8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.

• Registration, Continental Breakfast

9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

• Welcoming Remarks

9:30 a.m.to 10:45 a.m.

• Panel I. How We Got to Where We Are: Technology and the Changing Economic and Regulatory Environment
  
  What are the technological and regulatory changes over the last decade that have facilitated cross-border mergers? Would these mergers make sense absent the anticipation of further regulatory changes?
  
  Moderator: 
  Meyer Eisenberg, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School
  
  Panelists:
  Yakov Amihud, Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
  
  Scott J. Davis, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
  
  Edward S. Knight, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NASDAQ
  
  Rachel Robbins, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, NYSE Euronext
  
  Ethiopis Tafara, Director of the Office of International Affairs, SEC

10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

• Coffee Break
   

11:00 a.m. to 12:15a.m.

• Panel II. Perspectives of the Exchanges, Brokerage Firms, and Institutional Investors
  
  What further regulatory changes are hoped for by each of these types of institutions to maximize the synergies from cross-border mergers? Are the interests of individual investors different from those of the institutions?
  
  Moderator:
  Larry Glosten, S. Sloan Colt Professor of Banking and International Finance, Columbia Business School
  
  Panelists:
  Harold Bradley, Chief Investment Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
  
  Murray L. Finebaum, Former President and CEO, Future Trade
  
  Catherine R. Kinney, President, NYSE
  
  Eric Roiter, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Fidelity Management and Research Company

12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• Lunch and Keynote Speaker
  Christopher Cox, Chairman, United States Securities and Exchange Commission

2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

• Panel III. The Regulatory Challenge
  
  What changes in U.S. regulation are appropriate from the point of view of U.S. and global economic welfare and the protection of investors? Are there conflicts among these goals?
  
  Moderator:
  Merritt B. Fox, Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law & Nasdaq Professor of Law & Economics of Capital Markets, Columbia Law School
  
  Panelists:
  Brandon Becker, Partner Wilmer Hale and Former Director of the Division of Market Regulation of SEC
  
  John C. Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law. Columbia Law School
  
  Richard Ketchum, Chief Regulatory Officer, NYSE
  
  Erik R. Sirri, Director of the Division of Trading and Exchanges, SEC
  
  Richard H. Walker, Managing Director and General Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG

3:30 p.m.to 3:45 p.m.

• Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Panel IV. Looking to the Future
  
  What regulatory changes are in fact likely to occur over the next five years and what will securities markets around the world look like?
  
  Moderator:
  Harvey Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia University and Former SEC Commissioner and General Counsel
  
  Panelists:
  William H. Donaldson, Former Chairman, SEC
  
  Jeffrey Golden, Partner Allen & Overy LLP and Chair of the Section of International Law of the ABA
  
  Annette L. Nazareth, Commissioner and Former Director of the Division of Market Regulation, SEC
  
  Giovanni P. Prezioso, Partner Cleary Gottlieb and Former General Counsel of the SEC
  
  Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics Council on Foreign Relations

5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

• Cocktail Reception