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Directors Summit 2025 Agenda

Resiliency & Reimagination

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2025 Conference Agenda

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Welcome Reception & Opening Program

5:00pm – 6:00pm: Refreshments & Networking

6:00pm – 7:00pm: Fostering Resiliency & Reimagination

  • Sheila Bangalore
    • Independent Board Member and Chair, Governance Committee, StoneAge Holdings, Inc.
    • Director, Games Global Limited
    • Board Advisor, Paloma Health
    • Venture Partner, Springtide Ventures
  • Nikul Patel
    • Founder & CEO, LoanGlide
    • Board Member, Getaround
    • Board Member, Skyline Champion Corporation
    • Board Member, Data Axle

Additional speakers forthcoming

Friday, February 21, 2025

Morning Summit Theme

Resiliency

8:00am - 8:30am: Check-in & Self-Serve Breakfast

8:45am - 9:00am: Welcome Remarks

  • Annalisa Barrett,
    • Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center
    • Chair, Directors Summit 2025, Corporate Directors Forum Institute
  • Jessica N. Grounds
    • CEO, Corporate Directors Forum & Corporate Directors Forum Institute

9:00am – 10:10am: TED-Style Speaker Series: Resiliency

Energy

  • Zabrina Johal
    • Senior Director, Strategic Development, General Atomics Technology & Innovation

Technology & Innovation

  • Amy Wilkinson
    • CEO & Founder, Ingenuity
    • Board Member, Hut 8
    • Board Member, Innovate Corp
    • Faculty, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Environment & Social Responsibility

  • Patricia Márquez
    • Director, PriceSmart
    • Professor of Management, Knauss School of Business, University of San Diego
    • Former Dean, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace & Justice, University of San Diego

10:15am – 11:00am: Panel: Lessons in Activism

In Partnership with Evercore

  • Damien Fisher
    • Senior Managing Director, Evercore
  • John Driver (Moderator)
    • Chief Executive Officer, Lynx Technology
    • Director, City First Bank
    • Director, Vital Energy Inc.
    • Trustee, Fleet Science Center

Additional speakers forthcoming

11:00am – 11:15am: Morning Break

11:15am – 11:45am: Topic Spotlight: Geopolitical Risk & Planning

  • Rodger Baker
    • Executive Director, Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics, RANE

11:50am – 12:30pm: Topic Spotlight: Investors Perspective

Details forthcoming

12:30pm – 1:15pm: Lunch Break

Afternoon Summit Themes

Reimagination

1:15pm – 2:00pm: Fireside Chat: Reimagining Culture & Connection

  • Steve Brass
    • President, CEO, & Board Member, WD-40 Company

2:00pm – 2:45pm: Panel: Board Decisions in the Age of AI

Details forthcoming

2:45pm – 3:00pm: Mid-Afternoon Break

3:00pm – 3:55 pm: TED-Style Speaker Series: Reimagination

In Partnership with Pearl Meyer

Board Member of the Future

  • Peter Thies
    • Managing Director, Pearl Meyer Leadership Practice

Reimaging the Workplace

  • Cali Williams Yost
    • CEO & Founder, Flex + Strategy Group

Expanding Our View of Stakeholders

  • Lara Lee
    • Independent Director, WD-40 Company
    • Independent Director, Liberty Safe
    • Independent Director, Rather Outdoors

Rethinking Business Purpose

  • Judy Samuelson
    • Executive Director, Aspen Institute Business + Society Program, Aspen Institute

4:00pm - 4:45pm: Closing Session

Details forthcoming

5:00pm: Closing Remarks

  • Jessica N. Grounds

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