2024 UNO Accounting Speakers Series – Omaha, NE

Join us for our thirteenth annual Speakers Series event! Our keynote speaker will be Larry Bradley, KPMG International’s Global Vice Chair of Audit. Our ethics speaker will be Chuck Gallagher, business ethics expert, AI keynote speaker, consultant, and author.

Larry Bradley is the Global Vice Chair of Audit and leads KPMG International’s global audit practice with more than 92,000 professionals in 143 countries. Larry has 40 years of experience with KPMG and spent several years in KPMG’s Department of Professional Practice in New York and in the US Capital Markets Group based in London.​ He served as a member of KPMG LLP (US) and the KPMG Americas Boards of Directors and served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of Park Indemnity Limited and chaired several Board committees on those boards. Larry spent the majority of his career as a lead audit signing partner and/or the SEC Reviewing Partner on numerous Global and Fortune 500 companies in a broad array of businesses and has extensive international experience having lived, worked and travelled internationally extensively throughout his career.

Larry has a B.S. Business Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha – Graduated Magna Cum Laude​ and is Licensed in New York, Connecticut, Nebraska, and Massachusetts​. He is a member of the Global advisory board of Accounting for Sustainability in the UK and served as KPMG International’s representative on the audit panel of the Global Public Policy Council (GPPC) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).​ In 2005, Larry received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Public Affairs and Community Service and in 2010, he​ received the UNO Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Business Administration.​ He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Bottom Line, a Trustee of the University of Nebraska Foundation and former trustee of the KPMG LLP Foundation.​

Chuck Gallagher is a leading AI and business ethics speaker, author of six books, and a consultant. His work merges ethical leadership with AI, offering practical strategies for ethical decision-making in technology and business

A continental breakfast will be available before the speaker presentations begin, starting at 7:30 am. Speaker presentations will begin at 8:30 am. Event concludes at 12:30 pm.

Regular tickets are $100 ($120 after September 6); students attend free.

CPE credit: Two ethics and two accounting CPE credit hours approved by the Nebraska Board of Public Accountancy.

Register now, and plan on joining us for a great event!

PARKING: The lot adjacent to Mammel Hall has been designated “open parking” for the event, so no special tags or permits will be required for event attendees.

Thanks to our Accounting Corporate Partners for their support: Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies & National Indemnity Company, Bland & Associates, Deloitte, Eide Bailly, Fiserv, FORVIS Mazars, Hancock Dana, KPMG, Lutz, Mutual of Omaha, OFWF, and Union Pacific.