Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Matt Johnson, U. S. National Technology Assurance Leader at KPMG.

Thanks to artificial intelligence, blockchain and the rise of remote work and advanced analytics, the technology companies use to get work done and serve customers is evolving at an incredible pace. How are tech specialists in the audit field keeping up? Over a 20+ career at KPMG, Matt Johnson has been helping both clients and internal teams adapt to tech innovation and avoid technology-related risks.

He talked to AccelPro Audit about how digital transformation is changing tech assurance, executives’ increasing concern about cybersecurity risks and the SEC’s new rules around reporting them, KPMG’s creative efforts to fill the talent pipeline, as well as his own personal career journey. While Johnson offers plenty of insight about the current tech landscape and developing your own career, perhaps his most passionate piece of advice is more strategic — focusing on how auditors can find the long-term motivation to keep learning in such a fast-changing field.

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On Tech Assurance in a Time of Disruption