A business case for a strategic initiative as a role play between Head of R&D and Head of Compliance in an innovative agricultural machinery manufacturer company. The debate centres on the business opportunities that the Company can leverage in the Agricultural Technology space by successfully embracing emerging technology such as Blockchain, IoT, Machine Learning and Big Data all bound together by Artificial Intelligence and the associated risks and ethical considerations to the company. Using an appropriate governance framework for enterprise IT (COBIT 2019) is discussed to address these concerns.
Everett Breakey
Information Assurance Auditor
Everett has served as Vice-President and Certification Director of the ISACA Ireland Chapter and is currently the Chapter training lead on CRISC and COBIT 2019. He holds the mainstream ISACA certifications including CGEIT. He has delivered numerous training sessions to Chapter Members on Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management at four levels (101, 201, 301 & 401), and Information Management. He also serves as Secretary of the Chapters Risk Management – Special Interest Group. Professionally he currently provides guidance to SME’s on Information Assurance and Compliance.
Martin Cullen
IT Risk Manager
Martin has over 25 years experience in Technical, Audit and Risk roles across different industries.
He currently serves as ISACA Ireland board Vice President and board representative on the Chapters Risk Management Special Interest Group. He holds a BSc. Information & Systems and the following ISACA designations: CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE and is an accredited trainer for CISA, CDPSE, COBIT 5.0 / 2019 and Cybersecurity. He has delivered numerous ISACA Ireland Risk Management, COBIT and Cybersecurity courses. He has presented at ISACA conferences and Global webinars and has had IT Audit articles and blogs published in the ISACA Journal international magazine.