October 19 - 21, 2003
Willard Inter-Continental Hotel
Washington, DC

For the first time, governance is as much about compliance as it is about board and corporate performance. Now is the time for action, yet there are still more questions than answers as directors begin to implement boardroom reforms:

• How can we adhere to the new rules in a way that improves corporate governance without discouraging quality directors from board service?
• How will your role as a corporate director change, and what is the added liability?
• How will the general counsel and corporate secretary exercise their new responsibilities?
• How will boards cope with new expectations for disclosure and shareholder communications?
• Will your corporation be the next media headline about excessive pay?

Answer these questions and more at the NACD 2003 Annual Corporate Governance Conference, the premier gathering of both public and private company board members for more than two decades.

To learn more about the program, click here to view the agenda.

This high-level forum will help you and your board:

• Understand, simplify, and prioritize your response to new rules and regulations.
• Implement board and committee practices for recruiting new directors, determining executive pay, selecting outside auditors and attorneys, achieving audit committee independence, and establishing an ethical corporate culture.
• Improve board effectiveness to enhance shareholder and stakeholder value for the long term.

why This Conference?

If you attend just one corporate governance event this year, make it the one by directors and for directors: the “board meeting” of the year.

NACD’s Annual Corporate Governance Conference is:

• A forum in which real boardroom challenges are addressed and practical solutions are presented

• A faculty of seasoned directors and governance practitioners
  Hear from directors, CEOs, and committee chairs who have been on the front lines of both crisis and success.

• A comprehensive overview of governance trends and reforms
  You’ll hear from high-level officials at the SEC, the Public Accounting Oversight Board, the Delaware Supreme Court, the SROs, governance ratings agencies, institutional shareholders, public accounting firms, and the nation’s premier legal, D&O, compensation, recruitment, and audit advisors.

• Content-rich
  As the only nonprofit membership organization specifically for corporate directors, NACD has tracked in excess of 100 corporate governance trends and practices for more than a quarter of a century. Sessions and reference materials are based on decades of knowledge and research.