The ACFE Annual Fraud Professional’s Conference is our flagship event, returning for a 24th year to provide our members with a unique opportunity to meet as a community, network with each other and to learn from our distinguished speakers. We hope you join us for this upcoming virtual event.
This Year's Speakers
David Coderre Co-Founder and Senior Data Analyst at CTRLmatters COSO Fraud Risk Management Guide This session will discuss the COSO Fraud Risk Management Guide with valuable insight from one of the contributors. David Coderre is a co-founder and the chief data analyst for CTRLmatters and the President of Computer Assisted Analysis Techniques and Solutions (CAATS). He has 30+ years of experience using analytics to address audit requirements. David is the author of four books on data analytics.
Peter Warmka Founder at Counterintelligence Institute Confessions of a CIA Spy - The Art of Human Hacking During this presentation, a former CIA Intelligence Officer who spent over two decades breaching the security of target organizations overseas will share methodologies utilized by today's threat actors to circumvent the technological controls, policies and procedures put in place to safeguard organizations and their data. Mr. Warmka's organization assists in protection of proprietary information and personal data records against security breach attempts. Mr. Warmka is a former intelligence officer with the CIA. He is author of the recently released “Confessions of a CIA Spy – The Art of Human Hacking.” Mr. Warmka is a CFE, CPP and Certified Instructor at CIA University
Sheila Smigarowski Founder at Sheila Smigarowski Consulting and Coaching Soft Skills when conducting an Investigation Sheila has over 25 years risk management experience within regulated public and private companies; industries include hospitality, financial services, non-profit sector associations and charities, mining, construction, water and power utilities and retail industrial machinery sector. With her passion to support her own and others leadership development, she completed a six-month coaching certification program with the Coaches Training Institute and has been actively coaching leaders, managers and executive over the past few years. |
Jason Zirkle Training Director for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Texas Ranger Case Study – Procurement Fraud at University – How Internal Controls and Audit Failed This case study will cover a multi-million dollar fraud investigation at a large public university, presented by a former fraud analyst with the Texas Rangers. You will learn how this unusual procurement fraud was perpetrated, and how the internal controls & internal audit at the university ultimately failed. Mr. Zirkle conducts training presentations around the world and assists in updating ACFE curriculum. Prior to joining the ACFE, he was a financial crime analyst with the Texas Ranger division of the Texas Department of Public Safety, where he served as a subject matter expert on financial crime investigations.
Vladimir Napoleon Anti-Corruption Awareness Coordinator at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) The CFPOA, its amendments and the impact on Canadian companies doing business abroad Vladimir has 17 years of service with the RCMP as a peace officer and worked most of his career in major crime investigations. Since 2014, he has been with National Division’s Sensitive & International Investigations (SII) unit which focuses on high profile white-collar crimes that pose a significant threat to Canada’s economic, political and social integrity. In 2017, as part of SII, Vladimir was given the responsibility to develop the Foreign Corruption Awareness Program for the unit
Graham Ospreay Forensic Document Examiner & Forgery Analyst, G. P. Ospreay & Associates Forensic Document Examination and Forgery Analysis This session will provide a detailed look at the use of scientific principles, knowledge and applied techniques in forensic document examination, forgery analysis and counterfeit identifications. |
Last Year's Speakers
Simon Marchand Chief Fraud Prevention Officer Security & Biometrics Division Biometrics: Applications in fraud prevention, detection and investigation This session is designed specifically for CFEs and will offer an opportunity for your members to not only to learn more on biometrics and ID theft, but also to ask all the questions they need on that topic. You will learn to: 1. Discern biometrics terminology 2. Differentiate the types of biometrics technology 3. Apply biometric fraud prevention use cases 4. Assess how biometrics is used for investigation and prosecution of fraudsters John Bishop Senior Cyber Security Advisor - Partnerships Cybersecurity - CCCS Perspectives (description to come)
Jennifer Spurrell Manager of Investigations Unmasking Fraud (description to come) Donna Blois Executive Director Detecting Fraud and Error through (description to come) | Stephen Nattras Partner Working with lawyers on fraud
Elizabeth Simon Vice President, Compliance Ethical Risks in the ''New'' Workplace
John Corelli Chief Counsel Unmasking Fraud (description to come) Chris Muldowney Director of Integrity Analytics Detecting Fraud and Error through (description to come) |
