With you for the past 10 years, committed to compliance and integrity!
With you for the past 10 years, committed to compliance and integrity!
4. BLED COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS CONFERENCE (BCEC)
The red thread of the conference was ‘reputation risk’ .
Once again, in the beautiful environment of the IEDC Business School in Bled, we hosted an international conference of over 100 participants and excellent domestic and foreign speakers. Watch the video of this year's event, photo gallery and program and e-brochure, where you can find more about the current lecturers.
PROGRAM, dne 18. oktober, 2018
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Reception of participants, registration | EICE, IEDC |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Introductory speech | prof. dr. Danica Purg, President of IEDC - Bled Business School Andrijana Bergant , President of the European Institute of Compliance and Business - EICE |
| 15:50 – 17:40 | Ethics in life and at work – What determines our personal (and professional) ethics and why it matters – Basic philosophical theory of ethics and ethical decision making – Ethical decision - making models and Slovenian managers - research | Matej Drašček, Hranilnica Lon, d.d., Head of Internal Audit |
How to build personal competencies for ethical leadership – What ethical challenges do we face in business and how to overcome them – How unethical leaders can suppress a company (or even a country) and how ethical leaders can create a better world | Vera Mandić, Founder of Bspark Values-led Leadership Academy, Empowering Talented Change Experts, Spain | |
Ethical operation of individuals and companies as a condition for sustainable development of the economy and society – Ethics, as an integral part of value-added social responsibility, with practical illustrations and examples – What are the current barriers to sustainability that are causing problems across Europe and the wider world, and how are they related to compliance and ethics? – The link between personal and organizational ethics, and between organizational ethics and sustainable success | prof. dr. René Schmidpeter, Professor at IEDC and Secretary General of the WISE Institute, Director at the Center for Advanced Sustainable Management (CASM), Cologne Business School and Dr. Jürgen Meyer Endowed Chair for International Business Ethics and CSR, Director and Owner at M3TRIX GmbH consultancy, Germany | |
| 17:40 – 18:00 | Discussion | |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Award of ICA Advanced Certificate and Business Compliance, first generation Slo / Cro | Tom Perry, Senior Manager, ICA – International Compliance Association |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Dinner | IEDC premises |
| 20:30 | Informal socializing - reception with sparkling wine | Outside the IEDC premises. The exact location will be announced later. |
PROGRAM on October 19, 2018
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Introductory speeches | prof. dr. Danica Purg, President, IEDC - Bled Business School Maja Šušteršič, President, SI.RISK Andrijana Bergant, EICE, President |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | I. Corporate governance | |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Good corporate governance as a fundamental defender of reputation – Latest international standards for communication with stakeholders in corporate governance and related added value and competitive advantages for the company – Social responsibility and non - financial reporting aspects | Maria Gomes, Senior Policy Advisor at Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA), UK |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | How can we protect and even improve our reputation with a good response to a catastrophic event – Case study at Brussels Airport Company | Michaël Dehert, Senior Customer Executor - Risk Management, Marsh NV / SA, Belgium |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | II. Business compliance system management and reputation risk | |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | What we have learned from global and regional reputation failures – International cases of damaged reputation, causes and consequences – Effective compliance management to reduce reputation risk | Christopher Stringham, risk specialist, Thomson Reuters, Austria |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | The impact of international sanctions on business operations – An overview of current international sanctions and to whom they apply, their significance for world peace and the protection of human rights | Pekka Dare, Director for Training and Development, International Compliance Association (ICA), UK |
| 10:50 – 11:15 | Practical approaches in assessing reputational risks | Mojca Koder, Senior Manager in the field of forensic services, PwC Slovenia Oliver Currie, Manager, PWC Slovenija |
11:15 – 11:35 | How a good compliance program can help protect your reputation in good times and bad – Examples from practice | Dajra Dedić, Associate director Compliance, SEE Region, Pliva d.o.o., Croatia |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Discussion with participants | |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Refreshment break | |
| 12:20 – 13:10 | III. Business ethics: conflict of interest as a major threat to reputation | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | The importance of internal mechanisms to prevent illegal and unethical practices – Presence of fraud and corruption in Slovenia and impact on business – 10 anti-corruption principles for companies | Vid Doria, Transparency International – Slovenija |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Frequent topics of resolving conflicts of interest in the public-private sector relationship – Experience of the authority from the region | Nataša Novaković, President of the Commission for Deciding on Conflict of Interest of the Republic of Croatia |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Discussion with participants | |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | ‘Executive’ Roundtable: Reputation and integrity as a company asset and how to maintain it | Tomaž Lanišek, director at Knauf Insulation; Per Sundbye, Partner at PwC Slovenia; Rok Praprotnik, Director of the Compliance and Integrity Department, NLB, d.d .; prof. dr. René Schmidpeter, moderator |
| 14:45 | Lunch | |
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Education, research and development in the field of compliance and ethics and care for the development of the business compliance officer profession.