34th Annual E*TRADE Directions

An elite, virtual program bringing together thought leaders in equity compensation.

Agenda

Create your own customized experience from a comprehensive selection of workshops, interactive roundtables, and hands-on labs.

June 9, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

ADMINISTRATION
Boost ESPP Purchase Power through Cashless Participation

The future of ESPPs is now! Join our panel to learn about a new innovative technology that enables participants to purchase ESPP shares with limited payroll deductions. During this session, we will walk through the intuitive employee enrollment experience to see how participating employees can potentially own more shares than they would otherwise, while maintaining paycheck impacts. With more and more global companies focused on attracting and retaining top talent around the world, this new vehicle is certainly one that can help achieve benefit plan goals for most demographics. We will also review the financial reporting impacts and administrative workflow for managing this process from start to finish.

Rajiv Gosine, E*TRADE Financial Corporation
Aaron Shapiro, Carver Edison
Liz Stoudt, Infinite Equity

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

INNOVATION SESSION
Online Trade Pre-Clearance Automation

Trade clearance historically has been a manual and often lengthy process that may have required several calls and emails between compliance, legal, and E*TRADE representatives for approval. Meanwhile, clearing trades for some of your top executives can be an up-to-the-minute, high-demand process in which time is of the essence. To help streamline this process, reduce risk, and increase speed and communication, we designed and launched a groundbreaking new online pre-clearance automation solution. Now, through a few simple online steps, the stock plan administration team can set up clearance online, and participants can receive email alerts and see trading windows open in their E*TRADE account. Join us in this session to see the powerful new process in action.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

June 11, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

ADMINISTRATION
Tricky Tax Traps and How to Avoid Them

When it comes to complying with tax withholding and reporting requirements for equity award income, it is easy to take a wrong turn. This panel of experienced practitioners will provide you with both the advisor and issuer perspective and help guide you through a host of withholding and reporting pitfalls. Our presenters will give you practical tips for how to stay on the right track. The topics will include:

  1. The latest tax withholding/reporting changes and enforcement trends impacting equity compensation globally
  2. The pros and cons of different withholding methods, broken down by equity award type (e.g., RSUs vs. ESPP)
  3. Keeping up with changes to withholding/reporting obligations, as well as rates
  4. Setting appropriate withholding rates depending on your employee population
  5. Dealing with special challenges (e.g., tax withholding and China SAFE, working with Israeli trustees, etc.)

Barbara Gunnufson, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Suhani Akhare, Anaplan, Inc.
Barbara Klementz, Baker & McKenzie, LLP
Mike Browning, Equinix, Inc.

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

ADMINISTRATION
Equity Compensation Trends: LTIP Design under Changing Environments

2020 has seen the arrival of major changes in equity compensation design. Amid a backdrop of increased pressure to attend to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations in equity compensation design, companies now also need to be aware of new changes to the ISS quantitative pay-for-performance screens for this year, primarily surrounding the incorporation of economic value-added (EVA) metrics. In this interactive panel discussion, we’ll examine in-depth current trends in granting practices and incentive design to help you understand how your company stacks up against industries and trends in the market while also providing you with tips and best practices on how to manage the competing forces at play in the executive compensation landscape this year.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Shane Carroll, Equilar Inc
William Miller, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Nathan O’Connor, Equity Methods, LLC
Ryan Weaver, Incyte Corporation

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

June 23, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
10b5-1 Plans Come in All Shapes and Sizes

This session will provide hands on guidance on how to implement a 10b5-1 Plan using E*TRADE’s electronic platform. The session will provide an overview of the SEC rules regarding 10b5-1 Plans and their applicability to equity compensation. The session will showcase two issuers who are currently using E*TRADE’s platform.

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Pamela Greene, Aon Equity Services
Kimberly Intrieri, Boston Scientific Corporation
Lindsay Levine, Wave Life Sciences Ltd.

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Data Automation and API Integration

This hands-on lab will give you experience with planning and connecting your peripheral systems to E*TRADE Corporate Services tools. We will discuss approaches for transmitting data through flat files and application programming interfaces (APIs) and lead you through hands-on examples of setting up flat file integration as it relates to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) and the Client Resource Center, including scheduling data reporting from those systems to other peripheral systems or business partners. For client issuers using Workday, come prepared to see how our API integration (the only of its kind in the industry) can bring immediate results. You will leave this session knowing how to identify the best approach for your integration needs, as well as how to set it all up!

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Andrew Barrus, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

June 25, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

REPORTING
Science and Mother Nature as a Guidepost for Compensation Setting

A recent academic study calculated the exact amount of wind drag in every position of a traditional cycling Peloton. Geese fly in a V formation, and fish swim in schools to help with dynamics and efficiency. What does this have to do with LTI and compensation setting? Can the resistance as calculated by science be extrapolated to your total rewards? Learn more about how this new academic study can be leveraged across traditional organizational hierarchies and as a validation for your rewards process. Should the scientific data be inclusive of base pay, STI, LTI, or the full rewards equation? Learn more about this innovative new study with the researchers.

Aaron Oberg, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Amaldo Ulaj, Clearbridge Compensation
Terry Adamson, BDO
Buyong Lee, Shutterfly Inc

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Processing Restricted Stock Releases and Dividends

In this session, we take a deep dive into the steps necessary to process restricted stock award releases and dividends. In addition, we cover some best practices for using EEO to manage your mobile population, reconciling information with EEO reports, using the Exchange Manager files related to restricted award releases, and resolving errors that may arise along the way.

Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

July 14, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Performance Awards A-Z

With a changing economic environment and a growing focus on corporate accountability, performance-based grants have become an increasingly popular form of equity compensation. Designing performance-based compensation programs can be a complex process that creates administrative challenges. Join us for this hands-on session, where we walk through the setup of performance awards, goal record management, metrics tracking, reporting, and expensing considerations in EEO, as well as the impact setup will have on various reports.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

INNOVATION SESSION
SOC Reporting: Overview and Trends

The concepts covered in this session are referred to as service organization control (SOC) reports. Organizations that utilize outsourced providers should understand the various types and intended use of SOC reports, their implication on a company’s financial reporting process, the role of AICPA standards, and recent trends.

Bevely Lowe, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Akua Amoah Boateng, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Aisha Rahman, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

July 16, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

ADMINISTRATION
Retirement Eligibility: Implementation and Beyond

Retirement eligibility is one of the most challenging tax processes to manage—from the evaluation of eligible participants and grants to implementation, tax collections, withholding shares, and ensuring downstream activity is tracked and reported properly.

Join us as we examine these issues and more. Additionally, we will look at how EEO automation can assist with substantially reducing manual efforts. We will hear real-life examples and solutions for administration, taxation, financial reporting, and employee engagement.

Joe Steitz, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Amanda Benincasa, Aon Equity Services
Kirbie Drucker, NRG Energy Inc
Sandra Garcia, Western Digital Corporation

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Deferred Tax Asset Reporting

Use our new report functionality within EEO to simplify your Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) reporting process. The report combines all relevant data obtained from the Expense Allocation Recognition, Tax Benefit Reconciliation, and Valuation Disclosure Recap reports into a single pivoted workpaper with three summary and multiple detailed views for tax accountants and auditors alike. In this session, we will review how to run the DTA report, discuss the “summary” and “detailed report” views, and show how they tie to other reports previously presented to your tax departments. We will also cover the straight-line expense accrual with relief using the ratable approach, and you will learn how to add participant mobility to track DTA for multiple tax jurisdictions and countries.

Scott Wallace, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

July 28, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

REPORTING
Valuation ABCs

Monte Carlo is more than just a famous casino, and Black Scholes isn’t a blues duo from Nashville. Instead, these terms are key valuation techniques for estimating the fair value of equity awards. During this session, we’ll dive into the valuation of different types of awards (RSUs, options, relative TSR, and more) and how to use Equity Edge Online® to accommodate each award. We’ll cover how to develop assumptions for various models, examine the impact each assumption has on the resulting fair value, and walk through the valuation process. Estimating fair value is at the center of ASC Topic 718, and whether you’re new to the industry or just want a refresher, everyone needs to know their Valuation ABCs.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
CJ Van Ostenbridge, Infinite Equity
Deidre Salisbury, Infinite Equity
Steve Laskowski, Prudential Financial Inc

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Expense Forecasting Reporting

This session will show attendees how to use the new Expense Forecasting module and report in EEO. During this session, you will learn how to view multiple periods of net current period expense for options and awards within a single report, even including account-level or grant-level user-defined field (UDF), if desired. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to quickly create hypothetical grants to predict the expense in future periods and run comparison views for expense variance analysis. You will also see how to lock down actual and forecasted expense information so it can be referenced later.

Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

July 30, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

ADMINISTRATION
Singing the Equity Automation Tune!

Just like the perfect harmony of all types of music, having technology sing your automation song helps you and your team run your program more efficiently. Join our experienced panel in share administration, global taxation, mobility, and the corporate issuer to discuss HR setup, grant to tax settlement, and payroll and finance. You will see how HR and payroll APIs can interface with a cloud service provider, and how commercial interfaces with tax providers drive automation to new heights.

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Leann Balbona, KPMG LLP
Rose Hoffman, PayPal Holdings Inc

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

ADMINISTRATION
Deft & Delightful Design Decision & Details

Design for equity compensation comes in all shapes and sizes. From grand, sweeping designs that involve the inherent structure of your awards to tweaking granting practices or vesting patterns. Thoughtful designs can positively impact everything from your proxy disclosure to your accounting to your employee communications to your day-to-day administration.

Join our expert panel as we discuss a broad range of design considerations and changes that can help you get the results you and your company need from your equity awards. Further, we’ll give you tips and tricks that will help you get much needed changes approved and implemented.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Elizabeth Dodge, Equity Plan Solutions LLC
Deidre Salisbury, Infinite Equity
Stacy Fox, Salesforce.com Inc

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

August 17, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

ADMINISTRATION
Stock Administration: The Next Generation

It’s star date 2020.817, and while we’re still waiting for the flying cars we were promised by Hollywood, the world of equity compensation and stock administration has been transformed by technological innovations and the increasing demands placed on issuers by regulatory agencies and employees alike. This session centers around the evolution of equity administration and the role of corporate issuer teams. Our panel of experts will share their views on the leading practices in equity compensation on topics ranging from automation to tax compliance to employee education. They will discuss how they have transformed the corporate issuer administration role from an equity compensation expert executing everything to a program manager that manages vendors, technology, and operational teams to meet their plan requirements. Please come ready with your questions!

Aaron Oberg, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Joseph Machewirth, Prudential Financial Inc
Sharon Orlando, Workday Inc
Jewon Wee, ISP Advisors

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

INNOVATION SESSION
Financial Wellness Solutions

During this session, you will learn about financial wellness solutions that help great companies and their people thrive. The presenters will take you through a financial wellness journey for your employees. In this session, we will review student loan refinancing options, employer-sponsored student loan repayment and refinancing programs, and methods for offering an employer-sponsored 529 college savings program. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn more about E*TRADE’s full suite of financial wellness solutions. You won’t want to miss the value these benefits can bring to your company.

Jonathan Brooks, E*TRADE Corporate Services
TJ Donovan, Gradifi by E*TRADE

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

August 19, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

REPORTING
EPS: Back to the Basics and Dilutives of Equity Plan Impact to Shareholders

Earnings per share (EPS) is one of the most significant pieces of information a public company has to track and disclose on a regular basis, and a company’s equity grants can have a big impact on how those numbers are reported. There are very specific requirements on how this grant impact is to be reported, but the causes of certain changes to those numbers are often a mystery. This session aims to break down the concepts of EPS, both basic and dilutive, along with the patterns that certain changes in the marketplace or within an equity plan can have on these numbers over time. This course is designed for someone who is new to equity reporting or who wants to gain a clearer understanding of how equity grants impact a company EPS disclosure.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Stephanie Aronesty, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Kathleen Uy, Adobe Systems Inc
John Stapleton, Capital One Financial
Radostin Kanev, Equity Methods LLC

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to EEO or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions new users often have and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

August 25, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

ADMINISTRATION
Dancing with the SPAs: An Expert Panel Instructs on the Best Ways to Structure Your Equity Department

In this interactive session, a panel consisting of client issuers and an industry consultant discusses the various ways they waltz and tango with many partners to make their stock plans successful for all stakeholders. During this session, our experts will share proven solutions for supporting challenging administrative tasks like grant processing, grant agreements, real-time database updates, open ESPP enrollment, financial reporting, insiders, payroll, and staffing—consider this the smorgasbord of best practices! Attendees will leave with key insights for how to optimize their day-to-day tasks. Audience participation will add to the learning and fun!

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Kristi Barker, Coupa Software Inc
Mike Hom, Gilead Sciences Inc
Kathryn Randall, Opendoor Labs Inc
Laura Kreman, Qualcomm Incorporated
Henley Hom, Stock and Option Solutions

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

HANDS-ON LAB
Fundamental Reporting Tips & Tricks - Report Customization & Bursting

This hands-on lab will help you take your EEO reporting to the next level. This session provides an overview of ways you can leverage report automation, advanced filtering, user-defined fields, report views, and automated data exports. You will learn about shortcuts, report formatting, dynamic scheduling, and myriad of other tools to help you save time and reduce risk. This session will also provide a brief overview of new reports that have become available and will highlight the basics of the EEO Report Wizard.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

August 27, 2020

1:00pm – 2:15pm ET/
10:00am – 11:15am PT

REPORTING
Auditors Anonymous: What Stock Plan Administrators Need to Know

Demystify your annual audit process by learning what happens behind the scenes after you make a data request and forward documents. You’ll also gain insights into audit practices and objectives for stock compensation that are sure to make your life easier next audit season. The panel will include financial reporting and stock plan administration tips, and valuation professionals (all recovering auditors) will share their experiences.

Stephanie Aronesty, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Janette Werden, ACCO Brand Inc
Daniel Coleman, Infinite Equity
Robin Schroeder, Marathon Petroleum Company

CE Credit: CEP, CPE, W@W

3:00pm – 4:15pm ET/
12:00pm – 1:15pm PT

ADMINISTRATION
Have It Your Way: Equity Edge Online Automation with Flat Files and APIs

Are you thinking of ways to streamline your processes and make your day-to-day life more efficient? Understanding how EEO can interface with different third-party HRIS and payroll systems is a great starting point. EEO is so robust that it can handle standard flat files, but now it can also integrate with APIs, including Workday. Join us for a panel session where you will gain insight and hear experiences from current EEO clients who have gone through large-scale system migrations and leveraged both flat files and APIs to help optimize the overall equity experience. The session will not only focus on how to gain efficiencies through the use of inbound and outbound file automation, but also discuss the testing and rollout methodologies employed to ensure success.

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
John DeMeo, Cree, Inc.
Yvonne Brazil, Okta, Inc.
Tricia Walters, Prudential Financial, Inc.

CE Credit: CPE, W@W

Tuesday
May 12, 2020Wednesday
May 13, 2020Thursday
May 14, 2020Friday
May 15, 2020

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 10:15am

Hands-On Labs

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online® Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions new users often have and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Expense Forecasting Reports

This session will show attendees how to use the new Expense Forecasting module and report in Equity Edge Online® (EEO). During this session, you will learn how to view multiple periods of net current period expense for options and awards within a single report, even including account-level or grant-level user-defined field (UDF), if desired. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to quickly create hypothetical grants to predict the expense in future periods and run comparison views for expense variance analysis. You will also see how to lock down actual and forecasted expense information so it can be referenced later. We are also excited to give you a first look at the new Expense Estimation report functionality targeted for launch in late May 2020.

Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Global Tax Processing for US and Non-US Participants

Over the past few years, there has been a considerable increase in jurisdictions that impose taxes on individuals that spend time (regardless of length) working within that jurisdiction. As a result, mobility tracking has been a tremendous source of stress and headache for even the most experienced stock plan administration teams. In response to client demand, Equity Edge Online® (EEO) offers robust functionality to address your mobility tracking needs. This session provides a comprehensive overview of the tools available within EEO.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
ESPP Purchase Processing with Share Witholding

Join us to learn some of the best practices for ESPP processing within Equity Edge Online® (EEO)). This session provides a comprehensive overview of the steps necessary to process and reconcile purchases using EEO reports. We understand the power of a seamless ESPP administration process, and the tips and tricks learned in this session will help your team achieve this goal. Bonus content! We will also review the new ESPP share withholding functionality that can alleviate the impact of tax withholding on participant paychecks.

Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Melissa Callender, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Data Automation and API Integration

This hands-on lab will give you experience with planning and connecting your peripheral systems to E*TRADE Corporate Services tools. We will discuss approaches for transmitting data through flat files and application programming interfaces (APIs) and lead you through hands-on examples of setting up flat file integration as it relates to Equity Edge Online® and the Client Resource Center, including scheduling data reporting from those systems to other peripheral systems or business partners. For client issuers using Workday, come prepared to see how our API integration (the only of its kind in the industry) can bring immediate results. You will leave this session knowing how to identify the best approach for your integration needs, as well as how to set it all up!

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Andrew Barrus, E*TRADE Corporate Services

10:30am – 11:45am

Hands-On Labs

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online® Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions new users often have and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Performance Awards from A-Z

With a changing economic environment and a growing focus on corporate accountability, performance-based grants have become an increasingly popular form of equity compensation. Designing performance-based compensation programs can be a complex process that creates administrative challenges. Join us for this hands-on session, where we walk through the setup of performance awards, goal record management, metrics tracking, reporting, and expensing considerations in Equity Edge Online® (EEO), as well as the impact setup will have on various reports.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
ESPP Enrollment

Over the last few years, the Client Resource Center has been updated with rich functionality to help clients self-administer their ESPP enrollment and offering cycles. Navigating and understanding the setup screens is critical to your plan administration and your participants’ experience. In this session, we demonstrate the step-by-step process of setting up a new plan so you can learn how to maximize the functionality.

Thomas Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
10b5-1 Online Automation

E*TRADE’s online 10b5-1 automation tool has been bringing success to companies since its launch a year ago. Are you using it? In the past, companies had to balance the benefits of 10b5-1 plans with manually administering and tracking them. In this hands-on lab, we will show you how to use automation tools to easily implement 10b5-1 trading plans to save time and reduce paperwork. During this session, you will learn how to create and submit trading plans for review online, as well as how to make updates to rejected plans. Further, we will cover how you can view and track plan statuses on etrade.com and receive automated alerts for important plan-related events.

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jeff Hilton, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Global Tax Processing for US and Non-US Participants

Over the past few years, there has been a considerable increase in jurisdictions that impose taxes on individuals that spend time (regardless of length) working within that jurisdiction. As a result, mobility tracking has been a tremendous source of stress and headache for even the most experienced stock plan administration teams. In response to client demand, Equity Edge Online® (EEO) offers robust functionality to address your mobility tracking needs. This session provides a comprehensive overview of the tools available within EEO.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

11:45am – 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Hands-On Labs

HANDS-ON LAB
Performance Awards from A-Z

With a changing economic environment and a growing focus on corporate accountability, performance-based grants have become an increasingly popular form of equity compensation. Designing performance-based compensation programs can be a complex process that creates administrative challenges. Join us for this hands-on session, where we walk through the setup of performance awards, goal record management, metrics tracking, reporting, and expensing considerations in Equity Edge Online® (EEO), as well as the impact setup will have on various reports.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Retirement Eligibility Reporting and Processing

E*TRADE has made more updates to the Retirement Eligibility (RE) module, which supports creating new RE rules that can be applied to grants and also allows users to create RE tax transactions in the system. The system now allows you to flag individuals as retirement eligible based on age, tenure, and the amount of time a grant has been outstanding. You can also create a tax collection record to compute how much of the applicable RE taxes are due at an RE event and then collect those taxes as shares that are withheld from a future release. Further, we will review how you can update financial reporting to automate expense to the RE date and automatically remove RE grants from the Weighted Awards Outstanding (WAO) report upon an RE event.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Fundamental Reporting Tips & Tricks - Report Customization & Bursting

This hands-on lab will help you take your Equity Edge Online® (EEO) reporting to the next level. This session provides an overview of ways that you can leverage report automation, advanced filtering, user-defined fields, report views, and automated data exports. You will learn about shortcuts, report formatting, dynamic scheduling, and myriad of other tools to help you save time and reduce risk. This session will also provide a brief overview of new reports that have become available and will highlight the basics of the EEO Report Wizard, which will be covered in even greater detail during our “Advanced report customization and bursting” hands-on lab.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Data Automation and API Integration

This hands-on lab will give you experience with planning and connecting your peripheral systems to E*TRADE Corporate Services tools. We will discuss approaches for transmitting data through flat files and application programming interfaces (APIs) and lead you through hands-on examples of setting up flat file integration as it relates to Equity Edge Online® and the Client Resource Center, including scheduling data reporting from those systems to other peripheral systems or business partners. For client issuers using Workday, come prepared to see how our API integration (the only of its kind in the industry) can bring immediate results. You will leave this session knowing how to identify the best approach for your integration needs, as well as how to set it all up!

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Andrew Barrus, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Supporting Your Stock Plan Participant Questions

As a stock plan administrator, have you ever experienced challenges addressing participant inquiries related to equity compensation benefits or etrade.com? Join us for a demonstration of the Client Resource Center as we discuss the tools that are available to assist you in communicating with your participants—tools such as user-defined fields, participant prompts, the Participant Communication Center, and Participant View. We will also walk through some of the new Knowledge Center videos and tax information available on etrade.com.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jeff Hilton, E*TRADE Corporate Services

2:15pm – 3:30pm

Hands-On Labs

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online® Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions new users often have and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) Reporting

Use our new report functionality within Equity Edge Online® to simplify your Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) reporting process. The report combines all relevant data obtained from the Expense Allocation Recognition, Tax Benefit Reconciliation, and Valuation Disclosure Recap reports into a single pivoted workpaper with three summary and multiple detailed views for tax accountants and auditors alike. In this session, we will review how to run the DTA report, discuss the “summary” and “detailed report” views, and show how they tie to other reports previously presented to your tax departments. We will also cover the straight-line expense accrual with relief using the ratable approach, and you will learn how to add participant mobility to track DTA for multiple tax jurisdictions and countries.

Scott Wallace, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Global Tax Processing for US and Non-US Participants

Over the past few years, there has been a considerable increase in jurisdictions that impose taxes on individuals that spend time (regardless of length) working within that jurisdiction. As a result, mobility tracking has been a tremendous source of stress and headache for even the most experienced stock plan administration teams. In response to client demand, Equity Edge Online® (EEO) offers robust functionality to address your mobility tracking needs. This session provides a comprehensive overview of the tools available within EEO.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Advanced Report Customization & Bursting

Currently, there are more than 200 out-of-the box reports available in Equity Edge Online® (EEO). Even so, sometimes your plan requirements may demand customization. The EEO Report Wizard is a powerful tool that enables you to construct almost any type of report using data in the system. This advanced session goes beyond the details covered in our “Fundamental reporting tips & tricks” hands-on lab, providing an advanced overview of EEO’s reporting functionality (including designing your own report). You will learn how to avoid common pitfalls while ultimately producing an output that meets the specifications of your administration and reporting processes and needs.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Performance Awards from A-Z

With a changing economic environment and a growing focus on corporate accountability, performance-based grants have become an increasingly popular form of equity compensation. Designing performance-based compensation programs can be a complex process that creates administrative challenges. Join us for this hands-on session, where we walk through the setup of performance awards, goal record management, metrics tracking, reporting, and expensing considerations in Equity Edge Online® (EEO), as well as the impact setup will have on various reports.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Hands-On Labs

HANDS-ON LAB
10b5-1 Online Automation

E*TRADE’s online 10b5-1 automation tool has been bringing success to companies since its launch a year ago. Are you using it? In the past, companies had to balance the benefits of 10b5-1 plans with manually administering and tracking them. In this hands-on lab, we will show you how to use automation tools to easily implement 10b5-1 trading plans to save time and reduce paperwork. During this session, you will learn how to create and submit trading plans for review online, as well as how to make updates to rejected plans. Further, we will cover how you can view and track plan statuses on etrade.com and receive automated alerts for important plan-related events.

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jeff Hilton, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Supporting Your Stock Plan Participant Questions

As a stock plan administrator, have you ever experienced challenges addressing participant inquiries related to equity compensation benefits or etrade.com? Join us for a demonstration of the Client Resource Center as we discuss the tools that are available to assist you in communicating with your participants—tools such as user-defined fields, participant prompts, the Participant Communication Center, and Participant View. We will also walk through some of the new Knowledge Center videos and tax information available on etrade.com.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Ralph Balzano, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
ESPP Purchase Processing with Share Witholding

Join us to learn some of the best practices for ESPP processing within Equity Edge Online® (EEO)). This session provides a comprehensive overview of the steps necessary to process and reconcile purchases using EEO reports. We understand the power of a seamless ESPP administration process, and the tips and tricks learned in this session will help your team achieve this goal. Bonus content! We will also review the new ESPP share withholding functionality that can alleviate the impact of tax withholding on participant paychecks.

Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Melissa Callender, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Expense Forecasting Reports

This session will show attendees how to use the new Expense Forecasting module and report in Equity Edge Online® (EEO). During this session, you will learn how to view multiple periods of net current period expense for options and awards within a single report, even including account-level or grant-level user-defined field (UDF), if desired. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to quickly create hypothetical grants to predict the expense in future periods and run comparison views for expense variance analysis. You will also see how to lock down actual and forecasted expense information so it can be referenced later. We are also excited to give you a first look at the new Expense Estimation report functionality targeted for launch in late May 2020.

Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Processing Restricted Stock Releases and Dividends

In this session, we take a deep dive into the steps necessary to process restricted stock award releases and dividends. In addition, we cover some best practices for using Equity Edge Online® (EEO) to manage your mobile population, reconciling information with EEO reports, using the Exchange Manager files related to restricted award releases, and resolving errors that may arise along the way.

Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Chris Balzano, E*TRADE Corporate Services

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Dine-arounds

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 10:25am

Welcome & Keynote

10:25am – 10:45am

Networking Break

10:45am – 11:45am

Roundtables

In our thought provoking and highly engaging roundtables, an E*TRADE associate will introduce a topic and warm up the group by asking a few questions. After that, we hand it over to you to share learnings and discuss best practices with your peers. We love hearing the war stories, so don’t be shy! Please come prepared to engage, ask questions, and share your ideas and perspectives based on your experiences. Chill out and enjoy the discussions. (This session does not qualify for any credits.)

Performance Awards and Participant Transparency

 Kimberly Lekse & Brandon Ballif

Termination and Rehire Processing

Jasmine Goss & Emily Bone

Participant Education

Michael Palermo & Greg Mitchell

Restricted Stock Releases

James Tozer & Andrew Barrus

Online Trade Pre-Clearance Automation

Taylor Jones & Chris Balzano

Executive Services Offering

Kevin Meyersburg & Ralph Balzano

Retirement Eligibility

Manish Patel & Scott Harrison

Expensing Awards

Fay Ann Sherris & Stephanie Aronesty

SOC Reporting: Overview, Trends and Case Study

Bev Lowe, Akua Amoah Boateng, Aisha Rahman

10b5-1 Online Automation

Heather Martin & Jeremy Burns

Global Tax Mobility

Keith Pietrzak & Richmond Carter

Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) and Forecasting

Scott Wallace and Joel Ramsey

Workday API

Steve Dickstein & Michelle May

ESPP Purchase Tips and Tricks

Tom Bahn & Daniel Losito

ESPP Communications

Jeff Hilton & James Wulforst

Mergers and Acquisitions

Melanie Parsons, Anne Hajigeorgiou,  Barbara Waters

Financial Wellness

TJ Donovan & Empower

11:45am – 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Workshops / Hands-On Labs

ADMINISTRATION
5 Design Decisions to Aid in Employee Retentions

The intent of employee equity for most companies is to attract and retain key employees. Do you have a good understanding of how plan design choices impact the mindset of the employee? We will walk through two case studies of how companies have structured their equity vehicles and successfully enhanced employee motivation and retention. During this session, you can expect to come away with five design considerations for your long-term incentive mix that can help achieve employee motivation and satisfaction goals.

Michael Palermo, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jillian Forusz, Adobe Systems Inc.
Kate Hall, Aon Equity Services
Jocelyn Finn, Progress Software Corporation

ADMINISTRATION
Tricky Tax Traps and How to Avoid Them

When it comes to complying with tax withholding and reporting requirements for equity award income, it is easy to take a wrong turn. This panel of experienced practitioners will provide you with both the advisor and issuer perspective and help guide you through a host of withholding and reporting pitfalls. Our presenters will give you practical tips for how to stay on the right track. The topics will include:

  1. The latest tax withholding/reporting changes and enforcement trends impacting equity compensation globally
  2. The pros and cons of different withholding methods, broken down by equity award type (e.g., RSUs vs. ESPP)
  3. Keeping up with changes to withholding/reporting obligations, as well as rates
  4. Setting appropriate withholding rates depending on your employee population
  5. Dealing with special challenges (e.g., tax withholding and China SAFE, working with Israeli trustees, etc.)

Barbara Gunnufson, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Suhani Akhare, Anaplan, Inc.
Barbara Klementz, Baker & McKenzie, LLP
Mike Browning, Equinix, Inc.

REPORTING
Simplifying Performance Awards

Intimidated by performance awards? This panel discussion will cover a variety of accounting issues that may arise with performance awards. Learn how to successfully navigate these issues, along with collaboration tactics to avoid design flaws, unrealistic goals, and challenges with disclosures. Topics include awards with multiple grant dates, overlapping service periods, unique fair value situations, how contingently issuable shares are determined for EPS purposes, and more. We’ll also explore award design tips to help balance the cost of the equity to the company and participants with the perceived value.

Fay Ann Sherris, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Abha Bhandair, Brown & Brown, Inc.
William Murphy,Ernst & Young
Nathan O’Connor, Equity Methods LLC

ADMINISTRATION*
Have It Your Way: Equity Edge Online® Automation with Flat Files and APIs

Are you thinking of ways to streamline your processes and make your day-to-day life more efficient? Understanding how Equity Edge Online® (EEO) can interface with different third-party HRIS and payroll systems is a great starting point. EEO is so robust that it can handle standard flat files, but now it can also integrate with APIs, including Workday. Join us for a panel session where you will gain insight and hear experiences from current EEO clients who have gone through large-scale system migrations and leveraged both flat files and APIs to help optimize the overall equity experience. The session will not only focus on how to gain efficiencies through the use of inbound and outbound file automation, but also discuss the testing and rollout methodologies employed to ensure success.

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
John DeMeo, Cree, Inc.
Yvonne Brazil, Okta, Inc.
Tricia Walters, Prudential Financial, Inc.

HANDS-ON LAB
Performance Awards A-Z

With a changing economic environment and a growing focus on corporate accountability, performance-based grants have become an increasingly popular form of equity compensation. Designing performance-based compensation programs can be a complex process that creates administrative challenges. Join us for this hands-on session, where we walk through the setup of performance awards, goal record management, metrics tracking, reporting, and expensing considerations in Equity Edge Online® (EEO), as well as the impact setup will have on various reports.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Global Tax Processing for US and Non-US Participants

Over the past few years, there has been a considerable increase in jurisdictions that impose taxes on individuals that spend time (regardless of length) working within that jurisdiction. As a result, mobility tracking has been a tremendous source of stress and headache for even the most experienced stock plan administration teams. In response to client demand, Equity Edge Online® (EEO) offers robust functionality to address your mobility tracking needs. This session provides a comprehensive overview of the tools available within EEO.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) Reporting

Use this report functionality within Equity Edge Online® to simplify your Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) reporting process. The report combines all relevant data obtained from the Expense Allocation Recognition, Tax Benefit Reconciliation, and Valuation Disclosure Recap reports into a single pivoted workpaper with three summary and multiple detailed views for tax accountants and auditors alike. In this session, we will review how to run the DTA report, discuss the “summary” and “detailed report” views, and show how they tie to other reports previously presented to your tax departments. We will also cover the straight-line expense accrual with relief using the ratable approach, and you will learn how to add participant mobility to track DTA for multiple tax jurisdictions and countries.

Scott Wallace, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online® Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions from new users and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
Online Trade Pre-Clearance Automation

Trade clearance historically has been a manual and often lengthy process that may have required several calls and emails between compliance, legal, and E*TRADE representatives for approval. Meanwhile, clearing trades for some of your top executives can be an up-to-the-minute, high- demand process in which time is of the essence. To help streamline this process, reduce risk, and increase speed and communication, we designed and launched a groundbreaking new online pre-clearance automation solution. Now, through a few simple online steps, the stock plan administration team can set up clearance online, and participants can receive email alerts and see trading windows open in their E*TRADE account. Join us in this session to see the powerful new process in action.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services

2:15pm – 3:30pm

Workshops / Hands-On Labs

ADMINISTRATION
Equity Compensation Trends: LTIP Design under Changing Environments

2020 has seen the arrival of major changes in equity compensation design. Amid a backdrop of increased pressure to attend to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations in equity compensation design, companies now also need to be aware of new changes to the ISS quantitative pay-for-performance screens for this year, primarily surrounding the incorporation of economic value-added (EVA) metrics. In this interactive panel discussion, we’ll examine in-depth current trends in granting practices and incentive design to help you understand how your company stacks up against industries and trends in the market while also providing you with tips and best practices on how to manage the competing forces at play in the executive compensation landscape this year.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Shane Carroll, Equilar Inc
William Miller, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Nathan O’Connor, Equity Methods, LLC
Ryan Weaver, Incyte Corporation

ADMINISTRATION
Don’t Discount a Match: Thoughts on Matching Share ESPPs

Are you attracting, retaining, and motivating your employees through the benefits of share ownership? It is widely known that an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) can be a valuable component of a company’s benefits offering. The predominant practice is to offer a plan that qualifies for preferential tax treatment under IRS section 423, but is that the right plan type for your company? Nonqualified ESPPs offer many of the same benefits with more flexibility and fewer administrative requirements. With companies using equity compensation to retain and motivate talent, a matching shares program can be a compelling ESPP design. Hear from our panelists about how employees benefit from nonqualified ESPP programs, including plans that offer a share match in lieu of a discount.

Melissa Callender, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Christen Siscoe, Caterpillar Inc
Jason Weakland, Capital One Financial
Jon Burg, Infinite Equity

ADMINISTRATION
Stock Administration: The Next Generation

It’s star date 2020.513, and while we’re still waiting for the flying cars we were promised by Hollywood, the world of equity compensation and stock administration has been transformed by technological innovations and the increasing demands placed on issuers by regulatory agencies and employees alike. This session centers around the evolution of equity administration and the role of corporate issuer teams. In this session, our panel of experts will share their views on the leading practices in equity compensation on topics ranging from automation to tax compliance to employee education. They will discuss how they have transformed the corporate issuer administration role from an equity compensation expert executing everything to a program manager that manages vendors, technology, and operational teams to meet their plan requirements. Please come ready with your questions!

Aaron Oberg, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Joseph Machewirth, Prudential Financial Inc
Sharon Orlando, Workday Inc
Jewon Wee, ISP Advisors

ADMINISTRATION
Survey Says: Key Trends in the Design and the Usage of Equity Compensation

Have your equity plans and practices kept pace with current trends? Find out, as this session examines the results of the NASPP and Deloitte Consulting 2019 Domestic Stock Plan Design Survey. Published since 1996, this is one of the industry’s most comprehensive surveys on stock plan design, and it includes data that is not available from any other source. We will highlight the survey results and compare the latest results to past surveys to illustrate growing trends.

The many topics our session will cover include:

  • Trends in the usage of full value awards vs. stock options and service-based vs. performance-based awards
  • Grant practices for all employee levels
  • Current practices with respect to retirement, including how companies define retirement and how awards are paid out to retirees
  • Trends in key award features, including vesting provisions, payment of dividends, and termination provisions
  • The evolution of performance awards, including prevalence data on TSR and other performance metrics
  • The latest in grant policies and practices, including grant approval, overhang/burn rates, CIC provisions, and fungible share reserves

Kimberly Lekse, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Barbara Baksa, NASPP
Stacey Fox, Salesforce.com Inc
Lydia Terrill, Vocera Communications Inc

HANDS-ON LAB
Data Automation and API Integration

This hands-on lab will give you experience with planning and connecting your peripheral systems to E*TRADE Corporate Services tools. We will discuss approaches for transmitting data through flat files and application programming interfaces (APIs) and lead you through hands-on examples of setting up flat file integration as it relates to Equity Edge Online® and the Client Resource Center, including scheduling data reporting from those systems to other peripheral systems or business partners. For client issuers using Workday, come prepared to see how our API integration (the only of its kind in the industry) can bring immediate results. You will leave this session knowing how to identify the best approach for your integration needs, as well as how to set it all up!

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Andrew Barrus, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
10b5-1 Online Automation

In our thought-provoking and highly engaging roundtables, an E*TRADE associate will introduce a topic and warm up the group by asking a few questions. After that, we hand it over to you to share learnings and discuss best practices with your peers. We love hearing where you learned, failed, or succeeded, so don’t be shy! Please come prepared to engage, ask questions, and share your ideas and perspectives based on your experiences. Grab a chair, kick back those cowboy boots and y’all enjoy the discussions. (This session does not qualify for any credits.)

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jeff Hilton, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Expense Forecasting Reports

This session will show attendees how to use the new Expense Forecasting module and report in Equity Edge Online® (EEO). During this session, you will learn how to view multiple periods of net current period expense for options and awards within a single report, even including account-level or grant-level user-defined field (UDF), if desired. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to quickly create hypothetical grants to predict the expense in future periods and run comparison views for expense variance analysis. You will also see how to lock down actual and forecasted expense information so it can be referenced later. We are also excited to give you a first look at the new Expense Estimation report functionality targeted for launch in late May 2020.

Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Processing Restricted Stock Releases and Dividends

In this session, we take a deep dive into the steps necessary to process restricted stock award releases and dividends. In addition, we cover some best practices for using Equity Edge Online® (EEO) to manage your mobile population, reconciling information with EEO reports, using the Exchange Manager files related to restricted award releases, and resolving errors that may arise along the way.

Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
Empower

During this session, learn about the current and future stock plan and 401(k) integration and service strategy of E*TRADE Corporate Services and Empower. Currently, ETCS has the ability to share stock plan balances on a daily basis with Empower, which allows employees to view their E*TRADE stock plan balances along with their retirement holdings via a single login to their Empower account overview. Additionally, we are working on developing ways to increase the connectivity of the service experience for both participants and employers. Join us to learn more about this team of two powerhouses joining forces.

Casey Craig
Empower Retirement

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Workshops

PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
Analytics Driving Action for Age Groups

Gen Z, Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers, oh my! Different participant age groups may require different strategies for effective communication and education. Join us to understand how we leverage analytics to gain greater insight into behavioral, preferential, and engagement differences between the generations. Learn how you can use analytics to help drive behavior and actionable goals for your participants.

Greg Mitchell, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Rajiv Gosine, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Lori Serrano, Intuitive Surgical Inc
Aaron Beckman, Tesla Motors, Inc

ADMINISTRATION
Mobility 2.0 - Mobile Employee Taxation Advanced Topics

So you think you’ve got mobile employee equity taxation figured out? Are you sure?
No equity conference would be complete without a discussion (or three) about global tax mobility. If you are tired of hearing the same mobility discussion for the tenth time, this session is for you. Rather than rehashing the basics, we will focus our time on some of the more advanced taxation and data challenges that can catch the unwary practitioner by surprise.
This team of seasoned experts will discuss some of the common, but sometimes surprising, issues they have encountered after sourcing solutions for mobile employee equity taxation, along with practical recommendations on how to manage them. Discussion topics will include tax equalization, tax qualified plans, major countries with unusual or surprising sourcing rules, pre-grant vesting commencement, payroll functional requirements, and more. If you deal with mobility, you won’t want to miss this session!

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Wendy Spears, Adobe Systems Inc
Jewon Wee, ISP Advisors
Gemma Ludwig, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

ADMINISTRATION
Singing the Equity Automation Tune!

Just like the perfect harmony of country music, having technology sing your automation song helps you and your team run your program more efficiently. Join our experienced panel in share administration, global taxation, mobility, and the corporate issuer to discuss HR set-up, grant to tax settlement, and payroll and finance. You will see how HR and payroll APIs can interface with a cloud service provider, and how commercial interfaces with tax providers drive automation to new heights.

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jennifer Link, KPMG LLP
Rose Hoffman, PayPal Holdings Inc

REPORTING
The Top Financial Reporting Hits

Need a quick refresh on all that Equity Edge Online® (EEO) can offer when it comes to financial reporting? Want to get the download on all the more recent functionality? This panel will highlight the basics, as well as more advanced EEO functionality that can add efficiency to your finance organization—from leveraging the corporate tax rate table to business combination accounting and forecasting. We will give you practical use cases to implement EEO functionality and add efficiencies to your organization.

Fay Ann Sherris, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Stephanie Aronesty, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Amanda Benincasa, Aon Equity Services
Bryce Roberts, IHS Markit Ltd

HANDS-ON LAB
Fundamental Reporting Tips & Tricks - Report Customization & Bursting

This hands-on lab will help you take your Equity Edge Online® (EEO) reporting to the next level. This session provides an overview of ways that you can leverage report automation, advanced filtering, user-defined fields, report views, and automated data exports. You will learn about shortcuts, report formatting, dynamic scheduling, and myriad of other tools to help you save time and reduce risk. This session will also provide a brief overview of new reports that have become available and will highlight the basics of the EEO Report Wizard, which will be covered in even greater detail during our “Advanced report customization and bursting” hands-on lab.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Retirement Eligibility Reporting and Processing

E*TRADE has made more updates to the Retirement Eligibility (RE) module, which supports creating new RE rules that can be applied to grants and also allows users to create RE tax transactions in the system. The system now allows you to flag individuals as retirement eligible based on age, tenure, and the amount of time a grant has been outstanding. You can also create a tax collection record to compute how much of the applicable RE taxes are due at an RE event and then collect those taxes as shares that are withheld from a future release. Further, we will review how you can update financial reporting to automate expense to the RE date and automatically remove RE grants from the Weighted Awards Outstanding (WAO) report upon an RE event.

Manish Patel, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
SOC Reporting: Overview, Trends and Case Study

The concepts covered in this session are referred to as service organization control (SOC) reports. Organizations that utilize outsourced providers should understand the various types and intended use of SOC reports, their implication on a company’s financial reporting process, the role of AICPA standards, and recent trends.

Bevely Lowe, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Akua Amoah Boateng, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Aisha Rahman, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Welcome Reception: Waterfall Lawn

Thursday, May 14, 2020

8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 10:30am

Keynote Session

10:30am – 11:00am

Networking Break

11:00am – 12:15pm

Workshops / Hands-On Labs

REPORTING
Navigating the Share Request Proposal Process

The share request process is as complex as ever, with investors and proxy advisors weighing in with different standards and expectations. This panel focuses on how corporate issuers can sort through all of these standards to obtain support for the shares pools, and flexible plans that best allow them to execute on meaningful human capital management strategies. We will provide a proven approach for managing the share request process and avoiding equity plan pitfalls with a real-life case study.

Andrea Reaves, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Laura Wanlass, Aon Equity Services
Pam Greene, Aon Equity Services
Garrett Winslow, Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals

PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
Employee Engagement and Wellness Programs That Help Your Employees Thrive

Designing and delivering a well-rounded benefits program that helps employees with life planning, savings and investing is key to a company’s culture and prosperity. Equity compensation is one critical component of a company’s overall financial wellness program, but have you put all of the pieces in place to meet all of your company’s demographic and help your employees thrive?

Jonathan Brooks, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Casey Craig, Empower Retirement
TJ Donovan, Gradifi
Rose Hoffman, PayPal Inc

ADMINISTRATION
The Twists and Turns of Termination

Most terminations are straightforward, right? You enter them, or better yet, import them into Equity Edge Online® (EEO), and the terminated employee cancels the grants they should cancel and leaves any options outstanding for the requisite three months. But what about the corner cases? Late-reported terminations can throw a wrench into everything from expense reporting to your roll-forward to possibly having to bust an exercise . Retirements and retirement eligibility pose other challenges, also impacting expense and causing tax collection headaches. Executive terminations that involve accelerations or extensions of time to exercise may also involve accounting calculations and entering those changes into the system in a way that gets the vesting and expense right. CICs and RIFs can bring an entirely different set of challenges. This expert panel will walk through examples of each twist and turn in your terminations, explore the correct impact, and show off the features of EEO that allow you to handle these troubling terms with grace and ease.

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Sorrell Johnson, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)
Elizabeth Dodge, Equity Plan Solutions
Lydia Terrill, Vocera Communications Inc

REPORTING
Auditors Anonymous: What Stock Plan Administrators Need to Know

Demystify your annual audit process by learning what happens behind the scenes after you make a data request and forward documents. You’ll also gain insights into audit practices and objectives for stock compensation that are sure to make your life easier next audit season. The panel will include financial reporting and stock plan administration tips, and valuation professionals (all recovering auditors) will share their experiences.

Stephanie Aronesty, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Janette Werden, ACCO Brand Inc
Daniel Coleman, Infinite Equity
Robin Schroeder, Marathon Petroleum Company

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online® Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions new users often have and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Introduction to Financial Reporting & Period Close

Equity Edge Online® (EEO) has a robust financial reporting engine with more than 200 out-of-the-box reports. How well do you know which tools and reports are available to you and the ways in which you can use them to help optimize your financial reporting process? EEO beginners—and even EEO veterans—are encouraged to join this hands-on session where we outline the primary exports useful for ASC 718 and ASC 260 financial reporting. Users are exposed to a host of common reports and may even uncover new ideas they can use to help add efficiency to their current process. We will also cover the period close functionality within EEO, which is a tool available for locking down administration data that will be used in periodic reporting while also helping reconcile audit changes as they occur.

Scott Wallace, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Processing Restricted Stock Releases and Dividends

In this session, we take a deep dive into the steps necessary to process restricted stock award releases and dividends. In addition, we cover some best practices for using Equity Edge Online® (EEO) to manage your mobile population, reconciling information with EEO reports, using the Exchange Manager files related to restricted award releases, and resolving errors that may arise along the way.

Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
Innovator Award Session

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Greg Mitchell, E*TRADE Corporate Services
John Ansah, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
Excel for Equity Administration

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Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Barbara Gunnufson, E*TRADE Corporate Services

12:15pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:45pm

Workshops / Hands-On Labs

ADMINISTRATION
Change Management to new Product Adoption….18 Months later

This session will cover the culture of partnership attested by Intel and Rubrik, who successfully transitioned to E*TRADE ESPPs. This presentation will provide the key elements to successful change management and Equity Edge Online® product adoption, which drives efficiency and automation. The panelists will cover how they devised an engaging employee and administrative plan as they moved onto a new platform. Our panelist will also discuss what works in terms of continuing a successful working relationship and delivery results 18 months later…

Chris Balzano, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Dayana Abreu, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Emily Turner, Intel Corporation
John Lowery, Intel Corporation
Haleh Carillo, Rubrik Inc

ADMINISTRATION
Performance Metrics in Four Dimensions

Performance metrics continue to be one of the most vexing challenges of the compensation process. Quit banging your head on the wide array of uses in the marketplace. The panelists will walk you through one-dimensional metrics all the way to four-dimensional metrics, and the wide spectrum in between. Each dimension brings new levels of challenges, and this session will clarify the types of metrics that should be chosen for different job levels. Our panelists will illustrate empirical data currently used for goal setting, and discuss where the future of performance shares will meet the future of total rewards.

Robert Slaughter, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Matthew Goforth, ESG
Terry Adamson, Independent Consultant
Sonia Guillory, Palo Alto Networks Inc

PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
Creative Communication and Education for Participants!

The 2019 E*TRADE annual participant survey found that just over half of participants (53%) understand how their stock plan benefits work. Effective communication and education programs can help increase this percentage at your company, but what other tools like emails, videos, guides, posters, desktops are you using to achieve goals? What will help your employees see the value in what you are granting them? During this session we will discuss various communication and education methods for reaching your participants, with case studies from clients who have seen success.

Greg Mitchell, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Rajiv Gosine, E*TRADE Financial Corporation
Kimberly Hodgdon, Netflix Inc
Steve Dean, Splunk Inc

REPORTING
Key Equity Accounting Topic: Forecasting & DTA Reporting

Our panel of industry equity experts will help you prepare to handle two of the most challenging aspects of stock-based compensation accounting: Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) reporting and stock-based compensation forecasting. The session will covered these two topics in depth. The panel will also discuss best-practice tips on how to successfully navigate the pitfalls related to these tasks, determine the correct data, and ultimately deliver best-in-class reporting to your stakeholders.

Scott Wallace, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Bryan Clark, Activision Blizzard
Bryce Roberts, IHS Markit Ltd.
Robert Purser, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

HANDS-ON LAB
Advanced Report Customization & Bursting

Currently, there are more than 200 out-of-the box reports available in Equity Edge Online® (EEO). Even so, sometimes your plan requirements may demand customization. The EEO Report Wizard is a powerful tool that enables you to construct almost any type of report using data in the system. This advanced session goes beyond the details covered in our “Fundamental reporting tips & tricks” hands-on lab, providing an advanced overview of EEO’s reporting functionality (including designing your own report). You will learn how to avoid common pitfalls while ultimately producing an output that meets the specifications of your administration and reporting processes and needs.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
10b5-1 Online Automation

In our thought-provoking and highly engaging roundtables, an E*TRADE associate will introduce a topic and warm up the group by asking a few questions. After that, we hand it over to you to share learnings and discuss best practices with your peers. We love hearing where you learned, failed, or succeeded, so don’t be shy! Please come prepared to engage, ask questions, and share your ideas and perspectives based on your experiences. Grab a chair, kick back those cowboy boots and y’all enjoy the discussions. (This session does not qualify for any credits.)

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jeff Hilton, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Expense Forecasting Reports

This session will show attendees how to use the new Expense Forecasting module and report in Equity Edge Online® (EEO). During this session, you will learn how to view multiple periods of net current period expense for options and awards within a single report, even including account-level or grant-level user-defined field (UDF), if desired. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to quickly create hypothetical grants to predict the expense in future periods and run comparison views for expense variance analysis. You will also see how to lock down actual and forecasted expense information so it can be referenced later. We are also excited to give you a first look at the new Expense Estimation report functionality targeted for launch in late May 2020.

Joel Ramsey, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Data Automation and API Integration

This hands-on lab will give you experience with planning and connecting your peripheral systems to E*TRADE Corporate Services tools. We will discuss approaches for transmitting data through flat files and application programming interfaces (APIs) and lead you through hands-on examples of setting up flat file integration as it relates to Equity Edge Online® and the Client Resource Center, including scheduling data reporting from those systems to other peripheral systems or business partners. For client issuers using Workday, come prepared to see how our API integration (the only of its kind in the industry) can bring immediate results. You will leave this session knowing how to identify the best approach for your integration needs, as well as how to set it all up!

Steve Dickstein, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Andrew Barrus, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
Gradifi powered by E*TRADE

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TJ Donovan
E*TRADE Corporate Services

2:45pm – 3:15pm

Networking Break

3:15pm – 4:30pm

Workshops / Hands-On Labs

ADMINISTRATION
Hot Topics in Equity Compensation for 2020

Spicy chicken can be really hot in Nashville but join us for this session to learn about the hottest topics in equity compensation. The panelists will add some spice to key topics that equity compensation professionals should be aware of as they approach equity compensation plan strategies for 2020.

During this session, attendees will feel the heat on stock hedging policy disclosures and developments, performance metrics, stock plan litigation, new claw-back rules, proxy firm updates, gender pay equity and human capital management, new SEC rules on proxy advisory firms, accounting updates, ESPP loan programs, and cybersecurity.

Aaron Oberg, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Arthur Meyers, Gunster
Takis Makridis, Equity Methods
Michael Melbinger, Winston & Strawn

PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
10b5-1 Plans Come in All Shapes and Sizes

10b5-1 plans can be an attractive way for companies to set up trading plans for their executives and participants. During this session, we will discuss best-practice approaches for how to implement a 10b5-1 plan using E*TRADE’s automated 10b5-1 platform. Panelists will also provide an overview of the SEC rules regarding 10b5-1 plans and their applicability to equity compensation. The session will showcase two issuers who are currently using E*TRADE’s automated platform, highlighting efficiency gains and time savings.

Jeremy Burns, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Pamela Greene, Aon Equity Services
Kimberly Intrieri, Boston Scientific Corporation
Fernando Delmendo, Intel Corporation
Lindsay Levine, Wave Life Sciences Ltd.

PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
Boost ESPP Purchase Power Through Cashless Participation

The future of ESPPs is now! Join our panel to learn about a new innovative technology that enables participants to purchase ESPP shares with limited payroll deductions. During this session, we will walk through the intuitive employee enrollment experience to see how participating employees can potentially own more shares than they would otherwise, while maintaining paycheck impacts. With more and more global companies focused on attracting and retaining top talent around the world, this new vehicle is certainly one that can help achieve benefit plan goals for most demographics. We will also review the financial reporting impacts and administrative workflow for managing this process from start to finish.

Rajiv Gosine, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Aaron Shapiro, Carver Edison
Liz Stoudt, Infinite Equity

ADMINISTRATION
Dancing with the SPAs: An Expert Panel Instructs on the Best Ways to Structure Your Equity Department

In this interactive session, a panel of client issuers and industry consultant discuss the various ways they waltz and tango with many partners to make their stock plans successful for all stakeholders. During this session, our experts will share proven solutions for supporting challenging administrative tasks like grant processing, grant agreements, real-time database updates, open ESPP enrollment, financial reporting, insiders, payroll, and staffing—consider this the smorgasbord of best practices! Attendees will leave with key insights for how to optimize their day-to-day tasks. Audience participation will add to the learning and fun!

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Kristi Barker, Coupa Software Inc
Mike Hom, Gilead Sciences Inc
Kathryn Randall, Opendoor Labs Inc
Laura Kreman, Qualcomm Incorporated
Henley Hom, Stock and Option Solutions

HANDS-ON LAB
Processing Restricted Stock Releases and Dividends

In this session, we take a deep dive into the steps necessary to process restricted stock award releases and dividends. In addition, we cover some best practices for using Equity Edge Online® (EEO) to manage your mobile population, reconciling information with EEO reports, using the Exchange Manager files related to restricted award releases, and resolving errors that may arise along the way.

Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Retirement Eligibility Reporting and Processing

E*TRADE has made more updates to the Retirement Eligibility (RE) module, which supports creating new RE rules that can be applied to grants and also allows users to create RE tax transactions in the system. The system now allows you to flag individuals as retirement eligible based on age, tenure, and the amount of time a grant has been outstanding. You can also create a tax collection record to compute how much of the applicable RE taxes are due at an RE event and then collect those taxes as shares that are withheld from a future release. Further, we will review how you can update financial reporting to automate expense to the RE date and automatically remove RE grants from the Weighted Awards Outstanding (WAO) report upon an RE event.

Manish Patel, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Supporting Your Stock Plan Participant Questions

As a stock plan administrator, have you ever experienced challenges addressing participant inquiries related to equity compensation benefits or etrade.com? Join us for a demonstration of the Client Resource Center as we discuss the tools that are available to assist you in communicating with your participants—tools such as user-defined fields, participant prompts, the Participant Communication Center, and Participant View. We will also walk through some of the new Knowledge Center videos and tax information available on etrade.com.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Ralph Balzano, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
OnTap - On Time, On Budget

Do know if you need to withhold taxes in Spain on your equity awards, or whether there are any regulatory or tax issues with offering your ESPP in Germany? Do you need a China SAFE registration, or does your plan need filing with the SARB in South Africa? You probably needed the answer yesterday, and there is no budget to help you answer the question. If this sounds familiar, this session is just for you! Join us as we showcase our legal and tax database which covers the key legal and tax information for global equity awards in over 140 countries. We will show you how the answers to these questions are available on time and on budget with on OnTap.

Lorna Parkin, Tapestry Compliance
Joseph Steitz, E*TRADE Corporate Services

INNOVATION SESSION
Women in Equity: The secret to building a powerful network

Did you know that one in four people don’t network at all, yet 85% of jobs are filled through networking? Join us for a panel discussion with thought leaders in the equity compensation industry who will highlight how to build, sustain, and reevaluate your network across different stages of your career. They will also examine the importance of allies in the workplace, the art of advocating, and the rise of micro-networking. Learn tips to build lasting relationships with your colleagues, participants, and industry contacts. After the panel discussion, join us for a cocktail reception with fellow conference attendees

Kate Butler, E*TRADE Financial Corporation
Heather Martin, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Bevely Lowe, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Abha Bhandair, Brown & Brown Inc

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Free Time

5:30pm – 6:00pm

Buses Load

6:00pm – 10:00pm

Signature Event: Nashville Bash at the Wildhorse Saloon

Friday, May 15, 2020

8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast and Closing Session

9:00am – 9:15am

Networking Break

9:15am – 10:30am

Workshops / Hands-On Labs

ADMINISTRATION
Deft & Delightful Design Decision & Details

Design for equity compensation comes in all shapes and sizes. From grand, sweeping designs that involve the inherent structure of your awards to tweaking granting practices or vesting patterns. Thoughtful designs can positively impact everything from your proxy disclosure to your accounting to your employee communications to your day-to-day administration.

Join our expert panel as we discuss a broad range of design considerations and changes that can help you get the results you and your company need from your equity awards. Further, we’ll give you tips and tricks that will help you get much needed changes approved and implemented.

Keith Pietrzak, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Elizabeth Dodge, Equity Plan Solutions LLC
Deidre Salisbury, Infinite Equity
Stacy Fox, Salesforce.com Inc

REPORTING
Science and Mother Nature as a Guidepost for Compensation Setting

A recent academic study calculated the exact amount of wind drag in every position of a traditional cycling Peloton. Geese fly in a V formation, and fish swim in schools to help with dynamics and efficiency. What does this have to do with LTI and compensation setting? Can the resistance as calculated by science be extrapolated to your total rewards? Learn more about how this new academic study can be leveraged across traditional organizational hierarchies and as a validation for your rewards process. Should the scientific data be inclusive of base pay, STI, LTI, or the full rewards equation? Learn more about this innovative new study with the researchers.

Aaron Oberg, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Amaldo Ulaj, Clearbridge Compensation
Terry Adamson, Independent Consultant
Buyong Lee, Shutterfly Inc

ADMINISTRATION
I Like It, I Love It: How To Use Data & Analytics to Get More Out of Your Equity Plans

With the amount of data that exists around long-term incentive plans, it’s about time we start analyzing this information to see how we can improve things. Join this panel of experts to learn how companies are examining their data to get more out of their plans. From understanding the return on your equity investment to seeing how your awards have performed relative to other companies, we’ll take a deep dive into analytics that can drive better plan design, employee comprehension, and value for your equity awards. Through the tools discussed in this session, you can hopefully get your participants to sing along to that Cole Swindell song about your equity plans!

Rajiv Gosine, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jillian Forusz, Adobe Systems Inc
Nick Zanoni, Celgene Corporation
Dan Kapinos, Aon Equity Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Retirement Eligibility Reporting and Processing

E*TRADE has made more updates to the Retirement Eligibility (RE) module, which supports creating new RE rules that can be applied to grants and also allows users to create RE tax transactions in the system. The system now allows you to flag individuals as retirement eligible based on age, tenure, and the amount of time a grant has been outstanding. You can also create a tax collection record to compute how much of the applicable RE taxes are due at an RE event and then collect those taxes as shares that are withheld from a future release. Further, we will review how you can update financial reporting to automate expense to the RE date and automatically remove RE grants from the Weighted Awards Outstanding (WAO) report upon an RE event.

Manish Patel, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Fundamental Reporting Tips & Tricks - Report Customization & Bursting (Beginner)

This hands-on lab will help you take your Equity Edge Online® (EEO) reporting to the next level. This session provides an overview of ways that you can leverage report automation, advanced filtering, user-defined fields, report views, and automated data exports. You will learn about shortcuts, report formatting, dynamic scheduling, and myriad of other tools to help you save time and reduce risk. This session will also provide a brief overview of new reports that have become available and will highlight the basics of the EEO Report Wizard, which will be covered in even greater detail during our “Advanced report customization and bursting” hands-on lab.

Taylor Jones, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jasmine Goss, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Processing Restricted Stock Releases and Dividends

In this session, we take a deep dive into the steps necessary to process restricted stock award releases and dividends. In addition, we cover some best practices for using Equity Edge Online® (EEO) to manage your mobile population, reconciling information with EEO reports, using the Exchange Manager files related to restricted award releases, and resolving errors that may arise along the way.

Tom Bahn, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Richmond Carter, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Advanced Financial Reporting

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Scott Wallace, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

HANDS-ON LAB
Equity Edge Online® Boot Camp

This Boot Camp is a must for anyone new to Equity Edge Online® (EEO) or anyone who needs a simple but comprehensive refresher of the system. This session covers the basics of administering your equity compensation program on our platform. In addition, we address some of the most frequently asked questions new users often have and respond to questions raised by attendees during the session.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Brandon Ballif, E*TRADE Corporate Services

10:45am – 12:00pm

Workshops

REPORTING
EPS: Back to the Basics and Dilutives of Equity Plan Impact to Shareholders

Earnings per share (EPS) is one of the most significant pieces of information a public company has to track and disclose on a regular basis, and a company’s equity grants can have a big impact on how those numbers are reported. There are very specific requirements on how this grant impact is to be reported, but the causes of certain changes to those numbers are often a mystery. This session aims to break down the concepts of EPS, both basic and dilutive, along with the patterns that certain changes in the marketplace or within an equity plan can have on these numbers over time. This course is designed for someone who is new to equity reporting or who wants to gain a clearer understanding of how equity grants impact a company EPS disclosure.

Scott Harrison, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Stephanie Aronesty, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Jillian Forusz, Adobe Systems Inc
John Stapleton, Capital One Financial
Radostin Kanev, Equity Methods LLC

ADMINISTRATION
Retirement Eligibility: Implementation and Beyond

Retirement eligibility is one of the most challenging tax processes to manage—from the evaluation of eligible participants and grants to implementation, tax collections, withholding shares, and ensuring downstream activity is tracked and reported properly.

Join us as we examine these issues and more. Additionally, we will look at how Equity Edge Online® automation can assist with substantially reducing manual efforts. We will hear real-life examples and solutions for administration, taxation, financial reporting, and employee engagement.

Joe Steitz, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Amanda Benincasa, Aon Equity Services
Kirbie Drucker, NRG Energy Inc
Sandra Garcia, Western Digital Corporation

ADMINISTRATION
Around the World in 60 Minutes - Strategies for Dealing with Global Legal Developments

It is hard to keep track of all the changes in laws around the world, and even if you can keep track, it can be challenging to figure out what to do in response to some of the changes. We will examine some of the top legal developments globally over the past year, including new exemptions for EU prospectus requirements, Belgian social tax changes, exchange control restrictions in Argentina, and other hot topics du jour, while sharing some tips on how to manage a constantly shifting legal landscape. Client issuers will discuss how their companies (one private, one public) deal with new developments impacting stock plans: from managing information overload to reaching consensus internally to implementing changes in grant practices or processes to accommodate changes in law, to addressing employee questions and complaints when such changes occur. This panel will help attendees determine how to deal with international legal developments without losing sleep (or your mind).

Brennan Latham, E*TRADE Corporate Services
Barbara Klementz, Baker & McKenzie LLP
Haleh Carrillo, Rubrik Inc
Steve Dean, Splunk Inc

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