Melbourne Seminar: Integrating Human Rights into Third-Party Risk Management: From Onboarding to Continuous Monitoring

About the Event

Regulatory scrutiny and stakeholder expectations around human rights and modern slavery due diligence are intensifying. Organisations are no longer assessed on policies alone, but on whether their third-party risk frameworks are operational, risk-based, and demonstrably effective over time.

This seminar brings together senior practitioners across legal, compliance, risk, procurement, and ESG to examine how organisations are embedding human rights considerations into their third-party risk management programs in a structured and defensible way.

Drawing on observed patterns from supplier self-assessments across industries and jurisdictions, the discussion will move beyond theory to focus on what organisations are actually seeing in practice, where gaps persist, and what meaningful improvement looks like.

The session is designed to be practitioner-led and discussion-oriented. Attendees can expect candid peer exchange, practical takeaways, and the opportunity to benchmark against how others are approaching the same challenges.

Networking drinks will follow the panel, providing an opportunity to continue the conversation in a more informal setting.

Discussion Themes

• Evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations around human rights and modern slavery due diligence in Australia and globally
• Moving from point-in-time onboarding to structured, continuous third-party risk oversight
• Using supplier self-assessments to identify where basic controls are typically strong versus where gaps persist, including training, risk assessments, and ABAC controls
• Prioritising higher-risk relationships using a structured, risk-based approach across sector and jurisdiction exposures
• Demonstrating defensible oversight to boards and regulators, and what good looks like in practice for lean compliance teams

Speakers

Abigail McGregor Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Tracy Cuvello Procurement Assurance Specialist, VicTrack

Martin Money Managing Director of APAC, Ethixbase360

Who Should Attend

This seminar is intended for senior professionals across:

• Legal and General Counsel
• Compliance and Ethics
• Risk Management
• Procurement and Supply Chain
• ESG and Sustainability

Places are limited. Registration is subject to availability and is intended for senior practitioners from organisations operating in regulated industries.