2010 Agenda
| Time | Session Details | |
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| 7:45 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:45 AM |
Welcoming Remarks Speaker
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| 8:50 AM |
Keynote Address by Lewis Booth |
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| 9:40 AM |
Liquidity Management This category is aimed at portfolio management, short-term investing and contingency planning for cash availability, as well as crisis management that ensured liquidity.
Finalists:
Moderator: John A. Konstantosm Vice President & Senior Relationship Manager, Balance Sheet and Operating Asset group, Northern Trust Global Investments |
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| 10:30 AM |
Networking Refreshment Break |
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| 11:00 AM |
Cash Management This category includes information reporting and activity relating to the collection of incoming payments (lockbox, A/R outsourcing) and the disbursement of outgoing payments (wires, ACH, all check services, AP outsourcing), as well as all security arrangements around payments.
Finalists:
Moderator: Michael Fossaceca, Managing Director, Regional Head of Client Sales Management for Large Corporates, Citi |
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| 11:50 AM |
Financial Risk Management This category includes innovative solutions for risk management involving domestic or international interest rates, foreign exchange, commodity price or country risk; the use of derivatives; or the use of capital markets to hedge a company’s financial risk exposure.
Finalists:
Moderator: Peter Seward, Vice President of Product Strategy, Reval |
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| 12:45 PM |
Networking Luncheon |
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| 1:50 PM |
Best Green Strategy Speaker
Projects, programs, and initiatives in which corporate treasury or finance department is taking a leading role. These include promoting any one of the following areas or a combination: environmental awareness, conservation, social responsibility, greening the supply chain and sustainable business models.
Finalists:
Moderator: Gregory Long, Vice President, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services |
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| 2:40 PM |
Retirement and Benefits Speaker
This category includes improvements to defined-benefit or defined-contribution plans, including changes to administrative structure, investment management structure, asset allocation, and employee investment options or communications programs. Performance submissions must be compared with standard benchmarks over a minimum of five years and include a discussion of the nature of the pension liability. In addition, the category has been expanded to include innovative solutions to some of the most costly items for companies, such as healthcare, retiree healthcare and workers compensation programs. Finalists:
Moderator: Carl Hess, Global Head, Waston Wyatt Investment Consulting |
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| 3:30 PM |
Networking Refreshment Break |
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| 3:50 PM |
Solution of the Year This category includes systems and solutions, developed or customized by vendors or banks that tackle ongoing challenges in innovative ways or offer cutting-edge solutions to new challenges, creating new opportunities.
Finalists:
Moderator: Mary Ann Dowling, Principal, Treasury Strategies, Inc. |
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| 4:40 PM |
Overall Excellence Award No applications are submitted for this category. The winner is chosen from among the winners of the other Alexander Hamilton Awards, based on projects that cumulatively show a standard of best practices throughout a company’s treasury or finance department or on the unique, innovative nature of a particular project.
Moderator: Susan Skerritt, Executive Vice President, BNY Mellon
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| 5:30 PM |
Day 1 Concludes/Networking Reception |
| Time | Session Details | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:45 AM |
Day One Recap Speaker
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| 8:45 AM |
Technology Excellence Speaker
This award recognizes corporate treasuries or finance departments for their creation and/or exceptional implementation of technology (which can be internally or externally developed or can combine external systems) that is innovative, or solved a major problem that yielded impressive results, or is likely to establish a best practice. Projects that would fall into this category include those that add breadth and scope in solving a financial or compliance issue; in conducting electronic commerce; improving communications or analysis of financial data and information, mitigating risk, or providing strategic advantage.
Finalists:
Moderator: Craig A. Jeffery, Managing Partner, Strategic Treasurer |
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| 9:35 AM |
Working Capital Management This includes cash flow forecasting and centralization efforts, as well as any effort that was aimed at and resulted in significant working capital management efficiencies.
Finalists:
Moderator: Peter Lugli
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| 10:25 AM |
Networking Refreshment Break |
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| 10:45 AM |
Enterprise Risk Management This category encompasses innovative solutions and larger programs involving risk assessment, identification, mitigation and/or transfer when protecting a company’s business, property, supply chain, personnel, data and/or reputation.
Finalists:
Moderator: Marie N. Hollein, President & CEO, Financial Executives International |
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| 11:35 AM |
Credit Risk Management This category includes new approaches to assessing risk when extending credit to customers and financial counterparties, and to reducing a company’s bad debt.
Finalists:
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| 12:30 PM |
Closing Remarks/Conference Adjourns |
