November Meeting
Thursday the 6th
Cityplace Conference Center
Joint meeting with the Dallas AGA

Sustainability: Auditing Green

Meeting 12:00pm - 2:15pm
Registration begins at 11:30pm

Why Businesses Have No Choice but to Go Green
Laura Miller, Summit Power and Former Dallas Mayor

As recently as two years ago, American businesses could afford to ignore the new “going green” trend.  This is not the case anymore; the public wouldn't hear of it. The defining moment of change came in February 2007, when a United Nations panel of scientists from around the globe declared the evidence of a worldwide warming trend was “unequivocal” and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force for that over the past 50 years. The panel warned that carbon emissions must stabilize by 2015 and decline after that to avoid hunger, disease, fiercer storms, coastal flooding, more frequent droughts, and the extinction of up to 70 percent of plant and animal species. The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently made its first global warming-related decision, ruling 5-4 that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had not made a case for why it was not authorized to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. From fighting coal plants, to driving Priuses, American citizens want to do business with people who heed the call.  Businesses who understand this fact have the advantage.

Laura Miller served as the Mayor of Dallas from 2002 to 2007.  Due to her efforts as Mayor, Dallas realized the strongest real estate boom in its downtown core in 20 years, the city’s first non-discrimination ordinance based on sexual orientation, a long-term solution for the city’s growing homeless population, an award-winning redesign of the $1 billion Trinity River Project, a permanent resolution to the 30-year-old Wright Amendment dispute at Dallas Love Field Airport, and the passage of the two largest bond packages in city history.

She is most proud of her environmental accomplishments: one of the state's first smoking bans in restaurants and public spaces; a greatly expanded curbside recycling program; the city's first Urban Forest Advisory Board; and the formation of the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition, made up of 36 cities, counties and school districts in Texas that Miller formed and then chaired to oppose the construction of 18 pulverized coal plants. The Dallas Morning News named her a 2006 Texan of the Year for this nationally recognized effort, which has been memorialized in a documentary film produced by the Sundance Preserve.

She is currently working with a Colorado-based company, Summit Power, to build the first IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) power plant with carbon capture and sequestration in the United States.
 Prior to being elected mayor, Miller served three-a-half-years on the Dallas City Council and worked for 18 years as an investigative reporter and newspaper columnist in Dallas, New York, and Miami. Miller, 49, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is married to Dallas lawyer and former Texas State Representative Steven Wolens. They have three children.

Sustainability, Governance and Enterprise
Risk Management in a Time of Uncertainty
Gregg Anderson, Crowe Horwath LLP

As the world addresses climate change, there will be new opportunities to create or destroy company value.  In this presentation, we will explore how effective corporate governance and enterprise risk management concepts will help organizations assess and respond to these new opportunities.

Participants will explore the following:

1. A Risk Management Perspective on Sustainability
   1. Managing through Uncertainty
   2. Corporate Governance
   3. Enterprise Risk Management
   4. Internal Audit
2. Applying Enterprise Risk Management Concepts as Part of a Green House Gas Management Program
   1. An Operational View of ERM
   2. Application of the Model to GHG
   3. The Role of the Internal Auditor
3. Scenario Examples

Gregg E. Anderson, PMP, CIRM is currently leading Crowe Horwath’s new product development efforts on sustainability by leveraging his 23 years of professional experience in compliance, operational and technology consulting, including program management, project management, IT strategy, process design, software evaluation, software implementation and application development.  Gregg applies his diverse program management expertise to assist clients in the development of Internal Audit, Sustainability and Enterprise Risk Management programs.

2 Hours Continuing Education

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NEW Dallas Chapter Program!  Core Audit Skills Track (CAST)
The Dallas IIA is launching an exciting new initiative that will focus on critical skills necessary for all auditors to master and comprehend in order to succeed in the practice of internal auditing.  Subject matter experts will present topics such as: the professional standards, building the audit report, closing conference strategies, audit evidence, etc.   The program will present a new topic every month as a separate track pre-meeting lasting for approximately two years.  Those who attend a majority of the sessions will get special recognition.

Concurrent Pre-Meeting 10:30am - 11:30am - CAST

Report Writing
John Morgan, Deloitte

This presentation will focus on developing a quality and consistent internal audit reporting process through alignment with a well executed audit process.  Building an accurate report throughout the reporting process is crucial.  We will discuss and share leading practices that will support the reporting processes and complement the audit execution process.

John R. Morgan, CIA, is the functional leader of the Deloitte Internal Audit practice in North Texas. In his role, he provides leadership in serving internal audit and risk consulting clients in Texas and Arkansas, as well as many national Enterprise Risk Services clients. He is also one of Deloitte’s national champions for the Deloitte Quality Assessment practice and serves on the Institute of Internal Auditors International Membership Committee.

John has more than 28 years of professional experience and has served in internal audit leadership roles for most of his career. Before joining Deloitte, John acquired a broad and diverse background in internal audit management, specializing in audits of operations, management practices, project management and construction, and various contract areas from his 20 years of Electric utility experience. He has consulted with many internal audit organizations in the areas of risk assessment, audit technology and methodology. John has developed and taught innovative audit practices, implemented business controls training and control self-assessment programs, served extensively in national leadership roles for the IIA and as a industry thought leader, and has been a frequently requested speaker at audit conferences and forums. His extensive operating background and business control experiences provide him with a unique and flexible perspective to support your needs.

1 Hour Continuing Education

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Concurrent Pre-Meeting 10:30am - 11:30am

Sustainable North Texas: Many Shades of Green
John Promise, North Central Texas Council of Governments

Green is red hot!  Going green may sound easy, but businesses and local governments are encountering many questions as to what exactly they should implement in the way of sustainable programs and practices.  How green is green enough for a particular city or other entity?

To help local governments and others make sense of the complicated options for going green, North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) has launched “Sustainable North Texas,” an umbrella brand and website for NCTCOG initiatives in the areas of:

• Sustainable Sites and Buildings
• Sustainable Public Rights-of-Way
• Sustainable Communities and Region

John will discuss each of these initiatives, including the private-public Vision North Texas partnership, and how the Dallas IIA can participate.

John Promise, P.E. serves as the Director of Environment & Development for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, an association of more than 200 local governments in the 16‑county Dallas-Fort Worth region.  He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and an M.S. in Governmental Administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.  He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas, and is active in many civic and professional associations.  John serves on several local boards, including AIA Dallas and the River Legacy Foundation.  He has chaired the National Association of Regional Council’s Environmental Policy Development Group, serves on the Texas Association of Regional Council’s Environmental Quality Committee, and has been active on several committees of the American Public Works Association, chairing its Water Resources Management Committee for several years.  Among awards received are 1991 Public Works Leader of the Year in Texas by Texas Public Works Association; 1998 Local Official of the Year, South/Central Region of US, by the National Association of Home Builders; and 2004 Honor Award from American Institute of Architects Dallas.  He is married with two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter.

1 Hour Continuing Education

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This meeting is being held at Cityplace Conference Center
2711 North Haskell Street
Dallas, Texas 75204

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