Kick off the Global Ethics Summit by spending time with your industry peers discussing best practices, challenges, and successes that specifically pertain to compliance in the manufacturing industry.
Next-Gen Learning: Exploring Emerging Tech Tools to Engage the “Non-Desked” Employee
Cargill’s Christopher Annand will lead a discussion of the challenges of trying to apply exciting advancements in training and communications with a production workforce by sharing examples of his own successes and misses in the space.
Third-Party Management: From Bite Size to Right Size
As organizations rely on increasingly complex networks of vendors, suppliers, and partners, third-party risk has become a critical ethics and compliance challenge. This interactive roundtable, led by nVent’s Bhavini Parmar, explores practical strategies for building a mature, scalable third-party management (TPM) program aligned with anti-corruption expectations, enterprise risk goals, and global business needs. Participants will discuss end-to-end TPM frameworks, risk assessment approaches, technology enablement, and cross-functional ownership—while sharing lessons learned on strengthening accountability and transparency across third-party relationships.
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Kick off the Global Ethics Summit by spending time with your industry peers discussing best practices, challenges, and successes that specifically pertain to compliance in the retail and consumer goods industry.
Bringing Your Full Self to Work: The Pros & Cons for Compliance
Signet Jewelers’ Ebony Yeboah-Amankwah and McDonald’s Jessica Nwokocha will discus how Gen Z has joined the workforce with a strong emphasis on bringing their full selves to work. This approach has fostered an environment of authenticity, enriching workplace culture, especially in a post-Covid era where virtual interactions made personal connections challenging. However, this trend has also led to a meaningful increase of instances of oversharing personal lives and opinions, raising questions about when such behavior becomes inappropriate in a professional setting.
Lessons from the Front Lines
Jonathan Dunn shares how Lowe’s has been strengthening their engagement with front line employees and managers with a new wave of targeted training and communications built specifically for those working in their retail environments.
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Kick off the Global Ethics Summit by spending time with your industry peers discussing best practices, challenges, and successes that specifically pertain to compliance in the financial services industry.
Is Your Compliance Program Built for Tomorrow or Stuck in Yesterday? discussion led by Guardian Life’s Dianne Ramos
The pace of change isn’t slowing down. If you had to design a 12-month roadmap to future-proof your global compliance function, what would you prioritize? In this discussion, we’ll challenge conventional thinking and explore strategies that move beyond “check-the-box” compliance. We will also tackle the evolution of reporting, shifting from activity-based outputs to outcome-driven insights that demonstrate real impact. Join us for a candid conversation about what it takes to lead—not follow —in Ethics and Compliance.
Why Doing the Right Thing is Harder Than It Looks discussion led by New York Life’s Jennifer Newman
Ethical decision-making is rarely straightforward—especially in highly regulated environments. This session explores the real tensions leaders face, including tradeoffs between growth, risk, and customer outcomes and the role of incentives, culture, and leadership in shaping behavior. Through case studies and discussions, participants will gain a clearer view of what drives program effectiveness beyond formal structures—and where meaningful change is needed.
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Strengthen and invigorate your organization’s approach to ethical leadership with an interactive deep dive into lessons from game-based learning, ethical skill-building (beyond compliance), and AI. In this session, the team behind the award-winning game Quandary will demonstrate how research-backed game mechanics and AI chatbot learning tools can build durable “ethical muscle memory.” With a particular focus on the game’s recent innovations in AI ethics, Shelly London (former senior corporate executive, long-time NYU Stern adjunct professor, and Quandary founder) and Scot Osterweil (MIT Education Arcade, Learning Games Network) will lead a conversation on equipping employees with the skills to navigate high-stakes challenges that have no one “right” answer. Attendees will leave with a thoroughly research-backed framework for using serious play to drive employee engagement, mitigate risk, and foster ethical decision-making skills up and down the corporate ladder. Additionally, participants will gain exclusive early access to explore Quandary’s new ethics learning tools.
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.
Hear from former SEC FCPA Unit Chief Charles Cain and Digital Compliance leader Kyler Capenigro as they discuss the questions regulators actually ask, the weaknesses they commonly see, and how technology-enabled monitoring can provide defensible evidence of program effectiveness.
DOJ guidance increasingly emphasizes proactive, risk-based monitoring as a core element of effective compliance programs—but how are companies putting this into practice? This facilitated discussion brings compliance leaders together to share how they are approaching real-time monitoring across both communications and transactional data. Topics will include how programs get started, stakeholder buy-in, transparency with employees, managing findings, and where monitoring strategies are headed next. Participants will leave with peer-tested insights and practical advice for strengthening their own monitoring capabilities.
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.
Hypergrowth companies face a unique compliance paradox: the faster they scale, the harder it becomes to build ethical infrastructure that keeps pace. This peer conversation brings together compliance leaders navigating program transformation, whether inheriting legacy programs, building from scratch, or repositioning compliance as a business enabler.
ServiceNow’s Bill Burtis, SVP, Legal, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, will guide structured dialogue around key transformation challenges: establishing credibility before you have wins, building team identity before strategy execution, communicating with boards when assessments reveal gaps, and measuring outcomes rather than activities. Participants will share what worked, what required adjustment, and how they balanced speed with sustainable ethical infrastructure. The goal is practical peer learning: participants leave with insights they can apply immediately.