Slovak Compliance Days 2017

The fourth annual conference of Slovak Compliance Days 2017 took place again this year under the patronage of the President of the Slovak Republic, Mr. Andrej Kiska. It took place on 6 and 7 November 2017 in the Pulse conference rooms at Volkswagen Slovakia in Bratislava. The conference was attended by 131 participants, including 26 speakers from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The conference included a total of 32 lectures and discussions on the following topics:

• Innovation versus regulation – a clash of new technology with old rules
• How to do business ethically in the age of technological postmodernism? Do new technologies and business models need new regulations? How to find the interplay of technological progress and protection in the form of regulations?
• Compliance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – How to capture compliance in small and medium-sized companies? Why should smaller companies purposefully implement the principles of compliance and ethics into their own practice? What impact does their attitude to compliance have on large companies and society as a whole?
• GDPR – from theorizing to solving practical issues Register of public sector partners – application problems and what to do with them Criminal liability of legal entities – practice and compliance programs Competition – exchange of sensitive information between entrepreneurs; inspections

The participants of the conference were from different economic sectors and interesting questions were asked during the discussions. The rich experience of the speakers was appreciated by all participants of the conference.

At the end of the first and second day of the conference, there was a tour of the Volkswagen plant on the topic of Hybrid Drive and Electromobility, where participants could see an interesting and highly robotic production process in the plant. A tasting of KRAL wine in the Old Town in Bratislava was also prepared for the participants.

Already now, the Slovak Compliance Circle is looking forward to the 5th annual conference, which will again bring interesting topics.

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