2026 Academy Agenda
2026 Academy for Directors and Senior Officers
Thursday, November 19, 2026
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:40 – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome & PCCE Rule
8:45 – 8:50 a.m.
Dean’s Welcome
8:55 – 9:45 a.m.
Fireside Chat: Risks from Integrating AI into Consumer-Facing Applications
Moderator: Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Speaker: Eugene Soltes, McLean Family of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
9:50 – 10:50 a.m.
Panel: Governance of Enterprise Risk
Moderator: Tom Glocer, Lead Director, Morgan Stanley, Merck; Executive Chairman and Founder
Panelists: Avi Gesser, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton; Isaac (Ike) Harris, Board Director, Lumentum; Founder & President, DATKI Partners; and Robert Werner, Board Director, DB USA Corp., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
10:50 – 11:10 a.m.
Networking Coffee Break
11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Panel: Implications of AI for Talent Management
Moderator: Alicia Syrett, Founder and CEO, Pantegrion Capital LLC; Founder, Chairs & Leads
Speakers: Samantha Kappagoda, Independent Director, Credit Suisse Funds; Chief Data Scientist, Numerati® Partners LLC; Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; Suzan Morno-Wade, Board Director, Veritiv, Latham Pool Group, former CHRO, Xerox; and Jane Sadowsky, Board Director, Allied Gold Inc, Nexa Resources, Scientific Games; Senior Advisor, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Moelis and Company
12:25 – 1:35 p.m.
Networking Lunch & Keynote
Moderator: Ed Rock, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, NYU Law
Speaker: Paul Singer, President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Elliott Investment Management L.P.
1:45 – 2:35 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
AI Risk Management Tabletop Simulation for Officers and Directors
Session Leader: Joanna Ridgway, Chief Revenue Officer, Cien.ai
Speakers: Tamara Gracon, CEO TBG Consulting and Paula Fontana, CMO & Board Member, iluminr
Accounting for Directors and Officers
Speakers: TBD
Shareholder Relations
Speakers: TBD
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Panel: Board Refreshment and Structure
Moderator: David Katz, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Panelists: Julie Daum, Partner and Chair, North American Board Practice, Spencer Stuartt; Virginia Gamble, Board Chair, Nutanix; Board Director, Virtu Financial, Evertec, 10x Banking, Consumer Edge; and Richard Zabel, General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, and Head of Research, Elliott Investment Management L.P.
3:45 – 4:05 p.m.
Networking Coffee Break
4:05 – 5:00 p.m.
Keynote & Fireside Chat
Moderator: Ed Rock, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, NYU Law
Speaker: Karen Valihura, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
5:00 – 5:45 p.m.
Networking Reception
Friday, November 20, 2026
8:30 – 8:55 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome & PCCE Rule
9:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Presentation on Director Liability
Speaker: Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
9:35 – 10:35 a.m.
Panel: When Can Legal Risk Turn into Enterprise Risk?
Moderator: Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Speakers: Bonnie Jonas, Board Director, Turo; President, Complex Matters; Bruce Karpati, Partner and Global Chief Compliance Officer, KKR; Matt Miner, General Counsel & Vice Chair, KPMG US; and Jane Sherburne, Principal, Sherburne PLLC; Board Director, Perella Weinberg Partners; HSBC North America Holdings; Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
10:35 – 10:50 a.m.
Networking Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. – 11:50 p.m.
Simulation: Cybersecurity Tabletop
Moderator: Erez Liebermann, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
Speakers: Douglas Bloom, Managing Director, Deputy Global Head of Cyber, Information Security & Technology Risk;
Cheryl James, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, New York Life Insurance Co.; and Judy Titera, Board Director, MS Transverse, Nemours Children’s Health System; former Chief Privacy Officer, USAA
12:05 – 1:05 p.m.
Networking Lunch & Keynote
Moderator: Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE
Speaker: David Woodcock, Director of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
1:20 – 2:10 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
Antitrust/Unfair Competition
Speaker: Daniel Francis, Professor, NYU Law
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Simulation: Crisis Management
Moderator: Kristin Mace, Partner, Covington & Burling
Panelists: Daniel Kahn, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Sharon Cohen Levin, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
3:30 – 4:15 p.m.
Networking Reception