Corporate Governance in the Information, Communications, & Technology Sector

Corporate Governance in the Information, Communications, & Technology Sector

Presented by

Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Friday, 10 June 2005

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Great Hall, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Building, 42 West 44^th Street, New York, NY

This conference addresses the role of corporate governance in the early 2000’s financial failure of the Information, Communications & Technology (ICT) sector. Will a superior incentive structure dampen the inherent volatility of the ICT sector and improve the vitality of the sector and the financial infrastructure which supports it? This Conference addresses potential remedies to the following questions:

Do systemic incentive issues exist and, if so, have they been adequately addressed?

Have corporate boards lost control over management?

What is the role of tax laws which do not treat options as an expense nor as dilution of shareholders’ value?

How have financial vehicles such as indefeasible rights-of-use or devises unique to the telecommunications industry contributed to the problems?

How much of the malfeasance has been a result of conflict of interests in the corporate communities coupled with weak or non-existent enforcement of existing laws and weak corporate governance?

How effective is Sarbanes-Oxley legislation? Can inappropriate behavior be corrected by changing the incentive structures?

Registration

Please register online at http://www.ersvp.com/reply/event12341. Corporate attendees: $100. Academics, government officials, and non-profit attendees, $50. Members of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, $50.

CITI Affiliates: please contact Ben Bloom at 212-854-4222 for special registration arrangements.