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Compliance leaders are being asked to prove impact, place smart AI bets, and manage rising enforcement, amid reputation flare-ups and the expanding third-party risk. This session provides you with practical considerations on what to action first, what to watch, and what to bench.

We’ll address the “make-or-break” year for AI adoption, enforcement signals in foreign bribery, employer and employee dynamics and the escalated risks, bot-driven reputation attacks, third-party risk 2.0, and operating through regulatory volatility.

 

What you’ll learn 

  • AI’s real trajectory in 2026: Where expectations need recalibrating, and the questions leaders are starting to ask.  
  • Enforcement currents to track: The signals shaping how organizations think about investigations and exposure. 
  • Reputation risk in the bot era: Why some flare-ups aren’t what they seem and what that means for decision-making.  
  • Employee & employer dynamics: Employee engagement is under increasing strain from economic pressure, AI-driven job uncertainty, and a shifting political climate, making sustained engagement and ethical reinforcement a growing compliance priority.  
  • Third-party risk expanded: How the lens is widening beyond corruption—and why that matters in 2026.  

Our experts will cut through the noise with emerging best practices to help you set priorities, allocate resources wisely, and position your ethics and compliance program for durable success.

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Speakers

Tom Fox
Tom Fox

Compliance Evangelist

Tom Fox, founder of the Compliance Podcast Network. Over the past 15 years, he has been a General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. He is now an Independent Consultant, assisting companies with anti-corruption, anti-bribery compliance, and international transaction issues. He specializes in bringing business solutions to compliance problems. Tom is the author of the award-winning FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog and the international best-selling book “Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics.” His podcasts have won numerous w3, Davey, Communicator, and Webby awards for podcasting excellence.

He is the author of the seminal text The Compliance Handbook, now in its 3rd edition published by LexisNexis. In addition to his blog and podcast, he is a columnist for Corporate Compliance Insights and a Contributing Editor to the FCPA Blog. He is a well-known and frequent speaker on compliance and ethics issues, social media use, and corporate leadership. Tom is both the Voice of Compliance and Compliance Evangelist.

Mary Shirley
Mary Shirley

VP, Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer, Scion Health

Mary Shirley is a New Zealand-qualified lawyer with 20 years of ethics and compliance experience that includes working for data privacy and antitrust regulators, in-house and private practice/consultancy across five countries and four regions of the world.

Currently Chief Compliance Officer at ScionHealth, a large US healthcare system, Mary also serves as an Adjunct Professor at George Mason and Fordham Universities’ law schools, and authored the bestselling book “Living Your Best Compliance Life: 65 Hacks and Cheat Codes to Level Up Your Ethics and Compliance Program” (CCI Press, 2023). She is the co-founder of the Great Women in Compliance podcast, aimed at advancing and empowering women in the field, as well as providing a knowledge sharing opportunity for all.

She has been honored by being named a Compliance Week Top Mind 2019, Trust Across America 2020 Top Thought Leader in Trust and Excellence in Compliance Awards 2022 Mentor of the Year.

Matt Kelly
Matt Kelly

Editor & Chief Executive Officer, Radical Compliance

Matt Kelly is editor and CEO of RadicalCompliance.com, a blog and newsletter that follows corporate compliance, audit, and risk management issues at large organizations. He also speaks on compliance, governance, and risk topics frequently.

Kelly was named as ‘Rising Star of Corporate Governance’ by Millstein Center for Corporate Governance in inaugural class of 2008; and named to Ethisphere’s ‘Most Influential in Business Ethics’ list in 2011 (no. 91) and 2013 (no. 77). He has won a Reader’s Choice award from JD Supra as one of the Top 10 authors on corporate compliance in 2025 and numerous other years.

Kelly previously was editor of Compliance Week, a newsletter on corporate compliance, from 2006 through 2015. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and can be reached at mkelly@RadicalCompliance.com.

Moderation

Steph Holmes
Steph Holmes

Director of Ethics & Compliance Strategy | EQS Group

Steph Holmes is the Director of Ethics & Compliance Strategy at EQS Group, where she partners with organizations to turn compliance programs into strategic assets that scale with the business. With a sharp focus on customer needs, she helps shape intuitive, effective solutions that empower companies to navigate regulatory complexity with clarity and confidence. As part of EQS’s Center of Excellence, Steph operates at the intersection of compliance, innovation, and program enablement — leveraging digitalization, automation, and smart design to future-proof ethics and compliance programs. She holds a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from the University of Denver, along with CCEP and LPEC certifications. When she’s not working , Steph recharges outdoors—often found camping, biking, or snowboarding in the Colorado mountains.