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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 (Moderator)
    • Independent Board Member and Chair, Governance Committee, StoneAge Holdings, Inc.
    • Director, Games Global Limited
    • Board Advisor, Paloma Health
    • Venture Partner, Springtide Ventures

  • Tracy S. Harris
    • Board Member, Bally’s Corporation
    • Board Member, CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield
    • Board Member, Council of Institutional Investors
    • Board Member, PCAOB, Investor Advisory Group
    • Trustee, District of Columbia Retirement Board

  • Nikul Patel
    • Founder & CEO, LoanGlide
    • Board Member, Getaround
    • Board Member, Skyline Champion Corporation
    • Board Member, Data Axle

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

Energy

  • Zabrina Johal
    • Senior Director, Strategic Development, General Atomics 
    • Board Member, National Center for Energy Analytics
    • Trustee Emeritus, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
    • Founding Member, Women in Fusion
    • Chair, Communications Advisory Committee, Nuclear Energy Institute

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

10:00am – 10:40am: Fireside Chat: Lessons in Activism

In Partnership with Evercore

  • David Cahoy
    • Senior Managing Director, Evercore

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

10:40am – 11:00am: Morning Break

11:00am – 11:40am: Topic Spotlight: Managing the Wave of DEI Backlash

In Partnership with Sidley Austin LLP

  • Derek Zaba
    • Partner, Co-Chair, Shareholder Activism & Corporate Defense Practice, Sidley
  • David Glasgow
    • Executive Director, Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, NYU School of Law
  • Jessica N. Grounds (Moderator)
    • CEO, Corporate Directors Forum & Corporate Directors Forum Institute

11:45am – 12:25pm: Presentation: Navigating Geopolitical Risk in an Uncertain World

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

12:25pm – 1:15pm: Lunch Break

Afternoon Summit Themes

Reimagination

1:15pm – 2:00pm: Panel Discussion: Investor Trends & Fresh Takes

In Partnership with KPMG

  • Stephen L. Brown (Moderator)
    • Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center
  • Courteney Keatinge
    • Senior Director of Environmental, Social and Governance Research, Glass Lewis
  • Scott Zdrazil
    • Principal Investment Officer, LACERA

2:00pm – 2:45pm: Fireside Chat: Reimagining Culture & Connection

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

  • Jeff Lindeman
    • Chief People, Culture and Capability Officer, WD-40 Company

2:45pm – 3:00pm: Mid-Afternoon Break

3:00pm – 3:20pm: Presentation: Agenda for the Prepared Board

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

3:20pm – 4:10pm: TED-Style Speaker Series: Reimagination

In Partnership with Pearl Meyer

Board Member of the Future

  • Peter Thies
    • Managing Director, Pearl Meyer Leadership Practice

Reimagining the Work Model

  • 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

4:10pm - 4:55pm: Resilience and Reimagination, Redefined: Harnessing the Power of Improv Thinking

  • Jerry Beers
    • CEO & Founder, The Olivine Project

4:55pm: Closing Remarks

  • Jessica N. Grounds
    • CEO, Corporate Directors Forum & Corporate Directors Forum Institute

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