Agenda
2022 Agenda
23rd February 2022
8:30 am
Registration, Refreshments and Networking
9:15 am
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Mark Cheeseman
Deputy Director, Public Sector Fraud
Cabinet Office
Confirmed
9:25 am
Ministerial Keynote: Developing Counter Fraud Capability and Continuous Improvement within the Public Sector
9:45 am
Keynote: The SFO: fighting serious and complex fraud
- Examining the most common fraud threats that the SFO comes across in its work and its impact on victims and the UK economy and reputation.
- The importance of developing and maintaining a proactive cross-agency approach to sharing intelligence and bringing greater pace and focus to investigations through enhanced technological capabilities
- Increasing public awareness and encouraging more reporting through joint action work with private and public (UK and International) partners.
Lisa Osofsky
Director
Serious Fraud Office
Confirmed
10:05 am
Questions and Answers
10:10 am
Platinum Sponsor: Accenture
10:30 am
Morning Break, Refreshments and Networking
11:00 am
Panel Discussion: From Reactive to Proactive: Learning Lessons from Covid-19
- Overview of the scale and impact of Covid related economic crime across the public sector and how departments are responding with agility to a rapidly changing external environment
- Cracking down on criminals exploiting UK government support schemes by spotting technological deficiencies, reviewing internal capabilities, and creating cross government infrastructure
- Understanding how best practice across the public sector is shaping government counter fraud framework and internal culture
Bozena Hillyer
Director for Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt
Department for Work and Pensions
Confirmed
Neil Green
Deputy Director, Counter Fraud and Investigations
Government Internal Audit Agency
Confirmed
Mark Sutcliffe
Head of Fraud Control for Green Homes Grants
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Confirmed
11:30 am
HMRC Perspective: Covid Schemes and Counter Fraud
Janet Alexander
Director of the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Confirmed
11:50 am
Questions and Answers
11:55 am
Gold Sponsor: Quantexa
12:20 pm
From State Actors to Single Mothers - Fraudster are as diverse as the rest of us
Crystal Blockchain Seminar
Clue Seminar Session
Nuance Seminar Session
Seminar 5
SAS Seminar Session
Fraud is a multi-facetted threat both across the public sector and within a single organization. From deliberate error to organised crime there is no one methodology that can be used to tackle all fraud typologies.
If we accept this as the reality, then
- How do organisations apply tactical solutions and yet maintain a coherent strategy?
- How do they ensure that the individual models are fair and that combined together there is no discrimination?
- How do manage that large number of models, consistently monitoring performance, challenging poor performers and applying machine learning?
This session will look at the underlying challenges of multi discipline fraud disruption and methods to deal with them.
Colin Gray
Principal Consultant
SAS UK
Confirmed
Peter Snelling
Principal Technical Account Manager
SAS UK
Confirmed
Crystal Blockchain Seminar
1:00 pm
Lunch Break and Networking
2:00 pm
Altia Seminar Session
Twice2Much Seminar Session
DMRC Seminar Session
Melissa Seminar Session: How to Verify Identity Remotely
Seminar 5
Altia ABM
Twice2Much
DMRC
This session will cover:
- Why it’s important for the public sector to verify identity remotely
- How to reduce fraud using remote identity verification
- A real life demonstration of remote ID verification and user onboarding using biometric technology
- Examples of remote ID verification and onboarding by central / local government, healthcare and third sector organisations
- The benefits of biometrics / automated identity verification to public bodies
Barley Laing
UK Managing Director
Melissa
Confirmed
Tackling Public Sector fraud: how to reduce the risk of bid rigging in public procurement?
- Examining what bid-rigging tactics look like in practice; sharing lessons from recent cases that can be used to reduce risks in the future; and the role of partnership working in identifying and investigating suspect behaviour.
Juliette Enser
Senior Director for Cartels
Competition and Markets Authority
Confirmed
2:35 pm
2:55 pm
Countering Fraud in the NHS
- A review of the NHSCFA 2020-2023 strategy: Where are we?
- Recent successes against Covid-19 related fraud
- Developing a system wide approach to protect £33.9 billion in extra funding and ensuring fraud prevention is in built across all parts of the NHS
- Breaking down the barriers between NHS organisations and encouraging greater sharing of information
Senior Representative
NHS Counter Fraud Authority
Confirmed
3:20 pm
Demystifying Prosecution: Meeting the Evidential Burden
- Overview of the CPS Economic Crime Strategy Aims and Outcomes
- Maintaining judicial confidence and examining the role and approach of the CPS in deciding whether to prosecute
- Best practice guidance to ensure that case management and disclosure requirements are complied with fairly and properly
Andrew Penhale
Head of Specialist Fraud Division
Crown Prosecution Service
Confirmed
3:45 pm
Afternoon Break, Networking and Refreshments
4:10 pm
Stream 1
Stream 2
Stream 3
Panel Discussion: The Future Shape of Identity Fraud and Cyber Enabled Crime
- Examining the most common threat vectors and the impact of identity and cyber security breaches, on the public sector, post Covid-19
- Utilising emerging technology to effectively prevent fraud and implementing the right security, technical and governance processes to manage fraud risks
- Discussing what organisations need to do to plan for to ensure they are resilient to future uncertainties
- Increasing public awareness and encouraging more reporting through joint action work with private and public partners
Sponsored by:
John Roch
Detective Superintendent Head of Economic Crime
Metropolitan Police
Confirmed
David Kleinberg
Director
National Investigation Service
Confirmed
Senior Representative
Deputy Head of Government Sector Team
National Cyber Security Centre
Confirmed
Mark Cheeseman
Deputy Director, Public Sector Fraud
Cabinet Office
Confirmed
Senior Represenative
Experian
Confirmed
Panel Discussion: Quality Assurance Guidance in Counter Fraud
- Understanding how counter fraud work has changed post pandemic- has the risk environment changed?
- Reviewing risk assessments and the nature and impact of old and new risks
- Determining where to put resources to tackle a backlog of cases versus being more proactive
- Developing a post-event assurance process to ensure funding is used for its intended purpose
Dave Carter
Head of Counter Fraud
British Council
Confirmed
Brendan Harper
Senior Counter Fraud Manager
UK Research and Innovation
Confirmed
Simon Bleckly
Head of Internal Audit
Salford City Council
Confirmed
Claire Entwistle
Co Director- Investigations and Enforcement
The Insolvency Service
Confirmed
Mike Haley
Chief Executive & Board Member
CIFAS
Confirmed
Delivering Better Outcomes for Victims of APP Scams
- Understanding the role financial services need to play to tackle the prevalence of APP scams
- Redesigning UK inter-banking payment architecture, so that it meets the needs of the UK’s digital economy
- Working with industry and consumer groups to drive the legislative changes necessary to reduce the instance of online harm
Chris Hemsley
Managing Director
Payment Systems Regulator
Confirmed
4:55 pm
Closing Remarks
5:00 pm
Drinks Reception Sponsored by Accenture
6pm - 8pm Public Sector Counter Fraud Awards
We wanted to start 2022 on a positive note by recognising the incredible achievements of those working in Counter Fraud.
The 2nd annual Public Sector Counter Fraud awards, in collaboration with the Government Counter Fraud Profession, is the perfect way to reward those who have demonstrated commitment to the task in hand and shown the spirit of innovation, great team work or going the extra mile to create better outcomes for the citizen in our national fight against fraud.
