The Governance in ESG Workshop

Description

More than 6,000 Australian entities will be required to report under new climate-related disclosure requirements in the next few years. As ASIC Chair Joe Longo has stated, ‘the growing interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is driving the biggest changes to financial reporting and disclosure standards in a generation.’ This workshop helps you understand the emerging global standards and new regulatory requirements and provides tools to develop governance structures to support reporting requirements.

This workshop will cover

• The general sustainability standards and the legislation proposing mandatory climate-related disclosure and what is required for compliance
• How to prevent greenwashing claims
• Getting on top of your data for ESG measuring and reporting
• Dark Data and measuring carbon footprint
• How technology can be utilised to improve ESG reporting
• Knowing whether the right information is in the board pack
• Steps to take to improve accurate information flows to the board

Workshop Details

Thursday, 15 August 2024, 10am-1pm AEST

Facilitated by:
Susan Bennett Executive Director of InfoGovANZ

CPD Units: 3

Cost: $495 + GST
$370 + GST for Members (25% discount)

Location: Virtual access details provided the day before the workshop.

Note: This workshop is for in-house attendees only.

Refunds: You may request to cancel your booking for a full refund up to 7 days before the event. For cancellations within 7 days of the event, no refund will be given.

Enquiries: infogovanz@infogovanz.com

Workshop Facilitator

Dr Susan Bennett
PhD, LLM(Hons), MBA, FGIA, FIP, CIPP/E, CIPT

Susan Bennett is Principal of Sibenco Legal & Advisory and Founder and Executive Director of Information Governance ANZ. Susan’s focus is driving best practice holistic governance solutions aligning data, information, privacy and records with technology and regulatory compliance to achieve organisational goals.  Susan’s PhD thesis was titled: Privacy and Data Protection: the interaction of meta-regulation and information governance, the findings are intended as a practical governance solution to assist organisations in achieving data and privacy meta-regulatory requirements, while pursuing strategic organisational objectives.

With thirty years of experience as a lawyer and advisor, Susan helps organisations grappling with the risks and challenges of regulatory compliance arising from using technology (including AI) with growing volumes of data and, particularly, personal data.   Susan delivers practical and responsive solutions to assist organisations across the following interconnected areas:

• Corporate Governance in the AI and Information Age: Integrated risk management and governance frameworks, policies and procedures to improve information flows to the Board to achieve organisational objectives to reduce the risks arising from the use of new data-driven technologies, including AI, and evolving regulatory requirements, such as privacy, AI and ESG.  Access Susan’s submissions to the Senate Select Committee inquiry on the adoption of AI in Australia here.
• Information and Technology (AI) Governance:  Developing and aligning best practice policies and processes into the overarching risk management framework to achieve improved regulatory compliance to improve risk management and reducing risks while enabling the strategic benefits of data-driven technologies to be maximised.
• Data and Information Lifecycle Management: Improving data lifecycle management through policy, people and technology alignment of data collection, management, record retention and, importantly, disposal of data that is no longer required to be retained.  This requires robust information governance led from the board down, the alignment of policies and processes across the organisational silos for effective information lifecycle management. improved data quality for decision-making throughout the organisation and up to and including risk and audit committees and the Board.
• Privacy and PIA/DPIA: Policies and procedures to comply with privacy requirements, privacy impact assessments, including ethical AI (PIA/DPIAs), privacy-by-design, critical incident planning and data breach response.