13-14 May 2026, Sydney

Preparing your organisation to control modern fraud and corruption threats from AI

• Constructing your counter-fraud strategy based on updated capabilities of modern AI
• Working productively with internal and external AI experts in combatting new threats
• Creating controls and systems to reduce the effectiveness of AI threats
• Ensuring your approach to AI threats can keep pace with increasingly sophisticated technology

 

Utilising new technology to dramatically empower your fraud and corruption response

• Selecting the most effective technology available for your counterfraud teams
• Producing outstanding controls and culture with support from technological solutions and dashboards
• Increasing detection rates for fraud and corruption with sophisticated data and management technology
• Empowering your investigative function with key tools and software

 

Minimising organisational vulnerability to cybersecurity threats

• Collaborating with internal and external experts to tighten cybersecurity measures
• Minimising incidents by targeting human error in cyberfraud
• Allocating responsibilities and network controls to slow malicious fraud actors
• Adjusting your approach to digital fraud and corruption depending on the sensitivity of particular finances and data

 

Implementing practical controls to maximise data security

• Designing your data fraud controls in consideration of recent incidents and case studies
• Creating practical controls on data security processes that require zero technology
• Implementing technology-led controls and mitigation strategies for data fraud risks
• Collaborating effectively with teams and leaders to ensure best practice

 

Conducting fraud and corruption investigations led by key wellbeing and safety principles

• Considering the impact of investigations on investigator, suspect, and broader organisational wellbeing
• Centring trauma-informed care in your fraud and corruption investigations
• Communicating effectively to achieve results without inflicting harm
• Creating a culture of enthusiastic cooperation in fraud investigations
• Collaborating with other business leaders to ensure safety throughout the investigation process

 

Perfecting your data analysis processes to counter hidden fraud and corruption threats

• Drawing on useful data from a variety of sources in counterfraud operations
• Conducting productive data analysis which balances efficiency with comprehensiveness
• Constructing an accessible dashboard to manage data effectively
• Ensuring your use of organisational data does not substantially compromise security

 

Improving reporting rates of potential fraud and corruption red flags

• Building effective processes and technology to improve automatic detection
• Developing productive relationships with key stakeholders to improve reporting rates
• Fostering a culture of integrity that meaningfully engages your teams and line leaders
• Developing avenues for enthusiastic and meaningful disclosures
• Collaborating effectively with line leaders to apprehend potential threats on all levels of the organisation

 

Developing an integrity culture that resonates across your organisation

• Establishing foundational values and policies around fraud and corruption
• Bridging communication gaps between business areas through meaningful consultation
• Undertaking constructive counterfraud actions that resonate with your teams
• Working effectively with key business units to produce meaningful collaborative strategies and training

 

 

Training your teams effectively for an integrated fraud and corruption approach

• Establishing an accurate model of current organisational counterfraud capabilities
• Designing professional development that complements each team and function
• Delivering counterfraud and anticorruption training for long-term effectiveness
• Communicating training outcomes to executive leaders and audit committees

 

Conducting effective stress-testing on your existing fraud and corruption controls

• Constructing a stress-testing strategy based on potential vulnerabilities
• Integrating key expertise within your pressure-testing initiative
• Testing for organisational vulnerabilities with the “mind” of a fraudster
• Improving your counterfraud and anticorruption systems based on stress-testing learnings

 

Refining your organisational fraud and corruption controls for best-practice outcomes

• Mapping your key checks-and-balances in fighting fraud and corruption
• Engaging with duty-holders to evaluate their competency for fighting fraud
• Ensuring planned controls are accessible, resonant, and regularly followed
• Reviewing your fraud controls regularly in a world of constant change

 

Countering the unique challenges of identity fraud in the contemporary landscape

• Identifying the key forms of identity fraud being undertaken today
• Integrating concerns around new technologies in identity fraud
• Upskilling your teams in best-practice identity protection and impersonation risks
• Ensuring customer and staff personal identity data is kept securely
• Developing key controls to minimise the impact of realised identity fraud incidents

 

Engaging other organisations to control fraud and corruption within the public service and beyond

• Considering the advantages and risks when working with regulatory bodies
• Determining best-value third-party providers of fraud and corruption control
• Ensuring your collaborations with other public agencies are constructive
• Generating internal capabilities and talent across fraud and corruption risk areas

 

Challenging the wicked problem of organisational siloing for an effective fraud and corruption response

• Developing a useful understanding of the causes of siloing in your organisation and the greater public service
• Approaching key business units to lessen the impact of siloing on counterfraud capabilities
• Breaking down silos within the limits of key privacy and security concerns
• Supporting a collaborative approach to de-siloing within your own teams

 

Maximising key resources to build the capabilities of your fraud and corruption team

• Modelling and visualising key data to communicate the importance of counterfraud and anticorruption initiatives
• Communicating effectively with time-poor executive leaders and stakeholders
• Combining governance and ethics concerns with a convincing business case for fraud and corruption control
• Developing a strong case for fraud and corruption control with support from committees and other organisational allies