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The future of internal audit:
Key insights on how leaders are leveraging AI and financial risk discovery
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With data becoming front and center for many businesses, auditors have an opportunity to reinvent themselves and the way they operate. This shift is creating opportunities for new value and business models for firms.
Hear from MindBridge’s SVP of Strategic Insights and a panel of industry experts about how AI and data is reshaping the work that we do as accountants and internal auditors.
John Colthart
SVP, Strategic Insights
MindBridge
John has held a series of roles with increasing responsibility at MindBridge and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Sales. Before joining MindBridge, John held leadership positions in brand management, product experience, and design at IBM, including as a member of the team that launched IBM Watson Analytics. Prior to IBM, John was Vice President of Sales Operations for Clarity Systems, later acquired by IBM. John holds a bachelor’s degree in financial operations and accounting from Seneca College.
“ It’s hard to be future-proof, but not impossible. Technology companies need to stay several steps ahead.”
Marc Tassé
MBA, CPA, CA, CFF, FCPA(USA), CFS(USA), CICA(USA), CACM(USA)
Corporate Ethics and Financial Crimes Expert
Marc Tassé is a seasoned award-winning lecturer at the MBA program at the Telfer School of Management and at the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, and also an instructor at the United Nations Global Compact Network Canada’s Anti-Corruption Certificate Program. A recipient of the prestigious Trudeau Medal, he is a frequent media commentator and conference speaker, has been published extensively in Canada and abroad, quoted in various prestigious publications such as the Wall Street Journal, and delivers presentations at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.
Valerie Brobbel, MBA, CPA
Senior Analyst
Department of National Defence
Ms. Valerie Brobbel is a catalyst for innovation with over 17 years of experience in the public sector. Academically, Ms. Brobbel earned a CPA accounting designation and an MBA degree and completed training in change management, data analytics and emerging technology subjects. Professionally, she often challenged the status quo to find opportunities for improvement. With a diverse background in comptrollership, business planning, investment planning, project governance, and performance measurement, she has developed a systems thinking approach to solving problems. Her pioneering spirit and passion for data analytics enabled her to identify opportunities for innovation. Over the past the past three years, she has shaped data analytics efforts and managed Data Analytics Support Centres for two branches at DND. Ms. Brobbel’s curiosity and desire to introduce new ideas, new processes, new technologies, and new behaviours have led her to her current role as the Project Manager for the MindBridge pilot, the goal of which is to leverage machine learning and Cloud technologies to drive internal audit and financial oversight at DND to new levels.