Speaker

Lauren Berrington

Chief Audit Executive & Chairperson of the IT Forum, Bidvest

Lauren Berrington is a founding member of and heads up the ALICE team. ALICE is an audit robot and provides audit-as-a-service in the IT space using cognitive automation, including machine learning, robotics process automation and artificial intelligence. She automates audit workforces.

Lauren also serves as the Chief Audit Executive of the Bidvest Group Ltd and has been responsible for the integrated and digital assurance strategies implemented across the Group. She is pioneering the futuristic landscape of IT-related audit services both inside of the Bidvest Group Ltd and beyond.

During her 16-year tenure in the audit industry, Lauren worked for the South African, Boston and London offices of PwC before joining the Bidvest Group Ltd in 2012. Lauren holds a B(Com)(Hons) degree in Accounting from the University of Pretoria. She is a qualified CA (SA) and CISA.

Lauren received the PwC Experience Award in 2011 and was a Top-10 Finalist in the SAICA Top 35 Under 35 Competition in 2014. She finds reward in equipping her team with the opportunities and skills to be relevant and successful in a disrupted future.

Lauren Berrington will be speaking on the following topics:

09:45
Case Study Intelligent GRC: Developing data-driven insight and remediation of risk

In the intelligent enterprise, GRC professionals must focus on the effective use of intelligent technology to manage risk. Intelligent technology can monitor patterns, predict outcomes, assess risks & incidents, suggest or implement corrective actions, raise alerts, among other things. During this session, Berrington will explore:

  • The role of internal audit in i-GRC. Are audits relevant as we know them today? Is insight possible instead?
  • Replacing expensive, unreliable, time-consuming manual tasks with intelligent tools.
  • Predicting control failure or detecting it with analytical tools.


16:10
Panel Discussion Panel discussion: Highlighting the latest updates on GRC laws that impact businesses, including data protection laws and privacy standards now at play

With the commencement date for GDPR having passed and that of POPIA on the horizon, it is pertinent for organisations to understand these laws on data privacy. The experts will discuss:

  • How to address data privacy issues, including compliance with GDPR and POPIA.
  • Methods of ensuring individuals who have access to personal data are bound by appropriate confidentiality undertakings.
  • When the POPIA commencement date occurs and what this means for businesses in SA.
  • Which lessons might be learnt through GDPR compliance and how they can be applied to POPI compliance.


Industry Insights Sponsors

Silver Sponsor

Display Sponsor