October 31st, 2024
8:00 – 8:30am
Registration & Continental Networking Breakfast
8:30 – 8:35am
Welcome & PCCE Rule
- Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
8:35 – 8:45am
Dean’s Welcome
- Troy McKenzie, Dean and Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law, NYU Law
8:50 – 9:55am
Plenary Panel: Effective Management of the CEO: Experienced Directors Discuss CEO Succession Planning and Executive Talent Development
Moderator:
- Ed Rock, Professor, NYU Law; Co-Director, Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance
Panelists:
- David Katz, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz
- Jane Sherburne, Principal, Sherburne PLLC; Director, Perella Weinberg Partners; HSBC North America Holdings; Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
- TBA
- TBA
9:55 – 10:20am
Networking Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:30am
Plenary Panel: Board Governance of Business Risk in an Interconnected and Evolving World
Moderator:
- Lisa Shalett MPowerPartners; Pennymac
Panelists:
- Isaac (Ike) Harris, Director, Lumentum; ZT Systems
- Stephen Cutler, Of Counsel, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP; Director, Lending Club Corporation; former Vice Chair and General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase
- Darren McDew, Retired General, U.S. Air Force; Director, USAA, Parsons Corporation, Abbott Laboratories; former Director, Rolls-Royce of North America
- TBA
11:35am – 12:15pm
Fireside Chat on DEI Topic
Moderator:
- Jane Sadowsky, Senior Advisor – Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Moelis and Company; Director, Allied Gold Inc, Nexa Resources, Scientific Games; Faculty Member, NACD
Speakers:
- Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law
12:25 – 1:40pm
Networking Lunch & Keynote
Moderator:
- Robert Jackson, Professor, NYU School of Law
Speaker:
- Erik Gerding, Director of Corporate Finance, SEC
1:50 – 2:40pm
Breakout Sessions
Accounting for Directors
- TBA
Compensation
- Rady Johnson, CCO, Pfizer
- Linda Addison, Lead Independent Director and former Chair of the Compensation Committee, Global Life; Director, Lexitas
Strategies for Effective Board and Committee Meetings
- Sheila Bangalore, Independent Director, Games Global; Councilmember, Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence
2:40 – 3:05pm
Networking Coffee Break
3:05 – 3:45pm
Keynote & Fireside Chat: New and Persistent Cyber Threats Overlooked by Boards and Management: Lessons for Boards
Moderator:
- Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director, PCCE
Speaker:
- Ismail Ramsey, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of California
- Matt Olsen, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, DOJ
3:50 – 4:55pm
Plenary Panel: Board Governance of Cybersecurity
Moderator:
- Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director, PCCE
Panelists:
- Larry Quinlan, UBS Americans, ServiceNow Inc, JLL, Booking Holdings, Delinea; retired CIO, Deloitte
- Douglas Bloom, Managing Director, Co-Head of Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, Morgan Stanley
- Urs Foley, Director, Chair of Compensation Committee, and Member of Audit Committee, Greenlight Re; Director and Member, Risk and Technology Committees, Provident Bank
- Judy Titera, Former Chief Privacy Officer USAA; Independent Board Director, MS Transverse; Strategic Advisor, RadarFirst
4:55 – 5:30pm
Reception
5:40 – 7:00pm
Networking Dinner & Keynote
- TBA
November 1st, 2024
8:30 – 8:55am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:55 – 9:00am
Welcome & PCCE Rule
- Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director, PCCE
9:00 – 10:10am
Plenary Panel: AI: Opportunities and Risks
Moderator:
- Avi Gesser, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
Panelists:
- Cheemin Bo-Linn, Director, Flux Power; Data I/O; KORE Wireless; Blackline Safety
- Samantha Kappagoda, Independent Director, Credit Suisse Funds; Chief Data Scientist, Numerati Partners
- Christina Montgomery, Chief Privacy and Trust Officer, IBM
- Sabastian Niles, General Counsel, Salesforce
10:10 – 10:30am
Networking Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:20am
Presentation: Director Liability for Legal Risk & FSC: Director Liability for Legal Risk: Emerging Issues for Boards
Preliminary Presentation:
- Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Fireside Chat Moderator:
- Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Fireside Chat Speaker:
- Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Chancery Court
11:20am – 12:10pm
Plenary Panel: Governance of Legal Risk
Moderator:
- Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Panelists:
- Dan Kahn, Partner, Davis Polk
- Bonnie Jonas, Co-Founder, Pallas Global Group; Director, Churchill Capital Corp VI; Churchill Capital Corp VII
- David Greenberg, CEO, Acqua Recovery; Director and Chair, Governance and Risk Assessment Committees, International Seaways
- Stuart Levy, CLO, Oracle
12:20 – 1:40pm
Networking Lunch & Keynote
Moderator:
- Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Speaker:
- Marshall Miller, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ
1:50 – 2:40pm
Breakout Sessions
Antitrust
- Daniel Francis, Professor, NYU School of Law
- Kathy O'Neill, Partner, Cooley
- Ian Conner, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Climate Change including SEC Reporting Rules
- Tensie Whelan, Professor, NYU Stern; Director, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business; former Director, Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd
- Nik Mittal, Director, JetBlue Airways
Board Succession Planning, Board Culture and Director Performance
- Ellen Jewett, Director, Booz Allen Hamilton, JetBlue Airways
- Julie Daum, Consultant, Head of North American Board Practice, Spencer Stuart
2:40 – 3:00pm
Networking Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:05pm
Panel: Crisis Management
Moderator:
- Nancy Kestenbaum, Partner, Covington & Burling
Panelists:
- Doug Lankler, General Counsel, Pfizer
- Elane Stock, Director, Reckitt
- Jamie Gorelick, Director, Amazon, Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee); Verisign
- TBA
4:05 – 4:25pm
Networking Coffee Break
4:25 – 5:15pm
Keynote & Fireside Chat
Speaker:
- Dan Houston, CEO, Principal Financial
5:15 – 6:50pm
Networking Reception