IIA NZ Waikato and Central Region Special Interest Group (WSIG) Event: (April 2025)

The IIA NZ Waikato and Central Region Special Interest Group (WSIG) Event is a complimentary and enriching experience that combines networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration for professionals in the internal auditing community within the Waikato and Central regions. Participants can anticipate gaining valuable insights, expanding their professional networks, and contributing to the growth and development of the internal auditing field in this regional context.

IIA NZ extends its sincere appreciation to PwC Waikato for graciously sponsoring the venue for each of these quarterly events.

• Thursday 10 April, 2025
• From 3 - 5 pm
• PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand
• Corner Anglesea & Ward Streets, PO Box 191, Hamilton 3240
• Venue Hosts: Aaron Steele and Grace Ng, IIA NZ Regional Ambassadors and Venue Host Sponsors
• Topic: Organisational Resilience - Boost your Corporate Immune System
• Speaker: Aaron Steele & Curtis Taylor-Swan
• Method: Hybrid

Organisations are increasingly vulnerable as business becomes more complex, virtual and interdependent. Building and sustaining a resilient business is a commercial imperative.

Your corporate immune system is what protects your business from illness - if it's in good shape and something strikes, you are ready to respond. Organisations that enhance their immune system are able to tackle challenges, fend off illness and bounce back more quickly. They also learn from incidents in order to prevent them from happening again.

The last decade has seen countless examples of businesses brought to their knees by a lack of foresight or poor management of a crises. 'Black swan' events have exposed the shortcomings

of traditional risk management, putting resilience at the top of board agendas. Yet many are still not making the connection between resilience and success. While it's possible to survive in the short term, resilience is a fundamental pre-requisite for success over the longer term.

Main Speaker:

Aaron Steele, Director Risk Services at PwC. Aaron leads PwC New Zealand's organisational resilience team that supports organisations strengthen their resilience through the development, review and testing of their key resilience activities, including business impact analysis, crisis and incident simulations, IT disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning.

Aaron is supported by Curtis Taylor-Swan who is involved in developing simulation exercises and will provide a demonstration of a global tool utilised by the military and PwC to safely simulate disruptive events.

We are delighted to provide you with the 2025 dates in advance, allowing you to secure them in your diary early.

The IIA NZ National office, in collaboration with the venue host, will enhance this listing with additional details, including the speaker and a topic summary, before registrations open.

This is a FREE event.

Registrations are now open and will close on Wednesday 2nd April 2025.

Save the Dates for Future IIA NZ Waikato Events:

• Thursday 17th July 2025
• Thursday 18th September 2025

Should you have any questions concerning the above event please send an email to events@iianz.org.nz.