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We're Coming Back to the World's Greatest City!
Join Us in New York to Celebrate The IIA's 75th Anniversary.

The 2016 International Conference theme, “Internal Audit Rising…75 Years of Progress Through Sharing,” positions delegates as the integral link to a collaborative past and a progressive future of added value and enhanced insights within the context of a changing environment.

N   etworking. Plan to engage in the many networking opportunities with 2,500+ colleagues from around the globe.
     
Y   es! Say “yes” to attending the 2016 International Conference in New York City at the Javits Center, on July 17–20, 2016.
     
C   elebrate. Don’t miss the opportunity to take part in The IIA’s big 75th anniversary celebration.
     

 


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The Venue: Javits Convention Center

Since its opening in 1986, the Javits Convention Center has hosted thousands of trade shows, conferences, and special events including many of the Top 200 trade shows. The center’s 840,000 gross square feet of exhibition space can be divided into 10 self-contained halls. While the mix of shows and events change with each calendar year, Javits hosts approximately 80 major trade shows and conventions and 70 special events. Average attendance is 3.5 million each year.


75 Years of Internal Audit History 

The year 1941 marked a major turning point. Victor Z. Brink, authored the first major book on internalauditing. John B. Thurston, internal auditor for the North American Company in New York, and Robert B. Milne, who had served with Thurston on an internal auditing subcommittee, agreed that further progress in bringing internal auditing to its proper level of recognition would be best made possible by forming an independent organization for internal auditors. When Brink’s book came to the attention of Thurston, the three men got together and found they had a mutual interest in furthering the role of internal auditing.

As an organizing committee, Brink, Milne, Thurston, contacted a small group of internal audit practitioners throughout the United States who expressed interest in forming a national – even international – organization for internal auditors. The IIA’s certificate of incorporation was filed on November 17, 1941, and just prior to the first annual meeting on December 9, 1941 at the Williams Club located at 24 East 39th Street in New York City, 24 charter members were accepted for membership.

Membership grew quickly. It went from the original 24 members to 104 by the end of the first year, to 1,018 at the end of five years. By 1957, membership had expanded to 3,700 with 20 percent of membership located outside of the United States. Seventy-five years later, The IIA is a dynamic global organization with more than 180,000 members worldwide.