What does one person’s ethical failure reveal about the systems around them? In this 30-minute fireside chat, Tom Hardin shares his journey from insider trader to ethics advocate in conversation with Erica Salmon Byrne. Together, they’ll unpack how tone, incentives, and group norms can erode judgment—and discuss what Ethisphere’s data shows about how strong cultures can prevent those same dynamics from taking hold. A rare look inside the psychology of misconduct—and the culture fixes that work.
Compliance today is about insight, integration, and impact. In this session, Carnival Corporation shares how it built a modern, tech-enabled E&C function, including governance and reporting structures that support meaningful insight. Learn how the team leveraged analytics, low/no-code tools, middleware, and AI to generate actionable insights, reinvent core compliance processes, and enhance the value of the compliance function.
The Ethisphere Data Intelligence Lab is an interactive space where attendees experience the full value of Ethisphere’s data, platform, and expertise—live and in context. Each 90-minute breakout opens with senior data experts exploring the “why” behind key assessment questions and sharing first insights from the 2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies® data. This year’s data presentation focuses on the themes of organizational justice and the influence of managers. Attendees then choose their experience: hands-on platform access and live training, facilitated peer meetups to apply insights in practice, or open “ask us anything” conversations with Ethisphere’s data experts.
Join us for an evening of networking and recognition of the annual impact of the BELA Community and leadership. Deepen your relationships across key decision makers from hundreds of member companies while volunteering in a service activity in partnership with Hands On Atlanta.
As the regulatory landscape grows more complex, the role of the Ethics and Compliance professional is shifting from manual oversight to strategic orchestration. At DocuSign, we’ve moved beyond the “hype cycle” to deploy emerging technologies that solve real-world friction.
In this working session, led by Hemma Lomax and Ashley Dubriwny, we’ll pull back the curtain on our journey integrating AI and digital assistants into the fabric of our global program. We’ll discuss how we are leveraging intelligent tech to:
- Humanize Global Comms: Tailoring engagement across borders without losing the personal touch.
- Predictive Regulatory Tracking: Moving from reactive reading to proactive monitoring.
- Dynamic Risk Assessment: Using data-driven insights to identify vulnerabilities before they manifest.
- Real-Time Navigation: Enabling employees with instant, “point-of-need” guidance to ensure compliance is a seamless part of their workflow.
In this episode, we are joined by Cargill’s Christopher Annand, Senior Director of the Ethics & Compliance Office, as he offers his thoughts on how Cargill innovates around training and engaging its production employees. He touches on the challenges of training in a production setting, engaging a large and diversified production workforce, and advice and encouragement for training non-desked employees.
Current Ethisphere clients are invited to bring your own device and work with an Ethisphere expert to fill out a section of the Ethics Quotient or learn more about how to use your data in the Sphere.
Gather in small groups and Ethisphere will walk you through facilitated networking conversations that build on the data presentation given by our data experts.
This session, led by Cargill’s Senior Director of Ethics, Compliance, and Security, Samantha McMacken, explores how AI and automation are transforming compliance into a more agile, efficient, and strategically influential function. Through practical examples related to case management, data analysis, and workflow optimization, participants will learn how Cargill has improved accuracy, streamlined operations, and unlocked new insights using enterprise tools like Microsoft Copilot/Power Platform and ChatGPT. This session will also provide participants an opportunity to share how they’ve been leveraging AI and automation and ask questions.