08:30
Registration
09:20
Welcome from Thomson Reuters
- Amanda Cantwell Senior Editor, Practical Law - Corporate, Thomson Reuters
09:30
Corporate Governance
- Articulating value
- Government responses to Green Paper on governance reform
- Possible extension of the UK Corporate Governance Code to private companies
- Victoria Dalby Senior Manager, Capita Asset Services
- Holly Harkins Principal Policy Adviser, CBI (Confederation of British Industry)
- Matthew Timmons Director, Legal, Entity Governance & Compliance, PwC
10:45
Morning Break
11:15
Board Effectiveness, Evaluation and Culture
- Encouraging informal evaluation and review
- Board minutes – as an accurate record of directors’ meetings versus pressure from regulators to record more detailed discussion and challenge from NEDs.
- Helping the chair/board to identify and mitigate risk
- Martin Ansley-Young Group Company Secretary, Arup
- Louis Cooper Chief Executive, Non-Executive Directors’ Association
- Nicholas Eldred General Counsel & Company Secretary, Architectural Association
- Blake Stephenson Board & Leadership Solutions, Nasdaq
12:45
Lunch
13:30
Breakout options
Breakout option 1: GDPR Implementation
With just under a year to go to the GDPR implementation deadline we will be considering:
- The essential aspects of a GDPR implementation programme and what steps you need to be taken now
- Guidance so far from the regulators and regulatory focus post-implementation
- Key challenges and potential solutions
- Louis Cooper Chief Executive, Non-Executive Directors’ Association
- Alison Deighton Partner & Head of Data Protection & Privacy Team, TLT Solicitors
Breakout option 2: Gender Pay Gap Reporting
- What do employers have to do to comply with the regulations?
- Tricky areas in practice – identifying elements of pay and marshalling the data
- Who enforces the GPG regulations?
- Best practice reporting – existing examples from employers and trade unions
- Practical measure and steps that employers can take to narrow the gender pay gap
- Matthew Creagh Policy officer, TUC
- Jane Fielding Partner – Head of Employment, Labour and Equalities, Gowling WLG
14:20
Breakout options
Breakout option 1: PSC: beneficial ownership regime and 4MLD: pitfalls and challenges
- PSCs – areas causing difficulty one year on
- Are you ready for the changes to the [PSC] regime?
- How 4MLD changes the current regime
- Key changes for an Issuer to consider
- Jai Baker Head of Industry, Capita Asset Services
- Diane Penfold Senior Manager Company Secretarial Services, Capita
Breakout option 2: Managing overseas and subsidiary company governance in a group framework
- Matthew Timmons Director, Legal, Entity Governance & Compliance, PwC
15:10
Afternoon Break
15:20
Modern Slavery Act
Modern Slavery Act: Understanding your and your company’s responsibilities
- Practical steps for businesses; policies, processes, contract terms, training
- Top-down values framework
- Get the basics right
- What’s the politics behind this – where has this regulation come from and where is it going?
- What the regulator wants to see: Be Genuine, Transparent and show Direction of Travel.
- How to do that in practice
- Specsavers case study
- Katie Kinloch Professional Support Lawyer, Addleshaw Goddard
- Andrew Kidd Legal Director, Corporate, Specsavers
- Michele Law Founder, Cerno Solutions
16:10
Technology
- The current state of play with technology
- The problems we see
- Trends in emerging technology
- Impact for Directors
- Impact for Company Secretary role
Chair’s closing words
- Alister Esam Founder and CEO, eShare
17:00
Networking and drinks
Please note the agenda is subject to change*
The page will be updated with further details on the agenda once they are confirmed.