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1 PSIA PUBLIC SECTOR INTERNAL AUDIT C O NFER ENCE 2019 ENHANCING PUBLIC TRUST IN THE DIGITAL AGE VENUE MARINA BAY SANDS, SANDS EXPO & CONVENTION CENTRE DATE 25 APRIL 2019 TIME 9.00AM PM CPE HOURS 7.5HRS ORGANISER

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3 CONFERENCE SYNOPSIS As the government advances its efforts to drive excellence in public service delivery, there is a key role that the public sector internal audit profession can play in supporting their respective agencies in achieving these objectives. Knowing what truly matters at the strategic level, and communicating effectively and efficiently to achieve the desired results, are what would enable internal audit to offer value-add in management s decision-making. This year s Public Sector Internal Audit Conference, themed Enhancing Public Trust in the Digital Age, will focus on ways in which internal audit teams can improve on their value proposition, by building a strong foundation of controls embedded within public sector processes to engender trust. Join us in this one-day event and be inspired by our panel of distinguished speakers who will share their experiences and expertise, as you gather with your fellow practitioners to network and progress forward together. The Guest-of-Honour for the event is Mr Chee Hong Tat, Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education. CONFERENCE RATES STANDARD RATES (FROM 23 MARCH 2019) IIA / ISACA Member Affiliate Member* Non-Member S$ S$1, S$1, GROUP 5% DISCOUNT AVAILABLE WHEN YOU REGISTER 4 OR MORE PARTICIPANTS! * Affiliate Member includes ACCA, CA ANZ, CIMA, CPA Australia, ICAEW, ISCA and SID. All the registration fees above are inclusive of GST. REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!

4 OUR PROGRAMME Registration / Welcome Coffee & Tea Welcome Address Tan Boon Yen President, The Institute of Internal Auditors Singapore Opening Address Guest-of-Honour Mr Chee Hong Tat Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Education Keynote Address: Key Challenges Facing the Public Sector in 2019 and Beyond Stephen Horne Chairman of IIA Global's Public Sector Guidance Committee Detecting and Investigating Fraud against Government Assistance Schemes Beverley Seetoh Head, Public Institutional Fraud Branch II, Commercial Affairs Department, Singapore Police Force Ang Seng Leong Director, Investigation 2, Investigations and Forensics Division, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Networking Break Strengthen Governance to Build Resilience Securing your Digitised Assets Daryl Pereira Partner & Head of Cyber Security, KPMG in Singapore Networking Lunch Communicating with Emotional Intelligence for Effective Influence Dominic Siow Transformation Coach Author Speaker, EQ Strategist Leadership in the Digital Era Networking Break Delivering Winning Audits Norman Marks Author Speaker Thought Leader Retired Chief Audit Executive [Panel Discussion] Keeping your Edge in the Evolving Public Sector Landscape Moderator: Lim Kian Kim, Associate Director, Lex Advocatus Panellists: 1. Dr. Ang Hak Seng, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth 2. Adrian Cheong, Group Director, Assurance, Accountant-General s Department, Ministry of Finance 3. Stephen Horne, Chairman of IIA Global's Public Sector Guidance Committee 4. Muthukrishnan Ramaswami, President, Singapore Exchange Ltd and Chairman of Audit and Risk Committee of GovTech Singapore Conference Wrap-up Secretary of the Board of The Institute of Internal Auditors Singapore and Conference Chair of Public Sector Internal Audit Conference 2019 Note: All information is correct at the time of printing and subject to change without prior notice.

5 DR ANG HAK SENG BBM, DEPUTY SECRETARY MINISTRY OF CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND YOUTH Dr Ang is the Deputy Secretary of Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth leading MCCY s efforts in Singapore Cares (SG Cares), the national movement to foster a more caring, compassionate and inclusive society. He is concurrently appointed as Commissioner of Charities (COC) and Executive Director of the Registry of Co-operative Societies and Mutual Benefit Organisations (RCS). Dr Ang previously served as the Chief Executive Director of People s Association and the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Promotion Board. He also held senior positions in the Singapore Police Force and Ministry of Home Affairs for more than 30 years. Currently, Dr Ang is an Adjunct Professor at Nanyang Technological University and also the present Chairman of the Singapore Quality Awards (SQA) Management Committee. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountant as well as a member on the Accounting Standards Council.

6 ANG SENG LEONG Director, Investigation 2 Investigations and Forensics Division Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) Seng Leong currently heads one of the two Investigation Branches in IRAS. The branch aims to efficiently and effectively deter and tackle tax evasion and fraud across all tax types and schemes administered by IRAS. Seng Leong has more than 20 years of experience in tax administration. He started his career in IRAS doing audits on individual and corporate taxpayers before he was seconded to the Ministry of Finance for two years to review tax policies that promoted social and economic objectives. He returned to IRAS in 2005 to lead the development of the casino tax regulatory framework which included drafting the casino tax legislations and programmes for auditing the casinos in Singapore. With the casino tax regulatory framework successfully implemented, he moved to his current portfolio in IFD in In 2018, Seng Leong was seconded to the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force. During the year-long secondment, he headed the Public Institutional Fraud Division which deals with fraud against government agencies and public sector.

7 ADRIAN CHEONG Group Director (Assurance) Accountant-General's Department Ministry of Finance Adrian leads the Assurance Group of the Accountant-General s Department, Ministry of Finance. The Assurance Group provides internal audit shared services to various public sector agencies as well as drives key initiatives to deepen the sectoral capabilities of public sector internal auditors. Adrian has more than 15 years of leading internal audit teams in the public sector. Prior to this appointment, he concurrently led internal audit teams at Ministry of Social and Family Development and National Council of Social Service. Adrian graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the Nanyang Technological University and is a Chartered Accountant of Singapore. He is also a Certified Internal Auditor.

8 STEPHEN HORNE Chairman of IIA Global's Public Sector Guidance Committee Stephen had a 38-year career in the public sector for the State of New South Wales in Australia. His executive roles included Assistant Auditor-General for NSW, looking after Performance Audits, and Chief Executive of IAB, a Government Trading Enterprise undertaking internal audits and misconduct investigations for NSW State Government and Local Government bodies. In 2015 Stephen established himself as a professional Non-Executive Director and a specialist adviser, consultant and trainer in the fields of integrity and culture, probity, fraud control, risk, governance and internal audit. Stephen also currently serves as an independent member on thirteen (13) Audit & Risk Committees across State and Local Government bodies in NSW and Victoria, and chairs four (4) of these. Stephen has been in the Institute of Internal Auditors for 35 years. During that time he has served in many volunteer roles, including Co-Chairing a number of SOPAC National Conferences and the 2017 International Conference. Stephen was a Director on the IIA Australia Board , the President and Board Chair for IIA Australia , and has been Australia s delegate on the IIA Global Board since At this Conference, Stephen is speaking from the perspective of his role as the current Global Chair of the IIA s Public Sector Guidance Committee, which he has led since 2016.

9 NORMAN MARKS Author I Speaker I Thought Leader Retired Chief Audit Executive Norman, CPA, CRMA is a retired senior executive. He now works with individuals and organisations around the world, advising them on risk management, internal audit, corporate governance, enterprise performance, and the value of information. Norman was the chief audit executive of major global corporations for twenty years and is a globally-recognised thought leader in the professions of internal auditing and risk management. In addition, he served as chief risk officer, compliance officer, and ethics officer, and managed what would now be called the IT governance function (information security, contingency planning, methodologies, standards, etc.) He ran the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX) programs and investigation units at several companies. He is the author of eight books: Making Business Sense of Technology Risk (2019) Risk Management in Plain English: A Guide for Executives: Enabling Success through Intelligent and Informed Risk-Taking (2018) World-Class Risk Management (2015) World-Class Risk Management for Nonprofits (co-authored with Melanie L. Herman) (2017) Auditing that Matters (2016) The Institute of Internal Auditors Management s Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: Maximize Value Within Your Organization, described as the best Sarbanes-Oxley 404 guide out there for management (2017) World-Class Internal Audit: Tales from my Journey (2014) How Good is your GRC? Twelve Questions to Guide Executives, Boards, and Practitioners (2014) Continue next page.

10 NORMAN MARKS Author I Speaker I Thought Leader Retired Chief Audit Executive Norman is a retired member of the review boards of several audit and risk management publications (including the magazines of ISACA and the IIA), a frequent speaker internationally, the author of multiple award-winning articles (receiving the IIA s Thurston award in 2004 and 2014), and a prolific blogger (consistently rating as one of the top global influencers in social media on the topics of GRC, internal audit, risk management, and governance). Norman was profiled in publications of the AICPA and the IIA as an innovative and successful internal auditing leader. He has also been honored as a Fellow of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group for his GRC thought leadership, and as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management for his contributions to risk management. In 2018, he was inducted into the IIA s American Hall of Distinguished Practitioners. Norman can be found at: Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit

11 DARYL PEREIRA Head of Cyber Security, KPMG in Singapore Daryl is Partner and Head of the Cybersecurity Consulting practice at KPMG in Singapore. He leads a team focusing on cyber security, IT risk management, outsourcing governance, cyber resilience, and privacy laws. He has over 23 years of consultancy and industry experience helping clients with their strategic change and risks by working at the intersection of business and technology. Before joining KPMG, Daryl spent 9 years in investment banking in Australia and Singapore where he led various functions including information security governance, IT programme governance, COO business management, and IT internal audit. Prior to this, he also worked as an IT Consulting Manager with Big 4 firms in Australia. Daryl is the Past President of ISACA Singapore, the international professional association for cyber security and IT risk professionals. He is certified as a CISM, CISA, CRISC, and CPA (Australia), and holds a MBA from Manchester Business School and a Master of Information Technology from the University of Canberra.

12 MUTHUKRISHNAN RAMASWAMI President, Singapore Exchange Limited and Chairman of Audit and Risk Commitee of GovTech Singapore As President, Mr Muthukrishnan Ramaswami (Ramu) is responsible for operational aspects of SGX. He directly oversees SGX s Membership & International Coverage including all of SGX s overseas offices, Market Data & Connectivity and Operations & Technology functions. These units support SGX s Derivatives and Equities & Fixed Income businesses. Immediately prior to this, he oversaw all the product groups covering Securities, Fixed Income, Derivatives and Market Data & Access. Mr Ramaswami joined SGX as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer on 1 July 2007, and was appointed Co- President in July 2010 and President in May Mr Ramaswami joined SGX from Citigroup where he held senior positions across Operations, Technology and Transaction Banking in various locations including Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, London and New York. He was most recently Chief Information Officer with the International Consumer Business of Citigroup s Global Consumer Bank, based in New York and over the years, held progressively senior executive positions in Citigroup s international and regional offices. Mr Ramaswami serves on the board of GovTech Singapore and is Chairman of its Audit and Risk Committee. He is also on the board of the Energy Market Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SGX. Mr Ramaswami holds a Master s Degree in Mathematics (Honours) from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies (Masters in Business Administration) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

13 BEVERLEY SEETOH Head, Public Institutional Fraud Branch II Commercial Affairs Department Singapore Police Force Beverley is the Head of the Public Institutional Fraud Branch at the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD). Her branch specialises in the investigation of offences committed against public institutions, including fraud involving government assistance schemes. Some of the recent investigations carried out by Beverley s branch include a multimillion-dollar syndicated fraud against a training scheme and a syndicate of medical professionals defrauding a medical savings scheme. Beverley is also a trained financial intelligence analyst. She previously headed the Anti-Money Laundering Policy Branch in CAD, advancing Singapore's interest in financial intelligence and law enforcement issues in international meetings of the Financial Action Task Force and the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering.

14 DOMINIC SIOW Transformation Coach Author Speaker EQ Strategist Dominic is a transformation coach, author and speaker on culture transformation, leadership, collaboration and resilience. He is the author of the book What s GREAT about this? How to be Resilient and Thrive through Disruption and Change. In 2006, he and his wife, Sue founded EQ Strategist a consultancy with a mission to help create empowering workplaces where people are inspired to deliver extraordinary outcomes for their organisations every day. Since then, their work have had a positive impact on more than 130 public and private sector organisations internationally. Tens of thousands of individuals have been empowered in the process, many often rating the training they ve received as the best they ve experienced in their career. Prior to his present vocation, Dominic was a senior operations manager for IBM Australia and VP of Product Development at grapevine Technologies. Dominic has contributed as speaker and mentor at the Magic Moments Youth Leadership and Business Summit and as a Senior Leader at Robbins Research International events across Australia since 2003.