The ICSA Annual Conference is the premier industry event for company secretaries and governance leaders. This year’s programme will explore the implications of the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and what it will mean for boards. It will also examine how business can prepare for Brexit, alongside a wealth of quality opportunities for professional and personal development.

The ICSA Ireland Conference is the biggest annual development event for Irish governance professionals. With a theme of ‘leading board development’ and brimming with highly relevant content curated by practitioners for practitioners, this conference will provide attendees with expert input on a number of topics.

In this conference we dig deeper into some of the main issues for company secretaries and governance professionals for the coming year and beyond. Topics include executive pay and incentives, corporate culture and both current and future reporting and disclosure requirements.

Join us to meet and learn from “Britain’s Greatest Fraudster” turned Security Expert, Tony Sales. Experience live demos from Germany’s best “Comedy Hacker”, Tobias Schrödel. Prepare your business for 2018 with a total of 37 technical & strategic solutions delivered by global industry leaders. And enjoy it all with a bottle of our own crafted beer, “Cybeer”, to enjoy during our networking sessions and party!

The importance of stimulating shareholder engagement towards more of sustainability and long-termism, is a priority of the EU. However in corporate governance models with widely dispersed shareholders, such an ambition will only have a chance of being realised if a set of complementary conditions are further developed. This conference, jointly organised by ecoDa and PwC, will examine the type of incentives that are created by the legal/fiduciary duties of both directors and investors.