Agenda

• 9:00 am - 9:50 am Service Providers Task Force
• 10:00 am - 10:50 am Chapter Officers Meeting
• 11:00 am - 11:20 am Annual Members' Meeting
• 11:30 am - 12:15 pm Securities Law Committee Meeting
• 11:30 am - 12:15 pm Non-JD Committee Meeting
• 12:25 pm - 1:10 pm Corporate Practices Committee Meeting

An interactive discussion on how to remain steady – and true to yourself – amid the challenges large and small in serving the Board, C-suite, and your organization.

Speakers
Lisa Atkins, Western Union
Rabia de Lande Long (Moderator), Founder, Rabia de Lande Long LLC
Shawn Filippi, Board Member, KARES Foundation
Tana Murphy, Senior Paralegal, Securities & Governance, Becton, Dickinson and Company

An interactive discussion on how to effectively use AI in your role as a governance professional. Sponsored by Nasdaq.

Speakers
Ben Backberg (Moderator), Vice President, Deputy General Counsel , Assistant Corporate Secretary, General Mills, Inc.
Carolina Stasium, Legal Analyst, Corporate Governance, Chevron
Mary Catherine Mally, HPE
Trish Moscato-Bell, Director of Legal Operations and Compliance, Assistant Secretary, Workiva, Inc

Sponsored by Debevoise.

Located in the Exhibit Hall. Sponsored by Intelligize.

A fireside chat with Ally Financial CEO Michael Rhodes covering the state of the economy, the regulatory environment, finding opportunities and mitigating risks in a time of technological transformation, and getting the most out of your board of directors.

Speakers
Michael Rhodes, CEO, Ally Financial
Paul Washington (Moderator), CEO/President, Society for Corporate Governance

How is AI affecting the economy, company strategy, operations, and the workforce—and how are boards overseeing these developments and fulfilling their governance responsibilities?

Speakers
John Beckman, Hogan
Joseph Lo, Head of AI Innovation, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
Hope Mehlman (Moderator), Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Office, Corporate Secretary, Ally Financial
Phoebe Wood, Principal, CompaniesWood

Located in the Exhibit Hall. Sponsored by Intelligize.

A discussion of what qualities companies need in directors today, how to recruit those directors, and how to ensure that both our current and new directors are fluent in all the topics that truly matter.

Speakers
Mary Francis, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, Chevron Corporation
Richard Fields, Head of the Board Effectiveness Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates
Kate Haynes (Moderator), Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics Officer, H&R Block
Jane Sadowsky, Senior Advisor in Human Capital Management & Corporate Director, Moelis & Company

This discussion will address not only evolving executive compensation practices, but also how to assess whether your executive compensation program is cost-effective, how it fits into the broader set of incentives, how to tell your executive compensation story, and the keys to success in say-on-pay votes.

Speakers
Emma Butler, Manager in Investment Stewardship, Dimensional
Lyuba Goltser, Partner, Weil Gotshal and Manges
William Horton, SVP, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Verizon
Zachary Kolkin, Managing Director, Chief of Staff to Pres & COO, Goldman Sachs
Scott Siamas (Moderator), Senior Vice President, Office of Board Affairs, Public Company Compliance & Global Governance, Salesforce
Austin Vanbastelaer, Managing Director, Semler Brossy

Led by crisis management experts, this session will provide an opportunity to engage in table-top discussions addressing real world scenarios that will help you identify the factors that truly enable your organization not only to manage a crisis, but emerge stronger on the other side. Sponsored by Joele Frank.

Speakers
Jody Bilney, Board Member, Alignment Healthcare
Anne Chapman, Managing Director, Joele Frank
Jaime Moser (Moderator), Partner, Joele Frank
Natalia Weaver, Head of Governance and Corporate Stewardship Practice, Joele Frank

One of the National Conference's most popular offerings, these sessions provide an opportunity for companies and institutional investors to meet in small, informal groups to discuss evolving policies, practices, and areas of common interest. Sponsored by Kirkland.

Speakers
Glenn Booraem, Principal & Investment Stewardship Officer, Vanguard
Emma Butler, Manager in Investment Stewardship, Dimensional
Eric Geber, Investment Stewardship Analyst, Northern Trust Asset Management
Charles Hambly, Investment Director, Global Stewardship, CalPERS
Sophie Haywood, Analyst, Sustainability and Stewardship, Parnassus Investments
Bob Herr, SVP/Director of Corporate Governance, Alliance Bernstein
Adam Kanzer, Head of Stewardship, BNP Paribas
Rebecca Kim, Vice President, Stewardship and Sustainable Investing, Neuberger
Mohani Maharaj, Director, Responsible Investing, Nuveen
Yumi Narita, Executive Director of Corporate Governance, New York City Comptroller's Office
John Roe, Global Co-Head, Investment Stewardship, Blackrock
Christine Shaw, Head of Sustainability Policy & Reporting, Franklin Templeton Investments
Catherine Winner, Global Head of Stewardship, Goldman Sachs

The Society is thrilled to announce that Dr. Derreck Kayongo is Wednesday's keynote speaker. From refugee to successful entrepreneur and CEO, Derreck's journey is a story of resilience, reinvention, innovation, and the ability to have a transformational impact on business and society. Derreck is the founder of an organization that collects discarded and unused soap from thousands of hotels worldwide, reprocesses it, then distributes it to populations around the world. The project was born from his simple observation about how much soap is available in hotels, and how much is thrown away when hotel rooms are turned. This simple observation became an innovative idea that has fundamentally improved the way companies operate. A CNN hero, he empowers audiences, inspires creative problem solving, equips people with practical guidance (captured in the memorable acronym S.E.L.F.) to invent their own success. Sponsored by Broadridge.

This session will address the do's and don'ts for boards to successfully oversee management succession, not just for the CEO but for the C-Suite and other key executives, including who on the board is responsible for succession, what information should management provide, and how boards can best add value to this process to ensure that the company has the right team in place.

Speakers
Jared Brandman, Chief Legal & Strategy Officer, Corporate Secretary, National Vision
Maia Gez, Partner, White & Case
Zach Levine (Moderator), Corporate Secretary, Metropolitan Commercial Bank
Jane Sadowsky, Senior Advisor in Human Capital Management & Corporate Director, Moelis & Company

This session will not only provide the latest data on how Boards are using AI, but also provide for interactive, tabletop discussions where attendees can debate whether and how boards should take advantage of AI's capabilities. Sponsored by Nasdaq.

Speakers
Stacey Geer, Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Governance and Risk Officer and Corporate Secretary, Primerica, Inc.
Jacob Jenkelowitz (Moderator), Deputy General Counsel – Public Company Advisory, Ally Financial
Kaley Childs Karaffa, Head of Board Advisory, Americas, Nasdaq
Paul Rodel, Corporate Partner and Co-Chair of Debevoise's Capital Markets Group, Debevoise

This interactive roundtable discussion will feature the latest trends in proxy statements, including the processes used to develop those disclosures, including the topics companies are adding, dropping, and revising, and how investors are reacting to those changes.

Speakers
Kevin Coleman, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, Ally Financial
Rick Hansen (Moderator), SVP and Chief Governance Officer, Global Head of Corporate Secretarial, State Street
James "Frank" Kelley, Director of Proxy & Sustainability, DFIN
Elizabeth Morgan, Partner, King & Spalding LLP

This is a second session that provides an opportunity for companies and institutional investors to meet in small, informal groups to discuss evolving policies, practices, and areas of common interest. Sponsored by Kirkland.

Speakers
Glenn Booraem, Principal & Investment Stewardship Officer, Vanguard
Emma Butler, Manager in Investment Stewardship, Dimensional
Eric Geber, Investment Stewardship Analyst, Northern Trust Asset Management
Charles Hambly, Investment Director, Global Stewardship, CalPERS
Sophie Haywood, Analyst, Sustainability and Stewardship, Parnassus Investments
Bob Herr, SVP/Director of Corporate Governance, Alliance Bernstein
Adam Kanzer, Head of Stewardship, BNP Paribas
Rebecca Kim, Vice President, Stewardship and Sustainable Investing, Neuberger
Mohani Maharaj, Director, Responsible Investing, Nuveen
Yumi Narita, Executive Director of Corporate Governance, New York City Comptroller's Office
John Roe, Global Co-Head, Investment Stewardship, Blackrock
Christine Shaw, Head of Sustainability Policy & Reporting, Franklin Templeton Investments
Catherine Winner, Global Head of Stewardship, Goldman Sachs

Located in the Exhibit Hall. Sponsored by Intelligize.

The latest insights from experienced SEC practitioners on current rulemaking, enforcement priorities, and what they mean for companies and boards.

Speakers
Lillian Brown, Partner & Chair, Corporate Governance and Disclosure Group, WilmerHale
Shawn Filippi (Moderator), Board Member, KARES Foundation
Brad Goldberg, Cooley LLP
Jennifer Zepralka, Partner, Mayer Brown

A discussion of broader trends in federal, state, and international legislation, regulation, and judicial opinions affecting corporate governance and disclosure, including sustainability reporting standards in the EU, California, and other jurisdictions.

Speakers
Yafit Cohn, Chief Sustainability Officer and Group General Counsel, Travelers Companies Inc.
June Hu, Special Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
Mary Catherine Malley (Moderator)
Christine Shaw, Head of Sustainability Policy & Reporting, Franklin Templeton Investments
Erica Williams, Former Chair, President and CEO, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, PCAOB

Sponsored by Broadridge.

Located in the Exhibit Hall. Sponsored by Cleary Gotlieb.

Companies face an ever-broadening suite of risks and new ones are emerging every day – from the impact of AI on your workforce to the prospect of global de-encryption brought on by quantum computing. This session will address the risk landscape, how to go beyond "heat maps" and avoid your board chasing after the latest risk.

Speakers
Glenn Booraem, Principal & Investment Stewardship Officer, Vanguard
Peggy Foran, Prudential
J.T. Ho, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Marc Larkins (Moderator), Johnson & Johnson
Ian McConnel, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Risk Officer, CSC

Located in the Exhibit Hall. Sponsored by Cleary Gotlieb.

Details coming soon

Speakers
Paul Atkins, SEC Chairman
Keir Gumbs (Moderator), Chief Legal Officer, Edward Jones

While public company boards are aware of litigation that is publicly disclosed, how much more should they know? This session will discuss best practices in board reporting and oversight of litigation – including when the board needs to become even more actively involved.

Speakers
Kate Kelly, VP & Corporate Secretary, Meta
Carmen Lu, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Rupali Patel Shah, Head of Legal Solutions & Alliances, Dilitrust
Stephanie Tillman, Chief Legal Officer, Flowers Farms, Inc.

This session will address the current state of the contest for corporate headquarters, incorporation, and listings; the factors companies should consider; investor views; and how changes in SEC regulation could alter the landscape.

Speakers
Mary Francis, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, Chevron Corporation
Ferrell M. Keel, Partner, Jones Day
Rebecca Kim, Vice President, Stewardship and Sustainable Investing, Neuberger
Krista McAninley (Moderator), Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Ferguson Enterprises, LLC
Kyle Pinder, Partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

This session will provide both expert guidance and the opportunity to engage in tabletop discussions with peers, where you can share, discuss and debate best practices in shareholder engagement in today's environment.

Speakers
Aaron Briggs, Gibson Dunn
Julia Lapitskaya, Gibson Dunn
Yumi Narita, Executive Director of Corporate Governance, New York City Comptroller's Office
Geoffrey Walter, Gibson Dunn
Lori Zyskowski (Moderator), Gibson Dunn

This roundtable will provide an opportunity for small and mid-cap companies, and their advisors, to discuss their biggest pain points – and their keys to success – in the everyday miracle of managing governance and disclosure responsibilities – from setting expectations, to leveraging other resources, to making creative use of technology.

Speakers
Linea Crouse, Vice President, Corporate Governance, Horace Mann
Shawn Filippi (Moderator), Board Member, KARES Foundation
Kate Haynes, Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics Officer, H&R Block
Jessica Lange, Bodman Law
Tonya Smith

Sponsored by DLA Piper

Speakers
Doug Brinkley
Paul Washington (Moderator), CEO/President, Society for Corporate Governance

Join a fireside chat with James Moloney, Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, and other senior SEC staff on their priorities and how they are addressing Society members' concerns.

Speakers
Ning Chiu (Moderator), Davis Polk
Gabriel Eckstein, Associate Director, Disclosure Review Program, SEC
James Moloney, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC
Christina Thomas, Deputy Director and Chief Advisor to the Director, SEC

Non-profits face many of the same issues as for-profit corporations, but with a "twist," whether relating to regulation, fiduciary duties, board composition and responsibilities, committee structure, and the relationship with management. This session will help the Society develop a flexible governance framework for non-profits. Get in on the ground floor of this important initiative!

Speakers
Monica Barber (Co-Moderator), General Counsel, Americares
Kaitlin Descovich (Co-Moderator), Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Randi Morrison, General Counsel, Society for Corporate Governance
Lucy Nottingham (Co-Moderator), Senior Director, Governance Content, NACD
Paul Washington, President & CEO, Society for Corporate Governance

Effective subsidiary management requires a mastery of law, regulation, business structure, governance, technology, and interpersonal skills. Learn about and share your thoughts on the latest developments in this interactive roundtable.

Speakers
Todd Chapman, Assistant Vice President & Counsel, Office of the Corporate Secretary, State Farm
Jeffrey Iredell, Director, Sales, Wolters Kluwer / CT

Located in the Exhibit Hall. Sponsored by Cleary Gotlieb.

This session will address the major institutional investors' expectations of boards and corporate governance and their views on trends shaping shareholders' powers, including shareholder proposals, tokenization of securities, state law developments, and other emerging issues.

Speakers
Charles Hambly, Investment Director, Global Stewardship, CalPERS
William Horton (Moderator), Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Verizon
John Roe, Global Co-Head, Investment Stewardship, Blackrock

Hear how boards can address strategy on three concurrent timelines (immediate, medium-term, and long-term) and have both the broad perspective and the deep understanding required to do so effectively. This discussion will address how to build, educate, engage, and leverage your board to help your company develop and execute a successful strategy, including identifying and vetting opportunities.

Speakers
Jared Brandman (Moderator), Chief Legal & Strategy Officer, Corporate Secretary, National Vision
Farzad Damania, Partner, Capital Markets and M&A, Katten
Peter Gleason, President & CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors

Located in the Exhibit Hall.

Sterling Miller returns to lead a discussion, with hypotheticals based on real-world ethics dilemmas for corporate governance professionals. Sponsored by Bass Berry Sims

Speakers
Sterling Miller, COO & General Counsel, Hilgers PLLC

How does the changing global and domestic political and economic landscape affect companies, and what do boards and management teams need to focus on as they plan for their organization's long-term future?

Speakers
Pam Carter, Corporate Board Member
Carlos Gutierrez
Stacy Ingram (Moderator), Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Inspire Brands, Inc.
Raymond McGuire, President, Lazard

A panel discussion that builds on the topics addressed throughout the conference and focuses on practical insights for how governance professionals can thrive in this challenging environment.

Speakers
Sarah Fortt (Moderator), Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer, Ford Motor Company
Olivia Kirtley, President and Co-Founder, KirtleyWood LLC

Located in the Exhibit Hall.

This session will address the preparation and execution of annual meetings, as well as shareholder voting trends, including the impact – and how to boost retail voting participation in the era of pass-through voting, retail voter choice, and tokenization.

Speakers
Cathy Conlon, SVP, Head of Disclosure Solutions, Broadridge
Adam Kanzer, Head of Stewardship, BNP Paribas

Join this interactive roundtable discussion to ask questions, share your stories, and find new ways to improve your board and committee meetings and materials – including the latest research from the Society.

Speakers
Rick Hansen, SVP and Chief Governance Officer, Global Head of Corporate Secretarial, State Street
Blair Petrillo, Executive Compensation and Governance Counsel, Ford Motor Company
Beth Sasfai, Partner, Co-head of Cooley's Corporate Governance & Securities, Chair of ESG & Sustainability, Cooley
Alex Shukhman (Moderator)

Against a fragmented and sometimes unfavorable legal and regulatory environment, companies continue to report on sustainability. Learn how companies are deciding whether to continue reporting, what issues to focus on, how to present information in a compelling (and compliant) manner, and what language to use to convey your specific story in a way that is authentic, reliable, and effective.

Speakers
Marcy McCullaugh, Ph.D., Director, Sustainability and Stewardship, and, Director, Sustainable Research, Parnassus Investments
Hasib Nasirullah, Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Sustainability, Sodali
Sehrish Siddiqui, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
John Sperino (Moderator), Vice President, Governance & Securities and Assistant Secretary, Emerson