Investigative Interview Skills

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Digital Forensics Solutions

Opening Ceremony

• CII2025 Welcome
• Welcome Messages (CEIU Managing Director, Chief Ethics Officer)
• Opening Remarks (AIIB President)
• Group Photo
• Conference Logistics (CII Host Committee)

Plenary 1: CII2025 Keynote Address – Delivering Innovative Investigations Solutions

The Keynote Address opens the main conference, delivered by a distinguished leader in integrity, investigations, or anticorruption, to inspire participants, highlight the conference theme, provide strategic insight, and unite the investigative community around shared values.

Plenary 2: Debate: Can investigations offices be truly independent within management structures?

The Debate will explore whether investigative offices within management-controlled structures can ever be truly independent. Opposing sides will be presenting arguments, rebuttals, and real-world examples from MDBs, UN agencies, and other organizations, concluding with an audience vote on the most compelling case.

Special Session: CII Heads of Delegation Meeting: Creating a Unified Platform for All Investigative Offices (By Invitation)

The CII Heads of Delegation Meeting is a high-level, strategic session chaired by the CII Secretariat that aims to provide a dedicated space for strategic dialogue on the collective vision for CII, its role as a unifying body for investigative offices, and the pathways to enhance its impact. It is an opportunity to create a more cohesive CII — one that ensures inclusivity, improves visibility of ongoing initiatives, addresses common challenges‑, and sets the stage for coordinated future action.

CII2025 Exhibits: Investigations Solutions for Everyone (Open to All Attendees not participating in the Heads of Delegation Meeting)

While the Heads of Delegation meet, explore the CII2025 Exhibits showcasing innovative tools, technologies, and services that support investigative work. Discover practical solutions, connect with vendors and peers, and see demonstrations designed to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration in investigations.

15F Board Room

Plenary 3: Navigating Budget Cuts for Investigations

Plenary 3 aims to explore how investigative functions can pivot from reactive cost-cutting to proactive transformation—emerging leaner, more agile, and better aligned to their institutional integrity mandates.

Welcome to Main Conference (Day 2)

Conference Logistics

Plenary 4: Maximizing Artificial Intelligence in Investigations

Plenary 4 aims to explore how to integrate AI into investigative functions as a genuine co-investigator — one that augments human judgment, strengthens institutional readiness, and accelerates case outcomes without compromising fairness, independence, or due process. As the anchor session for all AI-related workshops at CII2025, it will provide the strategic roadmap for building effective human-machine partnerships that elevate investigative effectiveness and public trust.

Workshop 1: Best Practices in Investigations: Complaint Intake, Analysis, and Case Prioritization

Workshop 1 aims to explore practical approaches to modernizing complaint intake, analysis, and case prioritization to strengthen investigative effectiveness.

Workshop 2: Best Practices in Investigations: Protecting Whistleblowers

Workshop 2 aims to explore innovative and practical strategies to protect both internal and external whistleblowers, ensuring robust confidentiality, effective antiretaliation measures, and tailored protection frameworks that address different risk profiles and legal contexts.

Workshop 3: Integrity Compliance for Investigators

Workshop 3 aims to equip investigators with the knowledge and practical tools to integrate integrity compliance requirements into MDB investigations. It also aims to strengthen their ability to produce findings that support enforceable sanctions, inform post sanction compliance conditions, and align with institutional reporting lines and decision-making structures.

Workshop 4: Best Practices in Investigations: Remote Investigations (Interviews and Evidence Management)

Workshop 4 aims to explore advanced and emerging approaches for conducting secure, credible, and ethical remote investigations. Introduce innovative tools, adaptive protocols, and cross-jurisdictional practices to strengthen virtual interviewing, digital evidence handling, and remote workflow management while anticipating future investigative trends.

Workshop 5: Best Practices in Investigations: Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH) Allegations

Workshop 5 aims to advance investigative capacity for handling SEAH allegations by integrating innovative, survivor-centered, and field adaptable‑ approaches. It will also explore emerging tools, technologies, and interdisciplinary practices that safeguard survivors, preserve evidence integrity, and maintain compliance—even in volatile and remote contexts.

Workshop 6: Enhancing Investigations: Lessons from MDB Sanctions Appellate Bodies

Workshop 6 aims to strengthen investigative quality by drawing practical lessons from the jurisprudence of MDBs sanctions appellate bodies, helping investigators anticipate decision makers’ perspectives, avoid common pitfalls, and build stronger cases from the outset.

Workshop 7: Best Practices in Investigations: MDB Private Sector Operations

Workshop 7 will use a real or anonymized MDB case study to illustrate the investigative challenges unique to private sector operations and work through practical strategies for detecting, documenting, and addressing fraud and corruption risks. It will also highlight approaches that maintain confidentiality, transparency, and compliance with institutional and legal requirements while enhancing investigative effectiveness.

Workshop 8: Best Practices in Investigations: Retaliation and Malicious Complaints

Workshop 8 aims to introduce advanced and proactive investigative approaches to distinguish legitimate disclosures from malicious reports, detect both overt and covert retaliation (including digital forms), and strengthen institutional capacity to safeguard reporting systems. Participants will leave with tools and methods they can immediately apply to assess, investigate, and prevent both retaliation and abuse of complaint channels.

Workshop 9: Exploring Proactive Investigations

Workshop 9 aims to introduce participants to the strategic and operational foundations of proactive investigations, highlighting why they matter, how they can be implemented in both internal and external contexts, and what resources, tools, and governance arrangements are needed to sustain them.

Plenary 5: Working Group – Update to CII Principles and Guidelines

Plenary 5 will be led by the Working Group responsible for the current update. Panelists will present proposed revisions, explain the rationale for changes, and invite feedback from the broader CII membership. The discussion will focus on aligning the Principles and Guidelines with current investigative realities, strengthening clarity and applicability, and maintaining consistency across diverse institutional contexts.

Conference Logistics

Travel to Gala Dinner

1F Multifunction Hall

Meeting Point: 1F AIIB East Entrance

Welcome to Main Conference (Day 3)

Conference Logistics

Plenary 6: Useful Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Plenary 6 aims to equip investigators with practical OSINT techniques to collect, verify, and integrate online data into casework in compliance with legal and ethical standards.

OFE 1: Maximizing the CII Training Initiative

OFE 1 aims to engage attendees to identify practical solutions for fully leveraging the CII Training Initiative to strengthen investigative capacity across institutions and maximize learning outcomes.

OFE 2: Revisiting Small Investigative Offices

OFE 2 aims to explore strategies for strengthening the capacity, efficiency, and impact of small investigative offices. Share practical approaches to managing limited resources while maintaining high investigative standards and institutional credibility.

OFE 3: Addressing Psychological Aspects of Investigative Activities

OFE 3 aims to examine the psychological aspects affecting subjects, witnesses, and investigators throughout the investigative process, and identify strategies to manage these dynamics in ways that protect well‑being, build trust, and support effective fact‑finding.

Case Study 1: Learning from SEAH/Misconduct Investigations Gone Wrong

Case Study 1 aims to examine real world examples of SEAH/misconduct investigations that went wrong to identify pitfalls, extract lessons learned and define strategies for improving investigative practice and safeguarding victims.

Case Study 2: Learning from Fraud Investigations Gone Wrong

Case Study 2 aims to review real-life examples of fraud investigations that failed to meet investigative and institutional standards, identify root causes of failure, and develop strategies to strengthen investigative rigor and protect institutional credibility.

Case Study 3: Successful Proactive Investigations

Case Study 3 aims to demonstrate how proactive investigative approaches can uncover risks early, prevent misconduct from escalating, and strengthen institutional integrity. Highlight successful examples and share practical techniques that investigators can integrate into their work.

Plenary 7: The Franz-Hermann Brüner Memorial Lecture

The Franz-Hermann Brüner Memorial Lecture honors the legacy of OLAF’s first Director-General and his contributions to the international investigations community. Delivered annually at the Conference of International Investigators (CII), the lecture is intended as a reflective and forward-looking address that draws lessons from investigative experience, honors the values Brüner championed, and inspires investigations professionals to uphold the highest standards in their work.

Closing Ceremony

• CII2025 Closing
• Closing Remarks (CEIU Managing Director)
• Handover to Host of CII2026
• Conference Logistics