THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Self-Serve Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:40 am
Opening Comments
8:40 am – 9:30 am
KEYNOTE: Adam Bryant
Managing Director, The ExCo Group; New York Times Bestselling Author; Fmr. Journalist, The New York Times
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Panel: The Future of Strategy
Long-Term Planning In A Black Swan World
10:30 am – 10:40 am
Break
10:40 am – 11:30 am
Panel: What Comes After Z?
Attracting, Engaging, and Retaining the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Roundtables: Leading and Managing Through Ceaseless Turbulence
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
LUNCH & KEYNOTE: Paula Boggs
Founder, Boggs Media, LLC; Fmr. Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Starbucks Corporation; Director, Various
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Panel: Is the Bloom Off the ESG Rose?
Exploring the Implications of Sustainability Backlash, Whiplash & Retrenchment
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Panel: They Said What?!
Whether and How Businesses Leaders Should Comment on Hot-Button Social Issues (or Any Issues)
4:00 pm – 4:10 pm
Break
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Roundtables: Balancing Conflicting Stakeholder Expectations
What to Do and What to Say?
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
RECEPTION & KEYNOTE: Aron Cramer
President & CEO, BSR; Director, We Mean Business Coalition; Member, CEO Advisory Board, SAP and Recruit Holdings; Author
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Self-Serve Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:30 am
KEYNOTE: Holly Gregory
Partner & Co-Chair, Global Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Practice, Sidley Austin LLP
9:30 am – 10:20 am
Panel: A Fresh Look at Activism and Its Impacts Inside Boardrooms and C-Suites
10:20 am – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Panel: What’s Happening at the SEC, and Why Boards, Executives, and Shareholders Should Care
11:30 am – 12:20 pm
Roundtables: How Governance Trends Are Impacting Your Business
12:20 pm – 12:30 pm
Break
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch and Christina de Vaca’s Retirement Celebration
Corporate Directors Forum is a San Diego-based, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1991. Its purpose is to help directors, and those who support them, build more effective boards through continuous learning and peer-networking. We believe that boards of directors are strategic assets of corporations, education makes better directors, better directors make boards more effective, and more effective boards make better corporations.