11/14/2012
8:00 am - 8:15 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast Provided
8:15 am - 9:05 am	Successfully Navigating the Stormy Economy and Markets: Scott Middleton, Innovest Portfolio Solutions, LLC.   How should fiduciaries and participants respond to market volatility and rapidly changing economic news? Scott Middleton will provide an overview of the major forces buffeting -- and helping -- the world economy and the financial markets, as well as review how successful investors can navigate through challenging circumstances.
9:05 am - 9:55 am	Fiduciary Duties Expand as Litigation Grows: Bill Fender, Innovest Portfolio Solutions, LLC. & Kathleen Odle, Sherman & Howard, LLC   As litigation continues to grow in today's world, how do you best protect yourself as a fiduciary? In this session, you learn about current cases involving fiduciary and identify best practices to meeting your fiduciary responsibility.
9:55 am - 10:45 am	Audit Preparedness and What to Expect: Theresa McDowell, EKS&H, Jim Cowgill, EKS&H   What do you do when the eligible participants in your plan nears 100. We would like to provide you with some suggestions for potentially avoiding or deferring the audit requirement as well as consideration in preparing for a future audit. We will review the audit process and discuss how this will impact you as the plan sponsor.
10:55 am - 11:45 am	What to Expect When the IRS Knocks on Your Door: Kim Schultz, Denver Compensation and Benefits, LLC   As Internal Revenue Service notice of examination on a retirement plan can generate a great deal of anxiety for a plan sponsor. This session will discuss the process of the examination as well as the most effective way to complete a plan examination in an efficient manner.
11:45 am - 12:35 pm	Lunch
12:35 pm - 1:25 pm	Evaluating My Service Provider...Is It Time for a Change?: Sandy Shoemaker, EKS&H & Wendy Dominguez, Innovest Portfolio Solutions, LLC.   What are the signs that it may be time to evaluate your service provider(s), and once you decide it's time for a change, how do you go about the process? In this session, you will learn about potential issues uncovered in the audit that indicate it may be time to explore alternative providers and how to go about the evaluation and selection of a new provider for your plan.
1:25 pm - 2:15 pm	Communicating Difficult Concepts and Delivering Difficult Messages: Rick Rodgers, Insight Employee Benefits Communications   An overview of time-tested tactics to help plan sponsors and industry professionals effectively communicate complex concepts in an easy-to-understand format. Additionally, this session will present specific strategies to effectively deliver difficult messages to retirement plan participants. Attendees should expect to learn methodology that will help them improve their entire communications programs, including prudent approach & process, 404(a)(5) disclosure, fundamental investment education, and delivering messages of change.
2:15 pm - 3:05 pm	The Evolution of DC Investments: Gordon Tewell, Innovest Portfolio Solutions, LLC.   The variety and type of investments in defined contribution plans is growing and evolving. Now DC plan sponsors are increasingly exploring and embracing everything from highly streamlined core menus to professionally managed individual accounts to income solutions in retirement. This workshop will explore trends and ideas across the full spectrum of investment types and designs and where the industry may be headed.
3:10 pm - 4:00 pm	Understanding the Regulators - An Auditor's Perspective: Shane Brown, EKS&H & Marcia Hannan, EKS&H   In this session, we will discuss the most frequent issues causing corrections or errors in Plans. We will discuss the different ways to correct these errors and provide you with some internal controls to mitigate these errors in the future.