Objective
To provide IT professionals a technical learning event presented by industry leaders. The program will provide participants the tools, best practices and information on how to overcome challenges and prepare for future trends, delivered with practical and pragmatic approaches to topics and concepts.
Target Audience
IT professionals with 3 to 5 years of IT experience who are responsible for the operational aspects of audit, security and risk within the organization; and those looking to earn CPE credit for certification. Experience of at least 1 year in an IT environment is encouraged.
Learning Objectives and Education Mission
ISACA is looking for innovative session proposals that not only speak to the technical issues, but provide context. Speakers should offer real-world cases, examples of actual tools and working papers used, including mapping to ISACA frameworks, successes and failures, and insight on emerging issues to help attendees stay ahead of the curve. Sessions should be designed to encourage interactive audience participation by including small group discussions, exercises and other activities to promote dialogue. ISACA is not looking for 90 minutes of lectures but rather innovative, energetic and engaging sessions. Proposals from a team or panel are welcome in order to share multiple perspectives on a topic.
The learning objectives must be clear and measurable. Learning objectives need to complete the following sentence: “After completing this session, the participant will be able to…”
Speakers are expected to have read and to be familiar with portions of COBIT, Val IT and Risk IT that are relevant to their presentations. Speakers should consider how presentation content supports CISA, CISM, CGEIT and CRISC knowledge objectives. The speaker must provide additional resources such as documents related to the topic, bibliographies, white papers, relevant articles, tools, guides, sample audit programs and other information that extends the learning beyond the session and adds value to the event. Content is at an intermediate or advance level; content of a basic or primer level is not appropriate for this Conference.
Track Descriptions
IT Audit – Intermediate Level Only
This track is designed to provide concepts, methodologies and techniques to help the participants improve on their knowledge, expertise and skills. The level of discussion is not introductory, but rather assumes the participant has at least 1 year of IT experience, has completed some basic training and is familiar with IT terminology. Selected session proposals will provide participants with value-added tools such as audit programs, checklists, white papers and other reference material.
IT Risk-based Audit Programs and Tools – Intermediate/Advanced
Through demonstration and discussion of audit programs, this track will help IT audit professionals identify technological risks to the business and operational environments, and how to use relevant business analysis as well as IT audit tools and techniques. Sessions are hands-on at an advanced level.
Top IT Audit and Security Issues
In this track, cutting-edge IT audit and security issues, recommendations and solutions are discussed. Topics include social media and related risks, and new audit solutions; mobile technology, internal controls and solutions; and cloud computing strategies. This track will support case study discussions detailing solutions to specific problems or issues. We are seeking session proposals with value-added tools such as audit programs (especially mapped to COBIT), checklists, white papers and other reference materials including those posted at www.isaca.org/auditprograms.
Privacy and Data Protection Issues
This track will explore how threats to privacy are evolving, how privacy can be protected and how to balance the need to collect and secure information in a fast-paced environment where electronic information is exchanged. Concern over wireless/mobile communication, financial privacy, medical record confidentiality, background checks, and many sources of searchable Internet data test an enterprise’s data protection controls.
IT Risk and Exposure Management
This track presents topics essential to IT audit professionals to continue perform more advanced tasks and expand on their job responsibilities. This track presents the concepts of risk management and how to apply them for the benefit of the organization and its stakeholders. Sessions in this track will guide the IT professional to translate IT risk and issues into overall business risk, and exposures that the organization’s management and audit committees can understand and address.
How to Submit a Proposal
Potential speakers must complete an official ISACA session proposal form for each proposed event and topic The session proposal form serves to document the speaker’s vision of the proposed session and how he/she intends to treat the various issues of the topic. The Conference Development Task Force can only make its speaker selections after a comprehensive review of the session proposal documentation and bona fides. It is important to include a full biographical sketch and detailed list of speaking engagements.
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**Special note to public relations firms and internal marketing departments submitting proposals on behalf of a potential speaker: You must provide the direct contact information for the speaker. The speaker must be aware of the submission and be able to accept the commitment of presenting at the event if selected. ISACA must be able to correspond with the speaker directly. ISACA understands third parties and other interested persons often need to be included in any communications and will endeavour to keep everyone informed.