Legal and compliance crises — including regulatory inquiries, dawn raids, public whistleblowers and trade/sanctions exposure — rarely announce themselves. The speed, clarity, and coordination of your response will define not only how effectively you navigate the immediate challenge, but the nature and extent of liability or other damage long after the event has passed.
In this session, we’ll share practical, experience driven guidance to help you prepare for the unexpected and respond effectively to crises. Together we’ll consider the following questions, among others: What are the crises with the most significant legal/ethical implications threatening companies today? What are the most important practical steps companies should be taking today to prevent and prepare for the unanticipated? What are common pitfalls to avoid in the critical early hours of a crisis—when thoughtful action can dramatically reduce legal and reputational risk?
Join us to explore how preparation today can safeguard your company tomorrow.
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.
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
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).