Call for papers
KEY DATES
Conference: 30 October 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Submissions open: 13 August 2025
Submissions close: 12 September 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS – SUBMISSION
Presentation draft deadline: 16 October 2025
Presentation deadline: 23 October 2025
Who can submit
Anyone who is an expert in governance, risk and compliance, has practical knowledge to share about digitally transforming a business with the customer in mind, or has a product-independent case study to showcase. Please also read the guidelines below before submitting your proposal.
What should your submission look like:
- Talk title
- Short synopsis
- 2-3 take-away benefits for delegates attending
- Short bio of the presenter
- Hi-res colour head-and-shoulders photo (min 300 DPI)
Please send your submission to Ntando Sibanda, ntando@itweb.co.za on or before 12 September 2025.
For this conference, we are looking for presenters and panellists on the following topics:
- How can organisations automate risk detection and compliance monitoring to efficiently manage today’s complex regulatory landscape?
- Why are integrated intelligent GRC platforms critical, and how can they help break down silos across compliance, risk, and audit functions?
- Enabling real-time assurance in high-risk environments with Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM).
- How do real-time dashboards and risk scoring, improve decision-making?
- How RegTech is transforming compliance functions across sectors like finance, healthcare, and telecom?
- The importance of embedding privacy-by-design into enterprise architecture.
- Navigating POPIA, GDPR, and emerging global frameworks to overcome cross-border compliance challenges.
- How do Zero Trust security models reshape GRC policies around access, identity, and data protection?
- Effectively governing shadow IT and unstructured data - driven risk.
- Strengthening oversight in distributed environments in order to effectively deal with third-party and supply chain related risks.
- The impact of integrating ESG and digital ethics into governance frameworks.
- Why building a risk-resilient workforce culture is critical for operational integrity?
- The consequences of separating cybersecurity from GRC, and how alignment improves threat response and compliance.
- Using predictive risk management and scenario modelling to prepare for future threats.
- The importance of agility in GRC functions.
- Using adaptive frameworks to respond better to business disruption.
- How dynamic risk registers are changing the way organisations manage risk today?
- What should board oversight look like in the era of cyber risk, and how can directors ensure effective GRC accountability?
- How is cloud computing reshaping the GRC landscape, and what governance challenges do they introduce.
- What metrics should be used to measure GRC programme maturity?
- How to demonstrate ROI to executive leadership?
- How can predictive analytics support compliance in workforce management?
- How can organisations match tools to their maturity and risk appetite?
- How to translate threats into board-level reporting?
- What does leadership accountability mean in ethical and sustainable governance, and how can it be embedded into organisational DNA?
GUIDELINES
Speakers
are encouraged to focus on case studies and the practical application of the subject.
Presentations
should be content-rich and content should be up to date and relevant to the target audience. A breakdown of expected job titles and industry sectors can be provided on request.
