THE
CORPORATE STATE CANADA:
A Women’s CEO & Senior Management
Summit
October 22, 2008 at The Sutton Place Hotel,
Toronto
2008 Conference Sponsors:
IBM Canada Ltd.
Sunrise Senior Living
XEROX Canada
2008 Support Sponsors:
Korn/Ferry International
TD Bank Financial Group
TELUS
Vale Inco Limited
2008 Participation Sponsor:
Rogers Cable Communications
2008 Speaker Circle Sponsor
Stryker Canada
Suncor Energy Inc.
2008 Media Sponsor:
The Globe and Mail
AGENDA
8:00 – 8:45 am REGISTRATION & 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 Capital Markets
9:45 – 10:45 am ROUNDTABLE:
STRESSED FOR SUCCESS
Should companies pay more attention to the psychological health of their organizations, employees, and leaders? As “anxiety” begins to travel cross-border to companies in all regions of the globe, how will organizations deal differently with issues of motivation and competition? How does the increased need for stress management open up new business opportunity for the healthcare, insurance, and education industries?
What is the prolonged impact of stress on the human body and psyche?
11:00 – 12:00 pm ROUNDTABLE:
THE FUTURE OF JOBS
How will organizations’ hiring styles, practices, and expectations change in the next 50 years given the importation of cultural, geo-political and educational differences from around the world? How will we respond to the patchwork of new opportunities and challenges? Will the outsourcing of leadership training, personal services, professional services, and design rattle the foundation of organizations or create an exciting new world of diffusion and independent project management?
12:00 – 1:30 pm LUNCHEON
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tamara Erickson
Executive Vice President
nGenera
1:45 – 2:45 pm ROUNDTABLE:
IT’S RISKY BUSINESS
Why must companies manage risk in the 21st century differently than ever before?
Will risk management become tied to the value proposition? Does hierarchy prevent innovative risk management and evolution of ideas? What new role and new thinking falls to the Chief Security officer? What’s the new way to prepare for what you can’t
possibly imagine yet? What’s the clutch point between risk mitigation and the stifling of creativity?
3:00 – 4:00 pm ROUNDTABLE: MARKETING TO THE ADD GENERATION
Does this populations’ desire and need to have the “it’ gadget, force companies to push the envelope, unveiling newer and newer products more quickly than ever before?
How critical is the element of design in targeting an under 18 year-old consumer?
Will companies begin to investigate mind-controlled interactive gaming to reach their target market, or other brain-compatible toys? Will the new focus be solely on “must-have’ products to entice this generation? What role will social networks play in reaching this constituency?
4:00 – 4:15 pm CLOSING REMARKS
4:30 – 6:00 pm COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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