Meeting/Event Information

Morning Session Starts at 8:00 AM – 4 CPE’s
Check-in starts at 7:30 AM

AM-1 – Auditing Social Media
AM-2 – Auditing Social Media, continued
AM-3 – Auditing Social Media, continued 

Lunch Program 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM – 1.5 CPEs
Check-in starts at 11:30 AM

LUNCH – Creative Auditing: More than Just an Oxymoron 

Afternoon Session Starts at 1:30 PM – 4 CPE’s
Check-in starts at 1:15 PM

PM-1 – eDiscovery: An Internal Audit Perspective 
PM-2 – Generations, Change, and Social Media. Ignorance Bliss or Risk?
PM-3 – Turning Risks to Results

The costs for IIA members to attend this all-day, 9.5 CPE event is only $120.
Register by clicking the link below.

 Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Breakfast Buffet Starting at 7:30 AM
Lunch Starting at 11:45 AM

Los Anageles Athletic Club
431 West Seventh Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
(213) 625-2211
Parking will be validated

Learning Objective(s):

The Institute of Internal Auditors, Los Angeles Chapter's goal is to provide a forum to share practical approaches and best practices, generate thought leadership and strategies for risk management, collaborate with leading organizations and professional associations to share and examine the best techniques and solutions for risk management, and increase our knowledge to assist our respective organizations and clients.

The full program qualifies for 9.5 hours of Accounting and Auditing or Technical CPE hours.

Summary of the Program Topics:

Auditing Social Media

The use of social media continues to grow faster than anyone could have predicted.  As company’s come to grips with this new challenge, Internal Audit can partner with the business by providing insights on the strategies and risks that are unique to social media. This seminar will provide participants with a basic understanding of how internal audit can begin to evaluate its company’s efforts in social media.  This will include an understanding of the unique strategies, governance structures, and metrics that social media presents.  Through lecture, discussion, and small group exercise, participants will gain a basic understanding of the risks related to social media, as well as how an effective audit program might be developed.

Creative Auditing: More than Just an Oxymoron

In this session, Mike's unique blend of humor and internal audit knowledge is used to challenge auditors at all levels to think more broadly about the work they do, about what customers see, and about what every auditor thinks of themselves.  This presentation delves into how creativity can be fostered in an Internal Audit environment.  Attendees will learn the exact six things (or maybe seven, unless you need fewer, then maybe four or five will do, but eight is right out) you must follow exactly to develop a creative auditing department.  Well, maybe not - however, the presentation will include some of the approaches used in Farmers Audit that have helped keep the creative juices flowing.

eDiscovery: An Internal Audit Perspective

As companies look to demonstrate the reasonable and good faith efforts required by e-discovery regulations, many are turning to internal audit to apply a risk- and process-based approach to assess the potential risks, costs and burden. This session will look at how internal auditors can most effectively contribute to an organization’s e-discovery efforts in light of recent technology trends and changes in economic and regulatory landscapes.

Generations, Change, and Social Media. Ignorance Bliss or Risk?

Is generational change managing your business or are "you managing change" in business? The value of technology, social changes, and practical risk considerations for 'Generation Why' and the rest.

Turning Risks to Results

Risk management has grown increasingly complex over the years, prompting organizations to increase the size and reach of their risk management functions. Increased regulatory requirements and competitive pressures have caused many companies to re-evaluate their risk management focus.  Many organizations now have multiple risk functions that exist in silos and are disconnected from one another and the company’s broader business strategy.  This lack of coordination creates fatigue in business operations and may hinder an organization’s ability to manage and capitalize on risk.

Leading organizations are creating a competitive advantage through practical yet valuable improvements to the way risk is managed. Some common areas for improvement are:

• Improving the risk assessment process to better anticipate and understand risks
• Aligning risk management activities with business objectives to drive value
• Enhancing coordination among risk and control groups to eliminate redundancies
• Operationalizing risk management with technology such as GRC solutions
• Developing a consistent view of the business’s process, risk, and control models
• Collaborating on use of risk management resources
   

During this interactive session, Julie Lathrop from Ernst & Young will facilitate a discussion with participants and share her perspectives in working with companies large and small seeking to more effectively leverage their risk functions

**NOTE**: At the end of our all-day event at the LA Athletic Club please join us at the LA Athletic Club Happy Hour that runs from 5 to 7 PM.  You can unwind and continue to network with your colleagues while enjoying the sports bar with billiard tables and 10- inch HD television, reduced drink prices, and free chips with dip or salsa and free veggies.  

Presenter Biographies:

Mike Jacka, CIA, CPA
Author and Senior Audit Manager
Farmers Insurance

Mike is known for his work with Internal Auditor magazine including his blog “From the Mind of Mike Jacka” and the magazine’s Lighter Side pieces such as “Alice in Auditland”,  “Auditing Songs for the Holidays”, and “Do You Take this Auditor?”  He also plays an auditor in real life having worked in the Farmers Insurance Internal Audit department for over 28 years where he has had varying roles including oversight of the 40-person western audit operations team, designing training programs for a global team, and development of fraud investigation standards and techniques.  He is also co-author of the book Business Process Mapping:  Improving Customer Satisfaction which is now in its second edition, and the book Auditing Social Media:  A Governance and Risk Guide.

Frank Wu
Managing Director
Protiviti, Inc.

Frank is a Managing Director of Protiviti with over 23 years of professional experience working with clients to implement practical solutions in proportion to their business risks exposures. He leads both Robert Half Legal’s eDiscovery Services and Protiviti’s firmwide eDiscovery and Records Management Solution. He has helped global companies transform the challenges of ad hoc incident response, electronic discovery and records retention projects into sustainable processes within their routine operations.

VaNessa Vollmer, Ph.D.
Author and CEO
Success Realized

Dr. VaNessa Vollmer is known for setting up professionals and organizations to succeed through aligning talent with technology! She began her career in Human Resources as a Generalist and found her strengths in talent assessment, acquisition, professional development, succession planning, corporate policies, compliance and organizational development.  She has successfully designed and implemented Global Leadership Programs through International Corporate University settings for Hi-tech Manufacturing Organizations. VaNessa has a proven track record of analyzing business problems through solution focused resolutions that save time and put money back into the bottom line. She has leveraged her core skills in various industries including Aerospace, Biotech, Hi-tech Manufacturing, Healthcare, Non-Profit and Government. She has designed organizational infrastructure that saved $100 Million in short and long term costs.

VaNessa shares successful one-to-one leadership coaching & development as a trusted advisor for C-level executives.  After taking action on her recommendations, many employees successfully move up the corporate ladder. She integrates Professional Development from a practical approach that is driven in research based methods and successful business results. VaNessa’s desire to help others extends to her community and natural Leadership serving on Boards including President of Toastmaster’s and participation with AASE, MEA-West, Optimist International, Braille Olympics, and Special Olympics. VaNessa is a violinist with the Southern California Philharmonic.

She genuinely “walks the talk” while applying these leadership principles to her interest in the outdoors. She hiked and reached Mt. Whitney’s summit on August 1, 2009.  VaNessa completed her undergraduate work at U.C. Irvine’s School of Social Sciences, in Psychology and her Doctorate degree at United States International University. VaNessa is currently CEO of Success Realized which focuses on business needs surrounding employee engagement, change management, assessment, generational workforce dynamics, leadership, customized training and organizational development and offers Executive Coaching and professional development for individuals. Co-Author: Adapt or Perish How to Survive the Firestorm of Change in Business, Leadership and Careers. Published Summer 2011.

Julie Lathrop
Risk Transformation
Advisory Services
Ernst & Young

Julie Lathrop is an executive in Ernst & Young’s Advisory Services practice. She possesses a deep understanding of risk-based advisory services, including enterprise risk assessment, internal audit, internal controls, third-party contract reviews, and internal audit quality assessment review (QAR) projects.

Julie currently serves as a member of the firm’s national Risk Transformation practice, leading risk-oriented improvement projects with internal audit, internal controls, compliance and enterprise risk management functions of Fortune 500 companies.  She has presented emerging trends in internal audit and internal controls, continuous controls monitoring, data analytics, risk assessment and risk transformation for professional associations and industry groups in the western United States.  She is a CPA in California, a CIA and serves on the board of the IIA Orange County.