11th annual YHFF conference

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Park Plaza Hotel, Leeds

Programme

Chairman: Shari Vahl, Reporter, You and Yours, BBC Radio 4

09.15Coffee and registration
09.45YORKSHIRE & HUMBER FRAUD FORUM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
09.50CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
09.55PANEL SESSION: THE LATEST RESPONSES TO THE RISING TIDE OF FRAUD
The panellists will each make a brief presentation, and then the discussion will be opened to the audience.
Panellists:
David Kirk, Chairman, Fraud Advisory Panel
Steve Proffitt, Deputy Head and Performance Manager, Action Fraud
Owen Rowland, Head of Economic and Cyber Crime Unit (ECCU), Strategic Centre for Organised Crime, Home Office
Daniel Lawrence, National Cyber Security Centre
11.15Coffee
11.35WHISTLEBLOWING
a) WHY WHISTLEBLOWING MATTERS: the whistleblower’s story Ian Foxley, formerly of GPT Special Project Management, who blew the whistle on the bribery and corruption involved in a £2bn defence deal with Saudi Arabia
12.10b) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WHISTLEBLOWERS AND WHISTLEBLOWING Dr Mike Drayton, Opus Performance
12.50Lunch
13.40CORPORATE BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION: LESSONS FROM THE FRONT LINE Shari Vahl interviews David Wilton, Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Audit Committee, Sweett Group
14.30IMPROVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT TO HELP PREVENT CYBERCRIME IN YOUR ORGANISATION
Sarah Janes, Managing Director, Layer 8
15.05Coffee
15.25CASE STUDY: OPERATION TALON
A worldwide advanced fee fraud and money laundering investigation DC Paul Walker, Kent & Essex Serious Crime Directorate
16.05Chairman’s closing remarks
16.15Close of conference