The Small Practitioners Interest Group (SPIG) is a discussion and networking forum for members in small teams to share experiences, issues and challenges they face. The group meet four times a year. All are welcome.

Topic: "Emerging Technology and Small Teams - Exploring how AI and other technologies can be leveraged effectively in smaller audit teams."

Speaker: Rodney Young (IIA NZ Committee Member / Gallagher Group Manager Risk and Assurance)

Overview:

Small internal audit teams are being asked to cover more with fewer hands while AI changes the speed and shape of assurance. This SPIG workshop is a practical deep-dive into how AI and adjacent tools can lift capacity across the entire audit lifecycle. Observe internal audit AI agents in action and also learn how to build you own AI agents as you interact in a live demonstration of AI agent creation. Participants will also receive a toolkit of guidance documentation, templates, ready-to-use checklists, and starter use cases for application back in the workplace.

Key discussion points will include:

• Where AI boosts small audit teams
• Governance guardrails: privacy, explainability, oversight
• Applying IIA Standards and Topical Requirements
• High-impact audit use cases
• Use-case prioritisation and adoption path
• Measuring value: speed, coverage, quality
• Live demo: Build an audit AI agent
• Templates and checklists to use immediately
• Q&A and peer discussion

BIO

Rodney Young is a Certified Internal Auditor with more than 20 years' leadership experience across New Zealand's private and public sectors, spanning internal audit, risk, quality assurance and policy. A long-time IIA member (since 2015), Rodney has led functions in complex tertiary-education environments and is now GM Risk & Assurance at global technology company Gallagher Group. He holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing and International Management) and Master's degrees in Adult Education and in Leadership Communication. Passionate about practical, value-adding audit, Rodney champions simple, modern ways of working, including safe, standards-aligned use of emerging technologies to help teams deliver measurable outcomes for their organisations and communities.

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