Planning for the Compliance Week 2015 conference is well underway—and we’re particularly excited for next year’s event, because it will be our 10th anniversary of holding one of the best conferences available for compliance, audit, and risk professionals.

Hitting that 10-year milestone has put us in a reflective mood here at Compliance Week. So as we put together the agenda for our 2015 conference, we’ve been asking ourselves: Which problems in this profession seem to be unsolvable? What makes them so hard? To my thinking, the five most intractable issues compliance, audit, and risk officers face are these: