Organizations today face unprecedented pressures: faster business cycles, rising regulatory expectations, and increasingly complex third-party and reputational risks. This session, led by Xapien’s Jessica Denny, explores how to approach the integration of AI into due diligence and compliance processes, helping teams make informed, defensible decisions while maintaining speed and accuracy. Attendees will learn practical frameworks for assessing readiness, gaining buy-in, and moving from one level of maturity to the next—whether you have a homegrown tool, a sophisticated system, or are evaluating AI solutions for the first time.
For many organizations, AI is no longer a future consideration but a daily reality. Yet policies around AI use fall flat without a workforce that understands the basics of AI technologies and risks. This 90-minute session blends expert insights and hands-on collaboration. First, two compliance leaders will outline their approaches to AI literacy training—including baseline requirements, role-specific adaptations, and lessons learned from case studies. Then, participants will engage in a workshop to exchange challenges and explore solutions to equip employees with the knowledge they need to responsibly apply AI in their work.
Discover how automated due diligence tools transform the way organizations assess people and entities. In this workshop, Dow Jones will guide participants through running reports, understanding data sources, and analyzing outputs to support informed decisions. You’ll gain practical experience and best practices for combining automation with critical thinking in today’s fast-paced risk environment.
Compliance and sustainability risks are inevitable—constant firefighting doesn’t have to be. In this interactive, case-based workshop, participants will work through a realistic compliance and sustainability crisis affecting a global subsidiary. Attendees will join Ethisphere experts Craig Moss, EVP of Measurement, and Eric Jorgenson and Emily Miner, Directors in Data & Services, to break into role-based teams to assess the situation and put out the fire to minimize damage to business continuity and reputation. Then the groups will apply residual risk calculations to prioritize next steps over the following 6–12 months to prevent future crises. The session will also explore how Generative AI can leverage residual risk data to help scale compliance and sustainability risk management across complex organizations.
This interactive session, led by Indiana University’s Todd Haugh, Suneal Bodi, and Mercy School of Law’s David Lourie will help compliance leaders move from the conceptual framework in the keynote to concrete decisions about (1) which offensive compliance strategy fits their organization, (2) what capabilities they can actually leverage, and (3) how to frame and implement that strategy internally.
As Chief Compliance Officers, we have spent years defending technology investments based on a well-understood formula of efficiency and risk reduction. However, Artificial Intelligence has radically changed the variables. This session provides a roadmap, moving past the “Proof of Concept” phase, and addresses three investment scenarios: justifying the cost of AI, managing the hidden lifecycle costs of “DIY” internal tools, and defending domain-specific spend against the “just use Copilot” pushback.
We’ll discuss an AI Investment Framework to build a narrative that drives your business case through the review processes, including:
- Financial Viability: Quantifying risk mitigation and business protection over simple time savings.
- Operational Impact: Shifting the narrative from simple efficiency to effectiveness.
- Governance Architecture: Fit checks with governance models (e.g., AI usage policies, privacy, frameworks).
Grounded in new research with the World’s Most Ethical Companies and board-level culture data, this hands-on session, led by Diligent experts Kira Ciccarelli and Neta Meidav and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne, helps senior compliance leaders pinpoint which board behaviors most strongly influence ethical culture—and how to embed those practices in their own organizations.
This hands-on AI session is built for Ethics & Compliance leaders who want to see what AI can actually do today. Join Roxanne Petraeus (CEO, Ethena) for a guided walkthrough and live demos of several of the most common AI tools that will help you discover practical use cases for AI in training and comms.
From turning policies into podcasts to generating videos from prompts, automating translations, and customizing tone, Roxanne will show you what’s possible right now and help you create actual outputs you can bring back to your program. See how today’s best tools can modernize training, communications, and analytics, and where AI still falls short, so you can focus on what really works.
This 90-minute session is designed for hands-on participation, so bring your laptop and also your curiosity. You’ll leave with an AI-built artifact (a video, podcast, or course outline) and the confidence to take your first (or next) step with AI in compliance.
Key Takeaways:
- Try It Yourself: Use several common AI tools that power real compliance workflows
- Learn by Doing: Build actual outputs, no vendor red tape required
- Build vs. Buy: Learn when to DIY vs onboard a vendor
Walk away ready to build: Leave with real outputs and prompts you can use right away
It’s 2026, and teams continue to remain under pressure to justify spend, demonstrate impact, and respond to increasingly sophisticated questions from boards and regulators. Activity metrics alone are no longer enough, leaders are being asked to provide assurance.
This interactive 90-min workshop explores how E&C leaders can translate program activity into defensible, decision-ready insights that resonate with boards and executive leadership. Participants will examine:
- What boards and executive leadership actually care about
- Where most E&C reporting falls short
- The importance of benchmarking and program assessment data
- How to create dashboards, and clear executive narratives
Compliance and sustainability risks are inevitable—constant firefighting doesn’t have to be. In this interactive, case-based workshop, participants will work through a realistic compliance and sustainability crisis affecting a global subsidiary. Attendees will join Ethisphere experts Craig Moss, EVP of Measurement, and Eric Jorgenson and Emily Miner, Directors in Data & Services, to break into role-based teams to assess the situation and put out the fire to minimize damage to business continuity and reputation. Then the groups will apply residual risk calculations to prioritize next steps over the following 6–12 months to prevent future crises. The session will also explore how Generative AI can leverage residual risk data to help scale compliance and sustainability risk management across complex organizations.