Events

NECA House Conference Center, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria

DECEMBER 2–3, 2026

Keynote Speakers

Marcus Rogers

PhD, CISSP, DFCP-F, FAAFS

Professor & Associate Dean of Faculty, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute Director, Purdue Cyber Forensic Lab Fellow, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Research Areas: Psychological Profiling, Applied Cyber-Forensics, Cyber-Terrorism

Christian Ekeigwe

FCA, CPA (Massachusetts), CISA

Visionary, Audit is Trustworthy Chairman, Audit Committee Institute Founder, ISACA in Nigeria

Chris is a dedicated advisor and visionary for truth in governance stewardship. His pioneering initiatives, from systems security audit to improving audit committee oversight of financial reports, have contributed to making guardians of financial truth AI-cybersecurity savvy.

AI CYBERSECURITY READINESS:

Risk, Control, Audit and Governance Oversight is a governance- and audit-focused seminar for leaders responsible for securing, overseeing, and assuring cybersecurity in AI-driven environments.
As artificial intelligence accelerates the speed, autonomy, and opacity of digital systems, cybersecurity readiness can no longer rely on traditional control frameworks. Autonomous models act, adapt, and evolve in milliseconds—far faster than human cognition and beyond the reach of periodic governance oversight and audit. The seminar equips participants with the knowledge, frameworks, and practices necessary for overseeing and auditing AI and cybersecurity so institutions can constrain these systems, govern them responsibly, and use them successfully with assured trust. It addresses emerging AI vulnerabilities—algorithmic drift, adversarial manipulation, autonomous decision errors, and opaque system behavior—and provides a readiness architecture that integrates technical control instrumentation with human judgment. Participants will learn how hybrid oversight models, combining instrumented sensorial auditing and abductive reasoning, form the only secure architecture for governing autonomous AI systems.
The speakers will distill their lived professional experience into the following thematic insights:
► AI Cybersecurity Risks – Insights for Directors, Audit Committees, and Auditors
► Controls for AI-Driven Systems – Continuous Sense and Response Mechanisms
► Auditing AI Cybersecurity – Future Challenges
► Governance Oversight in the Age of AI
► How Audit Can See the Interiority of AI Systems
► Human Judgment in AI Cybersecurity
► The Hybrid Instrumented Governance Oversight and Audit Model
► The Future of Regulation in the Age of Frontier AI

Board members, Audit Committee Members, Accountants, Internal Auditors, IT Auditors, Cybersecurity Auditors, Risk Officers, Regulators

Who Should Attend

meet the team

Blue Ribbon Faculty

Rakiya Shuaibu Mohammed

MSc (Manc), FCA, FNCS, CISA, FIMC, CCISO

Board Member, First Bank of Nigeria Ex Director, IT Dept, Central Bank of Nigeria

Olumide Olayinka

BSc, FCA, CITN, CISA, CISM, CGEIT

Partner & Head of Advisory, KPMG West Africa

Dr. David ISIAVWE

FCA, CISSP, CISM, CGEIT, CISA, CDPSE, FCIN, MICA, HCIBM.CIoD.

President and Chairman Board of Trustees, Information Security Society of Africa - Nigeria (ISSAN), Immediate Past Chairman Statutory Audit Committee, Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), Member, Audit Committee Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

Steven Elliott

BS, MBA

Chief Finance Officer/CRO ADAMnetworks Reactive to Proactive Cybersecurity

Tope S. Aladenusi

BSc, MIOD, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE, CIA

Africa Cyber Leader, Deloitte

Justus Iyke Osuji

BSc, Msc, MBA, CISA, CIA, CRISC, CFE, CDPO

President, ISACA Lagos Chapter Chairman, ISACA Nigerian Chapters

Registration
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N360,000
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The markets and society yearn for perfect audit as their source of comfort. In that longing, they too often misapprehend corporate failures as audit failures, allowing the sanctity of audit to be unfairly besmirched by an asymmetric judgment that assigns blame where it does not belong. Acknowledging that audit is trustworthy is not denialism; we know that even good accountants, for indeterminate reasons, sometimes produce imperfect audits. Yet as investigations reveal the deeper, insidious causes of major scandals, it becomes clear that a restoration is needed—a reversal of the mistaken belief that audit itself is untrustworthy.

Audit deserves to be acclaimed for its profound and efficacious utility. It is the ballast of trust on which civilization thrives. History shows that societies flourish when accounting is sound and falter when it is not. To ignore this truth would be invidious.

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