June 25, 2013
Silicon Valley Chapter All-Day
Last Friday, the Silicon Valley NASPP chapter held their annual all-day conference. Year after year, this is consistently a great event. For today’s blog entry, I feature a few pictures from this year’s conference.
The day started off with a keynote presented by Mike Albert of Fidelity, Aaron Boyd of Equilar, and Stacey Lombardi of Allergan on “The New Normal? Executive Shareholding Requirements.” You can see that they had a full house.
For the second keynote of the day, Jon Burg of Radford, Donna Hammer of Yelp, and Dan Walter of Performensation presented their answer to MythBusters: “The Truth about ESPPs – 10 Employee Stock Purchase Plan Myths and Facts.” This slide busts the myth that other types of plans (e.g., 409(k), RSUs) can provide the same benefits as ESPPs.
There was lots of traffic through the exhibit hall all day. Here attendees mingle during breakfast.
I presented with Elizabeth Dodge of Stock & Option Solutions and Carrie Kovac of Symantec on “Alphabet Soup: 10-K, 10-Q, S-K, Where Does Your Stock Plan Info Go? And Why Should You Care?” Hopefully our audience had as much fun watching the presentation as we did presenting it.
Stock & Option Solutions gave out these nifty “boogie bots” at their table in the exhibit hall. They are even cooler in action: see the video. And, yes, I am aware that photographing a red robot toy on a red background is not my best moment as a photographer.
Neta Pyasi of Solium, Ken Scully of Facebook, and Sinead Kelly of Baker & McKenzie presented “Out-of-this-world Practical and Technological Tips for Managing Your Mobile Employees.” Here, Ken and Sinead answer questions from the audience afterwards.
A big thank-you to the sponsors for the event.
Kudos to Inta Abele of Schwab, the Silicon Valley chapter president, and the rest of the chapter board for hosting a great event again this year!
– Barbara