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Annual Meeting

2024 Fall Member Meeting

Friday, November 8, 2024
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (EST)

KPMG 345 Park Avenue, NYC. Virtual option also available.

Event Details

Join your fellow members for this year's annual meeting: Board Diversity in 2025: Post-Election Strategy.  We'll meet directly after the presidential election to plan how to move forward together in 2025.

Featured Speakers:

Robert. J. Jackson, Jr.
NYU School of Law
Former SEC Commissioner
Allison Herren Lee
Former SEC Commissioner
Yen Chu
EVP and Chief Legal Officer
Tailored Brands, Inc.
Deneen Donnley
SVP and General Counsel
Con Edison
Malia M. Cohen
Controller, State of California

Agenda

November 8
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Registration and breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome and Board Diversity Toolkit Launch
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Post-Election Huddle
A discussion of the presidential election in real time and what the results mean for the Coalition’s efforts to ensure board diversity and diversity disclosure nationwide.
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Anti-DEI Lawsuits Redux
By popular demand, we are bringing back an attorney panel to provide a reality check on the post-election legal landscape--and how companies are navigating it.
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM BREAK
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Private Equity Diversity in 2025
LPs discuss their alternative investments strategies, including expectations of board diversity, and what they anticipate in the coming year.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch and Keynote Address
Hear from California State Controller Malia M. Cohen on the post-election investing and engagement landscape. Cohen sits on the boards of CalPERS and CalSTRS, and is the former President of SFERS.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Making Disclosure Happen
A fully interactive discussion with all participants about how we will achieve board diversity disclosure by 2026. Includes a debrief of our efforts with the SEC and at the state level.
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Closed-Door Committee Meetings: INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
In this session, we'll provide policy and decision-useful tools, unveil a new proxy-voting guideline resource, and conduct an interactive engagement training, led by Segal Marco.

A panel will follow: The Next Frontier of Engagement.  This is a candid discussion about how investors are conducting conversations with companies who have withdrawn from DEI commitments, and more.
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Closed-Door Committee Meetings: ADVOCATE PARTNERS
Connect with other board diversity advocates to debrief the latest Private Equity Board Candidate Program cycle, and discuss how we can support the efforts of investor members to make board diversity a reality across all U.S. public companies 
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Networking Reception

For More Information:

Julie Zuraw
Julie Zuraw
President & CEO Thirty Percent Coalition (917)604-2790