Keynote Address: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

• Canadian-American Relations: Looking Toward the Future
  Frank McKenna
  Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
  Former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.
  

  Mr. McKenna discusses Canada's relationship with the United States as well as with its other global trading partners. Mr. McKenna will also expound upon on the upcoming U.S. elections and how the various candidates might impact future policies and global relationships.
  

Concurrent Sessions: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

• Regional Focus: Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
  Andrei Manoukovski, PhD
  President & CEO, Krescendi Inc.

  This rapidly developing area of the world is full of opportunities for growth as well as potential setbacks. If you have questions about operating in the former Iron Curtain countries, join this interactive discussion led by a corporate executive who can offer advice to those conducting business in the region. Key areas of risk such as financing, corruption and bureaucracy will be addressed.
  

• FX Risk Management and Hedging as a Value Driver
  Bruce Wagner
  Director, Treasury, Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
  Matt Matthews, CPA
  Managing Director, Capital Structure and Advisory Solutions Group, JP Morgan Securities, Inc.
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  Many organisations implement risk management programs to mitigate downside risk, but fail to consider or capitalize on the positive contributions that hedging can make to organisational performance. Risk management professionals will highlight the positive relationship between hedging and firm value (i.e. stock price), and discuss the strategic and tactical implementation of a hedging program that maximizes the hedge premium.
  

• Convergence of Canadian GAAP to the IFRS
  Trevor Nakka, C.A.
  Partner, Assurance and Advisory, Deloitte & Touche LLP
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  New regulations and looming convergence are upon us and potentially creating barriers to effective, economically-sound hedging. Practitioners will discuss the problems these new rules pose for them, and hear what the accounting industry has to say about it.

General Session Panel: 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.

• The Impact of Climate Change and Carbon Emissions on Treasury
  Leon Bitton
  Vice President, Research and Development, Bourse de Montréal
  Mike Beale
  Director General, Strategic Priorities Directorate, Environment Canada
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  Global warming is making international headlines, but what are the economics behind climate change? The creation and trading of carbon credits is quickly becoming standard practice, but what does it all mean? And what do you need to know about it? Hear from an expert with the Bourse de Montreal where a future's contract is being created, and from a Canadian government official about how the measurement process will be established.