2004 — Agenda
Treasury & Risk's 3rd Annual A Vision For Tomorrow's Treasurer “Risk and Regulation ”
Are you ready for your next challenge?— March 22 and 23, 2005
March 22, 2005
7:15am – 8:25am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
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8:30am – 9:40am
Keynote Speech: Is This Job Fun Anymore? Irina Simmons, Senior Vice President and Treasurer, EMC Corp. and Chairman, National Association of Corporate Treasurers
THE STRATEGIC TREASURER: Creating the Value Proposition
• Do you have all the tools required to maximize operational performance and financial returns outside of treasury?
• Building the optimal control framework
• How creative can you afford to be, given the current emphasis on corporate governance?
• When’s the last time you talked to sales and when’s the last time sales came to you?
Session Chairperson: Susan Skerritt, CTP, Partner and Director, Treasury Strategies Inc.
Panelists:
Ira Birns,Vice President and Treasurer, Arrow Electronics Inc.
Mark Rogus, Vice President and Treasurer, Corning Inc.
Irina Simmons, Senior Vice President and Treasurer, EMC Corp.
John Weisenseel, Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer, The McGraw-Hill Cos.
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9:45am – 10:40am
ELECTRONIFICATION OF PAYMENTS: Injecting Predictability into Your Cash Flow
• What is driving your payment electronification strategy for your company?
• How has payment electronification changed your company’s accounts receivable and accounts payable processes?
• The impact of Check 21
• Is the risk of fraud in an electronic era greater or just different?
Session Chairperson: Andrew Sandiford, Head of U.S. Dollar Check Services, Global Cash Management, Deutsche Bank
Panelists:
Michele Braun, Financial Specialist, Research/Payments Studies, New York Federal Reserve Board
Damian Glendinning, Director of Treasury Operations and Pension Strategy, IBM Corp.
Brigitta Kocherhans, President, Siemens Capital Co. LLC
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10:40am – 10:55am
Networking Break
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10:55am – 11:50am
GLOBAL LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT: Bringing Back the Bucks
• To repatriate or not? Arguments for and against repatriating foreign earnings
• Appropriate uses of cash and their potential tax/legal hurdles
• Further opportunities within the American Jobs Creation Act
Session Chairperson: Niko Havoutis, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Liquidity and Investment Management, JPMorgan Chase
Panelists:
Martha Beard, Segment Strategy Executive, JPMorgan Chase
Brian Byala, Assistant Treasurer, Pfizer Inc.
Mark McDonough, Assistant Treasurer, Global Capital Markets, Merck & Co.
Craig Mondschein, Director of Cash Management and Banking, Honeywell International Inc.
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12:00pm – 1:30pm
Luncheon Program ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT: Transitioning from Myth to Reality
• Why are more companies pursuing ERM?
• How are the leading companies successfully implementing ERM?
• How does it become the fabric of doing business rather than a separate activity?
• Why is it so important to incorporate ERM principles into strategic planning, capital allocation and budgeting, performance measurement and reporting?
Session Chairperson: Robert Vettoretti, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Panelists:
Laurie Champion, Director, Corporate Insurance and Risk Governance, Ford Motor Co.
Thomas Hofmann, Senior Vice President and CFO, Sunoco Inc.
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1:40pm – 2:35pm
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Round 2 with Sarbanes-Oxley
• Assessing the damage from Round 1
• What kind of plan should you have in place for 2005?
• How will the uncertainties of compliance affect the credit markets?
• Emerging best practices for business process improvement
Session Chairperson: Jay Cohen, Global Compliance Leader, D&B Corp.
Panelists:
Margaret Foran, Vice President, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Secretary, Pfizer Inc.
Steven Krippner, Director, Treasury and Risk Advisory Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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2:35pm – 3:20pm
KEYNOTE SPEECH: The Treasurer’s Role in Working Capital Management
Jesse Greene, Vice President and Treasurer, IBM Corp.
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3:20pm – 3:35pm
Networking Break
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3:35pm – 4:30pm
WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: The Need for 360-Degree Visibility
• If you don’t have accurate and up-to-date global information driving your working capital management, maybe you should call it something else
• Optimizing your deployment of internal free capital
• Checklist for a strong working capital management strategy
Session Chairperson: Diane R. Quinn, Managing Director, Working Capital Solutions, Citigroup
Panelists:
Damian Glendinning, Director of Treasury Operations and Pension Strategy, IBM Corp.
David O’Brien, CCM, Assistant Treasurer, EDS Corp.
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4:30pm – 5:25pm
RETIREMENT/EMPLOYEE BENEFIT ISSUES: We See the Tunnel, but Where’s the Light?
• If Social Security goes private, what does it mean for DB and DC plans?
• Can you create benefit plans that meet company and employee needs?
• Is there a future for DB plans?
Session Chairperson: Ari Jacobs, Practice Leader East Region Retirement and Actuarial Practice, Hewitt Associates Inc.
Panelists:
Diann Howland, Vice President, Retirement Policy, American Benefits Council
Marilyn Martin, Vice President – Benefits Planning & Design, The McGraw-Hill Cos.
Ted J. Schwartzman, Manager of Northeast Practice, Hewitt Investment Group
Karen Treadwell, Treasurer, Rockefeller Group International Inc.
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March 23, 2005
7:30am – 8:15am
Breakfast Workshop FIXED INCOME INVESTMENT: What Drives Investor Decisions?
• How much sway does the ratings agencies hold?
• Which securities structures are most appealing in today’s market?
• The importance of “face time” with senior management
Session Chairperson: Jonathan W. Levin, Principal, The Williams Capital Group LP
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8:30am – 9:15am
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Treasury’s Evolving Role in Strategic Decision Making Gary Crittenden, Executive Vice President and CFO, American Express Co.
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9:20am – 10:15am
FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT: Damned If You Hedge and Damned If You Don’t
• The increasingly tricky game of hedging the dollar and euro
• The big imponderables for your hedging strategy this year
• A look at the best practices of the best and brightest on both sides of the Pond
• Post Fannie Mae, are you sure you are on solid ground with FAS 133?
Session Chairperson: Jiro Okochi, CEO and Co-Founder, Reval.com Inc.
Panelists: Wolfgang J. Koester, CEO, RimTec Inc.
Michael Lukas, Assistant Treasurer, General Motors Corp.
Denise McGlone, Assistant Treasurer, Lucent Technologies Inc.
Lee Perkin, Director – Head of Accounting Solutions, ABN AMRO BANK N.V.
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10:15am – 10:30am Networking Break
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10:30am – 11:25am FINANCIAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: Herding Cats, but Much More Rewarding
• How do you achieve tighter integration between the physical supply chain and finance?
• Do you have the right sales pitch to sell it to your vendors?
• How transparent is your accounts payable?
Session Chairperson: Henry Waszkowski, Managing Director, Treasury Performance Group Inc.
Panelists: James Monyak, Asst. Vice President – Accounting, The Pep Boys
Don Morrison, Managing Director, GMAC Commercial Finance
Jim O’Rourke, Director, Business Development, ICG Consulting
William Zadrozny, President and CEO, Siemens Financial Services Inc.
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11:25am – 12:20pm FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP: To Lead You Have to Be Willing to Take the First Step
• Profiling the effective leader in finance
• Improving the quality of your staff
• Educating your non-finance business partners not to forget the finance and risk implications of strategies and action plans
• Ideas to make you better able to do your current job and the next one
Session Chairperson: Pat Wechsler, Editorial Director, Treasury & Risk Management
Panelists:
Amy Butte, Executive Vice President and CFO, New York Stock Exchange Inc.
Elizabeth Higgins, CFO, Oglethorpe Power Corp.
Tim McDannold, Vice President and Assistant Treasurer, Diebold Inc.
Amit Shroff, Treasury Director, Market Risk ALM and International, Toyota Financial Services
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12:30pm – 2:30pm
Luncheon Program KEYNOTE SPEECH: Trends in Corporate Governance Donald T. Nicolaisen, Chief Accountant, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission