CII2025 Agenda

Pre-Conference Investigators Training (Nov. 3)
Time
Activity
Venue
0900H – 1700H
Investigative Interview Skills
3F Meeting Room A
Pre-Conference Investigators Training (Nov. 4)
Time
Activity
Venue
0900H – 1700H
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Introduction to Digital Forensics: Fundamentals and Emerging Trends
This course provides a foundation in digital forensics, covering the essentials of computer, mobile, and network forensics. Participants will also be introduced to emerging areas such as car, AI, and crypto-related forensics, with demonstrations to illustrate core concepts. The course is designed for investigators and professionals seeking a basic, non-technical overview of the field, serving as a practical starting point rather than an advanced certification.
3F Meeting Room A
 
CII2025 Speakers Dinner (Nov. 4)
Time
Activity
Venue
1800H – 2100H
Speakers’ Dinner (by Invitation)
Meeting Point: 1F AIIB East Entrance
CII2025 Main Conference (Nov. 5)
Time
Activity
Venue
0900H – 1000H
Registration
Networking Break
1F Lobby
1F CII Café
1000H – 1100H
Opening Ceremony
CII2025 Welcome
Welcome Messages by CEIU Managing Director and Chief Ethics Officer
Opening Remarks by AIIB President
Group Photo
Conference Logistics
1F Multifunction Hall
1100H – 1200H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1200H – 1400H
Lunch 
Networking Break
1F Dining Hall
1400H – 1500H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1500H – 1530H
Networking Break
1F CII2025 Café
1530H – 1630H
Special Session: CII Heads of Participating Organizations 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.
15F Board Room
1530H – 1630H
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.
1F Lobby
1645H – 1745H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1745H – 2000H
Conference Logistics
Cocktail Reception
1F Multifunction Hall 
9F Sky Garden
CII2025 Main Conference (Nov. 6)
Time
Activity
Venue
0900H – 0930H
Welcome to Main Conference (Day 2)
Conference Logistics
1F Multifunction Hall
0930H – 1030H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1030H – 1100H
Networking Break
1F Multifunction Hall
1100H – 1200H
WORKSHOPS
 
 
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.
3F Meeting Room A
 
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.
3F Meeting Room B
 
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.
3F Meeting Room C
1200H – 1400H
Lunch 
Networking Break
1F Dining Hall
1400H – 1500H
WORKSHOPS
 
 
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.
3F Meeting Room A
 
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.
3F Meeting Room B
 
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.
3F Meeting Room C
1500H – 1530H
Networking Break
1F CII2025 Café
1530H – 1630H
WORKSHOPS
 
 
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.
3F Meeting Room A
 
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.
3F Meeting Room B
 
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.
3F Meeting Room C
1645H – 1745H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1745H – 1830H
Conference Logistics
Travel to Gala Dinner
1F Multifunction Hall
Meeting Point: 1F AIIB East Entrance
1830H – 2130H
Gala Dinner
TBC
CII2025 Main Conference (Nov. 7)
Time
Activity
Venue
0900H – 0930H
Welcome to Main Conference (Day 3)
Conference Logistics
1F Multifunction Hall
0930H – 10:30H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1030H – 1100H
Networking Break
1F Multifunction Hall
1100H – 1200H
OPEN FLOOR EXCHANGES (OFE)
 
 
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.
3F Meeting Room A
 
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.
3F Meeting Room B
 
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.
3F Meeting Room C
1200H – 1400H
Lunch 
Networking Break
1F Dining Hall
1400H – 1500H
CASE STUDIES
 
 
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.
3F Meeting Room A
 
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.
3F Meeting Room B
 
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.
3F Meeting Room C
1500H – 1530H
Networking Break
1F CII2025 Café
1530H – 1630H
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.
1F Multifunction Hall
1630H – 1730H
Closing Ceremony
CII2025 Closing
Closing Remarks (CEIU Managing Director)
Handover to Host of CII2026
Conference Logistics
1F Multifunction Hall
Cultural Tour (Nov. 8)
Time
Activity
Venue
0800H – 1300H
Cultural Tour
TBC

CII General Principles for Core Investigative Activities

Six volumes of General Principles for conducting core investigative activities that greatly expand on the principles within the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines for Investigations. Endorsed at the 21st CII, these Principles provide more in-depth, principles-based, uniform guidance to investigators and Investigative Offices conducting these six core activities: Intake and Evaluation, Scoping and Planning, collection of Physical and Documentary Evidence, collection of Testimonial Evidence, collection of Digital Evidence and Evidence Analysis and Reporting of Findings.

As supplements to the CII’s Uniform Principles and Guidelines, each paper sets out non-binding principles establishing uniform standards to guide investigators and Investigative Offices undertaking these activities. They are purposely not prescriptive in technical details nor implementing practices. These Principles will also form the basis for a future CII Investigator Credential and CII Investigator training pathways.