Scotland Conference 2023

The 2023 Scotland Conference brings the Scottish internal audit community together in person, providing a fantastic opportunity for learning and networking, with two days of informative presentations and lively debate, plus a fabulous drinks reception and dinner.

The event is open to anyone and is of particular interest to internal audit professionals from all industries, sectors, and locations, providing insight to the internal audit profession's views and experiences. This year we will hear from the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors' new CEO, and from leaders and senior professionals from various high profile organisations in the private and public sectors. The speaker line up will provide a mixture of challenge and thought provoking insight and will deliver keynote messages on a range of hot internal audit and risk topics, and current economic and business risks.

Speakers 

• Duncan Black - Head of Audit and Inspection, Glasgow City Council
• Javed Bobat - Founder, Fide Recruitment and F=@#! Mental Health CIC
• Sandro Boeri - President, Chartered IIA
• Federico Charosky - Founder and CEO, Quorum Cyber
• John Chesshire - Owner, JC Audit Training
• Sarah Collins - Director, PwC
• Ben Cowley - Head of Internal Audit, EMEA, Netflix
• Colin Howden - Scotland Committee Chair, Chartered IIA
• Jennifer Inglis-Jones - Director of Internal Audit and Assurance, The Scottish Government
• Sara James PhD, CIA - Owner, Getting Words to Work
• Anne Kiem OBE​ - CEO, Chartered IIA
• Karen Lewchenko - Auditor & Mind Management Consultant
• Jillian Lockie - Director of Internal Audit, ScottishPower
• Rohit Mathur - Partner and Head of Enterprise Risk, EMEIA, EY
• Ryan McCready - Non-Executive Director, City of Derry Airport
• Arleen McGichen - Chief Audit Officer, Royal London
• Andrew Milligan - Non-Executive Director, Phoenix plc
• Samantha Milligan - Principal Consultant, Change Recruitment
• Alex Psarras - Associate Director, Internal Audit and Financial Advisory, Protiviti UK
• Liz Sandwith CFIIA - Chief Professional Practices Advisor, Chartered IIA
• Jill Stacey - Chief Audit Executive, Scottish Borders Council
• Scott Strachan - Conference Chair
• Julie Watters - Chief Internal Auditor, NHS Dumfries and Galloway
• Gordon Young - Head of Counter Fraud Services, NHS Scotland

What will I learn?

• Insight to current trends and challenges in the Internal Audit profession
• Benefitting from thought leadership on hot topics
• Professional network building

CPE core competencies

• Technical skills: governance, risk and control
• Improvement and innovation

11.5 CPE points

Programme

The Scotland Conference will be held over two days:
Day 1 | Thursday 2 November 08:30 - 17:30 (with the dinner package commencing from 19:00) 
Day 2 | Friday 3 November 08:30 - 13:00  

Day one - Thursday, 2 November 

Day two - Friday, 3 November

This event has been organised by our Scotland Committee.

Please email iiaevents@iia.org.uk if you have any queries. 

Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors for their support

 Headline Sponsor

 Thought Leadership Sponsor

 Dinner Sponsor

 Exhibitors

Sponsor

Related training courses

Interested in the topics above?

We offer various training courses related to the topics covered in this event, including public courses and in-house courses. Please see our training programme.