October 26–27, 2023

8th Bled Compliance and Ethics Conference has successfully ended!

Lake Bled, Slovenia

BCEC 2023 - Welcome back to Bled!

One of the region’s most recognised conferences in compliance was back to the beautiful Alpine Lake Bled, Slovenia! This has been the 8^th Bled Compliance and Ethics conference, which is known to inspire, connect and touch on emerging topics. It covered current developments in the field of business compliance, ethics, risk and governance, subject matters relevant in Europe and internationally.

As always, we have been hassling to attract most excellent speakers, long-time practitioners and variety of leading professionals in compliance, ethics, risk management, sustainability, legal etc.

Participants and speakers of previous conferences came from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Monte Negro, North Macedonia, UK, US, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary… To share knowledge, inspiration and friendship, in common interest to be better professionals and to help make better business!

This time around, on 26 – 27 October 2023, the spot-light has been on subject matters around:

ESG Compliance
Transformative Compliance and Ethics Leader
Lessons Learned from Crisis

The conference has therefore hosted representatives from variety of stakeholders, whom we need all on board and connected to assure more responsible and sustainable future. To help in resolving World’s most pending threats.

Starting on the first day of the conference, we had internationally recognized key-note speaker, Richard Bistrong, with whom we are going to talk about the journey ‘From Corruption to Compliance’. This was based on his own personal story of being imprisoned for corruption, and now speaking about what lessons can be learned from this for business leaders and compliance officers!

Meet Richard Bistrong and his story: From behind the bribe, The sharp end of compliance.

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About the organisers

European Institute of Compliance and Ethics (EICE) has a mission to serve as a platform for compliance professionals in our environment to network regularly, advance our competences and cooperate with each other, as well as with related professionals and business community.

We provide education through workshops, regular meetings for compliance community, conferences and in-house education and training for variety of sectors and audiences, such as legal, audit or compliance professionals, sales force, directors and board members. This is how we spread awareness, capabilities and knowledge for managing and overseeing compliance and ethics program effectively and according to international standards and best practices. Our activities are aimed at advancing professional development and research, empowering compliance and business ethics in the wider environment, too, raising awareness and promoting organisational compliance and ethics at large … for harvesting business benefits, improving international competitiveness and improving general economy and wellbeing in our society.

We are connecting local compliance community with the global one, through strategic partnership with ICA – International Compliance Association, based in UK and operating Worldwide. We are also part of the initial group of organisations in ENFCO – European Network for Compliance Officers.

The IEDC–Bled School of Management, founded in 1986 as the first business school of its type in Central and Eastern Europe, is one of the leading international management development institutions in Europe.

The mission of IEDC, as an agent of change and a learning partner, is to attract the most promising executives and top managers, provide them with world class management education and other relevant services in a truly international context, inspire them for life-long-learning and prepare them to act and add value as competent and responsible transformational leaders in their organisations and society at large.We are fulfilling this purpose by sharing ideas, views and experiences among members, organising learning events, advocating professional interests in the legislation processes, cooperating with other professional organisations, following developments in our field and spreading best practices in risk management.

The World Institute for Sustainability and Ethics in Rising Economies (WISE) is a collaboration of four centres of excellence which address the most relevant business challenges of today from a truly global perspective by bridging local entrepreneurship with global thought leadership.

With offices in Germany, South Africa, and China and headquartered at IEDC-Bled School of Management, Postgraduate studies, WISE aims to serve professionals in the field of sustainable business (encompassing business ethics, CSR and sustainability) within rising economies through practice relevant research, education and networks. WISE activities are proudly sponsored by NLB and Luka Koper. The mission of IEDC, as an agent of change and a learning partner, is to attract the most promising executives and top managers, provide them with world class management education and other relevant services in a truly international context, inspire them for life-long-learning and prepare them to act and add value as competent and responsible transformational leaders in their organisations and society at large.We are fulfilling this purpose by sharing ideas, views and experiences among members, organising learning events, advocating professional interests in the legislation processes, cooperating with other professional organisations, following developments in our field and spreading best practices in risk management.

WISE is supported by NLB d.d. and Luka Koper d.d.