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The PDC promises to  be an excellent learning and networking opportunity. Education sessions will provide technical training, emerging trend snapshots and lessons from the best in the business. click on the links below to view the sessions offered each day. Sessions and speakers subject to change. Check back often for session day, time, and content updates.
 
SUNDAY, JULY 10
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
S100: Internal Controls Workshop: Checking the Health of Your Internal Controls
 

Gerald A. Silva, CGFM, CPA, City Auditor, City of San Jose, CA
J. Dexter Peach, CGFM, CPA, Consultant, Management Concepts

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

S101: U.S. SGL Workshop - Basic and Advanced


Thurman Solomon, CGFM, CPA, Senior Financial Management Consultant, Financial Management Service, Treasury Agency Services, U.S. Department of the Treasury

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

MONDAY, JULY 11
8:40 - 9:30 a.m.
M100: TBD
9:30 - 10:20 a.m.
M101: An Address by Ian Ball, Chief Executive, International Federation of Accountants

Ian Ball, Chief Executive, International Federation of Accountants

FOS: Management
Audience: All
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
M102: How the President's Management Agenda Drives Agency Decisions

James Lockhart, Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Administration


John Kamensky
, Senior Fellow, IBM Center for Business of Government

Janet Hale, Under Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Patrick Pizzella, Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, U.S. Department of Labor

FOS: Management
Audience: All

M103: Fine Tuning the Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S. Government

David M. Zavada, CPA, Chief, Financial Standards and Grants Branch, U.S. Office of Management & Budget


Robert Reid, CGFM, CPA
, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Accounting Policy, Office of Fiscal Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jeffrey C. Steinhoff, CGFM, CPA, Managing Director, U.S. Government Accountability Office

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

M104: An Address by Steve Westly, Controller, State of California

Steve Westly, Controller, State of California (invited)

FOS: Management
Audience: All
M105: Protecting Your Identity - Prevention Starts with Safeguarding Your Social Security Number
 

Roger Callahan, Senior Vice President and Corporate Information Security Officer, Bank of America

Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr., Inspector General, U.S. Social Security Administration

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
M106: Financial Management Streamlining - The Time Has Come

Todd Russell Platts, Representative, United States House of Representatives, 19th District of Pennsylvania; Chairman, House Government Reform Subcommittee of Government Efficiency and Financial Management

FOS: Management
Audience: All
M107: Building an Investigative Procurement Fraud Detection Program
 

Col. William Kelley, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Thomas Caulfield, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, National Reconnaissance Office

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

M108: Leadership Secrets

William L. Taylor, CGFM, Chair, AGA Professional Certification Board
 

FOS: Personal Development
Audience: All

2:10 - 3:25 p.m.
M109: OMB's Revised Circular A-123: Management's Responsibility for Internal Control
 

David M. Zavada, CPA, Chief Financial Standards and Grants Branch, U.S. Office of Management & Budget

Elliot P. Lewis, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, U.S. Department of Labor

James L. Taylor, Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Director for Financial Management, U.S. Department of Commerce

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

M110: The Future Government Manager
 

John J. Radford, CGFM, CIA, CFE, State Controller, State of Oregon

Patricia Cornwell Johnson, Senior Advisor, National Academy for Public Administration

FOS: Management
Audience: All

M111: Performance-Based Budgeting
 

David Zlowe, CGFM, Chief, Signals Intelligence Directorate Planning, Programming and Performance, National Security Agency

Jonathan D. Breul, Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government

JoAnne Leznoff, Policy Coordinator of Budget Management, Office of Policy and Budget, Executive Office of the Governor

FOS: Management
Audience: All

M112: Improving Performance Reports at the State and Local Levels
 

FOS: Management
Audience: State & Local

M113: Federal Financial Reporting: What Do We Really Need?
 

Mitch Laine, CGFM, CPA, Consultant, Management Concepts, AGA Past National President

John H. Hummel, CGFM, Partner and National Industry Director, KPMG LLP

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

M114: AGA CFO Survey - Integrating Internal Controls & Performance Management
 

Leon J. Loftus, MBA, Deputy Assistant Attorney General/Controller, U.S. Department of Justice

Larry J. Goode, CGFM, Partner, Grant Thornton LLP

Jerry E. Williams, Acting Chief Information Officer, U.S. Small Business Administration

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

M115: How Useful Are the Federal Performance and Accountability Reports (PARs)?
 

Anna D. Gowans Miller, MBA, CPA, Technical Manager and Director of Research, AGA

Joseph L. Kull, CGFM, CPA, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

M116: Using Data Analysis to Detect Fraud
 

David R. Hancox, CGFM, CIA, Audit Director, New York State Office of the Comptroller

Thomas Caulfield, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, National Reconnaissance Office

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

M117: Principals of Successful Technology Implementation

Hap Cluff, Chief Information Officer, City of Norfolk, VA
 

FOS: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Audience: All

M118: Driving High Performance in Government: Maximizing the Value of Public Sector Shared Services
 

Martin J. Benison, CGFM, Comptroller, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Invited)

David Wilson, Partner, Accenture

FOS: Management
Audience: All

M119: Sarbanes-Oxley Implications for State and Local Governments
 

Nancy A. Valley, CGFM, CPA, Partner and National Industry Leader, KPMG LLP

Kinney Poynter, Executive Director

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience:
State & Local

M120: Millennium Challenge Corporation

David M. Nummy, CPA, Managing Director, Fiscal Accountability, Millennium Challenge Corporation
 

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

M121: Mentoring and Training Leaders
 

J.D. Williams, CGFM, MPA, JD, Director of State and Local  Government, Oracle USA, Inc., Former Controller, State of Idaho and Chair, 2005 PDC Technical Committee

Arthur Hayes, Division of State Audit, State of Tennessee

FOS: Personal Development
Audience: All

M122: Real Ethics for Practical People

Leon Young, MPA, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
 

FOS: Ethics
Audience: All

M123: Financial Management Streamlining
 

Charles E. Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Tabetha Mueller, Professional Staff Director, Subcommittee of Government Management, Finance and Accountability

Michael Hettinger, Staff Director, Subcommittee of Government Management, Finance and Accountability

Owen Jones, CGFM, Deputy Director for Management and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

TUESDAY, JULY 12
8:15 - 9:05 a.m.
T100: An Address by David M. Walker, CPA, Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office

David M. Walker, CPA, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. General Accountability Office

FOS: Management
Audience: All
9:05 - 9:55 a.m.
T101: TBD
10:40 - 11:30 a.m.
T102: An Address by Alan G. Hevesi, Comptroller, State of New York

Alan G. Hevesi,
Comptroller, State of New York
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

T103: OPM Perspective: Strategic Management of Human Capital

Marta Brito Perez, Associate Director for Human Capital Leadership Merit System Accountability, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (invited)
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

T104: An Address by Peter McPherson, President, Michigan State University

Peter McPherson, President Emeritus, Michigan State University
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

T105: GASB Update

Robert H. Attmore, CGFM, Chairman, Governmental Accounting Standards Board
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
T106: Aiming High and Knowing How to Get There

Dr. Mae C. Jemison, First African American Woman in Space, Medical Doctor, Astronaut
 

FOS: Personal Development
Audience: All

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

T107: The Federal Government's Response to Identity Theft
 

Jonathan J. Rusch, JD, Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, U.S. Department of Justice

Kathy A. Buller, JD, LLM, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, U.S. Social Security Administration

Max Marker, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

FOS: Accounting &Auditing
Audience: All

T108: Action Plans for A-123 Compliance
 

Nina Rose Hatfield, JD, Deputy Assistant Secretary - Business Management and Wildland Fire, U.S. Department of the Interior

James T. Campbell, MBA, CPA, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

Douglas A. Glenn, CPA, CMA, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, General Services Administration

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

T109: Benchmarking the Finance Function in State Governments: Report on Current Practice Experience
 

Kinney Poynter, Executive Director, Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers

Sadie M. Hawkins, CGFM, Assistant Director, Office of Finance, State of Washington

FOS: Management
Audience: State & Local

T110: Public & Private CFOs: The Same, But Different
 

Kevin Thompson, CPA, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, SAS, Inc.

Natwar M. Gandhi, Ph.D., CGFM, Chief Financial Officer, Government of the District of Columbia

Barry Hudson, MBA, CGFM, Acting Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

T111: Yellow Book Standards
 

Sam M. McCall, CGFM, CPA, Auditor, City of Tallahassee, AGA President-Elect

Marcia Buchanan, CGFM, CPA, Assistant Director, Financial Management and Assurance, U.S. Government Accountability Office

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

T112: Effective PARs - Success Through CEAR
 

Barry White, Director, Government Performance Projects, Council for Excellence in Government

Dale Sopper, CGFM, Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Agency

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

T113: Best Practices in Federal Real Property Management and Shared Services Financial Management Operations
 

Gail T. Young, DBA, CGFM, CPA, Professor of Accounting, Mount St. Mary University and Former Comptroller, U.S. Department of Energy

Irwin T. David, CGFM, CPA, Former, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Eugene G. Kaczkowski, PE, ASA, Principal, Omni Valuation

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
T114: Continuous Auditing: Taking It from Concept to Implemented with Results
 

J. Donald Warren, Ph.D., Professor of Accounting, Rutgers University and Director, Center for Continuous Auditing

Rod Brennan, MBA, Ph.D., Director, IT Audit, Siemens Corporation

John Verver, CA, CISA, CMC, Vice President, Professional Services, ACL Services Ltd., and Advisory Board Member, Center for Continuous Auditing

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

T115: Generational Changes in the Workplace

James Turkett, Senior Energy Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Member, AGA National Executive Committee
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

T116: Bond Monitoring by State Auditors

Phil Bryant, State Auditor, State of Mississippi
 

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: State & Local

T117: eGov for Financial Managers
 

Robert Stevens, Program Director, Enterprise Solutions, U.S. Department of Transportation

Edmund Crump, Managing Director, Solutions Coordination Office, National Business Center, U.S. Department of the Interior
 

FOS: Specialized Knowledge & Applications
Audience: All

T118: SAS 99: Fraud Happens

Arthur Hayes, Division of State Audit, State of Tennessee
 

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

T119: How to Achieve a Clean Audit Opinion
 

Keith E. Taylor, Principal, Deloitte.

Bo Peeler, Assistant Program Director, Enterprise Services Center, U.S. Department of Transportation

Michael J. Upton, Program Director, Enterprise Services Center, U.S. Department of Transportation

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

T120: Managing by Metrics, Measuring for Success
 

Sulema Gaughran, CGFM, CDFM, CFE, Staff Accountant, U.S. Department of Defense

Bonnie Kind, CGFM, CPA, CDFM, Comptroller, National Security Agency

Mark M. Wolkow, CDFM, Business Consultant, Financial Performance, Division of Finance, National Security Agency

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

T121: TBD
 

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

T122: TBD
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
W100: TBD

FOS: Management
Audience: All
8:50 - 9:40 a.m.
W101: Responsibility in the New Era of Corporate Integrity
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

W102: Audit Reporting on Homeland Security
 

Gerald A. Silva, CGFM, CPA, City Auditor

Belinda Finn, CGFM, CPA, CIA, CISA, Deputy Assistant Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

W103: Government Audit Quality

Martha Garcia-Baker, CPA, Member, Government Audit Quality Executive Committee, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
 

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

W104: Forensic Accounting
 

John McClanahan, Esq., Program Analyst, Office of Historical Trust Accounting, U.S. Department of the Interior

Bert Edwards, CGFM, CPA, Executive Director, Office of Historical Trust Accounting, U.S. Department of the Interior

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

W105: Governmentwide Accounting Modernization

Michael Norman, Project Officer - Agency Liaison, Financial Management Service, Treasury Agency Services, U.S. Department of the Treasury
 

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

W106: Warfighting in the 21st Century

Major Joseph E. Ferris, Comptroller, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), U.S. Army
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

W107: CGFM: Government Financial Management Certification for the Future

William L. Taylor, CGFM, Chair, AGA Professional Certification Board
 

FOS: Personal Development
Audience: All

W108: Auditors' Dilemma: Reporting on the Internal Control Environment
 

David R. Hancox, CGFM, CIA, Audit Director, New York State Office of the Comptroller

Ann M. Butera, CRP, President, The Whole Person Project, Inc.

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

W109: Financial Management System Challenges
 

Catherine A. Nelson, CGFM, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton

Wayne Leiss, Chief, Federal Financial Systems Branch, U.S. Office of Management in Budget

Lawrence I. Neff, Director of Financial Management, U.S. Department of Transportation

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: All

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
W110: A New Era in Real Property  Management
 

Lora Muchmore, Deputy Director, Business Transformation, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Installations & Environment, U.S. Department of Defense

Stan Kaczmarczyk, Deputy Associate Administrator for Real Property, U.S. General Services Administration

Kevin J. McHugh, Senior Vice President, American Appraisal Associates, Inc.

FOS: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Audience: All

W111: How We Made 100 Million Dollars...and How You Too Can Increase Your Non-Taxable Revenue
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

W112: Evaluating Public Sector Performance and Results

Barry White, Director, Government Performance Projects, Council for Excellence in Government

Steven Shane, Partner, Accenture
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

W113: The Future of Federal Grant Streamlining
 

Mary F. Santonastasso, Director, Division of Institution and Award Support, National Science Foundation

Thomas N. Cooley, Chief Financial Officer, National Science Foundation

Andrea L. Brandon, Director, Division of Grants Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

W114: TBD
W115: Integration of Audit and Investigation: How These Two Disciplines Complement Each Other Under the IG Act
 

FOS: Accounting & Auditing
Audience: Federal

W116: Federal Agency Use of Purchase Cards and IT Trends in Supply Chain Management & Financial Management
 

Andrew C. West, CGFM, CPA, Partner, Federal Consulting Practice, Computer Sciences Corporation

Merl M. Hackbart, Ph.D., Professor, Finance and Public Administration, University of Kentucky

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

W117: Electronic Payment Optimization
 

Tami Tran, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Bank of America

Glen B. Gainer, III, CGFM, State Auditor, State of West Virginia, Office of the State Auditor

FOS: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Audience: All

2:40 - 3:30 p.m.
W118: Leadership and Coordination Between the CFO and the CIO

John Streufert, Acting Chief Information Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development

Lisa Fiely, CPA, PMP, Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development

Carolyn T. Purcell, CEO, Purcell Ventures LLC (invited)
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

W119: Mission Critical: Practical Managerial Costing Applications

Dale R. Geiger, Ph.D., CGFM, CMA, Professor of Accounting (retired), California State University
 

FOS: Specialized Knowledge and Applications
Audience: All

W120: Building the Financial Workforce of the Future
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All

W121: OMB Update
 

David M. Zavada, CPA, Chief, Financial Standards and Grants Branch, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Wayne Leiss, Chief, Federal Financial Systems Branch, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Danny Werfel, Chief, Financial Integrity & Analysis Branch, U.S. Office of Management & Budget

FOS: Management
Audience: Federal

3:40 - 4:30 p.m.

W122: TBD
 

FOS: Management
Audience: All