2005 Annual Conference Program Agenda
 

The 2005 annual conference will begin on Friday, August 5 with a late afternoon reception and conclude on Wednesday, August 10 after the Business Meeting during breakfast. To learn more about this year's speakers, click on the speaker's name below or go to our Speakers' Page

 
Friday - August 5  
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Welcoming Reception
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration
 
Saturday - August 6  
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Executive Committee Meeting
9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Director's Workshop
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Opening Ceremonies
1:15 - 2:15 p.m. Stuart Varney - "A New Day in America: Its Economy, Its Politics, Its Culture"
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Betty Ann Kane, District of Columbia Retirement Board
Current Activities of GASB and GASAC
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Keith Brainard, NASRA Research Director
Public Fund Survey
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. President's Reception
 
Sunday - August 7  
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Registration
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. Update on the DB/DC Initiatives
William Leighty, Chief of Staff to Virginia Governor
Fred Buenrostro, CalPERS
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Rex Holsapple - TIPS: Treasury Inflation Protection Securities
9:45 - 10:30 a.m. Investment Panel: Hedge Funds
Steve Holmes, President,Summit Strategies Group
Allan Emkin, Managing Director, Pension Consulting Alliance
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Roll Call of the States
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch - Martin Buser, Iditarod Champion
The Road to the Iditarod
7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Dinner at Alaska Native Heritage Center
 
Monday - August 8  
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Director's Regional Meetings
7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Associates Meeting
7:30 - 11:30 a.m. Registration
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Panel: Corporate Governance & Securities Litigation
George Kim Johnson, President, IRIS
Ann Yerger, CEO of Council of Institutional Investors
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. System Governance
Nancy Williams, Ennis Knupp
10:00 - 11:45 a.m. Roll Call of the States
Afternoon Golf and tours
 
Tuesday - August 9  
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
7:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Spouse's tour
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D.
Age Wave, President and CEO
9:45 - 10:30 a.m. Charles Baird, Founder, North Castle Partners
Investing in the New Age Wave
10:35 - 11:30 a.m. Jeannine Markoe Raymond, NASRA Director of Federal Relations
Washington Updates
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Future of Social Security
Cathie Eitelberg, The Segal Company
Ron Gebhardtsbauer, American Academy of Actuaries
12:45 - 2:00 a.m. Lunch
Lieutenant General Carrol H. "Howie" Chandler, USAF
Commander, Alaskan Command
6:00 - 11:00 p.m. Reception, Banquet and Dance
 
Wednesday - August 10
7:30 - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Annual Business Meeting (All members & associates)
9:00 a.m. Adjournment