Our keynote speakers will be Timothy Fogarty and Dr Miklos Vasarhelyi .

Timothy J. Fogarty

Timothy J. Fogarty has served in several capacities at the national level for the American Accounting Association (AAA), including Vice President – Education for that organization.

He is a professor in the accountancy department at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is also the Thomas Dickerson Faculty Fellow at that school. He has published over two hundred seventy articles on a wide variety of topics, in both academic and practitioner journals.

His research interests include accounting education, the sociology of business organizations, and the regulation of professionals. He serves on the editorial boards of over twenty journals. He has worked on research projects for the Financial Executives Research Foundations and on educational matters for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

He also has been involved with the accreditation of business schools. At Case Western, he previously served as department chair and associate dean, currently teaches across the curriculum, and serves in several University-level capacities. He has been an attorney for forty years and a CPA for thirty-five years.

Dr Miklos A. Vasarhelyi

Professor Vasarhelyi was awarded the Outstanding Educator of the year by the American Accounting Association (AAA) in 2014.

He is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems and Director of the Rutgers Accounting Research Center (RARC) & Continuous Auditing and Reporting Laboratory (CARLAB) at Rutgers University, Newark NJ, USA. He also leads the RADAR (Rutgers AICPA Data Analytics Research Initiative) project supported by the 8 leading CPA firms, AICPA, and CPA Canada.

He has published more than 220 journal articles, 20 books, and directed over 42 Ph.D. theses. He is the editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing series and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting. Professor Vasarhelyi has taught executive programs on electronic commerce to many large international organizations including GE, J&J, Eli Lilly, Baxter, ADL, Volvo, Siemens, Chase Bank, and AT&T.

Professor Vasarhelyi is credited with the original continuous audit application and as the leading researcher in this field. The CAR Lab’s projects include among others Siemens, KPMG, P&G, AICPA, CA Technologies, and Itau-Unibanco. Prof. Vasarhelyi was presented with the Wasserman award by ISACA in 2013.