Global Ethics Summit 2009
February 4-5, 2009
The WaldorfAstoria, New York, NY
2009 Agenda
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
7:30 AM
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:05 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:20 AM
Panel Discussion
Anti-Corruption: Communicating Zero Tolerance from the Top Down
As anti-corruption compliance becomes top of mind for global organizations, it’s increasingly important for those individuals at the top to develop and communicate standards of ethics in line with international regulations and the company’s culture. Effective delivery to employees and buy-in from suppliers, stakeholders and consumers are also crucial to the success of this message. This roundtable discussion features top executives from leading multinationals discussing their role and personal experience in establishing a culture of compliance and ensuring it is communicated and embraced the world over.
9:15 AM
Keynote Presentation
Steering Clear of Trouble: What Baker Hughes Learned From Its Past
Keynote Presentation by Chad Deaton, Chairman, President & CEO, Baker Hughes
There are significant challenges associated with keeping integrity at the forefront of a high performance global business. To respond, Baker Hughes has established a culture founded on strong core values. But despite any company's most earnest efforts to effectively implement compliance metrics, the everyday actions of each employee ultimately control whether an organization is able to meet its ethical obligations. Join us as CEO Chad Deaton candidly discusses this inevitability and how corporate leaders face the challenge of compliance in a global setting-and how to effectively address and rebound from cases on noncompliance.
9:45 AM
Networking Break - Sponsored by Daylight Forensic & Advisory
10:05 AM
Panel Discussion
Corruption: The Hidden Costs
Why should multinationals care about anti-corruption? Setting aside the regulatory framework that requires them to do so, this panel will discuss the costs associated with corruption, and the current efforts to eradicate it. Are we approaching the issue from the right perspective? Just how involved are today’s top global companies in creating this message and how do they ensure that it gets to the right people?
11:00 AM
Research Presentation
Global Trends in Corruption Risk
A presentation by Beth Kaminski, Senior Editor, Dow Jones Risk and Compliance
11:15 AM
Panel Discussion
Global Perspective: Asia
Different countries present different compliance challenges. Join our expert panel for a discussion of some of the challenges organizations face when doing business in Asia.
12:10 PM
Networking Lunch & Keynote Interview
Turning The Light On… General Electric’s Compliance Program
Keynote interview with Brackett Denniston, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, General Electric
General Electric is a global company with an array of businesses, stretching from TV to lighting to lending to aircraft engines. Making sure a company of that size is complying with U.S. and foreign regulations and also has, in place, a strong anti-corruption effort is no easy task. Brackett Denniston, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for GE, talks about how the company attempts to handle these policies, what works and what doesn’t and what issues most concern him going forward.
1:35 PM
Panel Discussion
Corporate Compliance: Are Your Employees Truly Ready to Battle Corruption?
Having a code of ethics is not enough to ensure compliance. Training is the vital step that brings these standards to life. Effective training helps ensure that key tenets are retained and applied. While organizations need to take every measure to ensure that employees take training principles and apply them to everyday situations, this is oftentimes easier said than done. What are the best practices in workforce training employed by leading organizations and their training providers? What are they training on, who’s being trained, and how is this training being delivered and tracked?
2:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Global Perspective: Russia and the former Soviet Republics
Different countries present different compliance challenges. Join our expert panel for a discussion of some of the challenges organizations face when doing business in Russia and the former Soviet Republics.
3:25 PM
Networking Break
3:45 PM
Keynote Interview
Under Investigation: What Corporations Can and Should Do
Keynote Interview with Paul McNulty, former U.S. deputy attorney general and partner, Baker & McKenzie
In 2006, the Department of Justice was under intense pressure to release revised guidelines on how to measure the cooperation from corporations under investigation and what role it would play in whether charges were ultimately brought. These guidelines were sought by the bar, the bench and the business community. There was even threat of legislative intervention. The end result was a memo authored by Paul McNulty, then deputy attorney general. The response to the memo was mixed, with some suggesting that harder revisions were needed. Regardless, the memo stands today as the key document for companies, counsel and executives facing an investigation. In this session, Mr. McNulty, now a partner with Baker & McKenzie, sits down to talk about the revisions and the steps that companies facing an investigation should consider taking.
4:20 PM
Panel Discussion
Dangerous Silence: What Employees Won't Tell You, Why, and What You Can Do About It
According to prominent surveys, three-fourths of employees witness serious misconduct at work each year, but nearly one-half of them refuse to tell anyone in management or on the board or to utilize ethics and compliance hotlines and other programs for confidential or anonymous reporting. Such silence can aggravate legal, regulatory, and reputational risks for an organization. This breakfast conversation will invite directors and executives to compare and contrast such findings with their experiences and to discuss how best to strengthen a culture of trust that promotes ethical conduct.
5:15 PM
Panel Discussion
Law & Order: Regulation, Enforcement and Corporate Compliance
Where and what are the major legal land mines that companies need to keep in mind (in other words enforcement initiatives and trends)? And how is the legal landscape changing the standards that large corporations are held to?
6:10 PM
Networking Cocktail Reception
Thursday, February 05, 2009
9:00 AM
Panel Discussion
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: How Corporations Manage the Risks of Third Parties
Joint venture partners, distributors and resellers and other third party agents create tremendous anti-corruption risks for multinational companies. How much due diligence do organizations need to perform on their agents? What about training? Policies? Audits? And what are best practices for addressing those issues when they conflict with operational realities or local customs?
9:55 AM
Keynote Interview
Building Up A Strong Compliance Program: The CEO Perspective
Keynote Interview with Colin Dyer, CEO and Director, Jones Lang LaSalle
Given the back and forth with landlords, tenants and government officials, keeping a real estate company, especially a global one, in compliance is no easy task. Jones Lang LaSalle is viewed, however, within real estate circles as having done just that. The firm’s CEO, Colin Dyer, sits down to discuss how the company has tackled compliance issues and how such issues impact his role as CEO and what the company, itself, has attempted to do.
10:25 AM
Networking Break - Sponsored by KPMG Forensics
10:40 AM
Keynote Presentation
Anti-Corruption Updates from the U.S. Department of Justice
11:15 AM
Panel Discussion
The Spread of Regulation: A Patchwork of Challenges
Anti-corruption initiatives are increasingly occurring at both the local and global level. The FCPA and the OECD Convention have been joined by local regulations, the U.N. Convention, the OAS Convention, and others. How do global companies approach this patchwork of regulations, and how do companies beat corruption in the competitive environment?
12:10 PM
Networking Lunch & Keynote Interview
View From The Board
Interview with Walter Massey, Director, McDonald’s, Bank of America and Delta
Making sure companies are staying compliant, steering clear of corruption and doing the right thing is an effort that stretches throughout the organization, including to board members. Dr. Walter Massey, former president emeritus of Morehouse College and board member of such companies as McDonald’s, Bank of America and Delta, discusses what board members should be doing to make sure corporate executives are putting in place the right policies and programs and taking the right steps so that the company does not end up in the crosshairs of legal authorities.
7:45 AM
Networking Breakfast
8:25 AM
Keynote Interview
The Global Imperative: High Performance With High Integrity
An Interview with Ben Heineman, former senior vice president for law and public affairs at GE and senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School
Many reasons have been suggested for the global economic meltdown. To Ben Heineman the primary one is fundamental: Bad and unethical business decision making. The former senior vice president for law and public affairs for GE and currently a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School believes the failure of corporations to fuse high performance with high integrity has eroded trust in the free enterprise system and created a crisis in global capitalism. In this special session, Mr. Heineman will sit down to discuss what he learned from his 20 years at GE and what corporations can and should be doing to fuse high performance with high integrity.
2009 Keynotes
Chad Deaton
Chief Executive Officer, Baker Hughes
Brackett Denniston
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, General Electric
Colin Dyer
Director & CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle
Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Walter Massey
Director, Bank of America, , McDonald's
Paul McNulty
Former Deputy Attorney General, United States & Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
Mark Mendelsohn
Deputy Chief, Fraud Section, Criminal Division , U.S. Department of Justice
2009 Panelists
Nancy Zucker Boswell
President & CEO, Transparency International USA
Erica Salmon Byrne
Assistant General Counsel, Corpedia
Jeffrey Cottle
Associate General Counsel, International and Domestic Compliance, BAE Systems
Patrick Donovan
Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer, Airbus
Chad Fentress
Associate General Counsel, Compliance and Regulatory Matters , Accenture
Roger Foster
Chief Compliance Officer, North America, Mylan Laboratories
Rebecca Goldman
VP, Commercial Law, Rockwell Automation
Jeffrey Harwin
Director, Global Monetary and Financial Control Group, Merrill Lynch
Michael J. Hershman
President, The Fairfax Group
Gerald Hodgkins
Assistant Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Michael E. Horowitz
Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Drago Kos
President, Group of States Against Corruption
David Laufman
Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren
Mark Leishman
Partner & New Zealand Practice Leader, KPMG Forensic
Michael Levine
Partner, Epstein, Becker & Green
Brady K. Long
Chief Compliance Officer & Deputy General Counsel, Pride International
John Masters
Crown Counsel, Cayman Islands Attorney General’s Chambers
Scott Moritz
Executive Director, Daylight Forensic & Advisory
Andreas Pohlmann
Chief Compliance Officer, Siemens
Grace Renbarger
Legal Vice President, Dell Computer
Joseph Spinelli
Chief Operating Officer, Daylight Forensic & Advisory
Vanessa Vargas-Land
VP, Chief Compliance Officer, Chiquita Brands International
Lawrence Weiss
Vice President & Chief International Counsel, Covidien
Alexandra Wrage
President, Trace International
Don Zarin
Partner, Holland & Knight
2009 Moderators
Alex Brigham
Executive Director, Ethisphere Institute, Ethisphere
Sharie Brown
Partner, DLA Piper
Erica Salmon Byrne
Assistant General Counsel, Corpedia
Matt Levine
Principal, Fish & Richardson
Stephen Martin
General Counsel, Corpedia & Editor-in-Chief, Ethisphere Magazine, Ethisphere
Alan Vinegrad
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Ken Winer
Partner, Foley & Lardner
2009 Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
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