
Program · March 30 – April 1, 2027
Three days,
hour by hour.
Sessions marked Streamed reach the virtual track live. Everything recorded is available on demand afterwards.
In person, AtlantaStreamed to virtual
Arrive & take the temperature
A half day to land and connect, then the opening keynote and the sessions that set the frame for everything after it.

Same keynote, same queue.
The opening keynote and the sessions that set the frame are streamed live. You miss the coffee queue and none of the argument.

Industry Roundtable – Energy & Utilities
Description
Join us for roundtable conversations discussing challenges and opportunities facing the energy and utilities industry. Details coming soon!
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- Breakout session
Industry Roundtable – Financial Services & Insurance
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Join us for roundtable conversations discussing challenges and opportunities facing the financial services and insurance industry. Details coming soon!
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- Breakout session
Industry Roundtable – Healthcare
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Join us for roundtable conversations discussing challenges and opportunities facing the healthcare industry. Details coming soon!
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- Breakout session
Industry Roundtable – Manufacturing
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Join us for roundtable conversations discussing challenges and opportunities facing the manufacturing industry. Details coming soon!
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- Breakout session
Industry Roundtable – Retail/Consumer Goods
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Join us for roundtable conversations discussing challenges and opportunities facing the retail/consumer goods industry. Details coming soon!
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- Breakout session
Industry Roundtable – Software & Technology
Description
Join us for roundtable conversations discussing challenges and opportunities facing the software and technology industry. Details coming soon!
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- Breakout session
Inside the Investigation: A Hands-On AI Workshop for Compliance Leaders
Description
Join Epiq for a hands-on workshop and demo of their platform where you will walk through a simulated investigation using a realistic compliance scenario. Working through various prompts and problems, see how AI supports each stage of the investigation, including data collection, processing, investigation planning, interview preparation, and summary development.
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- Breakout session
Registration
Description
Registration opens with a grab and go welcome lunch.
Opening Remarks
Description
Ethisphere leaders kick off the 2027 Global Ethics Summit
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- Main stage
Human-Centered, AI-Assisted: Redefining the E&C Function’s Role for What’s Next
Description
As more work is being done by AI, E&C’s role is shifting. AI frees up time once spent on process and data analysis tasks, leaving team members with time to devote to more complex and nuanced work. In this session, E&C leaders come together to discuss this shift in focus and where to use that dedicated time.
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- Main stage
Ethisphere Data Presentation
Description
Ethisphere data experts share insights from our World's Most Ethical Companies and Culture data sets.
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- Main stage
Networking Break
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- Break
Beyond a Point in Time: Getting a Deeper Understanding of Third Parties Through Monitoring
Description
Third-party risk management is a lifecycle endeavor that goes beyond due diligence or a point-in-time risk assessment. Join us for a session on moving to an automated, risk-tiered, continuous monitoring process that spans the entire lifecycle of a third party and gives you a deeper understanding of the complexities of your third parties. Also learn the role of governance and how it impacts your third-party risk management program.
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- Breakout session
Streamlining & Operationalizing the Investigations Process
Description
Your investigations process should be standardized and repeatable to ensure consistency, while remaining streamlined to ensure efficiency. In this session, learn how this can be accomplished and improve your process by employing standardized root cause taxonomy, consistently calibrated discipline, and AI-assisted triage.
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- Breakout session
Break
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- Break
At the Touch of a Button: Reducing Risk in an Era of Data & Information Proliferation
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In the modern, digitalized era, information is fluid. At the push of a button, content can be created, conversations recorded, and confidential information profited upon. This begs the question, how do you govern the collection and use of information? In this session, learn how to create guardrails around data retention and use to mitigate and prevent risk, and how to clearly categorize your data and artifacts in a way that employees will understand how your policies apply.
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- Main stage
BELA Awards
Description
Join us as we celebrate members of our BELA Community and hear from honorees, in their own words.
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- Main stage
Cocktail Reception
Description
Join us for cocktails and light snacks to close out the first day of the 2027 Global Ethics Summit.
Sponsor Dinners
Description
Join our Summit sponsors for private, high-value opportunities to network and build relationships.

Breaks are twenty-five minutes on purpose. That is where the agenda actually happens.
Go deep on the hard part
The longest day and the densest. Board-ready storytelling in the morning, workshops that run past their slot in the afternoon.

A full day of programming, wherever you are.
The longest day, and the one worth clearing an afternoon for. The main stage streams in full; the workshops belong to the hall.

Registration & Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Description
Ethisphere leaders kick off day two of the 2027 Global Ethics Summit.
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- Main stage
Ethisphere Data Presentation
Description
Ethisphere data experts share insights from our World’s Most Ethical Companies and Culture data sets.
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- Main stage
Board’s Eye View: Communicating E&C’s Value & ROI at the Highest Level
Description
The question isn’t whether E&C brings value, the question is how to show it. In this session, hear how panelists are tapping into data and AI to sharpen their board reports to show the value and ROI of the E&C program, as well as how they tell their story through data and the reporting cadence that makes the most impact.
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- Main stage
Networking Break
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- Break
Evolving AI Governance: From Framework to Living Process
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Your AI governance should not be a set-it-and-forget-it exercise; it should be a living, adaptable process that stays ahead of the technology it is meant to oversee. In this session, panelists discuss what it takes to build continuous review, keep pace with the new capabilities and use cases, and create a framework that never stops adjusting.
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- Breakout session
Peer-to-Peer Conversations
Description
Expert led and facilitated, closed-door conversations covering a range of risks, challenges, and emerging issues. Gather with your peers to validate perceptions and benchmark approaches.
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- Breakout session
Programs in Action
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Presentations from BELA member companies on recent innovations and successes in their program. Go behind the scenes to learn not only what they did, but how they made it happen.
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- Breakout session
Break
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- Break
Champions Network 2.0: Structure, Data, and Still Doing It the Human Way
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We can’t deny the value champions bring to an E&C program. Whether you are looking to build a new program or refresh an old one, join us for a panel conversation on refreshing, structuring, and measuring your champions network, as well as how to incorporate AI-assisted tools for surveys and data, while maintaining the human way of work.
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- Breakout session
Getting Ready for CSDDD: Preparing for Due Diligence Disclosures
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As companies prepare to implement the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, join us for a practical session on its requirements for third-party human rights and environmental due diligence and disclosure, the implementation timeline, and what in-scope companies can do now to prepare.
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- Breakout session
Lunch & Service Activity
Description
Eat some lunch and give back to the community with a service activity from our partner Hands On Atlanta.
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- Break
Keynote
Description
More details coming soon!
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- Main stage
Expanding Ethical Moments to Keep Speak-Up Human
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The informal, person-to-person moments that happen long before an incident build trust for employees to speak up. This session examines two experiences at once: employees deciding whether to raise a concern, and E&C professionals who increasingly face retaliation for doing their jobs.
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- Main stage
Break
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- Break
Closing Your Risk Gaps: Making Your Code, Policies, and Standards Agile & Adaptable
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With new risks constantly emerging, your Code of Conduct, policies, and written standards and procedures must be able to keep up with the pace of change. This session will discuss how to set up and maintain continuous revision loops for your written standards, including what should trigger a review, adjusting scope to address new risks, and closing loopholes.
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- Breakout session
Peer-to-Peer Conversations
Description
Expert led and facilitated, closed-door conversations covering a range of risks, challenges, and emerging issues. Gather with your peers to validate perceptions and benchmark approaches.
Details
- Breakout session
Programs in Action
Description
Presentations from BELA member companies on recent innovations and successes in their program. Go behind the scenes to learn not only what they did, but how they made it happen.
Details
- Breakout session
Networking Break
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- Break
Keynote
Description
More details coming soon!
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- Main stage
Closing Remarks
Description
Ethisphere leaders close out day two of the 2027 Global Ethics Summit.
Details
- Main stage
Cocktail Reception
Description
Join us for cocktails and light snacks to close out the second day of the 2027 Global Ethics Summit.
Sponsor Dinners
Description
Join our Summit sponsors for private, high-value opportunities to network and build relationships.
Leave with something to bring back
A half day that ends in commitments. Everyone leaves with one written thing they intend to change.

The room goes home. You get the debrief.
A half day that ends in commitments. Write yours down wherever you are watching from.

Registration & Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Description
Ethisphere leaders kick off the final day of the 2027 Global Ethics Summit.
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- Main stage
Ethisphere Data Presentation
Description
Ethisphere data experts share insights from our World’s Most Ethical Companies and Culture data sets.
Details
- Main stage
The Agentic Program: Governing AI That Acts on Your Behalf
Description
Organizations are moving past copilots into AI agents that act on their own, updating third-party language, triaging cases, generating reports. This session delves into the governance AI agents require and how to keep it agile enough to match the pace of technology itself.
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- Main stage
Break
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- Break
Peer-to-Peer Conversations
Description
Expert led and facilitated, closed-door conversations covering a range of risks, challenges, and emerging issues. Gather with your peers to validate perceptions and benchmark approaches.
Details
- Breakout session
Personalizing Employee Training Without Losing Your Message
Description
Personalized training lands better with employees and helps the message stick with them. AI can be used to customize and target your training without sacrificing your voice and message. This session discusses how to make the most of AI, navigating delivery, crafting your tone, and measuring retention.
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- Breakout session
Programs in Action
Description
Presentations from BELA member companies on recent innovations and successes in their program. Go behind the scenes to learn not only what they did, but how they made it happen.
Details
- Breakout session
Break
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- Break
Spanning Both Sides of the Atlantic: What’s Changing in Corporate Enforcement
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Join us for a regulator’s panel covering recent major shifts in corporate enforcement, anchored by the UK’s expanded corporate criminal liability and the U.S. Department of Justice’s new unified corporate enforcement policy.
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- Main stage
Closing Remarks
Description
Ethisphere leaders close out the 2027 Global Ethics Summit.
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- Main stage
Peer Exchange Luncheon
Description
Programming has ended, but sharing of ideas doesn't have to! We will revisit our industry roundtables to regroup after learning insights during the Summit, as well as host peer exchanges, led by both Ethisphere and Summit sponsors on a range of topics. More details coming soon!