Case Study on Compliance Champions: Effectively Leverage Local Resources to Expand the Compliance Footprint

Ensuring that the employees can always be the voice of integrity for the organization was never more important than during the COVID-19 crisis. Compliance professionals were unable to travel to have direct oversight and the need to have local resources available for compliance concern intake was never more crucial. Furthermore, with budgets tighter than ever, organizations need an efficient and cost effective way to ensure continuity of compliance throughout the organization. During this session, hear directly from Andrew Baird who is responsible for designing, implementing and leading the Ombuds process in all countries in which Baker Hughes, a GE Company operates globally. Mr. Baird is now continuing this work at Exterran to ensure he has a team of compliance champions in place who are properly trained to intake compliance concerns and channel cases to the appropriate investigation resources. During this session he will detail the overall structure, key functions, nomination process, training, and expectations in order to ensure that you have the most effective process to ensure you are not only creating a culture of compliance, but also trust.

Andrew Baird | Chief Compliance Officer | Exterran

Transparency and Privacy: Ensuring Compliance with Global Data Privacy Rules and Regulations

The past few years have been witness to an incredible period of evolution on the global privacy regulatory front. As data privacy falls more and more often into the lap of the in-house compliance executive, this panel will provide an overview of what you need to know, consider, prepare and plan for to ensure that your organization is abiding by the current and future data privacy laws. Also, we will discuss, beyond simply protecting employee and customer data, what are some areas that compliance needs to take a closer look at that they may not already be considering that can expose the organization to risk (i.e. instituting AI and data analytics on our “human data, biometrics, due diligence, etc.)

• Relevant considerations for cross border data flows, due diligence, multi-jurisdictional investigations, global workforce management
• Lessons learned on what compliance professionals are unraveling now that the rules have been in effect for a year and what are the different ways to ensure compliance
• The impact varying (and sometimes conflicting) global privacy regulatory schemes have on privilege
• Approaches for addressing data security – both internally and externally

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A Practical Guide for Navigating Internal Investigations from Reporting to Final Determination

From the initial receiving of the complaint, to documentation, to the detailed investigation, to the final determination, every step will be heavily scrutinized by the public, local, state and foreign government, corporation or any combination. The pressure on every compliance officer to get an investigation done quickly, efficiently and most importantly done right is more important than ever. What are the crucial steps that need to be taken at every stage to protect all parties involved and not lead to further issues? With the ever expanding role of the corporate compliance officer you are now pulled into many new areas that you have not been involved in before (i.e. human rights, data privacy, etc.) how do you ensure that you have the right system in place. During this session we will.

• Explore the best practices, sequence of actions and proven methods to manage any internal investigation for you to be prepared with the knowledge to navigate any situation you are presented with and ensure the investigation is properly scoped?
• Identify proven ways to convey to the business the value of the investment that you need to ensure you have the proper resources
• What are some effective whistleblowing and internal hotline processes to gain trust and confidence?
• Ways to ensure your actions are promoting a culture of transparency and compliance throughout the organization

Building a Culture of Integrity to Maintain Continuity of Compliance Everywhere you Have a Global Footprint

The role of the senior compliance executive has evolved to be in more areas of the business than anyone would have ever foreseen. However, still seen as the cost center of the business, compliance often can be a vehicle to achieve business objectives and gain customers trust or, most critically, save them from financial ruin. There needs to be a shift in most organizations to view compliance as a value enabler instead of a cost center. How can you ensure that you are driving this message in your organization and ingraining compliance into the DNA of the organization? During this session we will tackle this issue as well as:

• Actively create a mindset and platform of continuous improvement to effectively move beyond check-the-box activities or being seen as a roadblock to achieving their business objectives
• Effective ways to implement company-wide training in difficult regions or locations, including out of the box training methods that will appeal and are relevant to the needs and perspectives of the multi-generational/multi-cultural workforce
• Ways to ensure you have created a platform that can resonate with the organization by not just providing negative consequences for failing but clearly conveyed positive motivations for being compliant
• As a result of COVID-19 crisis and decreased resources, what did you already have in place to leverage the continuity of compliance or what did you do differently that worked

The Oil & Gas Compliance Virtual Forum Concludes

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Casey Buhler | Director of Content and Experience | Momentum Events

Two Part Session-Updates on Sanctions and Navigating Uncertainty and Ensuring Compliance with a Moving Target

Given the dynamic nature of U.S. economic and trade sanctions, a successful and effective program should be capable of adjusting rapidly to changes published by OFAC. Divided into two segments, the first segment of the discussion will be dedicated to addressing up to the minute changes to global sanctions regulations, enforcement in key regions, with an update from a senior member of OFAC. The second part of the session will explore how oil and gas compliance professionals are effectively maintaining compliance and have a system in place to respond to the ever-changing rules, regulations and controls. During this session

• Hear perspectives from both government and your peers on how to ensure that you have a program in place to ensure real time adjustments and agility to constantly changing rules as well as a way to navigate the lack of clarity or ambiguity
• Learn how to resolve issues around having “difficult” conversations with business leads about ceasing certain transactions or deals due to new rules or controls