REGISTRATION HERE

MCP (model context protocol) is rapidly emerging as the standard for connecting AI systems with enterprise data and business processes. However, many organisations focus on technology before addressing a more fundamental challenge: governance readiness.

Successful MCP adoption depends on more than secure architecture and technical controls. It requires clear ownership, cross-functional accountability, trusted data sources, auditability, and governance structures capable of supporting AI-enabled decision-making across the enterprise.

This session explores how organisations can move from fragmented governance ecosystems (where risk, compliance, audit, legal, quality, and security operate in silos) toward a shared organisational context that enables responsible and scalable AI adoption.

Drawing on practical governance experience and research into governance under uncertainty, the session highlights common governance pitfalls that can undermine AI initiatives, including accountability gaps, siloed decision-making, and symbolic governance practices.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing governance readiness, aligning key stakeholders, and establishing the governance foundations that transform MCP from a technical implementation into a strategic business capability.

Learning objectives:

• Assess your organisation’s MCP-readiness across ownership, accountability, auditability, and policy frameworks.
• Identify governance fragmentation risks that can undermine AI-enabled decision-making and MCP initiatives.
• Build a practical roadmap for creating shared organisational context and cross-functional governance alignment.

REGISTRATION HERE

Speaker:

Salla Lutz

Head of Group Management Systems, LAB14 GmbH

Salla Lutz is a governance professional working at the intersection of governance, risk, compliance, quality, and organisational transformation in a multinational high-tech group environment. Her work focuses on integrating governance structures, management systems, and decision-making processes across complex multi-entity organisations.

She holds a PhD in Business Transformation under Uncertainty and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Risk & Compliance Management. Her research focuses on governance competence, responsible leadership, and the organisational factors that enable — or obstruct — effective governance in increasingly complex and digital environments.

Combining academic research with hands-on experience in governance integration, internal auditing, risk management, management systems, and organisational change, Salla brings a practical perspective to the challenges organisations face when implementing AI-enabled governance structures.

Her particular interest lies in helping organisations move from fragmented governance systems toward shared organisational context, where technology supports transparency, accountability, and better decision-making without replacing human judgment and leadership responsibility.

CPE credit(s): 1 CPE upon live viewing and participation. CPEs not offered on-demand.

Field of study: Management Services

Instructional delivery method: Group Internet Based

Level: Basic

Prerequisite: None

Advanced preparation: None

REGISTRATION HERE

As internal control functions across European financial institutions become more specialised, interconnected and collaborative, reliance is becoming a growing strategic question for Internal Audit.

This ECIIA Banking Committee webinar will mark the release of the ECIIA paper on Internal Audit reliance strategy in the banking industry. The paper will be presented during the session before being made available on the ECIIA website.

The webinar will explore what reliance means in practice, when it can be considered, and how it can be implemented safely while preserving the independence and objectivity of the Internal Audit function.

Speakers will discuss the key prerequisites, constraints and enablers of reliance practices, including assurance mapping, assessment of other assurance providers, documentation requirements, governance safeguards, and the need for a progressive approach from coordination to collaboration and, where appropriate, reliance.

The webinar will also highlight why reliance is not simply the reuse of prior work, but a strategic decision requiring strong governance, clear accountability and regular reassessment by Internal Audit.

Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the opportunities and limitations of reliance in banking, and of the practical conditions needed to make it robust, proportionate and aligned with regulatory expectations.

This session will be particularly relevant for Chief Audit Executives, internal audit professionals in the banking sector, risk and control functions, and stakeholders involved in coordinated assurance and the Three Lines model.

Speakers:

• Maria Rontogianni, Chief Internal Auditor, Alpha Bank
• Jonathan Wilson, Chief Internal Auditor, Barclay’s Bank
• Alexandre Maymat, Inspecteur Général, Head of IGAD, Société Générale

📅 Date: July 7, 2026
🕓 Time: 12:00 CET / 13:00 Lithuania time
🎟️ Participation is free

📢Language: English

Registration link: [LINK]

Learn more 👉 Overview & details

Date: June 4-5, 2026 (Riga) and November 12-13, 2026 (Vilnius)
Price: 1 400 Eur + VAT

Language: English.

On May 19, 2026, PEMPAL IACOP in collaboration with The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA), will hold a webinar on enhancing collaboration with government audit committees.

The webinar will explore practical aspects of audit committee engagement in the public sector, including:

• strengthening audit committee effectiveness;
• applying the Global Internal Audit Standards (Domain III) in public sector environments;
• presenting audit plans and engagement results;
• building effective communication and relationships;
• navigating internal and external audit discussions.

Led by an international panel of experts from The IIA, PEMPAL, and the public sector audit community, the session will provide practical insights and strategies to support transparency, oversight, and accountability.

📅 Date: May 19, 2026
🕓 Time: 16:00 CET / 17:00 Lithuania time
💻 Platform: Webex
🎟️ Participation is free

📢Language: English

Join the meeting here: [LINK]

Meeting number: 2310 556 7228
Password: b4MFpPD67Tv 

Rizikos valdymo akademija – tai 10 struktūruotų popietinių sesijų programa, skirta specialistams, dirbantiems su organizacijos rizikomis sprendimų priėmimo lygmenyje.

Programa remiasi integruota ERM metodologija ir Europos gerąja praktika, kur rizika vertinama kaip strateginių sprendimų dalis, o ne vien kontrolės ar atitikties klausimas.

Aktualumas vidaus auditoriams

Vidaus audito funkcija vis dažniau susiduria su poreikiu:

• pereiti nuo fragmentuoto rizikų vertinimo prie sisteminio požiūrio;
• aiškiai susieti vidaus kontrolės vertinimą su organizacijos strateginiais tikslais;
• vertinti rizikas ne tik procedūriniu, bet ir sprendimų kontekstu;
• stiprinti komunikaciją su vadovybe, valdyba ir audito komitetu;
• prisidėti prie organizacijos atsparumo ir veiklos tęstinumo.

Rizikos valdymo akademija suteikia metodinį pagrindą šiems uždaviniams spręsti.

Programos struktūra

Programa apima:

• rizikos sampratą ir ERM sistemą;
• rizikų identifikavimą ir vertinimą;
• strategines ir organizacines rizikas;
• išorines ir kompleksines rizikas;
• finansines ir nefinansines rizikas;
• pažangius rizikos analizės metodus;
• veiklos tęstinumą ir krizių valdymą.

Mokymai orientuoti į sprendimų logiką ir metodologinį pagrindą, o ne į konkrečių vidaus audito procedūrų ar teisinių reikalavimų aiškinimą.

Programos ribos

Programa:

• nepakeičia techninių vidaus audito metodikų mokymo;
• nesuteikia individualių konsultacijų konkrečioms organizacijoms;
• neapima teisės aktų interpretavimo.

Jos tikslas – sustiprinti rizikų valdymo ir sprendimų vertinimo brandą organizacijoje.

4-oji grupė

Startas – 2026-05-19 10 struktūruotų popietinių sesijų

Išsami informacija: https://drvi.tilda.ws/

📅 14 May 2026 

🕔 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. CET (Warsaw time) 

💻 Online | Free for IIA Members 

👉 2.4 CPE

 📢 Language: English

 🗣️ Presenter:  Karem Obeid, CIA, CISA, CCSA, CRMA,MBA

 Below is the link to registration.

 https://iia1.clickmeeting.com/are-we-still-auditing-the-past-while-the-business-is-living-in-the-future-2-4-cpe/register

Most webinars on AI governance in 2026 will walk you through the EU AI Act. This session speaks to something more complex: what your organisation actually requires to make governance real.

AI is no longer a concept of the future. It is an active participant in your organisation’s workflows. Yet, as adoption accelerates, the gap between governance on paper and governance in practice is widening. Frameworks exist, regulations are tightening, but the organisations that are genuinely getting this right are the ones that deeply understand that effective governance will be the differentiator in the era of AI. As agents do more of the tasks, the job of the organisation and its people will be managing, overseeing, and exercising real judgement at every level.

Join our expert panel as we go beyond compliance checklists to explore the organisational, cultural, and human dimensions of AI governance that no audit framework alone can solve.

Learning objectives: 

• Understand the implementation gap. Move beyond what the EU AI Act requires to explore what it actually takes to comply.
• How AI governance is different: Understand usage, continuous monitoring, explainability.
• Reframe shadow AI: Recognise why shadow AI is fundamentally a risk culture problem, not a detection or inventory problem and learn what it signals about psychological safety inside your organisation.
• Operationalise human oversight. Unpack what “meaningful human oversight” really means in practice and understand who carries that responsibility, whether they have the training to exercise genuine judgment and the authority to intervene.

CPE credit(s): 1 CPE upon live viewing and participation. CPEs not offered on-demand.

Field of study: Information Technology 

Instructional delivery method: Group Internet Based

Level: Basic

Prerequisite: None

Advanced preparation: None