The NASPP Blog

Because yesterday was a holiday, I’m combining the announcement of NASPP chapter meetings for this week with the NASPP To Do List. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled blogs tomorrow.

NASPP Chapter Meetings
Here’s what’s happening at your local NASPP chapter this week:

San Francisco: Barbara Wallace of Oracle, Stacy Fox of Salesforce.com, and Marcel Provencher of HP present “Merge, Purge or Scourge? How to Best Handle Assuming Equity Plans.” (Wednesday, February 19, 11:30 AM)

Orange County: Emily Cervino of Fidelity and John Wolff of GuideSpark present “Stock Compensation Goes to Hollywood.” (Thursday, February 20, 11:30 AM)

Atlanta: Valerie Diamond and Nicole Calabro of Baker & McKenzie present “Critical Provisions in Any Equity Grant Agreement – Why They are There and How They Can Hurt (or Help) You.” (Friday, February 21, 11:30 AM)

I’ll be at the San Francisco chapter meeting; I hope to see you there!

Tip #6 for Submitting a Winning Speaking Proposal
Be unique, fresh, and innovative.  We want new and different ideas, not the same old, same old. Also, don’t present your ideas at other venues before the Conference. When we can see that a proposal is slated to be presented at other industry events before the NASPP Conference (and we check for this), we are less likely to accept the proposal. The NASPP Conference is the premier event for stock plan professionals; we didn’t achieve this status by rerunning presentations from other events. 

Once you’ve  presented your topic at the NASPP Conference, you are free to present it wherever else you want, but wait until after the Conference to do so.

NASPP To Do List
Here is your NASPP to do list for this week:

• Submit a speaking proposal for the 22nd Annual NASPP Conference–get started on this now; you have less than two weeks left to submit your proposal!
• Register for the 22nd Annual NASPP Conference. The Conference will be held from September 29-October 2, 2014 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Don’t wait–the early-bird rate is only available until March 14.
• Sign up for the NASPP’s acclaimed online Stock Plan Fundamentals course which will be offered this spring. 
• Check out Andrea Best’s newest blog in the in the NASPP Career Center, “Working from Your Core: Step 4, Perfecting.”
• Take our newest Compliance-O-Meter quiz on Section 6039.
• Check out our new Equity Expert podcast series in the NASPP Career Center.
• Take this week’s Question of the Week Challenge.
• Renew your NASPP membership for 2014 (if you aren’t an NASPP member, join today).
• Check out the NASPP’s LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter pages.

– Barbara