Embedding new GRC Technologies into business processes
25 & 26 February 2020
The Forum, Bryanston
Speaker
Max Blecher
managing director, Virtual Alliance
Max Blecher is a member of the international team developing the ISO/IEC standard on the Governance Implications of the Use of Artificial Intelligence by Organisations.
The standard aims to help governing bodies understand the opportunities and risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) - and to provide guidance on their responsibilities to ensure the appropriate and ethical use of AI in their organsiations.
Max is the chair of South African National Standards Body mirror committee on IT Service Management and IT Governance and heads the South African delegation to ISO for this committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC40).
He is also the managing director of Virtual Alliance, a company specialising in the provision of IT governance, risk and compliance services to large organisations in South Africa. He has over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry and holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from the University of the Witwatersrand.
He is a past president of the South Africa chapter of ISACA, has participated in the development and review of several COBIT publications and is CGEIT certified.Max Blecher will be speaking on the following topics:
Interactive Session How to embed ethics in AI-driven business processes and innovations
The possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues. These questions relate both to ensuring that such machines do not harm humans and other morally relevant beings, and to the moral status of the machines themselves. The ethics of AI lies in the ethical quality of its prediction, the ethical quality of the end outcomes drawn out of that, and the ethical quality of the impact it has on humans.
- Learn how to ensure that the AI systems you adopt always act in a way that is in line with the organisation’s core values.
- How biased algorithms can lead to a discriminatory impact.
- Ensuring that the AI systems used produce correct, precise and reliable results.
- Creating company-wide awareness of the applications of AI.
Welcome and scene-setting – event chairperson
Panel Discussion RegTech: What compliance and regulatory issues does RegTech work solve?
Regtech is the management of regulatory processes within the financial industry through technology. It promises to disrupt the regulatory landscape by providing technologically advanced solutions to the ever increasing demands of compliance within the financial industry. The main functions of RegTech include regulatory monitoring, reporting and compliance. We will discuss:
- The evolution of RegTech landscape to address financial institution needs.
- The compliance and regulatory challenges RegTech can solve.
- What are the RegTech adoption challenges?
Chairman's welcome
Industry Insights Sponsors
F-Secure
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Puleng Technologies in partnership with RSA
Puleng Technologies
The Puleng Blueprint provides our customers with a client-centric strategy to manage and secure the two most valuable assets an organisation has: its Data and Users while facilitating IT and business with a platform to build an efficient, collaborative and integrated Cybersecurity programme.
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RSA
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OneTrust GRC
OneTrust GRC enables risk, compliance and audit professionals to identify, measure, and remediate risk across their business. With OneTrust GRC, companies can seamlessly integrate risk management into their daily activities.
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ISACA
The South Africa Chapter covers all of South Africa; including the Western Cape (Cape Town), Eastern Cape (PE and East London), Gauteng (Johannesburg & Pretoria) and Kwazulu-Natal (Durban).
The South Africa Chapter (130) is the largest chapter in the Africa region, which comprises 17 ISACA chapters; and is the twelfth-largest chapter of ISACA’s 221 chapters worldwide.
Now in its 28th year of existence, the vision of the ISACA SA Chapter is to be the leading professional organisation in South Africa for business leaders in technology, information and cyber security, governance, risk and innovation.
The ISACA community is guided by our Purpose and Promise, which defines the essence of who we are and what we do. Our Purpose is the reason we exist—to help business technology professionals and their enterprises around the world realize the positive potential of technology. Our Promise is how we, as an organization and as individuals, deliver on our Purpose: inspiring confidence that enables innovation through technology. Our work, and the work of the professional community we support, has never been more important.
Please visit: engage.isaca.org.
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