Chapter Announcements

A Message from Phil Frimpong, ISACA Luxembourg Chapter President

Dear ISACA Luxembourg Chapter Members,

I hope that you had an excellent summer and were able to re-charge with friends and family.

I didn’t do as many Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits as I was planning on doing this summer.  As, however, September is associated with ‘back to school’, I am planning on doing a few trainings this month.  As a reminder maintaining your CISA® requires earning a minimum of 20 CPEs annually and a total of 120 CPEs over a 3-year period.  Please note that ISACA offers free CPEs (and ones that require additional payment).  This can be done through learnings, webinars, and volunteering for your Luxembourg chapter or the ISACA foundation.  https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cisa/maintain-cisa-certification  It is important that all evidence of hours noted / proof of completion is kept. When audited, these will need to be produced. 

As you will remember, June was ISACA Luxembourg’s Annual General Meeting (AGM).  This was a busy month for ISACA Luxembourg’s board member, Valérie Campanile.  She coordinates and prepares the annual AGM in her role as secretary.  Also, very importantly, she ensures that the association complies with Luxembourg laws and regulations from an administrative perspective, keeping the association’s status up to date.  Her other role within ISACA Luxembourg, relates to education and mentoring.  She’s a teacher at a French university, and through this network and experience she is attracting students to our Luxembourg chapter and promoting ISACA at student events.  Additionally, Valérie is an IT Audit Director, working in financial institutions for nearly 20 years as well as being a mum of 2 daughters (13 and 7 years old).  As I am running out of space, next time that you see Valérie at one of our events, please ask her about her international family, her personal development and the value that she places on training (she doesn’t need any more CPEs!), the last good book that she has read, and making pastries.  

Another reminder is that our next event is on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 5.45PM.  It is a fireside chat (moderated questions and answers) with another impressive woman in technology in Luxembourg, Valérie Guillemet from the EIB.  She is the Head of the Digital Transformation office. She has a wealth of experience in digital transformation, project management, and IT governance.  She has led multiple digital and technological transformation projects, leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain in both the private and public sectors.  Valérie was recommended by Kaisu Christie, who is unfortunately now travelling for work on this date.  If you have not already done so, please sign up here:  https://eur.cvent.me/9k3QG

Looking forward to your continued participation.  See you soon.

Phil

A Message from Phil Frimpong, ISACA Luxembourg Chapter President

Dear ISACA Luxembourg Chapter Members,

It is time to celebrate!  If you are working in Luxembourg, Luxembourg’s national day, June 23, which falls on a Sunday.  This means an extra day of vacation to take whenever it suits.  Before you leave for the summer, however, there are a few points to highlight.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024, is the ISACA Luxembourg chapter’s annual general meeting (AGM).  This is held once a year, and it is an opportunity for the president to keep the members updated on how our ‘not for profit’ organisation is running.  I am pleased to say that our membership has increased by 25 people over the previous period.  Excellent training continues to be offered.  Finally, the events, which brings us together, have featured great collaboration with our London colleagues as well as highlighting amazing local Luxembourg speakers.  

I would like to recognise Shaun McGrath, our board member who is in touch with you often.  He sends out the event invitations as well as recording your CPEs (a very important person to know).  Shaun is Canadian, from Montreal, and moved to Europe in 2008. After a year in Paris, he and his wife were looking for a calmer, greener environment for the family and moved to Luxembourg.  Since then, 2 kids, 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 hamster and a few fishes have been added to complete the family!  

Looking forward, the ISACA Luxembourg board’s main goal this year will be to continue to improve the brand recognition and awareness of ISACA in Luxembourg and the greater region.  The budget in this area will increase in the next year in order to engage a media company to facilitate this task.  This will help make the ISACA credentials even more meaningful in the marketplace. 

Students are important to our membership.  I would like to highlight the research project that Crismely Jiménez is doing for her IT Security Management Master’s degree.  She is collecting information through a survey on what are the challenges of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for Luxembourg’s financial institutions.  This will take less than 10 minutes, and there is no personal data collected.  Only leave your email address, if you are interested in the results.  Please help Crismely with her project here:  https://forms.office.com/e/0G8HXVgxQr or through her LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/cris-jimenez

I am looking forward to the event on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, @ 5:30PM, not only will the AGM take place, but also M. Jean-Pierre Faber, Executive Committee member and Director at the CSSF will talk about ongoing changes in the regulatory landscape and how the regulator is evolving to continue to meet its objective by integrating new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. To register for the event, please use the following link: https://eur.cvent.me/RdwDg

Looking forward to your continued participation,

Phil