November 10, 2004
The Sutton Place Hotel
Toronto

2004 SPONSORS:
BMO Harris Private Banking
Deloitte & Touche LLP
IBM Canada Ltd.
Korn/Ferry International

HONORARY CO-CHAIRS:
Lynda H. Bowles
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Dr. Sherry Cooper
Executive Vice President, BMO Financial Group
Chief Economist, BMO Nesbitt Burns
& Global Economic Strategist, Harris Bank
Joanne Schram Mealia
Business Unit Executive, IBM Integrated Marketing Communications
IBM Canada Ltd.
Pamela Wallin
Canadian Consul General to New York

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Sherry Cooper
Executive Vice President, BMO Financial Group
Chief Economist, BMO Nesbitt Burns
& Global Economic Strategist, Harris Bank
Joanne Olsen
General Manager, IBM Global Services
IBM Global Services, Canada

AGENDA

8:00 – 8:45 am REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:45 – 9:00 am WELCOME

9:00 – 9:30 am MORNING KEYNOTE
Dr. Sherry Cooper
Executive Vice President, BMO Financial Group
Chief Economist, BMO Nesbitt Burns &
Global Economic Strategist, Harris Bank

9:45 –10:45 am
ROUNDTABLE: THE AGE OF REASON
How do we determine when and where we cross the ethical line?
Who draws that line? What are the outside influences that affect our judgment
and challenge our integrity?
Denise Tobin-McCarthy (Moderator)
Senior Client Partner
Korn/Ferry International

11:00 - 12:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE: CEO, INTERRUPTED
Should we always choose the corner office? How do we differentiate between the
intellectual and biological imperative? When and where does the horizon shift?
Margaret Wente
(Moderator)
Columnist
The Globe and Mail

12:00 – 1:30 pm
LUNCHEON
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Joanne Olsen

General Manager
IBM Global Services, Canada

1:45 – 2:45 pm
ROUNDTABLE: ONE MAD COW
How do we prepare for the unexpected? How do businesses survive the fallout from the unforeseen? Do the tenets of crisis management always apply?
Ann Medina
(Moderator)
Broadcaster
Medina Productions Inc.

3:00 – 4:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE: THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION: WOMEN AND HUMAN RIGHTS
How do we reverse the psychological poverty experienced by too many women globally? How can access to technology and education change the economic/political environment? How do we leverage and optimize human potential?
Deborah Hurley

(Moderator)
Author, Pole Star: Human Rights in the Information Society

4:00 – 4:15 pm CLOSING REMARKS

4:30 – 6:00 pm COCKTAIL RECEPTION

PANELISTS:
Bonnie Adamson
President & CEO
North York General Hospital
Ann Cavoukian, PhD
Commissioner
Information & Privacy Commission/Ontario
Elaine Chin, MD
Medical Director & Founder
Scienta Health Center
Valerie Chort
Partner, Enterprise Risk Services
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Eleanor Clitheroe
Counsel
Gauthier & Associates
Dr. Sherry Cooper
Executive Vice President, BMO Financial Group
Chief Economist, BMO Nesbitt Burns
& Global Economic Strategist, Harris Bank
Arlene Dickinson
President & Owner
Venture Communications
Honourable Céline Hervieux-Payette
Senator
The Senate of Canada
Veronika Hirsch
Chief Investment Officer
BluMont Capital Corporation
Deborah Hurley
Author
Pole Star: Human Rights in the Information Society
Kathleen Mahoney
Faculty of Law
University of Calgary
Amanda Maltby
SVP, Public Affairs & Communications
Canadian Marketing Association
Lynn Martin
Chair, Council for the Advancement of Women & Advisor to the Firm
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
Dominique Martinet
Former Managing Director, USA
Financial Women's Association
Ann Medina
Broadcaster
Medina Productions Inc.
Ellen Moore
President & CEO
Chubb Insurance Company of Canada
Stephanie Perrin
President
Digital Discretion Inc.
Carol Stephenson
Dean
Richard Ivey School of Business
Jennifer Stoddart
Commissioner
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Denise Tobin-McCarthy
Senior Client Partner
Korn/Ferry International
Janice Wadge
President & CEO
Regal Greetings & Gifts
Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner
Vice Chairman Emerita, The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
Chairman & CEO, Nulli Secundus Associates
Margaret Wente
Columnist
The Globe and Mail
Nancy Widmann
President, NCW, Inc.
and Former President, CBS Radio
Carol Wilding
CEO
Foster Parents Plan