Monday, June 2, 2008

6:00-8:00pm

Cocktail Reception

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

8:45-8:55am

Welcome
Elliot Clark CEO FAO Today

8:55-9:45am

Keynote: Too Good to be True – Worldcom a Deal Gone Bad
Cynthia Cooper, Former CAO Worldcom

9:45-10:25am

FAO Client Case Study:
Ritesh Idnani, Global Sales and Marketing Head, Infosys BPO and Sunil Narang, VP Finance at Level 3

10:25-10:40am

Networking break

10:40-11:15am

FAO Client Case Study:
Tiger Tyagarajan, EVP, Genpact

11:15-11:50pm

FAO Relationships That Work:
Dan Sawyers, Chief Accounting Officer & Daniel Jones VP Operations SourceCorp

11:50-12:25pm

Building the Case for Outsourcing – Benchmarks and Other Tools:
Wayne Mincey, President, The Hackett Group

12:25-1:05pm

Winning the Internal Debate:
Manish Sahai, American Express VP Service Network Partners

1:25-2:00pm

Lunch Speaker:
Jean-Stephane Payraudeau, Director, Unilever BTO F&A Senior Project Executive, EMEA

2:00-2:35pm

Managing Expectations in an FAO Program:
Robert Arthur, Chief of Staff, SourceNet Solutions

2:35-3:15pm

Advisor Interviews: FAO Standards, Practices and Buying Trends:
David Bickerstaff, Everest; John Willmott, Nelson-Hall; Bob Cecil, EVP, Equaterra; Bill Frech, SVP, TPI
Moderator: Richard Crespin, Finance Forum

3:15-3:55pm

Building a Winning FAO Agreement:
Akiba Stern, Partner, Morgan Lewis and John Funk, Partner, Morgan Lewis

3:55-4:35pm

The FAO & Finance Shared Services Operations Panel:
Barbara Knight, Director, Unilever NA Finance Shared Services and Kristina Watson, Global Finance Transformation Director, Caterpillar Inc.
Moderator: Jay Whitehead, Publisher, FAO Today Magazine

4:35-5:10pm

FAO Provider Leaders in the Hot Seat:
Presidential Debate Panel: Ritesh Idnani, Global Sales and Marketing Head, Infosys; George Evans, Managing Director, OPI; Tiger Tyagarajan, EVP, Genpact; Robert Arthur, Chief of Staff, SourceNet Solutions; Henry N. Schweppe, III, VP, F&A Outsourcing, IBM, MBPS.
Moderator: Jay Whitehead, Publisher, FAO Today Magazine

5:10-6:00pm

Winning Transnational Negotiations:
Steven Cohen, President of The Negotiation Skills Company

6:00-6:40pm

Cocktails

6:40-8:00pm

Dinner Awards Presentation by FAO Today Magazine