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Wednesday, March 21
8:20 - 10:00 a.m.	Governmental Accounting: Update and Preparing for OPEB
	*GASB Update*
	Bob Attmore, chairman, GASB
	*Preparing for OPEB*
P H	Eric Berman, deputy comptroller, MA
P H	Ira Kastrinsky, director, Deloitte Consulting

10:20 - 12:00 noon	Adding value through technology
	*Getting additional value from ERP systems: beyond initial implementation*
P H	Don Edmiston, senior government advisor, BearingPoint
P H	Will Greer, principal, State and Local Government, SAP
P H	Harvey Eckert, commonwealth comptroller, PA
	*XBRL: the promise being realized*
P H	Martin Henning, deputy director, Research and Insurance, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
P H	Don Geiger, management analyst, Office of the Deputy CFO, Financial Systems Integration, US Department of Treasury

12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.	Luncheon
	*Alabama Life and Politics - On the Light Side*
	Alva Lambert, executive director, State Health Planning Agency, AL, and local humorist

1:20 - 2:10 p.m.	Keynote address: ERP Management at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
P H	Donna Smith, manager of the Integrated Enterprise Management Program business precess and application support office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
P H	Chris Galusha, deputy project manager and integration manager, Accenture

2:10 - 3:00 p.m.	New Projects in State Comptrollers' Offices
	Innovation with a system upgrade
P H	Ed Ross, controller, KY
	*An electronic invoicing system*
P H	Leila Malatesta, director of financial management, Department of Finance and Administration, MS

Thursday, March 22
	Pilot projects old and new
	*Benchmarking: coming of age in state government*
P H	Jeff Rosengard, senior vice president, Benchmarking Operations, The Hackett Group
P H	Trisha Neely, director of accounting, DE
P H	Les Shenefelt, state controller, CO
	*Current pilot projects: Federal tax offset in Maryland*
P H	John Kenney, director, General Accounting Division, MD
	*NACHA's online payment pilot*
P H	Jaime Hill, director, NACHA
P H	Bob Childree, state comptroller, AL

10:20 - 12:00 noon	Internal Control
	*"Dos and donts" in internal control*
P H	Jon Gearhart, industry director, public sector, Oracle Corporation
H	Fran Copeland, chief fiscal officer, Department of Public Safety, AL
	*Internal control from the government auditor's perspective*
H	Gail Traylor, director, State Audit Division, Office of the Examiner of Public Accounts, AL
P H	Andy Gottschalk, partner, KPMG Advisotry Practice
12:00 noon - 1:25 p.m.	Luncheon
	*Reflections on the GASB and State Leadership in Improving Governmental Financial Management*
H	Ed Mazur, member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and former state comptroller, VA