Welcome and Announcements

Cyber Immune Defense Uday Ali Pabrai, CEO, ecfirst

• Assess enterprise readiness for attacks such as IoT + DDoS, botnets, ransomware and more and review options for and how to implement a cybersecurity framework
• Step through the impact of global standards such as GDPR and ISO 27001 on an enterprise cybersecurity program
• Examine a self-assessment cybersecurity checklist to determine the state of an active defense

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Prosecution and Defense: Points of Collaboration and Contention in False Claims Act Cases Lon Leavitt, Partner, Halunen Law Frank Sheeder, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP

• Understand common divergent viewpoints
• Establishing collaboration and cooperation
• Practical approaches in government investigations

Break

Fostering a Compliance Culture: Be an Immune System, Not a Police Force Anne Daly, VP of Compliance, Samaritan Health System

• Compliance professionals face a real challenge in fostering focus on compliance when the workforce is appropriately focused on the important health care services they furnish
• To the workforce, compliance program activity can sometimes feel like all criticism and enforcement, and the workforce sometimes actively avoids and dismisses program interaction
• The speaker will work with attendees to recharacterize the program as an “immune system” that protects or minimizes the entity’s experience of “sickness”, characterizing program activity as a positive part of the health care team

Lunch Break

Cultivating a Climate for Paradigm Shift Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst, NC Department of Health & Human Services

• How can you avoid stagnation without sacrificing quality and security in the process? Learn the three key words needed to strike this delicate balance in this dynamic challenge to shift your paradigm and be a catalyst for change rather than an antagonist
• Are you satisfied with the status quo in your organization? It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results. Is that how you want your leadership legacy to be remembered?
• Do you innovate? Do you project an image of being part of the problem or part of the solution? Find out how to break out of your comfort zone and blow away the status quo. Discover three types of flexibility in leadership needed to make that happen today