Agenda

Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation summit platform.  Our team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools during the day.

• Examining of the risk of fraud during the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on stimulus spending
• Ensuring funding goes as far as possible to the right people and organisations
• Utilising cross departmental expertise, intelligence, and analytics to develop counter fraud measures and guidance to reduce the risk of fraud
• Working collaboratively with departments, agencies, and local authorities to carry out post-pandemic assurance to find and investigate fraud
• Leading the development of common standards and guidance for counter fraud professionals within the UK and Five Eyes Countries.

• Outlining the NHSCFA 2023 strategy and the pioneering new initiatives which will ramp up anti-fraud culture and drive home the anti-fraud message.
• Developing proactive, co-ordinated, and coherent leadership of counter fraud across the NHS
• Utilising the Digital Economy Act to enable the sharing of data across different departments and public bodies to inform comprehensive risk assessments across the wider NHS counter fraud community.

• Working together to with our partners strategically 
• Tackling COVID-19 fraud – understanding the nature of the threat and disruption the sorts of criminals who sell fake testing kits and PPE. 
• Improving how we work with our partners to tackle specific economic crime issues 
• What does get in our way in this fight? 
• What further challenges does the future hold for us? 

*Content subject to change

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• Building a rapid response team to disrupt fraud attacks within the grants system and to maintain the integrity of the welfare system, as a whole

• Reviewing front end risks and creating new monitoring structures, which brought together multi-disciplinary teams
• Becoming agents of change and designing a new feedback mechanism to mitigate the potential for increase in error and fraud due to a large increase in claims and shortened timescales.

• Understanding how AI, Machine Learning and Big Data technologies is bringing value to every phase of the counter fraud processes and boosting the amount of fraud detected   
• Utilising advances AI based systems to enable investigators to evaluate millions of data points, find patterns and dubious activity    
• Transforming capability in data and analytics and real-life examples of how technology is reducing the threat of Fraud across the public sector    

2020 was a year of radical change, and cryptocurrency-related crime is no exception. With none to match 2019’s infamous PlusToken Ponzi scheme, cryptocurrency scam revenue fell by 71%. Even so, scammers still took in nearly $2.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency, making it the highest-grossing category of crypto crime yet again.  

Join us for an analysis of the year’s activity and a deep dive into one of 2020’s most prolific scams.  

In this session, Scott Johnston, Head of Public Sector Operations at Chainalysis, will highlight how blockchain analysis can be used to profile criminals behind these scams and how law enforcement can track those scammers down. 

Full details TBC

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During this break why not join one of four Fireside Chats & Roundtables

Our fireside chats and roundtable sessions are open to all attendees. The sessions will allow attendees to drive their own learning and share experiences with others on a number of different subject areas.

Fraudsters continue to develop more sophisticated means of deceiving governments. Hear how organisations are tackling these challenges by bringing together all their data sources, using innovative and cutting-edge machine learning techniques to explore and model data.

From the stories SAS will share you will learn;

• How technology is essential for results you can trust and act on
• How visualisation and investigation tools improve investigator productivity
• Why AI & Analytics is vital to stay one-step ahead of the fraudsters

• The evolution of HMRC’s strategic approach to tackling fraud  
• Adapting our knowledge and experience to deliver lasting impact  
• Responding to new risks and threats in unprecedented times  

• Overview of the strengths and weakness of the national enforcement response to fraud and how agencies are narrowing the gap between the level of reported frauds and those which are successfully processed through the justice system
• Best practice for effective case management and improving disclosure arrangements
• Innovative approaches to asset recovery in fraud cases

• Taking an evidence-based approach, increasing efficiencies, and improving debt collection practices across central and local government
• Improving the treatment of people in debt and reducing the use of enforcement agents across government using data analytics
• Placing data analytics at the heart of customer interaction and protecting vulnerable customers

Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual Conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources, and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.

Charities are increasingly aware of the risk of fraud. However, analysis suggests that about a third of charities have yet to acknowledge the significant threat that fraud now poses to the sector.  Join our panel of experts to discuss what needs to be done to fight fraud and cybercrime and keep charities safe.

International Counter Fraud collaboration and co-operation during the Covid-19 response.

• Lessons learned from The Five Eyes (FVEY) countries
• How this is informing UK Government policy.