Join the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners for our 15th Annual Conference on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at the Hershey Country Club!  The conference will be held in the Keystone Ballroom. 

Untapped: Teaching Fraud Investigators to be Better Thinkers

Dr. Toby Groves

“It’s not what you know, it’s how you think”

Designed especially for fraud investigators, this class is a practical call to action that provides fraud investigators with the tools and inspiration they need to be better thinkers. You’ll learn habits and strategies you can use every day to dramatically improve judgment and decision-making.  You’ll learn how to break down mental barriers and alleviate mental fatigue.  You’ll achieve new levels of mental clarity, flexibility, and resilience.  You will also benefit from better overall mental well-being and be more resistant to stress and burnout.  Attendees leave as more powerful and confident thinkers and better communicators and problem-solvers.

Major subjects:

•          Dimensional thinking
•          Situational awareness
•          Understanding skepticism and other important constructs on a different level
•          Handling high-stakes situations and difficult conversations
•          Strategies to become a more resilient and flexible thinker
•          Controlling and optimizing your mental resources
•          Decluttering your mind for higher clarity and greater mental bandwidth

Learning objectives: 

•          Apply “Signal to Noise Ratio” to skeptical reasoning
•          Apply the concept of “orientation” to see connections between ideas
•          Apply “offloading” to achieve mental clarity
•          Identify the “surface structure” and “deep structure” of problems

Visually Speaking

Greg Coleman - Special Agent, FBI (Retired)

Politicians, celebrities and other public figures live their lives in a fishbowl.  Their every move is captured in photographs and videos and, because of body language, so are their thoughts.  Actual videos and photographs are used to illustrate and explain some of the most common forms of body language and their sometimes very subtle differences

Pennsylvania Attorney General Office of Diversion, Dark Web, Cyber, and Virtual Currency investigations

Sean McDonald - Section Director - Drug Diversion, Compliance, Dark Web, and Virtual Currency

Matt Massaro - Supervisory Narcotics Agent (SNA)

Using the False Claims Act to Combat Health Care Fraud

Tamara Haken - Assistant United States Attorney - Middle District of Pennsylvania 

Joseph Terz - Chief, Civil Division - Middle District of Pennsylvania 

Philip Klemick - Sr. Financial Investigator, ACE Unit, US Attorney's Office, MDPA

COVID Relief [Payroll Protection Program (PPP) and Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC)] Fraud Update

Mark Banks - Manager - Boyer & Ritter LLC

Ethics in the Digital Age 

John J. Sancenito, CPP - President - Information Network Associates, Inc. 

Overview of Presentation 

Privacy has been a casualty of the digital age. Technological advancements have created opportunities for government, corporations, and private individuals to have unprecedented access to personal information. Collecting, accessing, and storing private information has created a whole new set of ethical dilemmas. Accessing electronic devices, bypassing security settings, befriending subjects on social media, or accessing online accounts without authorization can have serious real-world consequences. This interactive presentation will explore ethical and legal pitfalls to navigate our world driven by big data and interconnected technology.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the definition of ethics and the process of ethical decision making. 
• Understand some of the reasons that digital privacy and protection of personal identifying information is such a highly debated topic. 
• Understand some of the legal and ethical pitfalls they may encounter in careers. 
• Understand that the ability to access data and the authorization to access data are not the same thing. 
• Understand the consequences of unethical decisions and how it can negatively impact their reputation, credibility and career.  It can also have serious consequences such as jeopardize legal admissibility, civil or even criminal prosecution. 

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