20 October 2026 | 09:30–12:30 CEST | Online | 3 CPE
As banks continue to explore and deploy artificial intelligence, Internal Audit faces an increasingly practical question: how can AI deliver genuine value within the audit function while remaining supported by sound governance, clear accountability and professional judgement?
The ECIIA Banking Forum 2026 will bring together perspectives from research, banking governance, supervision and implementation to examine this question.
Across a focused three-hour online programme, the Forum will move beyond general discussion about AI and address the issues that matter directly to Internal Audit in banking: current implementation trends, expectations from Audit Committees, the evolving regulatory environment and lessons from organisations putting AI into practice.
What the Forum will cover
The programme will address:
- current research and trends in the implementation of AI within Internal Audit;
- the expectations of Audit Committees when AI is introduced into the internal audit function;
- the regulatory journey around AI and the lessons learned so far;
- experience-based insights from the implementation of AI.
The Forum will be particularly relevant to Chief Audit Executives, Heads of Internal Audit, audit managers, Audit Committee members and professionals working in internal audit, governance, risk and compliance in the banking sector.
Programme
09:30–09:35 | Introduction
Virpi Vuorinen
Chair of the ECIIA Banking Committee
09:35–10:10 | Research results and current trends in the implementation of AI in internal auditing
Professor Marc Eulerich
Professor of Internal Auditing and Corporate Governance, Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen
10:10–10:55 | Expectations from Audit Committees when implementing AI in internal auditing
With:
Sally Clark
Chair of the Audit Committee, Citigroup Global Markets Limited
Additional panellists will be announced as the programme is finalised.
10:55–11:05 | Break
11:05–11:40 | View from the regulators: the journey to regulating AI – lessons learned so far
Katia Mastrodomenico
Head of the Sustainable Banking & Governance Division, ECB Banking Supervision
Maria Julve San Martin
Head of the Operational Resilience & Oversight Division, ECB Banking Supervision
11:40–12:25 | Success stories: learnings from implementing AI
Speakers will be announced as the programme is finalised.
12:25–12:30 | Wrap-up
Virpi Vuorinen
Chair of the ECIIA Banking Committee
The programme may be subject to change.
Practical information
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Time: 09:30–12:30 CEST
Format: Online
CPE: 3
Registration fee: €150, excluding applicable VAT