AI for IA - An introduction to artificial intelligence for internal auditors (online English course) (2 days)

This course will be of value to internal auditors who are curious about generative AI and would like to take their first structural steps into its use. Those that will benefit the most from the practical use cases in the course are those at the beginning of their journey with either no or limited exploratory exposure to generate AI models such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Co-Pilot for example. Heads of audit and those with leadership responsibility will benefit from the course as a stimulant for their AI strategy development and how to galvanise their teams on their AI journey.

What will I learn?

Upon completion you will be able to:

• define the basic concepts of generative AI
• identify governance and standards associated with the use of AI
• identify the various interaction points between AI and the internal audit team
• assess the risks and opportunities of generative AI, and what that may mean for internal audit teams
• identify a portfolio of potential use cases for LLM generative AI in your teams
• explain the fundamentals of Prompt engineering for improved responses and content generation
• construct your own prompts and use generative AI models in the context of internal audit
• appraise and defend ideas and learnings with peers. 

What is AI and why now?

Pre-reading:

• What is AI? Why now? Basic Terminology
• AI Risk Summary & Source Links
• AI Literacy & Maturity for Internal Audit

Day One

• The principles of Generative AI & the importance of critical thinking/HITL.
• The AI Environment: AI Risks, Ethical & Responsible AI, Legislation & Standards, and the importance of AI Policy
• The internal Auditors Roles in the context of AI: AUDITOR, CHAMPION, USER and what each of those means.

Day Two 

• Adopting an AI mindset – how to work with Generative AI as an Internal Auditor
• Principles of prompting and prompt engineering, and core model features.
• Walk through of IA centric use cases through live demo and screenshots.

Program

9:00am  - 1:00pm each day,  with 3 breaks in each session

Presenter

Presented by Stephen Foster
Former CAE, CFO & SVP in finance development at DAF, Danone, Philips and Cargotec.
Responsible for internal audit, risk management and code of conduct in listed multi-national corporations. Stephen has worked in a diverse range of industries and global businesses for more than 30 years. He is an experienced business controller, project director, CFO and CAE.  

Competency

CPE competency areas covered

• Performance (engagement fieldwork)
• Environment (information technology)

What others say about this course:

"Great training, well presented, nice comprehensive training well structured and kept interesting during the whole course."
“Great job done by the instructor, you felt the passion he has for the subject and is able to really bring this over to the students and keep them engaged.”
“Good mix of regulatory AI background and use cases for Internal audit function as well as the internal auditor”