Mega-Trends and Outlook for Internal Audit: Embracing Tomorrow’s Digital Disruption
– Transform Your Audit Practices: Learn How Emerging Technologies Will Shape the Future of Internal Audit –
Description:
This forward-thinking training offers internal auditors a strategic view of how the latest technological trends will impact the future of auditing. The rapid rise of technologies like AI, machine learning, advanced connectivity, and immersive-reality tools is fundamentally reshaping internal audit functions. Auditors must not only understand these technologies, but also adapt their methodologies to offer timely, value-driven insights.
Participants will explore key trends from current technology research for the audit workplace of the future, such as: the revolution in generative AI, digital trust, and cybersecurity, and the transformative potential of cloud computing and quantum technologies.
This training equips auditors with the knowledge to assess risks, ensure compliance, and add value in an era where digital innovation outpaces traditional audit techniques. Designed for auditors at all levels, this training will enhance your ability to anticipate future risks and build a resilient audit function that thrives in a digital-first world.
Objectives:
- Understand key technology trends impacting internal audit.
- Evaluate and mitigate risks related to emerging technologies such as quantum computing, cloud computing, cybersecurity and immersive-reality tools.
- Apply AI-driven audit methodologies to assess risks in digital environments.
- Audit trends for advanced connectivity systems, including 5G and edge computing, for organizational value and security.
- Build digital trust and strengthen audit leadership skills to navigate digital transformation.
Topics:
- Emerging Technology Trends in Internal Audit
- Overview of top audit research technology trends for 2025
- The audit implications of AI and digital disruption
- Key risks and opportunities for auditors
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Audit
- AI applications in auditing: Efficiency and accuracy
- Auditing machine learning algorithms and their outcomes
- Case studies on AI-driven audit success
- Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
- Cybersecurity audit frameworks for the digital age
- Auditing digital trust in decentralized and cloud environments
- Data privacy and regulatory compliance audits
- Quantum Computing and Cloud Audits
- Introduction to quantum computing and its future audit risks
- Cloud computing and edge technologies: Audit considerations
- Ensuring data integrity in decentralized systems
- Advanced Connectivity and Immersive Technologies
- Auditing 5G, IoT, and edge computing systems
- Risks associated with immersive technologies in operations
- Practical examples of immersive reality auditing
- Leadership in Digital Transformation
- Managing audit teams during technological disruption
- Behavioral insights to enhance leadership effectiveness
- Decision-making strategies for auditing in dynamic environments
- Future-proofing the Internal Audit Function
- Long-term trends: Sustainability, robotics, and climate risks
- Strategic planning for future technological impacts
- Continuous learning for sustained audit excellence
- Joint summary, conclusion and practical guide
Training Team
Audit-Championship is a university spin-off. We focus on networking between science and practice. Audit-Championship provides thought leadership and innovative methods to support its customers across all industries in digital transformation. We support audit departments globally as well as national Internal Audit associations with yearly 2.900+ training days and transformation services along an internal audit knowledge value chain.
Inhouse Training on demand
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Didactics | Methodology
We train you and your team on-site, or we can train you online worldwide in the form of a Virtual Training Series: Interactive lecture, discussion, practical example, case studies, reflection.
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