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Accountability & Liability in Business Travel Management
San Francisco, CA
November 16, 2004
Holiday Inn
San Francisco-Golden Gateway
Accountability and liability are distant cousins in the family tree named Risk. This Executive Forum will follow the trail of these related concepts as they thread through business travel management practices and programs.
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Agenda |
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8:00am - 8:45am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
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8:45am - 9:00am |
ACTE Update and Welcome
Richard Case, US Regional Chair, ACTE
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9:00am - 9:45am |
What Can Travel Managers Do to Improve Accountability?
Learn what processes and systems can travel managers implement to eliminate fingerpointing when things go awry.
Presenters:
Linda Bunt, Director of Global Travel, Siebel Systems
Kurt Ekert, COO, Travelport
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9:45am - 10:30pm |
Negotiating with Financially Distressed Airlines
Learn what provisions need to be included that protect all parties, when drawing up agreements between the corporation and airlines with questionable financial viability.
Presenter:
Laurence M. Smith, Attorney, Wolff & Samson PC
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10:30am - 11:00am
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Coffee Break
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11:00am - 11:45pm |
What's Your Accountability for SOX Compliance?
Have you crossed all t's and dotted all i's, in preparation for your company's compliance with the next SOX milestone? This session will uncover gaps for those travel managers who have already initiated a SOX plan as well as provide a map for those who have not yet focused on the processes that travel departments must implement to ensure SOX preparedness.
Presenter:
Andrea Anderson, Director of Solution Management, Financials, SAP
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11:45am - 12:30pm |
The Status of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations
This session will provide a frank assessment of where the US stands in fulfilling recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission by a noted FBI terrorism expert who was appointed to run the 9/11 investigation for the FBI immediately following the attacks
Presenter:
Thomas Locke, former Assistant. Deputy Director, FBI
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12:30pm - 12:45pm |
Closing Remarks
Cheryl Hutchinson, Chairwoman, ACTE
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12:45pm - 1:30pm
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Networking Lunch
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Forum Location & Hotel Accommodations |
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Holiday Inn
San Francisco-Golden Gateway
1500 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, Ca 94109
Tel: 1-415-4414000
Fax: 1-415-7767155
Email: [email protected]
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Planning Committee |
Janice Coley, Manager, Global Travel Services, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Ralph Colunga, Senior Manager, Global Travel, Metro, Meetings & Events, Cisco Systems
Nancy Garner, Travel Procurement Manager, Extreme Networks
Ed O'Connor, President, Corporate Travel Directions
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