Earlier this month, we successful concluded an online event discussing leading-edge strategies, frameworks and best practices focusing on increasing the value of the internal audit function and improving enterprise-wide risk decisions, helping auditors to conduct financial and compliance audits in an economic and effective manner. Practitioners, academics, consultants and solution providers from Hong Kong, UK, Spain, Netherlands, USA and Greece shared knowledge and perspectives on leveraging automation across the audit function and steps to strengthen and modernise audit & risk practices in response to covid crisis.