The agenda for the FORTUNE 500 Forum is in development by the editors of FORTUNE, and will cover a range of business and policy issues. Our highly interactive program will feature top executives from the FORTUNE and Global 500, key figures from the president-elect's transition team, law- and policymakers, Washington insiders, change agents, and leading business thinkers.
Please check back for a full agenda and list of speakers.
Monday, December 1
Registration
Opening Remarks and Forum Overview
- John Huey
Editor-in-Chief
Time Inc. - Andy Serwer
Managing Editor
FORTUNE
Update from the Treasury
- Henry Paulson
Secretary of the Treasury
U.S. Department of the Treasury - Andy Serwer
Managing Editor
FORTUNE
Moderator:
Leadership in Turbulent Times
Jim Collins will share perspectives from his new research into the question of how greatness can be attained in environments characterized by immense turbulence and sustained so that a company does not fall from great to good. He will also challenge business leaders to think about the key drivers that separate great institutions from mediocre ones, and how good organizations can become great. He will draw upon nearly twenty years of research that led to his books Built to Last and Good to Great, as well as his monograph Good to Great and the Social Sectors.
Speaker:
- Jim Collins
Author
Good to Great
Innovation amid Global Turmoil
CEOs of companies which have succeeded because of product, technology, or management innovation—either technological or management—will share how that success was achieved and how it impacted their global competitiveness. Will the new administration submit proposals to stimulate innovation?
Speakers:
- John Hagel III
Co-Chairman
Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation - Antonio Perez
Chairman and CEO
Eastman Kodak Co. - Solomon Trujillo
Chief Executive Officer
Telstra Corp. Ltd. - Wendell Weeks
Chairman and CEO
Corning Incorporated
Moderator:
- Stephanie Mehta
Assistant Managing Editor
FORTUNE
Forging a National Energy Policy
The incoming administration will have energy policy at or near the top of their agenda and will perhaps address broader climate change issues as well. What are their plans? What role can or should business play? What will the NGOs be pushing for? What compromises are likely in the attempt to get global agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol?
Energy policy will be at or near the top of the agenda for the incoming administration. What are their plans for cap and trade legislation, tax credits for renewable energy, emissions and trade policy, the role of the EPA, and nuclear energy? What are their priorities?
Speakers:
- Andy Karsner
Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy - Marvin Odum
President
Shell Oil Co. - Glenn Prickett
Senior Vice President
Conservation International - Frederick Smith
Chairman, President and CEO
FedEx Corporation
Moderator:
- Marc Gunther
Senior Writer
FORTUNE
Cocktail Reception
Move to Ballroom for Legatum/FORTUNE Technology Prize
Announce Finalists and Present Awards
Depart for State Department
Dinner in the Benjamin Franklin Room, U.S. Department of State
Speaker:
- Madeleine Albright
Principal
The Albright Group LLC
Interviewer:
- Richard Stengel
Managing Editor
TIME Magazine - The Legatum/FORTUNE Technology Prize Winners announced
Tuesday, December 2
Registration
Continental Breakfast
Welcome Back
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
The First Hundred Days
Leaders of FORTUNE 500 companies share their wish lists for the first hundred days of the new administration.
Introduction:
- Jeffrey Bewkes
President and CEO
Time Warner Inc.
Speakers:
- Bradbury Anderson
Vice Chairman and CEO
Best Buy, Inc. - Dennis Nally
Chairman and Senior Partner, U.S. Firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP - Randall Stephenson
Chairman, CEO and President
AT&T Inc.
Moderator:
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
NASDAQ Opening Bell, live from the Forum
- Robert Greifeld
Chief Executive Officer
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
CEO Spotlight: Energy Efficiency
- David Cote
Chairman and CEO
Honeywell International
Interviewer:
- Andy Serwer
Managing Editor
FORTUNE
The Future of Capitalism
Speakers:
- Robert Greifeld
Chief Executive Officer
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc - Peter Peterson
Senior Chairman and Co-founder
The Blackstone Group
Moderator:
- Allan Sloan
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
Networking Break
Competitiveness Roundtables
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Emerging Market Competitors
A new breed of multinational company has emerged that is changing the nature of global competition. In a more open world emerging economies are spawning their own giants; investment now flows increasingly from south to north and south to south as emerging economies invest both in the rich world and in less developed countries. How has this trend impacted rich-world companies, and what’s likely going forward?
Speakers:
- Lawrence Goodman
Managing Director, Head - Emerging Market Strategy
Bank of America Corp. - Suresh Vaswani
Co-CEO, IT Business, and Director
Wipro Ltd.
- Lawrence Goodman
- Steve Koepp
Executive Editor
FORTUNE -
Changing Shape of Global Capital Markets
One certain result of the global credit crisis is a shift to multipolar markets. How will that affect corporate access to capital markets? Will that, in turn, lead to agreement on global accounting and/or governance standards?
Speakers:
- Diana Farrell
Director
McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)
- Edward Knight
Executive Vice President, General Counsel
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
- Stephen Scherr
Head of the Americas Financing Group
Goldman Sachs
Moderator:
- Allan Sloan
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
- Diana Farrell
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Attracting, Retaining, and Developing Leadership Talent in a Global Economy
Not surprisingly, global competition has increased the intensity of the ‘war for talent,’ first coined by McKinsey a decade ago. It’s never been harder for employers to attract and retain top talent for critical positions worldwide. We’ll hear from CEOs on what has worked, what hasn’t, and perhaps some of their plans for the future.
Speakers:
- Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
Partner
Egon Zehnder International - Eric J. Foss
Chairman and CEO
The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (PBG) - Matthew Schuyler
Chief Human Resources Officer
Capital One Financial Corp.
Moderator:
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
- Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
Moderator:
Switch Break
Infrastructure: The $3 Trillion Challenge
Aging and overburdened infrastructure threatens the economy and quality of life in every state, city, and town in the nation. What plans does the new administration have for addressing this critical issue? How can we pay for the necessary overhauls? What are the implications for the economy and the country if nothing is done? What is the best role for federal, state, and city governments in addressing the issue? What needs to happen to foster public/private partnerships?
Speakers:
- James Burnley IV
Partner, Venable LLP
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation - Reed Hundt
Former Chairman
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - Naveen Lamba
Global Industry Lead, Intelligent Transportation
IBM Global Business Services
Moderator:
- Stephen Koepp
Executive Editor
FORTUNE
Luncheon
CEO Spotlight: The Banking Crisis and the FDIC
- Sheila Bair
Chairman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)
Interviewer:
- Jay Carney
Washington Bureau Chief
TIME Magazine
Cities of Opportunity
Insights from a report released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the New York City Partnership—Cities of Opportunity: Business-Readiness Indicators.
Speaker:
- Dennis Nally
Chairman and Senior Partner, U.S. Firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Is Company-Provided Healthcare on its Way Out?
Nearly everyone would agree that the US healthcare system is in serious need of reform, but there is disagreement as to the nature of the reforms. This session will feature the new administration’s view and the views of CEOs from various industries.
Speakers:
- Troyen Brennan
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
CVS Caremark Corp. - John Hammergren
Chairman, President, and CEO
McKesson Corp. - William Novelli
Chief Executive Officer
AARP - Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator
State of Oregon
Moderator:
- Matt Miller
Columnist, FORTUNE
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Additional speaker to be announced
Refreshment Break
Roadblocks to Trade Agreements
Failure to reach agreement on the Doha Round of trade talks means the incoming administration will need to address US trade policy on both a bilateral and international basis. Calls for labor and environmental standards to be incorporated into any future trade agreements have resonated with some voters. The premise that free trade benefits the economy has been questioned by others. The US position will clearly impact multinational companies and the financial institutions that fund their expansion.
Speakers:
- Charlene Barshefsky
Senior International Partner
WilmerHale - William Brock
Former U.S. Trade Representative
FORTUNE - William Galston
Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
The Brookings Institution
Moderator:
- Nina Easton
Washington Editor
FORTUNE
Free Time
Depart for Embassies
Reception and Dinner at Embassies
Wednesday, December 3
Focus on Boards and Governance
Breakfast Roundtables on Corporate Governance
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Succession Planning
Chair:
- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs
The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice
Yale School of Management
- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
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Recruitment and Pruning of Directors
Chair:
- C.K. Prahalad
Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
- C.K. Prahalad
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CEO Compensation
Chair:
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
- Geoff Colvin
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The Data Policy/Privacy Debate, sponsored by Symantec
Chair:
- Adam Lashinsky
Senior Writer
FORTUNE
- Adam Lashinsky
Switch Break
Welcome Back
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
Managing Risk: The Board's Role
Of the many risks that Boards and CEOs face, it is critical to determine which are the most pressing—and whose responsibility those risks are. We will explore which risks fall squarely on the CEO, which on the Board, and which are shared. Is it reasonable to hold Boards accountable for the huge losses brought on by the subprime crisis?
Speakers:
- Jeanne Jackson
Founder and CEO
MSP Capital - Shivan Subramaniam
Chairman and CEO
FM Global - James Turley
Chairman and CEO
Ernst & Young
Moderator:
- Adam Lashinsky
Senior Writer
FORTUNE
CEO Spotlight: Managing Risk
- Richard Ward
Chief Executive Officer
Lloyd's
Interviewer:
- Michael Elliot
Editor
TIME International
Boards and the Value Creation Process
How can the board move beyond its traditional compliance role and play a constructive role in the value creation process? Members of boards who have managed to do that will talk about the processes that enabled them to do it and kept them, at the same time, from usurping the role of management.
Speakers:
- Michael Patsalos-Fox
Chairman, Americas
McKinsey & Company - C.K. Prahalad
Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Moderator:
- Pattie Sellers
Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
CEO Compensation
The issue of CEO compensation is one that never seems to go away. The public has been concerned for some time; some shareholder groups have been demanding a say; Congress is considering ‘say for pay’ legislation; the SEC is asking for what some companies consider proprietary information on bonuses. The Board has to navigate these choppy waters and reach a compensation package that will attract the candidate they seek and salve the noisemakers. What Boards have been getting it right, and how did they manage it?
Speakers:
- Pearl Meyer
Senior Managing Director
Steven Hall & Partners - Nell Minow
Editor and Co-founder
The Corporate Library
Moderator:
- Jennifer Reingold
Senior Writer
FORTUNE
CEO Spotlight: Managing Performance
- Kenneth Chenault
Chairman and CEO
American Express Co.
Interviewer:
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE
Closing Remarks and Adjourn
- Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large
FORTUNE


