Host Sponsors US One Day Sponsors	Date and Time 16 September 2003 8:30am – 5:00pm	For further event information contact Kathryn Kindgren (+1) 425 706 0412
	Host Location Microsoft Corporation World Trade Center East 2211 Elliott Avenue Seattle, WA	For questions regarding registration contact Pam Stetson (+1) 813 792 7913 – US/EDT
	Registration Fees $ 125 GEO Member Attendee $ 225 Non-GEO Member Attendee	Schedule View the Schedule Speakers Who are the Speakers Map to Location View a map to the Location
	Sign Up Today Register for the Event	Registration Deadline 10 September 2003
	Hotels Edgewater Hotel tel: 206-728-7000 Marriott - Seattle Waterfront tel: 206-443-5000

Description of Event
Never have equity plan professionals faced such significant concurrent issues – changes in stock plan accounting, sweeping US tax legislation, rebounding capital markets, an uncertain job market, cynicism about stock-based compensation – what are we going to do? That’s what everyone is asking us – the Board of Directors, management, the media, and our employees.

You’re invited to participate in an all-day workshop with your peers, led by a panel of leading experts in this field, to develop a nuts-and-bolts plan for addressing the questions all global stock plan professionals are facing today. Should we keep granting stock options? Or consider restricted stock? Or performance shares? Should we continue our ownership strategy? Will these new ideas work outside the US?

This unique gathering will cover the gamut from compensation design strategy to the details of accounting, tax, and securities rules on a global basis. It’s a lot of ground to cover in one day, and we have assembled just the team to help you do it.

This is not just another conference where you hear a series of speakers talk in generalities. You’ll leave this event with a detailed understanding of the alternatives, implications, and action steps required for effectively facing this challenge. Join your colleagues at this uniquely-structured event.

Throughout the day, panels will focus on a specific topic (restricted stock, performance shares, option modification). All sessions will be moderated, and following each discussion, a wrap-up session will provide workshop attendees a point-by-point discussion of the key issues raised in the prior discussion. Attendees will be asked to complete a worksheet on each of the various plans that provides a ‘take-away’ to thoroughly understand the issues they may encounter in using these types of plans (or considering the use of these plans).

	Accounting rules. Sarbanes Oxley. Reporting requirements. Investor and employee perceptions. But what do you do? What are others doing? What will the future hold?
	Can you afford to maintain the same plan design strategies? Will your employees continue to value your equity compensation plans? Are you providing the right amount to the right people? Are broad-based plans going away?
	What is available? What is feasible? Restricted stock. Restricted stock units (RSUs). Performance plans. Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs). What should you do?
	What issues will you face in implementing stock plans with these particular features? How will employees in India perceive RSUs? How do you handle reporting issues in Russia with SARs? Will switching from options to restricted stock cause problems with employees in France?