2010 SPONSORING PARTNER FORUM AGENDA

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

7:00 a.m.

Registration Opens

7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keith Darcy, Executive Director, ECOA

8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Plenary Session

Ethical Decision–making Models Best Practices: Theory, Application, and Rationale
Moderator: Martin L. Taylor; Director, Center for Corporate Ethics, a division of the Institute
for Global Ethics
Speakers: Jay Mumford, Ethics and Compliance Program Director, Accenture; Coeni van Beek, Global Leader, Ethics and Business Conduct, PricewaterhouseCoopers; and Jeremy Wilson, Senior Manager, Ethics Program, Cisco Systems, Inc.

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Roundtable Discussions

• Things to Do Today -- #1 − Investigate My Boss: Best Practices in Investigating High-level Executives
  Facilitator: Bill Prachar, Partner, Compliance Systems Legal Group
• Recent U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Campaign Finance Reform and The Honest Services Law: Any Role for the Ethics and Compliance Officer?
  Facilitator: Karl Sandstrom, Counsel, Center for Political Accountability
• Ethics and Compliance for MBAs -- What You Want Them to Know before They Join Your Organization
  Facilitator: Gretchen Winter, Executive Director, Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Lunch and Keynote Presentation
Cynthia Cooper, CEO, CooperGroup, LLC

2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Roundtable Discussions (Continued)

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Roundtable Discussions (Continued)

5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Break

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Networking Reception

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Dinner

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Plenary Session

Roundtable Recap
Moderator: Keith Darcy, Executive Director, ECOA
Speakers: Roundtable Facilitators and Rapporteurs

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• False Claims Act Compliance after FERA: Reduce the Risk of Exposure
  Speakers: David A. Feldman, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP; Laura Ariane Miller, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP; and Michal L. Tingle, Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice (invited)
• Holding True to Our Moral Compass with Tomorrow's Workforce
  Speakers: Lee Augsburger, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Prudential Financial; and Michele Ansbacher, Vice President & Corporate Ethics Officer, Prudential Financial
• Third Party Business Partner Compliance: Results from the 2010 Survey
  Speaker: Michael Levin, Vice President, Integrity Interactive
• Data Environmentalism: The Role of Privacy in Ethics & Compliance
  Speaker: J. Trevor Hughes, Executive Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals

11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Lunch and Keynote Presentation
Hon. Michael G. Oxley, former Congressman and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, currently Of Counsel, Baker Hostetler; with a special introduction by Patricia Harned, President, Ethics Resource Center

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture through Use of a Maturity Matrix
  Speaker: Charles D. Chadwick, Vice President, Contracts and Business Conduct, BAE Systems, Inc.
• Creating and Launching a New Code of Conduct
  Speakers: Christine Style, Ethics Communications Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.; Jeremy Wilson, Senior Manager, Ethics Program, Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Beth Boal, Communications Specialist, Rockwell Collins, Inc.
• Bridging the Gap: Translating What Lawyers Want to Say into What Employees Can Use
  Speaker: Terry R. Thomas, President, TRT Consulting

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Plenary Session

Hot off the Press: A First Look at the 2010 Amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Guidelines for Organizations
Speakers: Eric Morehead, Assistant General Counsel, U.S. Sentencing Commission; and
Tim C. Mazur, Chief Operating Officer, ECOA

5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Break

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Networking Reception

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Dinner

Friday, May 7, 2010

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Keynote Speaker
Robert E. Pelzer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novartis Corporation

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

Break

9:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Plenary Session

Triangulating a Global Investigation: An Interactive Hypothetical Scenario
Moderator: Peter Jaffe, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, AES Corporation

Speakers: Jacqueline E. Brevard, Vice President, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.; Andrea Bonime-Blanc, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Corporate Secretary, Daylight Forensic & Advisory, LLC; Andrew Weissmann, Partner; Jenner & Block, LLP; and William B. Jacobson, Vice President, Co-General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer, Weatherford International Ltd. 

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• Social Media: A Compliance Primer
  Speaker: Becky L. Burtless-Creps, Managing Counsel, Corporate Compliance Office, Ford Motor Company
• A Culture of Ethics as a Market Differentiator: Ethical Behavior as a Marketing Strategy, Both to Win Work and to Attract and Retain Top Talent
  Speakers: Marlys H. Roehm, Corporate Counsel, CH2M HILL; and Margaret McLean, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, CH2M HILL
• Ethics and Compliance Program Management in the Age of Mergers & Acquisitions
  Speaker: Lisa S. Hughes, Vice President, Compliance, NBC Universal

12:30 p.m.

Forum Ends With a Take–Away Lunch

Agenda, sessions, and speakers subject to change

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