The Anti-Bribery & Corruption Forum 2025 - 2nd Annual

Registration
09:00

Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:30

Fireside Chat - In Conversation with the SFO
09:40

What Corporates Need to do to Avoid Facing a Failure to Prevent Charge
10:20

• Assessing the effectiveness and reasonableness of new guidance to avoid Failure to Prevent Charges
• What changes have corporates made to avoid charges following the 6-month grace period?
• Are there gaps in the guidance or improvements needed as things stand?

Networking & Refreshment Break
11:05

Compliance in your Supply Chain: Mitigating dangers in High-Risk Jurisdictions and Third Parties
11:25

• Shifting from a compliance to active investigative approach to mitigating risk
• Identifying where the highest risk is for you or your clients
• Mitigating risk from third parties with inadequate compliance programmes or in hard to investigate jurisdictions

Multijurisdictional Compliance: Navigating Reporting, Investigations, and Conduct Across Multiple Jurisdictions
12:10

• Getting Evidence Across Jurisdictions
• Working across jurisdictions with conflicting compliance requirements
• Ensuring you’re maintaining reporting and conduct requirements across multiple jurisdictions

Networking & Lunch Break
12:55

Mock Scenario: Managing an Unexpected Crisis
13:55

In this session the panel will roleplay a potential real-world crisis scenario with an in-house practitoner wargame alongside experts to handle a crisis in real time.

Building Effective Whistleblowing Protections and Compliance
14:45

• The impact of a potential US style whistleblower rewards programme on the UK
• Encouraging a corporate culture supporting speaking out against bad practice to reduce the need for blowing the whistle
• Assessing the effectiveness of the EU Whistleblower Directive
• Duty to disclose in supervision to avoid culpability as a ‘Professional Enabler’

Networking & Refreshment Break
15:30

Convergence of ABC and Sanctions Risk Management
15:50

• The overlap and interplay of modern sanctions regimes and ABC compliance
• Adapting compliance risk management frameworks to identify and manage both ABC and evolving sanctions risks
• Adapting to sanctions against whole sectors which were traditionally immune

Assessing the use of AI tools in investigations
16:35

• Effectively using AI in White Collar Crime investigations to enhance the use of established tools
• When can AI beat humans in eDiscovery and data analysis, and the where is the human touch still needed?
• Wider emerging technology to watch to improve your investigatory toolkit

Chairperson's Summary & Close of Event
17:20