Session discovery topics:

• Historic and current yield spreads and what they are telling us

• Major risks going forward in global credit markets

• Forecasting default and recovery rates in the corporate and sovereign markets

• A new application for forecasting individual firm credit risks and probabilities of default

Today’s finance leaders are challenged to build teams that provide insight to businesses which are increasingly global and dynamic. Finding and maintaining the right pedigree of finance talent has never been as critical as it is in today’s business environment. Please join this executive discussion of the talent management issues most important to today’s finance organizations.

Session discovery topics:

• Best practices around engaging and nurturing top talent

• The CFO’s role as a leader of corporate culture

• Going global — maintaining a consistent culture while observing international sensitivities

• Planning for generational shifts in the workforce

Fundamental catalysts for change make current pension risk positions unsustainable. Stricter funding rules, increased accounting transparency, improving life expectancies and continued volatility in the financial markets make rethinking pension risk an imperative for CFOs and their organizations. Affordability is an important question to consider, and efficient techniques for reducing and transferring risk that have been widely used in the UK have crossed the pond. The finance case is compelling; cash is king and for many firms free cash flow is at risk!

The global economic outlook has changed radically and rapidly over the past year. The hope of a modest recovery becoming a robust expansion has been dashed. New risks across Europe, the U.S. and Asia have appeared creating heightened uncertainty. The 2012 business environment is likely to be equally as challenging as 2011. IBM’s Chief Economist, Dr. Martin Fleming, advises IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, CFO, Mark Loughridge, and the senior leadership team of this global Fortune 15 company. Join Dr. Fleming for a special presentation on how IBM is assessing global economic risk and positioning itself to succeed in the current challenging economic environment.

The rise of technologies that are merging personal and business computing is challenging today’s business leaders to capitalize on new opportunities for the business while being careful to side-step information security threats. No longer simply an IT concern — information access and security are now squarely in the crosshairs of the CFO as frequent topics of Board and Audit Committee discussions.

Session discovery topics:

• Emerging trends in information access and security

• Delivering to the Board on issues of opportunity and risk

• The CFO’s role in promoting information security

With CFO performance so often measured by the sometimes inexplicable behavior of stock price, creating convergence between real business performance and investor perceptions is key. Please join Michael Geltzeiler and Chris Taylor in this discussion of best practices in investor relations and providing transparency for complex organizations.

Session discovery topics:

• Educating investors through transparent communication

• Setting the right expectations

• Driving the organization to achieve results

As business partnering becomes yet another buzz word, finance organizations and in particular, their CFOs, are looking for ways to increase their impact on business performance. With transactional activities increasingly migrated to shared services organizations, and measurement and reporting increasingly automated, it is clear that CFOs need to be more than functional experts and performance police if they are to maintain a pivotal role in driving profitable growth. Join Chris Davies, CFO of Diageo North America, as he discusses the changes underway in Diageo’s finance teams.

Session discovery topics:

• From performance measurement to performance management

• From risk mitigation to risk management

• From business partnering to owning performance