON ETHICS OF THE SWEDISH NATIONAL PENSION FUNDS
TITLE: A SYSTEMIC RISK PERSPECTIVE ON ESG
Jenny Gustafsson grew up professionally in Handelsbanken’s Asset Management after finishing her M.Sc. of Business at Uppsala University. In 2012 she began concentrating fully on ESG analysis, launching and operationalizing updated sustainability investment strategies as well as engagement programs, leading to a role as Head of Responsible investments at Handelsbanken’s mutual fund company in 2016. In 2019, Mrs Gustafsson took on the role as Head of Responsible Investments at AMF, one of Sweden’s leading Pension Companies, with EUR 70 billion AUM. As of June 2023, she is the Executive Director of the Council on Ethics of the Swedish National Pension Funds.

EVA JOLY
POLITICIAN, LAWYER, FORMER JUDGE
TITLE: TRUST – DO WE HAVE TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE TOWARDS GOVERNMENTS, INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLICLY OWNED COMPANIES?
Eva Joly is a Norwegian-born French politician, lawyer and former interrogation judge. She was a candidate for Europe Écologie Les Verts in the 2012 French presidential election.
Joly is internationally known for her fight against corruption and financial crime. She was awarded the Sophie Prize 2012, according to the jury, for her “fight against a culture of greed that causes problems for people and the environment”. In 2002, she was named European of the Year by Reader’s Digest magazine.
Eva Joly has worked for many years in France, and as an interrogator she has, among other things, been in charge of exposing corruption in the oil company Elf Aquitaine and in the major bank Crédit Lyonnais.
From 2002 to 2005, Eva Joly was Special Counsellor in the Ministry of Justice with responsibility for Norway’s international work against corruption and money laundering. In the period 2005 to 2008, she was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of the work against corruption and economic crime in Norway’s main partner country for development assistance.
In 2009, Eva Joly stood for election for the French Green Party and was elected as a representative in the European Parliament, where she chaired the development committee. She was thus one of the parliament’s 20 committee chairs. Joly was re-elected as a representative in the European Parliament in 2014.
